[LittleFreedom]

I've never been a big veggie eater and I'm really getting bored with brocolli, carrots, and celery.

What do you all eat when you get in your veggies. Tonight I'm making Chicken Salad for dinner. But I'd like to have some sides in mind on the nights that we have dinners instead of salads.

Mostly, I like my veggies raw, but I need some options here! The old brocolli with carrots is VERY OLD! hahaha!

[flemay]

Try steaming your veggies. They really are good when steamed. I also use Becel Spray to spray over the veggies. It adds butter flavor for no calories.

I also cook cauliflower. I've cooked green beans as well before. Asparagus cooked in the oven is also very good. You put a bit of olive oil on the asparagus and cook it in the oven at 450 for about 9 minutes if I'm not mistaking. But asparagus is an acquired taste.

Like you, I used to not eat veggies at all. Meaning not even salads. Not I get them regularly. You might want to try different recipes as well that you could probably find on the internet. Things like Orange Carrots, so on.. Some are cooked in the oven...

But like you, I'm not quite sure what else to cook! I bought a veggie book last year, and there are some really good recipes. You could make things like carrot soup as well. I have a recipe at home I made once. My husband loved it. I didn't. I'm very fussy with veggies.

[sharoncity]

Well, today for lunch, I had beans and carrots. They came all cleaned and in a bag that you can use to microwave them. I ate them raw with Ken's Fat Free Peppercorn ranch dip. I LOVE raw beans, so that was a nice treat. Yesterday I had Salsa salad, which comes in a bag. It is lettuce, salsa, shredded cheese and a sour cream salsa mixture. I absolutely love this bag salad. I go very lite on the cheese and sour cream mixture to limit the calories, but still, it is yum, yum! I also use a bagged Lite Caesar salad.

I also like squash sauteed with tomatoes. Use salt, pepper, garlic powder to flavor. Pasta primavera is another favorite - maybe with some shrimp thrown in and then it is an entire meal. Sometimes I use baby spinach on a sandwich in place of lettuce - very tasty!

Thats my few ideas! Hope it helps!
Sharon

[Fonty]

Sweet potatoes are also good for you and not as bad as regular potatoes. We bake them just like a regular baked potato and I also have a recipe for sweet potato soup. I have grown to like different types of squash as well, not one of my favorite things growing up tho. Cauliflower made like mashed potatoes is also great. I like to make veggie subs and stuffed vegetable totillas.vegetable soups and I have recently been steaming spinach w/ my fish in just a small amount of white cooking wine. I also like zucchini and yellow squash together with sweet vidalia onions steamed just enough for that soft crunch but not mushy. Zucchini in my salads also has added a different flavor. Raw string beans is a favorite of mine and my kids. I also have been doing spinach salads as well.

[hockeyfan7]

If you don't own one, go buy a steamer. I have the Black & Decker model I got at Target for about $25. It allows you to steam all kinds of veggies and it even tells you on the back what to add to each one in the way of spices if you want.

I like to steam green beans and then spray with butter flavored spray.

We steam asparagus, but then we also toss it with olive oil, add Italian seasoning and garlic salt and grill it.

Zucchini and yellow squash are great sprayed with Pam, sprinkled with seasoned salt and grilled.

I love tomatoes -- I can just slice and eat a whole tomato.

I eat a salad every day too -- lettuce, tomatoes, and cucumber is my favorite.

I also chop tomato, bell pepper, onions, mushrooms and spinach to add to scrambled eggs -- I'm too lazy to make omlets.

I like slices of raw red bell pepper to snack on -- but only red, not green.