I received some really great suggestions via email today I though I would share with those of you needing assistance with getting in all your veggies or especially those of you that just DON'T like 'em!!!

Of course, they suggest V-8 (low sodium for us)

Next, they suggest trying different combinations drizzled with olive oil, lite salt and pepper and roasting them in the oven until tender. Some suggestions: squash, asparagus, green beans, broccoli, pearl onions, sliced sweet potatoes, green peppers... and the list goes on...

Make cole slaw with cabbage, carrots, celery, LF mayo, splenda and vinegar. (okay, that's my recipe but it's amazing!)

Add fresh spinach to your salad. You won't taste it mixed in with the other lettuce and salad dressing.

Grate carrots or celery into soup, zuchinni and carrots into spaghetti sauce, just about any veggie or combination into turkey meatloaf or burgers!

Portabello mushrooms grilled or sauted in a nonstick pan. Any mushroom diced or sliced into burgers, meatloaf, soup, sauce, salad...

Carrots, broccoli, cauliflower raw with an approved salad dressing for dip.

Make a Veggie Lasagna.

Make a veggie soup and when cool - put it in the blender or food processor. Much like a thick V-8 soup. Warm in microwave when ready to eat.

Put several varietys in a blender and blend to a puree sauce then add to meatloaf or burgers along with some egg beaters to keep them together when cooked.

For many of us growing up, our mothers overcooked our veggies and we never really tasted them in their natural state. Try a few you "hated" in some of the ways mentioned. You'll find they are much better with your cleansed taste buds now.

Hope this helps.
Blessings,

Great ideas!

I had been wondering about making a spaghetti sauce with all veggies...but I'm not sure of how to calculate the exchange.

Do you have a recipe lurking somewhere Pearl?

Great ideas Pearl (you must be lurking around my place)!

Yesterday (after an almost veggie-free day on Sunday) I bought some kale and had "kale potatoe chips" and I made a batch of tomatoe/cucumber/red onion all sliced up with a little bid of FF Italian dressing as marinade. YUMMY!!

I'll have to try roasting some tonight.

Thanks for the ideas, Pearl!

I stongly recommend the one about shredding carrots into turkey burgers - you hardly taste them and they keep the burger from getting dried out.

For those of us who can't stand V-8, there are the V-8 Fusions, which taste more like fruit than veg juice.. They still count as 2 veg and 1 fruit.. The "Light" fusions have lower sugar, so can be substituted more often.. I forget what the sodium count is on it though...

I didn't know that the V8 fusion counted as 2 v & f. I've only been counting it as a F

oops. never mind. I don't even have the V8 Fusion. I have the V8 Splash

Angie - give a little while - I'll come up with one... any marinara sauce recipe that is LA ok will work - I'd just add some diced up veggies like zuchinni, green peppers, onions, tomatoes, carrots whatever you think you'd like. I personally have done zuchinni, yellow squash, peppers and onions with fresh tomatoes (all from the garden) over whole wheat pasta - YUM!
If you need a "real" recipe - like I said, give me time to get one together for ya.

Nutritional Value
1 Protein
3 Vegetable


Ingredients
4 or 6 oz chuck roast, size according to plan
2 cups Herb-Ox® very low-sodium beef broth, prepared from bouillon
1/2 medium carrot, thinly sliced
1/2 large rib of celery, sliced
1/2 cup fresh green beans, trimmed and cut into 1/2 inch pieces
1 small tomato, seeded and diced

Rinse roast and pat dry; cut into 1 inch pieces. Season with pepper.
Coat a Dutch oven with nonfat cooking spray. Add beef and cook over a medium flame until lightly browned.
Add beef broth; bring to boil.
Add remaining ingredients to pot. Return soup to a boil.
Reduce heat; cover and simmer until beef and vegetables are tender, approximately 20 minutes.
Serve immediately or store in refrigerator up to 24 hours.

Servings: : Makes 1 Serving

I tried this today but substituted chicken for the beef, DELICIOUS and you get in 3 at once!

bumping up for veggie ideas

week 38
franchise center
Plan 2 with lites
total lost 48 lbs.

Thanks for bumping this up Lynn. I have to laugh. I totally forgot about the kale potatoe chips and I posted the initial idea!!

V8 Fusion lite only counts as a fruit per the dietitans.

The counselors at my COD told me their dieticians say V8 Fusion counts as 2V and a F. I know there was another thread about that as well and that's why I asked them, cause I was counting it as 2V1F. I know there are some inconsistencies with different centers.

This is an old thread. The info about the V8 may be outdated. I bumped up the thread because of the good suggestions about veggies in general.

week 38
LAWL franchise center
Plan 2 with lites
total lost 48 lbs.