We're working with a pretty loose definition of veggies: anything not immediately carb-like (i.e. corn or potatoes). How many servings of veggies in the past seven days? Which were they?

Me:

The following numbers denote servings
2 roasted Brussels sprouts
1 sourkraut
3 chickpeas (hummus)
2 refried black beans
3 quick pickles

Stretched out across several days that seems pretty low. I'm not counting the sweet potatoes (starch) or bell pepper (fruit) that I've eaten recently.

http://choosemyplate.gov/printpages/MyPlateFoodGroups/Vegetables/food-groups.vegetables-amount.pdf

One way I've been trying to eat more vegetables is to grab one I've never cooked before each I go to the grocery store.

What are your favorite veggies?

5/20/2015 12:13:17 PM

My dinner this week is a spaggetti, so i wont count the veggies in there. Usually, my dinner has at least a helping though.
For lunch every day, i eat a salad of cucumcers, red-yellow-green-orange bell peppers, spinach, carrots, tomatos, and chick peas

5/20/2015 12:19:37 PM

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"bell pepper (fruit)"

You should include that d00d. I mean what, you're not going to include tomatoes too?

and black beans seem way more starchy than sweet potato...depends on if you wanna go by GI load or not I guess.

5/20/2015 12:20:53 PM

some in the last week or so:
-made spaghetti sauce from frozen tomatoes from the garden from last summer, with lots of fresh onions, peppers, mushrooms and oregano in it, and served it over spiralized zuchinni instead of pasta (i also really like using spaghetti squash for the pastas
-lettuce and spinach salads from the garden with lots of veggies like celery, carrots, mushrooms, peppers, snow peas, beets, radishes (and fresh strawberries)
-steamed broccoli
-baked and steamed brussel sprouts
-baked radish chips
-grilled kabobs of cherry tomatoes, mushrooms, peppers and onions
-grilled and steamed asparagus
-frozen collards from the garden from last fall/winter


(i had the last of the cooked kale from the garden a couple weeks ago)


...all i can think of now

[Edited on May 20, 2015 at 12:22 PM. Reason : ]

5/20/2015 12:21:39 PM

i cannot at all remember what i've had to eat over the last 7 days. now that our cabbage is in season, we've been eating cabbage multiple times per week. and our greenhouse cucumbers and tomatoes are ready so we've been eating a lot of them as well.

[Edited on May 20, 2015 at 12:25 PM. Reason : dd]

5/20/2015 12:23:40 PM

I had mushrooms on my pizza and the pizza place calls them a veggie...

Besides that, broccoli in Chinese food and also steamed broccoli at home, and then some squash and zucchini cooked in butter. A few salads here and there. So probably not enough.

5/20/2015 12:24:06 PM

Ya, I wasn't sure. I figure there's probably more starch in the black beans that fructose in the bell pepper. I'm somewhat concerned about GI load. Both my dad and grandfather have diabeetus II.

synapse said (RE: bell pepper),

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"You should include that d00d. I mean what, you're not going to include tomatoes too? and black beans seem way more starchy than sweet potato...depends on if you wanna go by GI load or not I guess."

Things I love:
spinach (raw or sauteed)
cauliflower (roasted)
kale (raw or sauteed)
zucchini (sauteed or grilled)
squash, yellow (sauteed or grilled)

EMCE, if we do a salad, it's usually an entree salad with chicken or shrimp. If chicken, it's an everything-in-the-crisper salad, often with a dash of chia seeds. If shrimp, it's grapefruit, orange, spinach, and a lime-avocado vinaigrette.

[Edited on May 20, 2015 at 12:26 PM. Reason : .]

5/20/2015 12:24:17 PM

Typical morning I'll have fresh juice with carrots, kale, lime, apples, beets, and cucumber (maybe 3-4 mornings a week). Along with a more filling breakfast (eggs, bacon, etc).

Lunch during the week is usually a spinach salad with carrots, red onions and various other toppings plus 1-2 proteins (hard boiled egg and/or chicken).

Dinner varies a lot but my favorite vegetables I eat during a normal week:

Sweet Potatoes (in the form of baked fries, casserole, hash browns)
Artichokes (steamed - dipped in butter+lemon juice)
Kale/Spinach (salad, kale chips, sauteed greens)
Peppers (stir fry or stuffed)
Onions (in most of the stuff I eat)
Squash (butternut or spaghetti)
Brussel sprouts (sauteed using a balsamic vinegar reduction or baked)
Asparagus (grilled or baked and sometimes wrapped in prosciutto)

I make a pretty awesome almond flour chicken pot pie with broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, and peas.

Tomatoes (mostly either for fresh pasta sauce or a spicy tomato basil soup I like making)
Cauliflower (usually for making cauliflower mash with homemade gravy)
Eggplant (usually for eggplant parmesan)

I think that covers most of the common vegetables I eat on a daily basis. It's rare I'll have a meal that doesn't contain at least 1-2 servings of fresh vegetables. Even if I'm eating something like baked eggs I'll still incorporate onions and mushrooms into it.

Typical breakfast juice for a few days:

5/20/2015 4:40:37 PM

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"almond flour chicken pot pie with broccoli, carrots, mushrooms, and peas. "

can u post the recipe?

5/20/2015 4:46:53 PM

This recipe is really delicious and healthy. I've added mushrooms (sautee with the onions in step #10) and peas in as well and it's awesome. You can get the palm shortening at Whole Foods. I've also seen it at Costco. It's basically shortening but from coconut.

If you want to try and make it you need to take half the dough (it's fairly sticky) and put it in the shape of your pie bowl on parchment paper and toss it in the freezer for 5-10 minutes. This makes it 1000% easier to put on top of the veggies in step #19. If you try to do what they suggest in the instructions it gets a little messy.

I also pre-bake the bottom crust portion for 5-10 minutes to brown and thicken it a bit.

Finally I set the oven to broil for the last 5 minutes to get the top nicely browned and crispy.

It's not the traditional chicken pot pie crust like you're used to but IMO it's quite delicious and thickens the veggies and broth perfectly.

http://www.lifemadefull.com/paleo-chicken-pot-pie/

5/20/2015 4:54:30 PM

I don't get enough variety. I stick with broc and green beans most of the time.

5/20/2015 5:24:40 PM

Ya, that's part of the reason I've started grabbing vegetables at random to try out each week. I would happily eat spinach and black beans most weeks.

neodata686, I want to live/eat at your house. That all sounds great. Speaking of cauliflower mash, we'll do mashed potatoes for meat loaf but steam and puree kohlrabi and fold it into the mashed potatoes. It ups the fiber and vitamin content and gives it an interesting flavor.

5/20/2015 10:59:05 PM

I do a mean spaghetti squash and meatballs with homemade tomato sauce as well. I also found a pretty good butternut squash lasagna recipe that replaces the pasta with planks of butternut squash. Quite tasty.

I forgot plantains. You can do a bunch of cool stuff with plantains. Fry them, sautee them, make pancakes out of them. A good healthy high carb alternative to potatoes or bread.

5/20/2015 11:25:00 PM

I have heard of a plantain burger "bun" and looks good as fuck. I love plaintans.

5/20/2015 11:36:58 PM

^looks delicious

Wife is half other Puerto Rican and is a fiend for sweet plantains (maduros). I prefer green ones like tostones myself.

Today's veggies:
Hummus
Roasted Brussels sprouts, leftover and at room temp but still delicious
Spinach in my burrito's tortilla
Refried black beans
Avocado (technically a fruit but not sweet like one so I'll allow it)

5/21/2015 7:33:02 PM

I hate having to eat vegetables...it's such a pain in the ass, like flossing.


[Edited on May 21, 2015 at 7:36 PM. Reason : I seldom do it, but whenever I'm reminded that it's a good idea, I feel guilty and dumb.]

5/21/2015 7:35:00 PM

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"Avocado (technically a fruit but not sweet like one so I'll allow it)"

No need for the disclaimer; squashes, tomatoes, bell peppers, eggplant, they are all fruits.

Vegetable is not a scientific/botanical term. "Vegetable" is a common English word indicating edible parts of plants which are usually savory and usually cooked, or at least used mostly in savory dishes, and include leaves, shoots/stems, roots, fruits, and even seeds (peas) and grains (corn).

5/22/2015 12:26:18 AM

for me,

fruits=sweet

vegetables=not sweet.

And yes, a sweet potato is most definitely a fruit.

5/22/2015 12:28:46 AM

Fruit is a botanical term and refers to the part of the plant that a flower develops into after fertilization.

Fruit is also used in common language, and usually matches up with the botanical term, with a few exceptions. A notable one is strawberries. The strawberry plant fruit (botanically) is each individual 'seed' that is found outside the strawberry (there is an actual seed inside of what we call 'seeds'). But in general language, we refer to the red fleshy part as the fruit, which is accessory tissue.

Either way, I have never heard of anybody referring to sweet potatoes as fruits (they are roots).

5/22/2015 1:06:19 AM

I'm just carrying my position to absurdity, that's all.

5/22/2015 2:17:47 AM