8 Creative Ways to Intake More Vegetables

Vegetables are a super important part of our diets. They are nutrient dense, packed with fiber, vitamins and minerals. It’s recommended that adults consume about four cups of vegetables a day.

Do you consume at least four cups of vegetables a day? Where do you struggle?

Some struggle with the preparation or the inconvenience. Others get bored with having vegetables prepared the same way day after day.

This blog is all about different ways to intake more vegetables.

1.) Vegetable Omelets

Eggs can be such a versatile meal option no matter the time of day. You can really load an omelet up with a large assortment of vegetables. Anywhere from peppers, onions and tomatoes to mushrooms and spinach.

Eggs themselves are a great source of protein, not to say that you can’t spice things up even more and add in a meat of some sort.

2.) Vegetable Noodles

Veggie noodles are easy to make and can be used to create any sort of pasta dish without the high carb pasta it’s self.

Most common vegetables that are used to make noodles are zucchini, carrots, sweet potatoes and spaghetti squash.

A spiralizer is an awesome tool to create the noodle look out of your vegetable of choice. Otherwise you can shred or slice them.

Such a variety of things you can do with your vegetable noodles. Try adding protein to your dish such as chicken or meatballs or using crushed tomatoes for a spaghetti-like sauce.

3.) Vegetable Soups

So many different things you can do with soups. This is an awesome way to consume multiple vegetable servings at once.

For one, you could puree different vegetables together to use as your soup base and add spices to create a more broth-like soup.

Or you could simply use a beef broth or chicken broth and make your own vegetable soup. Choose from a variety of vegetables, such as carrots, corn, beets, broccoli, cauliflower, etc.

4.) Rice Bowls

While you can start off with a white or brown rice for your base, another option is cauliflower rice. You can make your own cauliflower rice using a food processor and a chopped up cauliflower, otherwise frozen cauliflower rice works well too.

Once you have your base, you can add a protein source such as chicken, steak or beef.

The assortment of vegetables are endless. There is spinach, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots, corn, peas, beans, avocado, and the list goes on.

Add things like cheese, seasonings and different sauces to change things up!

5.) Stuffed Peppers

Start with you bell peppers, cut off the top and scoop out the seeds. From here add in things such as rice, meat, beans, and spices.

You can increase the nutrition content by including even more extra vegetables. Great add ins like onions, rice cauliflower, corn and spinach.

Even top with you choice of cheese.

6.) Grilled Vegetable Kabobs

Kabobs pack on flavor when grilled.

Place your choosing of vegetables (and protein) on a skewer and cook on a grill or barbecue.

Tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, potatoes. corn, zucchini work well for kabobs.

You can even add pineapple to your skewers.

7.) Blend into Smoothies

Smoothie make for a great on the go option or even a lighter meal/snack.

When people think of smoothies, we often think of combining fruit, ice and milk or water and blending it up. However, this is an awesome way to sneak vegetables into your smoothie as well, without even affecting the taste.

(Fresh or Frozen) Vegetables such as kale, cucumbers, zucchini and spinach work great in smoothies.

8.) Lettuce Wraps

Any kind of sandwich or burger can be made bun less or breadless but using a lettuce wrap in it’s place. This can be used as a low carb option as well.

Great creative in the kitchen and find new ways to make different veggie dishes to keep your taste buds happy and your meals interesting!