If you do not like vegetables you may need to get a little sneaky to ensure that you eat enough vegetables each day. This can be done while cooking for your family benefiting everyone.
Deceptively Delicious is a great cookbook to get you started with learning to hide vegetables in your food. To make it easy to hide vegetables in foods you will need a blender to puree vegetables so you can mix them in.
Common favorites in our home include carrots in pasta sauce and cauliflower mixed into mac and cheese.
This can be spaghetti squash or zoodles. Using vegetables in place of pasta is a great way to sneak in more vegetables into your diet. If you do not like them try mixing a handful of them into regular pasta for a small vegetable boost.
Vegetable-based soups are perfect for sneaking in more vegetables into your diet. Soups are filling and often low in calories. Soups can help you fill up faster and stay full longer.
Meatloaves, meatballs, and omelets all make for great places to bulk up on the vegetables without realizing it. Adding these types of dishes to your menu a couple of times a week can help you get in a lot more vegetables by the end of the week.
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