Submitted by MHC in Nutrition

Reportedly people here don't eat nearly enough vegetables. How to get stuck into them?

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polpotisevil2 wrote

Try to add them to what you already eat. Bean and cheese burrito? Add some spinach and mushrooms, or some green peppers and scallions. Or whatever else you like. Pasta dish? Add one or two more vegetables that fit the dish. Rice? Finely chop some broccoli, carrots.

Just make adding to your existing diet a goal, and hopefully you can experiment from there.

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MHC OP wrote

I have home-made garden salad. I'll feed half that to a visitor. He eats junk at home!

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ordinaryDrain wrote

Pasta and veggies is something that I make prob at least once a week. Use what ever veggies you have accumulated over the week and just throw them in a pan with some red sauce and your favorite pasta :)

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MHC OP wrote

A friend is cooking the packet pasta that I brought. The bottle basil pesto goes with that.

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kin wrote

Depends, if there is an overall rejection to veggies in general or simply a lack of comsuption / unawareness of this option.

If rejection is a issue you can hide (first elgoog hit) something new every new dishe prepared, this is a good tip also to help build a childrens taste towards certain food.

If the people are unaware of Veggies as an option so my bet is to go for an entire veggie meal, even the more boring person ever can be amazed by a proper veg meal. (With variety of flavours colors and textures)

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MHC OP wrote

Yes, I served a home made garden salad. Including green leafy vegetable from my garden. The guest ate it with gusto.

But he seemed to think that say meat pie with pickles was the normal diet!

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kin wrote

Sometimes this go hand in hand with what people call Food Deserts, like poor people, or even if you live far from the "center of civilization", you dont have access to "real" food., just industrial garbage.. and this trending furor over faux plant hamburgers is worsening this problem.

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MHC OP wrote

Please expound on "food deserts". Can you refer to an article? I am thinking of a remote suburb that seems to have only junk food restaurants.

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kin wrote (edited )

It is exactly this. A community that only have access to junk food, and high sugar, high fat, ultraprocessed food. Usually this is linked and overlaps with the socioeconomics statics of a region.

A food desert lacks the distribution or even the offer of fresh food and local food (as in local produced and as historically original to the region).

Some industries help this happen

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MHC OP wrote

I recently shopped at an organic farmers' market. I think that my bill was twice what I'd spent at a supermarket!

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kin wrote

That one of the downsides of local food and orgánic farmers market, the production usually is not subsizided.

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