10 Ways to Eat More Fruits and Vegetables
October 27, 2009 by Karen Weideman
Filed under Food and Drinks, family health
As the Keeper of our Castles, one of our responsibilities is to provide healthy meals for our families. Soccer, football practice, dance, piano, science club, and all the other extracurricular activities can make us feel scattered and it may seem too much of a challenge to prepare something healthy.
Here is a list of ideas to include more fruits and vegetables into our diets. I hope this helps inspire you.
1) Try cooked pumpkin or winter squash for dinner.
2) Make a quiche and include chopped bell peppers, onions, and spinach.
3) Try applesauce on pancakes instead of syrup.
4) Add lettuce and tomato to a sandwich.
5) Add chopped apple, mashed banana, or berries to pancakes.
6) Use fruit when making sweets. Instead of making chocolate chip cookies or a chocolate peanut butter pie, make an apple pie, pumpkin pie, banana bread, strawberry muffins, or blueberry pie. Mmmm!
7) Make smoothies. This is one of my favorite ways to get my fruit. Strawberries, bananas, pineapple, oranges, and more. Yummy!
8) Bake sweet potatoes for dinner.
9) Make fruit salad. I always add pineapple to mine. I like the taste of the pineapple mixed with the other fruits.
10) Enjoy a hot bowl of vegetable soup.
What ways do you add more fruits and vegetables to your family’s meals?
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Yum! I made a big pot of vegetable soup this weekend and it really hit the spot. I’m always trying to think of ways to sneak vegetables into my son’s diet without him protesting too much:-) He likes most fruit, but veggies, not so much.