Hellobee Boards

I'm trying to do the same - and lower our meat intake at the same time.

Vegetables: I like to simply roast them in the oven for dinner sides (baby potatoes, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower - anything goes) with OVOO, salt, pepper and garlic powder. 400 degrees for 15-20 min.

Also make homemade yam fries, DD loves them. Same process as above, just cut into fries and a bit longer in the oven

Veggies and dip is a popular snack at our house. Cucumber, cauliflower, carrots and celery are favs.

Fruits: strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, watermelon and mango are favourites at our house.

Currently we eat a lot of cauliflower. Chop it up and roast it with EVOO/SP, use leftovers in a pureed soup with chicken/veggie stock, or boil 1/2 head with 1 or 2 potatoes and make a low carb mash.

My go to healthy salad: Spinach (or mixed greens) balsamic salad w/ avocado, cucumber, strawberries, and walnuts. Sometimes I'll add feta too.

Green smoothie, 2 adult servings: 1 apple, 1 frozen banana, 2 c. frozen berries, 1/2 orange, 1 tbs. flax seed, large handful of spinach. Throw it all into a blender with some water and blend.

Blueberries, oranges, and bananas are the fruits I buy and use the most. We love fresh pineapple too!

Edit: Every week I make variations of oatmeal cups. They are a healthy grab and go breakfast for busy days. Our favorite is banana and blueberry. Let me know if you want the recipe. Kid friendly too!

Subscribe to Imperfect Produce!!! You'll be inspired to cook the food you receive.

We do sheet pan dinners a lot. We're vegan, but this is super easy to implement if you eat meat too. Cook the meat + veggies on a tray. It's great, and you're sure to get a lot of veggies.

I eat bananas every day - in either smoothies or on granola.

I put avocado on everyyythinngggg - hashes, pasta, sandwiches, etc.

Other than that, I buy a big container of spinach each week, and eat it with nearly every meal. If we have pasta, I just pop the pasta right on top of a bed of spinach.

@Mrs Lavender: I am sure there are others ... maybe a local CSA?? I just love how easy they make it, and it seemed like a really approachable veggie box.

Since we moved to Asia, we’ve had to adjust to the new foods. Fruit has been less problematic, but a lot of our normal veggies are harder to find and I don’t know how to cook the Thai veggies. We eat fruit for dessert at lunch and dinner. I usually eat veggies at lunch and dinner (kids and DH eat at work/school).

Fruit: pomelo, passion fruit, guava, pineapple, golden pears, dragon fruit, something called champu (?), and when in season, star fruit and mangosteen. Also, I eat avocados almost every day at lunch. I always have a few of those fruits in my fridge and we’ll eat other things as well.

Veggies: frozen spinach and peas, fresh brocoli, carrots, cucumbers, and various salad mixes depending on what I can find.

We eat a bagged salad mix with half of our dinners. It’s not as cheap as fixing your own but it’s easy and we end up eating more vegetables with less waste. The other half of our nights we have steamed (ahem microwaved) broccoli. We’ve tried several different brands and love Trader Joe’s frozen broccoli. You just microwave it and it’s perfect steamed broccoli. For fruit, I eat an apple most afternoons. I try to eat it when I’m thirsty because that’s when I am least likely to get tired of them and they feel the most refreshing.. I also do watermelon+ feta + basalmic glaze for dessert often. I buy the watermelon prechopped and it’s expensive but worth it.

@travellingbee: I've been eating paleo for a few weeks, so since I can't fill up on grains and legumes, I really have no choice but to eat more veggies and fruit. So, there are all the usuals (steam or roast broccoli, salad, bananas or apples with almond butter, my husband makes a fruit salad of strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries almost every morning that we all eat).

But some "new" things I've been trying are lots and lots of spaghetti squash and riced cauliflower. I use those as bases for almost everything. I get tired of the "plain meat + vegetable side" formula pretty quickly, so using the spaghetti squash and riced cauliflower helps me make "familiar" meals without the grains. I make a really good spaghetti casserole (tastes like pizza) with the squash, or I use it as a noodle base for a thai curry. I use the riced cauliflower in a really good buffalo chicken casserole recipe, in a "friend rice" recipe, and as a base for indian curries.

I also learned that plantains or thinly sliced and roasted sweet potatoes make a great base for chicken salad. With the plaintains, you literally just get 2 ripe plantains and mash well (I use the food processor), then spread thinly into a pan until browned; flip and repeat. With sweet potatoes, I peel them and then make thin slices out of the whole potato--so I get a pretty big base-then I just brush with oil of choice and sprinkle some seasoning on and roast at 425 for 10-15 min until they get crispy.

I also make meatballs with minced carrot/onion/celery--if you mince it fine enough, they taste just like regular meatballs. And you can make sweet potato hash for breakfast.

I also make super delicious zucchini fritters and sweet potato latkes, paleo style.

Basically, the base of every meal and snack is an unprocessed veggie or fruit. I've never been a vegetable lover, but I've found a lot of ways to make veggies be a big part of my diet now that I can't have grains.

Pictured is an example of using sweet potatoes or plantain fritters as a base for chicken salad. It's really, really good.

I eat broccoli, brussels sprouts, romanesco, zucchini, asparagus, and green beans for the most part. Some cauliflower.

I also like baby arugula - both wilted and as salad. As well as spinach in the same manner.

I take 2 Amazing Grass wheatgrass tablets a day as part of my supplement routine as well.

I generally have a serving of veg at lunch and again at dinner. I also like to eat fermented veggies like kimchi and sea vegetables like nori or seaweed salad, as they are more nutrient dense.

I don't eat fruit right now (I'm on a low carb diet), but in the past I basically always snacked on fruit or had a piece of fruit for dessert. My kids are fruit bats so we ALWAYS have like a zillion kinds of fruit at home, but I always try to have easy fruits - clementines, apples, bananas, berries, and nectarines/peaches. If its in season, I'll do a big seedless watermelon in the summer and hack that up too.

I love fresh fruit! In this cold season, I'm eating lots of apples, pears, oranges, but summer is the best time for fruit. I love cherries, peaches, nectarines, strawberries, etc.

As far as veggies, I like raw baby carrots and cauliflower for snacks. Baked acorn squash and beets are also tasty. Asparagus is also fun to eat because of the way it changes the smell of your urine! I also love the bright colors of bell peppers.

I hope you find your faves too!