7 Tricks to Help You Eat More Vegetables

Add a bit more plants to your current diet and you will see great changes in the very near future. You need fiber, vitamins and minerals to feel good and look young.

Vegetables can help you maintain healthy weight and lose extra pounds.

1. Sorting out and calculations

There is no need to create a new diet. What you should first do is to map your diet out and see how nutritional it is. Determine the quality of calories you consume and replace part of animal products with vegetables. Check out the nutritional value of the food you eat and compare it to that of plant-based foods. Vitamins and minerals can be found in all sorts of vegetables. Eat nuts and avocado instead of butter and steak; try spinach and tomatoes instead of red meat. 

2. Explore the store

Play a new game: pick a new kind of fruit or vegetable every week and taste it to see how much you like it. Make a dish with it and try to explore new tastes and flavors. You are welcome to ethnic grocery stores!

3. Mix foods up

Mix some of the most unusual foods up. Get creative and make your own dishes. Rice taste wonderful with beans. You will provide your body with both protein and rice. Add a bit of olive oil instead of butter. Replace meat with tofu. Use spices and herbs to make your meals taste different. Invent something new in the kitchen and include new species of vegetables. Plant-based meals can be delicious without animal products!

4. Meat is no evil food

Hold this food for a while. Even if your goal is to go totally vegan, do it step by step. Opt for one plant-based meal a week for a start. Then increase the amount of plants you eat and reduce the amount of meat you consume. You need some time to understand how you feel about the change and whether you can go vegan for the rest of your life.

5. Foods prepared ahead

When we are tired or simply busy all we want to do is to quench our hunger and thirst as soon as possible. We have no time to cook a meal from scratch. This is when we go back to our previous eating habits and down something unhealthy. Keep plenty of vegetables in the fridge in case you are in a hurry.

6. Be sneaky

Congratulations if you love vegetables. For those of you who despise them, we suggest you should try and be sneaky. Add the veggies you dislike to your morning smoothies – the fruit will hide the taste and flavor that you can’t stand. 

7. Be adventurous

Seek some adventure – make discoveries! Taste various exotic vegetables, read ethnic guides and cookbooks, watch TV shows and see what you can do with vegetables brought to your country from abroad.