There is no trick I only eat them because it is what I like to eat. For late breakfast fruits, and for dinner a big salad, nothing in between, easy to digest, full of energy all day.
I watch geezer TV and see ads for those “Fruits and Vegetables” pills. I’m not wasting my money on those! But the ads show delicious-looking fresh produce, which reminds me how good they can taste.
Eating a salad of plain dumb lettuce makes me feel like a moo-cow, so I make sure to add something like bits of apple, or grapes sliced in half, avocado, tomatoes,. Crumbled queso fresco or your cheese of choice, and nuts tossed in a hot pan for a minute with just a drizzle of maple syrup and cinnamon aren’t vegetables but they help a salad feel like a meal.
I like to chop and rinse a head of romaine, keep it in the fridge and toss a handful of that, a handful of “spring mix” baby greens, and a handful of baby spinach into my salad spinner, rinse it and mix it in the water, and spinspinspin it dry. Even though they’re “washed 3 times” it really freshens the flavor. And it’s fun, pushpushpushing the big button. Get a salad spinner if you don’t have one.
If baby spinach or baby kale starts to look tired, or you’re tired of it, throw it in a stew or curry, under it instead of (or under) the rice. The heat will wilt it away to practically nothing and you’ll get your nutrients.
I drink a cup of carrot juice every day. I eat other fruits and vegetables too, but always have my carrot juice. I made it a habit to drink a cup every morning.
There is no trick that will make you think an apple is actually pie or make kale taste just like potato chips.
Try new stuff. Go to the Asian grocery store and buy random fruits and veggies you haven’t seen before and try them. Worst case you hate them, but you seem to be there already, best case you love them.
I try to sneak them in as part of other meals, even if I don’t like the vegetable. Like if I have a burrito bowl I will put carrots in it, or a pizza I will put green peppers on it.
Fruits I don’t do as well on, if I get frozen yogurt I will get rare fruits like mango, and I drink fruit juice.
Instead of trying to eat more, think what do you want to cut down? Meat? Carbs?
Then cut those down and replace with a veg dish instead. Buying a vegetarian cookbook helps. You don’t need to go vegetarian, but you’ll find great recipes for vegetables, instead of as an afterthought.
With pretty much any vegetable, salt, pepper, olive oil and crushed garlic roasted in the oven for 20 minutes is tasty.
For me, I’m trying to eat a more Mediterranean diet, for my health, so that means curing meat and carbs and having lots of veg and herbs and nuts. When I make something, i think to myself, what veg would work with this recipe and add that as an extra.
I was always taught to eat veggies, so I kinda feel bad every time I don’t. Therefore veggies haven’t ever really been an issue. Fruit is a different issue though. I used to always eat cookies or something a few hours after dinner when I got hungry again. After I decided that they probably wasn’t the healthiest of habits, I replaced that with eating fruit. I don’t even have snacks and cookies in my house anymore most of the time, so I’m kinda forced to alleviate any hungry feeling with fruit.
Not buying meat or prepared foods in the first place. It’s just fruit, veggies, cheese, bread, greens. That’s what there is to eat, so that’s what I eat.
I actually did a lot of work to figure out how to eat healthier in a more sustainable way. I wrote a spreadsheet to tally what my diet looked like and what I might be missing nutritionally, found good sources of those misding things and picked ones that I liked the taste of.
Carrots are a good source of vitamin A so I eat them pickled or in salads
Guava is a good source of potassium and vitamin C and I just eat obe of them a day because theyre tasty.
Broccoli has vitamin C and K so I mix them into mac and cheese or eat them with spicy hummus.
Green onions have a lot of vitamin K in them so I use them in salad, on burgers, wherever you would use onions.
Jalapenoes are another good source of vitamin C so they go in salad, on sandwiches, burgers etc. anything I want to be a bit less bland.
Sweet peppers are a good source of vitamin C, are colorful and have antioxidants so I either put them in salad or eat them with hummus.
Avocadoes are a goid source of healthy fat, fiber and potassium so I either eat them straight, on sandwiches, or on salads.
Frozen peaches usually have vitamin C added to them and are available when fresh peaches generally aren’t so theyre a good source of vitamin C while being tasty
Krautburgers can have shredded carrots, cabbage and mushrooms in them.
Burritos you can have tomatoes, green onion, olives, jalapenoes and beans.
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