This is Jenni. If you told me 10, even 5 years ago to eat healthy and I thought of the word "vegetables." This was followed by the sound "bleh." I considered veggies tasteless, hard to chew and expensive. I'd only eat a couple for good lucks sake. The most successful attempts at mastication (chewing) were with a bottle of ranch! OK, I liked some vegetables, but not enough to make them a way of life.
There's been a change.
So why do veggies have a bad rap? These wonderful plants that provide essential vitamins and minerals in a variety of tastes, textures and colors need not be sad side dishes chalked with butter (fat) and salt in order to make ourselves and families "eat our vegetables". In fact, we can find stellar cookbooks which make the vegetables not only the star of the meal (main dish) but a feast that will actually make us go back for seconds (cookbook tab). Yes, that's right folks. Veggies in all their health-packed glory come to us either hot or cold, flavored with other herbs and spices that will astound you, as they did me. I'm a veggie lover now, and they are making reprises at the lunch and dinner table daily. We're trying out a new vegetable at least every month for variety and fun :)
I think this aversion to the veg started when we lost the art of cooking at home. This art can be acquired fairly easily. At least easier than getting an A in a semester physics class :) And we'll actually use it in real life! Let's take a short veggie class, re-inspiring our hope that the section of the store we sometimes avoid is going to make our taste buds tingle and our body thank us by working short and long term wonders.
Veggie Class!!
(insert anttioxidant colors-free radical stuff, cite book and all other info relating to veggies like the fiber and water and from the sun stuff :)
