Are you looking for some fun ways to add more vegetables to your day, you made it to the right place! Here are 12 simple ideas to get more veggies into your diet. Hopefully, these ideas will inspire you to find different ways to increase your vegetable intake each meal.

Did you know that most of us don’t eat enough vegetables each day? About 90% of Americans don’t enough of vegetables in their daily diet. Eating more vegetables each day is so important for our bodies.

Here are some reasons why we need vegetables in our diet

Here are twelve easy and tasty ways to eat more vegetables

1. Add two large handfuls of spinach or kale to a fruit smoothie

Smoothies are perfect for a nutritious breakfast or snack. For an even more nutritious meal make a Green Smoothie by adding large handfuls of leafy greens to your smoothie. Green smoothies are loaded with leafy greens, that you won’t even taste but your body will appreciate the nutrients.

If you want to get even more creative add frozen cucumbers, zucchini’s, beets, avocado, and blend into smoothies.

2. Swap pasta noodles for Zucchini Noodles

Zucchini noodles are a fun way to get more vegetables in your diet and you’ll be surprised by how tasty they are. Remember this swap isn’t to remove carbs (whole-grain carbs are so important for our health) but instead it’s switching things up to get more vegetables in a meal. Most fad diets are telling people to remove carbs from their diet rather than telling people to focus on adding more vegetables in their diet. Which is so much more beneficial for our minds and health by looking for ways to improve our diet rather than restricted and label something as “bad”.  This swap is an easy way to pack almost two servings of vegetables in one meal.

Here are some fun zucchini noodle recipes:

• Zucchini Noodles with Mizithra Cheese and Browned Butter

3. Make Zucchini Lasagna

Similar to swapping for zucchini noodles, you slice zucchini to make lasagna noodles.

Here’s my favorite zucchini lasagna recipe:

• Healthy Zucchini Lasagna

4. Eat Saute Kale

There’s nothing better than saute kale. If you haven’t tried it you are going to love it! It’s so simple and fast to make. Plus it’s great to eat with a side of eggs in the morning or as a side for any meal. All you need is kale, olive oil, and garlic powder.

5. Add finely chopped vegetables to sauces

Adding vegetables to your sauces and dressings is a great way to sneak in more veggies in your diet, especially if your kids hate vegetables. One easy way is when you are cooking marinara sauce, finely chop some vegetables like onions, carrots, spinach, zucchini, bell peppers, and more. Then stir them into the sauce and saute for a little bit for the veggies to soften.

6. Make a Loaded Vegetable Soup

A great way to get lots of vegetable servings at once is to eat a vegetable-loaded soup. Vegetable-loaded soup is a great way to boost your fiber, vitamins, and minerals for the day. You can experiment with your adding a variety of your favorite veggies and cooking veggies in broth.

Here are a few vegetable soup recipes for you to try:

• Vegetable Loaded Soup

7. Make pizza crust with Cauliflower

Cauliflower works great to use as pizza crust as a way to get in more vegetables. You can grate the cauliflower head and then follow this recipe to make your cauliflower crust.  Another way is to place the cauliflower head on a cutting boarding and cut the cauliflower in half from the middle. Then, cut each half into 1-inch to 1 1/2-inch thick slices. Lay the slices out on a pan and add your pizza toppings onto of the slices. Also, add some yummy chopped veggies to your cauliflower pizzas to get even more veggies in.)

8. Make Cauliflower Rice

Another great way to eat more vegetables to swap your rice for cauliflower rice. Cauliflower is high in folate, potassium, and vitamin K, vitamin C. To make cauliflower rice, add cauliflower florets to a food processor with the chopped blade. Then turn on until all the cauliflower is in nice small rice size pieces.

Also, you can make other rice vegetables from broccoli, carrots, zucchini, beets, and sweet potatoes.

9. Snack on veggies

The best veggies to snack on are carrots,  snap peas, mini bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, cauliflower, and cucumbers. These veggies all taste great with hummus if you are wanting to add some extra protein to your diet. If you are serving veggies for kids and want to make the veggies more fun to snack on, cut them into fun shapes.

10. Dehydrate veggies for a crunchy snack

I love using a dehydrator to make healthy snacks. To eat more veggies, start dehydrating your favorite veggies. You can add your dehydrated veggies to soups or eat them as a crunchy snack while you are on the go. Dehydrating a variety of veggies is a great way to eat more veggies.

Here’s a yummy dehydrator recipe to try:

• Kale Chips

11. Add vegetables to your scrambled eggs or oatmeal

I love adding chopped bell peppers, spinach, kale, or diced tomatoes to my eggs. They add a yummy flavor and a great way to pack in some veggies. For oatmeal, I love adding in shredded carrots or shredded zucchini and adding in some cinnamon. It tastes so amazing and is a simple way to sneak in some veggies.

12. Make a salad that’s topped with tons of different vegetables

Salad is a wonderful way to get a variety of vegetables in. Have fun experimenting with lots of different veggies and creating your own vegetable-packed salads.

Here are some vegetable-packed salads to try:

• Healthy Greek Cucumber Tomato Salad
• Harvest Quinoa Bowl

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