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My little rule is that it’s okay to have Mac n cheese for dinner or frozen pizza so long as I add a veggie

Broccoli is my favorite and so easy. Steam it, boil it, fry or roast. Just add salt and pepper I love broccoli!

Try roasting veggies! Yum!!! Just chop up literally any veggie you have ( okay not lettuce though you psycho) and toss with olive oil, roast in oven on 400 for maybe 20 minutes. Super good! If you’re a good cook or feeling creative you can add spices idk maybe garlic powder that’s easy!

Here’s another trick: BEANS! people don’t usually think of beans as a vegetable but they are! And I think beans are the best vegetable of all! Each one is tastier than the last! Full of fiber and nutrients and even protein. Heat up a can of black beans WITH THE JUICE. Add cumin. Scoop em up with chip! Eat pinto beans. No recipe needed! Pinto beans are delicious! Garbanzo, navy, red, Lima. Yum yum yum! One day you meet the king of all beans, the boss level. The butter bean. Ohhh what a bean that is. The bigger the bean the better and the butter bean is the biggest of all. Sauté them with oil and spices, serve them on toast! Be happy! Spread joy!

(If you’re about to comment that beans are not a vegetable please do me a favor and ask google if that’s true. I’ve had too many conversations about this. Beans are a vegetable. They’re the king of vegetables!!)

Eat them before you eat anything else. When you are hungry, foods tend to taste better, and your body is not trying to tell you to stop eating yet.

Make sure you swallow them when you're done chewing.

That's the neat part, I don't

If you have a decent blender, making smoothies is an easy way. If you don't like the taste you can just hold your nose and gulp it down.

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.

As a vegetarian, eating veggies comes with the territory lol. But if you're not having enough veggies already, I'd recommend switching to a cuisine which is veggie-heavy where you don't need/miss meat, like Indian/Asian/Mediterranean cuisines etc.

For fruits though, the key is to always have some at hand, in a convenient format, so that you're less likely to grab a bag of chips or something. For instance, with apples, you can cut them into pieces and apply lemon juice so that it doesn't oxidize, and then put it in a small airtight box next to wherever you spend most of your time (could be your desk/couch/bed etc). Same thing with oranges, peel em and put it in an airtight container. Other fruits don't need such prep work so you can alternate with them, eg grapes or bananas. And the trick is again, always have them nearby you so you're more likely to reach out to them than for junk food. And to get into the habit of this, make it a part of your daily routine. Like for me, I make a smoothie the first thing in the morning, and as part of that routine, I also prep my fruit-box for the day.

Veggies have never been a problem for me. Fruit always has been tho.

My solution for that is making a smoothie every morning while I wait for my coffee to brew.

I mostly eat vegetables raw with some hummus. Since it's so simple, it's easy to do on a daily basis. Mostly just rinse them in water and chop them up, so I can eat them by hand or with a fork. After getting used to this method and doing this on a regular basis, I feel much healthier and better in general. So I associate the process of preparation and eating them with feeling good, which encourages me to continue to do so on a regular basis. Also, I don't buy much processed foods at the grocery store, so there's less bad food available to me to eat at home. Since vegetables and fruit are the primary options available, I tend to eat them instead of something less healthy.

Buying em in the first place, if I got em, I'm definetely eating it.

I buy bags of mixed frozen vegetables and then mix them in to whatever I'm making for dinner. E.g. if I'm having pasta, I'll throw some meat and veg into the sauce and serve it all on the pasta. I eat way more vegetables when it's mixed in to the main dish, than if I have them as a side.

I don't really use any tricks to eat more fruit. I just buy the ones I like and have them ready to snack on. I buy a lot of bananas, apples, grapes, etc that you can mostly just grab and eat as desired.

For vegetables I throw everything into a big stew with a lot of different things (kale, broccoli, cauliflower, onion, potato, mushrooms, tofu, garlic, beans), lots of hot sauce, seasoning, olive oil, etc. and eat the same thing every day, for the most part. I don't eat enough fruit but I do have a handful of dried fruit with oats every day

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.

When it's hot I like snacking on frozen mango pieces. They sell bags of them in supermarkets. Frozen blackberries and raspberries are also great.

I also like putting vegetables into curry and soup because personally I like my ratio of solid "food" to liquid curry/broth to be higher.

I eat fruits and vegetables with my meals.

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.

Just eat them.

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 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.

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 missing 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 them straight 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 good source of healthy fat, fiber and potassium so I either eat them straight, on sandwiches, or in 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.

Yogurt and fruit

Fruit salad

I use the trick that I’m an adult. It seems to help a lot.

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, dried cranberries, fresh strawberries. 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 like most veg and fruit. I suppose you are looking for palatable ways of eating these? One veg I don't like is eggplant, but it's actually passable as lasagna or prepared as a schnitzel.

Have you tried punching "batch recipes kale" into a search engine? (but instead of kale, put whichever vegetable you want to eat more of)

"Batch recipes" are basically like meal prep. And they often taste amazing.

My reasoning is: if you have leftovers in your fridge that are veggie-laden, tasty, and convenient, odds are you'll be getting your veggies without even trying.

I am a vegan. The only thing I eat is fruits and vegetables. And some grains too.

Tricks? I just enjoy them. But I think the most important part of making sure you're eating enough of anything in a healthy and varied diet is to meal plan. I grocery shop to accommodate most everything I need for the week with some gaps here and there for leftovers and eating out. I usually eat Greek yogurt with fresh berries, walnuts, granola, and chia seeds for lunch. So I'll stock a big tub of yogurt and a couple packs of whatever berries look good that week. Sometimes I'll get tired of yogurt, so I'll eat some eggs or leftovers. Dinner is where most of the planning lies. I stock a few regular items that I always know I can make different meals from in a pinch and then I plan maybe 1 or 2 meals that require more planning and non-regular grocery items. So for regular items, I like to keep chicken pre-processed and prepared in the freezer, potatoes, rice, onions, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, zucchini, and lettuce. Those items plus whatever I have in the way of canned goods can make a lot of different meals such as cream of mushroom chicken, chicken sandwiches, chicken stir-fry, etc. For the in-depth meals I either plan to pick up what I need to make something that week, or I make a workhorse meal that makes a ton of food that I can process or freeze for use later to make quick easy meals. Some examples of this include pot pie filling, pesto, or raw falafel. All of these take at least an hour usually more to prepare a massive batch. But now that it's done, I have many many meals that I can eat just from thawing out a portion from the freezer. So there you have it. My only tricks are that I enjoy fruits and veggies and that I'm very well versed in meal planning. To be fair, meal planning is not easy and it is definitely a skill that I think everyone should learn to develop. But once you do, you won't need to worry about if you're getting enough of the foods you need because it's all part of the (meal) plan.

I make fruit a part of every breakfast. I plan the rest of my meals around veggies that are on sale. If it's a veg I don't really like (usually texture issues) I hide it in something. Risotto and pizza are two of my favorites.

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 along with everything else, or a pizza I will put green peppers on it along with pepperoni.

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.

I try to eat a variety of foods as much as possible.

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.

Three fruits are part of my morning breakfast, along with Double Fat Plain Yoghurt, and powdered almonds and some plain cocoa powder.

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