How to Trick Yourself Into Eating More Veggies (3 Daily Habits)
Everyone *knows* to eat healthy food like vegetables.
Unfortunately, if you aren’t used to eating them (or having your kids eat them), it’s like trying to eat a poo-flavored lollipop.
Immediate retching at the thought of eating Broccoli.
And to be honest, I wasn’t always good about eating more veggies and having a more plant-based diet, until the last year or two where I started implementing three daily habits.
The best part?
I still eat the stuff I want, I just add in the stuff I need too.
Here are the three habits I use daily.
The +1 Principle For Eating More Veggies (And Healthy Food)
What Are Your Thoughts?
I want to hear from you below.
Besides the three habits I listed above, what else would you add to the list?
What else personally works for you (or your kids?)
Just comment below.
– Alex
Hi Alex, your three tips for adding more vegetables are great. I also use three more: (1) Make a big pot of vegetable soup on the weekend, with whatever in-season veggies — or even frozen ones — you like. Then season it differently on different days to add variety: maybe chili powder, salsa, curry paste, cumin, ?? (2) Especially for kids: cook veggies until soft, blend and add to your regular recipes, such as spaghetti sauce, chili etc. (3) Keep a daily log and challenge yourself to reach 5 servings of fruits and veggies a day, then try to hit 10 a day! (That’s my current goal, sometimes I reach it and sometimes I don’t, but it’s a fun challenge!)
Love these Patricia! So how do you get your kids to eat them – by mixing them like you said?
My kids are in college now and eating many more vegetables 😉 but when they were younger, they were turned off by “lumps” of vegetables in their food. But if I pureed the veggies (say, cooked squash), for instance with a hand blender, I could add some to chili or spaghetti sauce along with the tomato sauce (also super-healthy) and they wouldn’t even notice.
Aha! Super sneaky 😉 Glad it worked