Easy Ways to Eat More Organic Veggies
A healthy diet is all good and well (in fact, it's great!), but it needs to be sustainable; forcing oneself to live off salads is enough to make one never want to touch lettuce again!
The best way to eat healthy is including only a few organic vegetables into each meal and building up from there.
Sneaky Greens for Breakfast
If you're into smoothies for breakfast, throw in some spinach or kale - you won't even be able to taste it, but oh boy will you feel good about yourself for the rest of the day!
Easy Veggie Additions for Lunch
Whatever your go-to lunch meal is, add some sliced cucumber and cherry tomatoes on the side - they're so refreshing, eating them feels like a treat!
Smart Snacking Choices
Needing a snack?
Rather than going for a bag of chippies, convince yourself to munch on carrots sticks with hummus, or apple and peanut butter: both options give you that good crunch factor and salty sensation without the oil, preservatives and highly-processed potatoes!
Juicing for a Nutrient Boost
If you've got the means and energy, making vegetable juice (I'd strongly recommend sweetening it with apple juice - you want to enjoy it!) is a great way to get those good nutrients into your body while avoiding the options on the supermarket shelves that are loaded with sugar.
Veggie-Packed Dinners
Adding a vegetable or four into dinner meals can be surprisingly easy: start any meal by frying onion and garlic - they add A LOT of flavour, they're a staple in most recipes, and you've already got 2 or your 5-plus-a-day!
In fact, changing one's mindset and seeing veggies as adding flavour, rather than racking up health points is a great way to approach cooking: carrot, onion and celery combine to make a fantastic stock base that elevates any tomato pasta sauce, soup or stew.
Homemade pasta or pizza sauce with tomatoes, onion, capsicum and basil will take you straight to Italy without the cost and hassle of flights!
Herbs: The Secret Flavor Boosters
Throw in herbs like coriander, parsley, chives or thyme to almost any savoury meal for a more complex, well-rounded flavour profile… again, it won't even feel like your eating vegetables!
BBQ Veggies for the Win
Having a BBQ? Toss some capsicum and corn on the grill - they char beautifully, and complement grilled meats very well! For the kids, skewer meat, capsicum, eggplant and red onion chunks on a kebab and grill to golden perfection - they'll be gone in no time (the kebabs, not the kids!)
Simple Yet Delicious Side Salads
Add a side salad to your nightly dinner table: it doesn't have to be fancy: coleslaw with cabbage and carrot; a leafy salad of mesclun or our super salad mix drizzled with a lemon-mustard vinaigrette; beetroot and carrot grated together and topped with toasted sesame seeds, feta chunks and a dressing of sesame oil, lemon juice and salt and pepper will actually have you going back for seconds!