Veggie Non-lovers

I have talked before about trying to get more veggies in my diet and just trying to eat more healthy in general.   But I wanted to give you all some more ideas about how to sneak veggies into your meals and still enjoy them. 
Here are a few quick add on ideas:
1.  Add broccoli, cauliflower, and/or tomatoes (tomatoes are actually a fruit) to mac and cheese.
2.  When making a salad for dinner add extra veggies besides lettuce and chop them up nice and little and you will not notice they are there. But don't over do it on the dressing -- it kind of defeats the purpose of having a salad.
3.  Add extra veggies to some of your favorite meals.  Add peppers, onions, and mushrooms to your pizza and tacos.  I sometimes cook them down a little and blend them to add them to my sauce so I don't even know they are there.  You can add veggies to just about anything if you get creative.  Add shredded carrots to your sloppy joes. 

Okay now here is the even more fun stuff.  Look online for different veggie salad recipes.  Like broccoli cauliflower salad or fun coleslaw.  Here are a few of my favorites.

Broccoli Cauliflower Salad
1 cup chopped broccoli
1 cup chopped cauliflower
4 strips crisp turkey bacon, crumbled
3-4 medium chopped mushrooms
1/4 cup chopped onion (your choice what kind)
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
1/2 cup raisins
Add any other veg if you want
Sauce:
1 cup light mayo
1/2 sugar or Splenda
1/4 cup cider vinegar (Now some people don't like that much vinegar so play around with ratio)
Directions:
Mix and eat.  Don't eat the whole batch in one sitting because the sauce isn't the healthiest but you will enjoy eating your vegetables.


This next recipe is from my buddy Andrea.  She is great about adding fun and different grains to her diet.  This recipe calls for quinoa but I couldn't find any at Kroger so I used couscous and that worked too.  I also used all variety of veggies I hard on hand.  I used carrots, radishes, onion, broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms, and tomatoes.  Get creative or throw in all your soon to expire vegetables.
Quinoa Vegetable Salad
1/2 C chopped or shredded carrots
1/2 C chopped pepper (any color or add all the colors)
1/2 C chopped broccoli
1/4 C chopped onion
1/4 C diced Roma tomatoes
1 C cooked quinoa
Sauce:
Juice from 1 lemon
Zest from 1 lemon
1 tsp lemon pepper seasoning
2 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
1 large clove of garlic, crushed
2 T olive oil
Directions:
Mix and eat:)

Before you try these recipes I want you to know that I make up recipes from trying food that others make and I recreate them to my taste.  So what I am saying is that these measurements may not be correct -- I didn't follow a recipe when I made them.  I like to eye ball it and add stuff as I go.  But I would love to hear how all of you sneak vegetables into your diet and please improve or correct my recipes.  Good eating to you all.