Vegetable Poll

[Heidi3]

I absolutely adore really fresh vegetables (our farmers market does not open again until April...sniff...) ....frozen are ok and canned to me are just not edible ..except those baby corns are good and some things like canned pumpkin or straw mushrooms.

I believe that if you eat enough vegetables you will look and feel better than anyone on the planet!!!

Are you eating your quota? enough at every meal ?......do you go overboard or underboard..

this is a poll intended to motivate you to try more and get them in EVERY meal...

part of the MYTHconception about the Atkins plan it that it is limiting
..that is just a load of crap IMHO ....I have not had a "boring" meal in two years!!!

I feel so sad when I read "I don't like vegetables"


...all the negative side effects people have here...as I scan through the boards ... things like constipation and hair loss ect...if you look closely the same people are in a rut with food or not eating enough variety of veggies...iceburg lettuce is not enough!!!!

Soooo.....lets talk about veggies ....how you like them prepared, how often you eat them and what source you get them from, fresh, frozen or canned....

[wannabethintoo]

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I love all kinds of vegetables and always have but I'll only eat them fresh. I can't stand the canned ones or the frozen ones. I like cooking them only a little so there is a crunch to them. My new vegetable addiction right now is asparagus...I can't get enough of it...baked in the oven.

[Richt]

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I love all veggies also.......

[ladyinred]

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I didn't vote for the first one only b/c I don't usually eat veggies at breakfast. Only on weekends when I make fancy omelets and such. I find more veggies to love every week. Even spaghetti squash (LIR winks at Heidi). My latest passion is pumpkin, which I have only tried canned. I also don't mind frozen green beans or veggies that I have frozen myself. Canned veggies are like salty baby food. Yuck!!

[Heidi3]

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darn I did not think of the breakfast thing ....but you should eat some at breakfast you know It will make you glow all day!!!!

[changing]

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I love all vegetables!! Well... except for raw onions, I can eat them cooked though... I eat a lot of frozen veggies (probably about 2/3 of my veggies), and find them very tasty. Pretty much the other third of my veggies are fresh, which includes salad veggies, cauliflower that I'm planning to "rice," and the odd turnip I pick up at the market. I rarely eat canned and when I do, it's usually pumpkin or stewed tomatoes--and I guess tomatoes are fruit anyway.

[Eleonore]

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I love them, I wish I could have more.

[Tired of Chub]

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Im a veggie lover. Not so much at breakfast unless its the weekend and Immaking an omelet. I too love mylocal farmers market and hit it and roadside stand on a regular basis when they are open. Some things I do eat frozen, some canned. I dont mind canned no salt green beans or mushrooms but thats about it canned.

[not2late]

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Canned green beans remind me of school lunches! I do use canned pumpkin, canned baby corn, and canned straw mushrooms. Canned waterchestnuts and canned bamboo shoots are other canned foods I use because I rarely can find the fresh ones (and when I do the prices are too high for my bank account!)

I eat frozen if I can't find fresh. I do use frozen spinach exclusively in some dishes, like my artichoke-spinach side dish (basically it's a variation of the artichoke-spinach dip). I use frozen cauliflower for dishes I puree cauliflower, like the faux-tatoes and leek and faux-tato soup----I can't bring myself to puree a beautiful fresh head of cauliflower. Same thing for broccoli. If I make a dish that uses pureed broccoli, I use the frozen stuff.

I also like pickled vegetables! I had an auntie who used to make the BEST dill pickled green beans. They were 1,000,000,000,000 times better than pickled cucumbers, imo. And the bonus was that she used to pickle whole garlic cloves with those green beans and they were absolutely delicious, especially with fried chicken or fish!

[ValidRouge]

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I've always loved veggies. I am trying to introduce even more of them into my diet...but I've found lately that my appetite just isn't allowing me to even get close to what I'm allowed to have. I get so full so quickly, then I get a little bit of nausea at the thought of putting another bite in my mouth.

Tonight, I decided, eat the veggies first!

Oh, I also took some fresh green beans and deep fried them. OMG, they were sooooooo good. Seemed just like eating fresh french fries!

I bought some collard greens and am going to make Caldo Gallego this week.

[Heidi3]

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Veggie lovers unite!!!! I forgot about the waterchestnuts...I found them here in n Asian market fresh they were yummy and I am so lucky to be able to get fresh bamboo shoots!!! but will use canned if I need to ....some things in cans are good I am learing that!!

I understand in some respects frozen veggies are have more good stuff in them because they are frozen at the prime moment and close to the source of growth...

If you have a Trader Joes..they have great frozen vegetables!! the asparagus, green beans and mixed mushrooms are wonderful!!!

there is something so sensual, romantic and wonderful ... to go to fresh farmers market and linger over produce that has been grown by the folks selling it to you.....talk to them ...get recipes ...and then.... eat it at the moment it should be eaten it ...... sigh...how many days until April again????

[MotherOfGizmo]

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I love veggies! I can't think of a single veggie that I don't like except raw onions..but I even like those if they are cooked!

I don't usually eat veggies at breakfast except in the summer when the tomatos are ripe in the garden, then I eat a couple of slices every morning until the season is over Then I only eat veggies on the weekends - we make omlets and top them with my homemade canned salsa!

We have fresh veggies with every dinner, I always make extras so I have them for lunch as well! We rarely eat canned veggies but I do keep a few cans around for those days when I haven't been to the grocery store and need to go! The only frozen veggie that I buy are greens like collards or spinach to put in my quiche. I do hope to have more veggies from our garden to freeze this year though!

[Heidi3]

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where the heck are the veggie haters?? are they hiding or something???? I know you guys are out there!!!

I do not care for cauliflower, or the flowers on broccolli I love the stalks so I eat Chinese broccoli instead...also as we all know ...spaghetti squash makes me KACK!!!!
other than tht I can not think of anymore ..ok the banana flower was too bitter but I am not done trying that one

[BeccaResRN]

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I love vegies. My mom made all kinds when were kids everynight for dinner. The only vegies I don't really like are peas and okra and succatosh. And see 2 of those aren't even low carb and I would try okra if I could get it not slimy. I am adventerous I will try new things even if I didn't like them when I was young. When I was a kind I hated cabbage cooked and greens but as an adult I love them.

My favorites are fresh asparagus and brussel spouts and spagetti squash. And fresh or frozen will do if no fresh available of broccoli, cauliflower, squash, zuchcini, green beans, spinach, weird salad greens, peppers

My new one this year is Kohlrabia my mom grew it in here garden and it was great and low carb kinda like turnip/potato sub.

I love fresh from the garden Indiana tomatoes with salt and I will spluge my carbs on a tender fresh ear of hot buttered corn.

My mom grows a big garden and I plant things there too, this year I had spagetti squash, green breans, radiashes, spinach and of course tomatoes.

[Heidi3]

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that is so cool ..I love when Moms/Dads teach their kids to eat good food