How to Make Vegetables Taste Good
We know we should be eating more vegetables. We know that healthy food helps with weight loss. But Brussels sprouts just don’t taste like chocolate cake.
If you know you should eat more vegetables, but you just don’t like vegetables, what can you do?
While I’ve incorporated many sneaky tricks into my weight loss program for the die-hard vegetable hater, I’ve found that, for the average person, the most common reason for not liking vegetables is the method of preparation. I mean, seriously … who would want to eat mushy-textured, gray-colored, bland-tasting food?
Sometimes, simply preparing a vegetable in a different way can turn a disgusting vegetable into one that isn’t so bad after all.
The most important tip to remember when preparing veggies is DON’T BOIL them! There are many much more delicious ways to prepare vegetables.
Sauteed Vegetables
Sauteing is a flavorful method of preparing vegetables especially when the right seasonings are used.
Sweet Potato Hash Browns is a favorite. Sauteed onions and cabbage is also well liked.
Roasted Vegetables
Roasting brings out the natural sweetness of vegetables and gives them a delicious flavor. Even the most die-hard veggie-hater may find that they enjoy them prepared this way!
Some of my favorite veggies for roasting are sweet potatoes, onions, squash, carrots, and potatoes; but you can also roast zucchini, beets, cauliflower, parsnips, peppers, asparagus, and more!
Here’s a delicious recipe for Roasted Carrots and another one for Roasted Vegetable Medley.
Steamed Vegetables
Steaming is a simple method of cooking veggies. This method isn’t as flavorful as roasting or sauteing, but it does retain most of the natural vegetable flavors and nutrients.
Incorporating Vegetables into other Foods
Mixing vegetables in with other foods often helps a some vegetables be more palatable.
For example, if you don’t care for winter squash by itself, you may like it cooked in Porotos Granados, a delicious stew from Chile. I hate beets, but borscht is one of my favorite soups.
If you don’t like sweet potatoes – perhaps because you’ve been traumatized by grade-school memories of syrupy sweet, marshmallow-topped, mushy cafeteria sweet potatoes – maybe you’d like this nutritious vegetable served in a more savory way – like Sweet Potato Chili.
Serve Vegetables with a Tasty Sauce
In the New Measure Weight Loss plan I have several recipes for creamy, rich sauces for vegetables that won’t add inches to your waistline. These toppers are experts at making even the most disgusting vegetables taste great!
More Secrets
The New Measure plan also offers several tips, tricks, and little-known secrets to preparing healthful foods in delicious ways that you may have never thought of before.
How vegetables are prepared is just one strategy for learning to enjoy healthful foods. There are several other factors involved with food preferences, such as culture, exposure, and how the brain is wired. Using the methods in the New Measure Weight Loss plan you can actually re-train the brain to enjoy healthy foods – painlessly!