How to get more vegetables into your week

How to get more vegetables in your week!

We all know veggies are good for us, and are full of nutrients and fibre.

We want to aim for at least a clenched fist serving size at our main meals, and choose a wide variety of vegetables in different colours throughout our week.

Different coloured vegetables contain different micronutrients, to help our body stay healthy. Fruits of course also contain lots of micronutrients too!

Here’s a few ways you can add extra vegetables in different colours to your intake.

🥬Green:

Spinach, green beans, broccoli, collard greens, parsley, brussel sprouts, tea.
- Add side salads with mixed greens to your meals

- Add peas and green beans into frittatas

- roast broccoli as a dinner side dish

- Add spinach to smoothies

- Add greens to a stir fry

- Drink green tea

🍅Red

Tomatoes, red capsicum, chilli

- Use tomato base for sauces in bolognese or mince

- Add capsicum to stirfry and curry

- Make tomato soup

🥕Orange/Yellow

Squash, pumpkin, carrots, sweet potato, turmeric

- Make mash for your meals with sweet potato or pumpkin

- Air fry sweet potato chips

- Add turmeric to sauces, soups and dressings

- Make stuffed squash

- Add roast pumpkin to salad

- Make pumpkin soup

🧅White

Onion, garlic, cauliflower

- Use onion and garlic as a base to your meals

- Use cauliflower as a substitute or addition to rice

🍆Purple

Eggplant, beets, red cabbage, red onion

- Cook eggplant on the barbecue

- Make beetroot hummus for a snack

- Make babaganoush

- Make red cabbage slaw

- Chop up red onion in your salads

This should give you some more ideas to add plenty more colourful vegetables into your week!

How do you get your veggies in?