My top 10 Veggies

My top 10 veggies

Bell Peppers (Green, Red, Orange)

Colorful, taste great grilled, sautede, baked and enhance the flavor of stews, meats and salads!  Can be delicious cooked or raw in a veggie tray.  This veggie is super adaptable! They are an excellent source of vitamin A, vitamin C, and potassium. Bell Peppers also contain a healthy dose of fiber, folate, and iron. Along with being full of nutrients, Bell Peppers deliver a satisfying and low-calorie crunch with every bite.  The red bell pepper is 11x more beta carotene over the green ones!  My personal opinion I think they taste sweeter as well. 

Onions

Easy to cook with and a variety of different flavors, white, red, yellow and green onions.  Can be added to almost any meal or salad to spice it up naturally without salt. They contain antioxidants and compounds that fight inflammation, decrease triglycerides and reduce cholesterol levels — all of which may lower heart disease risk. Their potent anti-inflammatory properties may also help reduce high blood pressure and protect against blood clots. I prefer them cooked as they may not taste as spicy or have such a strong flavor but the green ones are my favorite added to almost any topping of food!

Garlic

Garlic is a popular ingredient in cooking due to its strong smell and delicious taste. However, the main use of garlic is for its health and medicinal properties. Helps fight inflammation, improve circulation and to boost your immunity. Love how this can be added to anything from omelets to soups, cooked, roasted, sauteed or used to marinate your meats in for extra flavor without adding salt.

Ginger

Another one of my favorites because of the unique taste, flavor and health benefits it has.  I add it to my lemon water to spice it up and help fight off inflammation and for natural flavoring of my water to keep me hydrated.  Love this added to my asian foods and pairs well in salads, meats and pasta as well.  The health benefits keep me coming back for more each time!  It is loaded with antioxidants, compounds that prevent stress and damage to your body's DNA. They may help your body fight off chronic diseases like high blood pressure, heart disease, and diseases of the lungs, plus promote healthy aging and helps with nausea

Broccoli

Broccoli is and amazing vegetable and considered a superfood!  The list of benefits goes on and on.  Just a few that top my list of helpful benefits for my family is protects cardiovascular health, reduces risk of diabetes, fights inflammation, loaded with fiber to aid in digestion, reduces the risk of cancer with all its antioxidants.  That is more than enough reasons to serve it up on your plate a couple of times a week.  I am so fortunate and grateful that everyone loves it and doesn't complain about it.  It is a main staple. We serve it raw, steamed, sauteed and baked.  

Avocados

Yum, can you say, “Holy Guacamole!”  One of our favorites is that we love this in salads or on toast with eggs or just raw.  Simply delicious. It is a unique superfood in that iUSDA’s ChooseMyPlate site has categorized Avocado as a vegetable due to its culinary uses, but according to botanists’ avocado is a fruit. How crazy is that and originated from Mexico so it is usually imported. We love to use this amazing vegetable/fruit in our mexican dishes like taco salads or fajita night!

Sweet Potatoes

Another one of my favorites, love the color that these sweeties add.  I have replaced mashed potatoes with mashed sweet potatoes due to all the health benefits that they add to our dinner plate. This is another one of my meal prep favorites because it stores so well. Sweet potatoes are loaded with good for you in  gut fighting, inflammation and stress lowering veggies.

On the glycemic index scale, sweet potatoes are categorised as low to high, as they can minimise the occurrence of insulin resistance. Sweet potatoes have a low glycemic index, which means they release sugar into the bloodstream very slowly, as compared to the other starchy foods. Sweet potatoes are very delicious and nutritious root vegetables. They are creamy and soft, which makes them the perfect ingredient for many recipes. These are the best sources of many vitamins and minerals, and are packed with riboflavin, thiamine, niacin, and carotenoids. So why not stock this superfood in your pantry!

Carrots

Are another one of our favorites in our household because of their color, crunch and naturally sweet tasting flavor.  Carrots can come in different colors of course our favorite is the orange or white carrot.  These jewels pair well in stews, strifrys, steamed, baked or raw as snack. We like the bunch of carrots vs the little carrots.  They require more cleaning and prepping but well worth it.  I will make candied carrot coins and the kids love them.  There is the typical myth that they are good for your eyes and they are due to the beta carotene. Carrots are loaded with nutrients A, C, and K and significant minerals like potassium, iron, copper, and manganese just as a few different supplements that offer a scope of great advantages to human well-being. Carrots have a dietary substance that is very helpful to both the outer and inward human body. It does a ton of good to the skin, the eye, the heart, and by and large well-being.

Cabbage

Cabbage is an exceptionally healthy food. It has an outstanding nutrient profile and is especially high in vitamins C and K. In addition, eating cabbage may even help lower the risk of certain diseases, improve digestion and combat inflammation. Plus, cabbage makes a tasty and inexpensive addition to a number of recipes.I love cabbage in stews, salads and stir-frys.  We love colorful coleslaw since it comes in many different colors and plus as a bonus all the healthy added benefits!