Last month, I received an email from my friends at Foodbuzz Tastemaker Program regarding a new partnership with Green Giant. While I receive many emails each week about partnerships, this was one that excited me more than most. As you know from reading this blog, I love vegetables and find ways to squeeze them in to at least two meals per day.
My salads normally include at least five or six different vegetables in addition to my protein and I keep fresh and frozen vegetables on hand to include in my easy weeknight dinners, including vegetable burgers, chicken breasts, or even eggs.
This Green Giant sponspored challenge revolves around increasing your daily vegetable intake by at least one cup for a two week time period. For me, this is a great challenge as I want to focus on including vegetables in my office snacks and dinners more. While I realize how important vegetables are due to their nutritional benefits, vitamins & nutrients, and fiber factor I have found recently that I’m eating far more fruit than vegetables. Fruit has become a staple in my breakfast and office snacks. In addition, I’ve found it making an appearance on my dinner plate where vegetables once were.
Therefore, as part of this two week challenge, I am going to experiement with office vegetable snack ideas and side dishes. My goal is to try one or two new vegetable side dishes which I can make one night and enjoy for 2-3 nights following. Once upon a time I loved making garlic green beans, sesame broccoli, and other fun side dishes which were easy but still gave my dinners bulk and nutrients.
I hope you enjoy these additions over the next few weeks and are able to benefit from my one more cup pledge.
Do you have any suggestions on how I can include vegetables at the office more?
*Disclaimer: I am receiving a small stipend for my participation in the program and a few coupons for Green Giant products. Since my blog equity is my #1 priority, my thoughts and opinons will be open and honest. If I try a product I don’t like, you’ll be sure to know!
One of my favourite office snacks is hummus and vegetable sticks. Bringing smoothies is great – a nice pick me up in the afternoon! And much cheaper then going out to local juice bar, etc. to get one. Also – an alternative to hummus is incorporating vegetables with beans (i.e. cauliflower, zucchini) and making a dip out of them!
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I find if I buy the components for a veggie tray my kiddos eat more veggies. I also think it’s easy to bring them to work to snack on. Sugar snap peas, green beans, carrots, broccoli, pretty much anything I can bring raw and munch!!
I’m not sure whether edemame counts as a veggie or a legume (or maybe both? Nutritionists, weigh in!), but I buy frozen bags of in-the-pod edemame that are ready to go after a quick zap in the microwave. One more to add to your easy office snack rotation!
I love the Green Giants steamers as they are easy to use while we are in a hurry. I am trying to add new veggies into my rotation now that Spring has sprung keeping up with the seasonal. It’s kinda fun to try it out and see if I like it or not.