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!
