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Do You Always Have A Green Vegetable In A Main Meal?

ECBG — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:10:19 GMT

Green vegetables are among the most nutrient rich of the vegetable family.

I love salads, green beans, broccoli, okra, and all the rest of the vegetables with a very few exceptions.

I'll always stir fry vegetables, or make a medly, or a salad to go with dinner.

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QVCkitty1 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:12:30 GMT

I love salads and I usually have one for lunch or dinner daily.

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ChynnaBlue — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:16:27 GMT

No. I had some broccoli with lunch today, but it was more brown than green after the cafeteria finished.

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Annabellethecat66 — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:23:16 GMT

@ECBG Hello sweet girl, I I need to respond to your email...love you.

When my girls were living at home we'd have 3 or 4 vegetables (and usually a meat) with every meal. The joke was we'd have more vegetables with everything. My girls loved spinach and broccoli, things like that.

I'm not a great (maybe not even good) cook but I do make good lasagna and I guess spaghetti. Even then we would have a salad and green beans. I love, love green beans (just the one's from the can). I can even eat them cold from the can! They are like cookies to me...weird, I know. I do make good spinach, add a little sald and butter, cook, yummmmm!!! Now I'm hungry again and I just ate at Red Robin restaurant. Had fried chicken sandwich, milkshake, french fries....gotta go get a snack!

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DiAnne — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 23:30:46 GMT

Always some kind of green salad with dinner.

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StylishLady — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:04:52 GMT

Usually here also. I like colors on my plate.

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LonestarBabs — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:06:56 GMT

I prefer a salad vs a cooked green vegetable, but now have to limit them due to the medical needs of my elderly mother. She is on a blood thinner and has to be mindful of how many green vegs she eats in order to keep the Vit K in check and not interfere with her medicine. Can't eat greens every day. But I can!!! Since I prepare the meals for her I have to be careful with her menu.

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KentuckyWoman — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:20:42 GMT

I prefer salads rather than cooked vegetables. I fixed broccoli tonight. Husband likes it and I tried to ead it but it was a no go. It actually makes me gag. My doctor wants me to eat lots of green leafy vegetables. I can usually get them in a salad so that works best for me.

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phoenixbrd — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 00:33:00 GMT

green veggies are my main meal.....

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RedTop — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 01:38:11 GMT

Everyone in this house likes a different vegetable. My husband's vegetable of choice is corn, or beets. Teacher daughter loves green beans and broccoli. Trucker daughter prefers asparagus and peas. I like the combo of broccoli, cauliflower and carrots, and also love sweet potatoes.

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GCR18 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 01:55:16 GMT

I don't. I like many of them. I need to get organized and back to meal planning.

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Sooner — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 02:02:25 GMT

We do almost always. If we are just having light meals like tuna or sandwiches, sometimes it's carrot and celery sticks. But we tend to go for broccoli, squash, sauteed cabbage, carrots, and onions. Oh and we have LOTS of bell peppers--sometimes raw. We try to have leafy greens like spincah, collards or kale at least 3 times per week.

We buy mostly organic because the things we usually eat are on the list of most pesticides!

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ECBG — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 03:48:52 GMT

@StylishLady wrote:
Usually here also. I like colors on my plate.

@StylishLadyI do too! Usually, if the plate (other than the meat) is all white/beige/yellow you have a plate of starch!

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sunshine45 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 05:26:22 GMT

we almost always have some type of a green salad AND a green vegetable......

green beans, broccoli, zucchini, asparagus, brussel sprouts, peas, snow peas, sugar snap peas, and occasionally lima beans (which i dont care for too much.) during the summer we also have a basket of herbs as a side (usually eaten with pita bread and sometimes feta cheese)......the herbs included are basil, spring onions or chives, tarragon, some type of parsley, and radishes.

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PamelaSue72 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:16:04 GMT

Years ago, my GYN told me to eat lots of dark green and dark yellow vegetables, the darker the better. So yes, we eat a lot of spinach, kale, different kinds of squashes (I dearly love roasted butternut squash, but we also eat a lot of acorn squash, pattypans), sweet potatoes, etc. We do have our share of corn, potatoes, limas, green and wax beans, broccoli, too. We eat a lot of vegetables anyway and I really try to put dark greens and dark yellows on our plates. I'm lucky because DH will eat them, too. I dearly love red beets, but DH won't touch them. Other than that, he's good to go.

We have Meatless Mondays quite often and our main dish will be a twice-baked acorn squash. It's quite good. I use spinach, green onion, a bit of Parmesan, some cayenne pepper, sometimes I throw in some dried cranberries. It's really quite good.

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beckyb1012 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 12:52:08 GMT

Breakfast, lunch and dinner. Egg White omelet has green veg. and shaved carrots (no cheese) lunch is a salad with assorted veg. (all colors), and dinner is a boiled shrimp with assorted veg. on lettuce but usually with a little cheese.

Love all veggies warm or cold.

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Lacey1 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 13:37:08 GMT

@phoenixbrd wrote:
green veggies are my main meal.....

Ditto!

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ID2 — Wed, 05 Oct 2016 17:20:12 GMT

I always have one of every food group when I make a meal. Always have, always will.