If you could add one vegetable to the list accepted by everyone at your dinner table, which one would you choose? Do the vegetables served at your family meals reflect the likes and dislikes of your partner? If so, you are not alone. The simple exercise of making a list of the vegetables you enjoy but your family does not, quickly exposes why so many of us default to a short list. Potatoes, corn, peas, carrots, green beans, lettuce, and sometimes broccoli or cauliflower are vegetables often accepted by everyone.
Eating more vegetables, especially deep orange, cruciferous and dark leafy greens are associated with lower chronic disease risk. When it comes to vegetables in short supply in American diets, these three groups of vegetables with great health benefits come to mind:
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The traditional Vegemite sanger and a Popper just doesn t cut the mustard, to mix a metaphor. Quenching little appetites is one thing, but satiating emerging egos is the new black as what goes into the lunch box now is a source of schoolyard pride, or dread embarrassment. In the first two days of school Saved By Michelle has devoured the schoolyard stories of extravagant lunches of lamb cutlets (they re currently a whopping $40 a kilo), edible glitter (because let s face it who doesn t want their lunch to sparkle), small Eskies with leftover pasta and curry, boxes of expensive designer salads and school gate UberEats deliveries.