Everyone tells us we need to create healthy plates of food with all the colors of the rainbow. What’s that mean? You need to add more veggies to your diet, that’s what! Truth is many people don’t enjoy vegetables. I have a kid who has been slow to embrace your greens. It took a lot of convincing to even get him to try veggies. For many years I had to hide them in creative ways. Thankfully, now he tries and often voluntarily eats a lot more veggies. Do you have to hide veggies in meals? Need to find ways to easily incorporate them into meals? I’m happy to share some of my best ideas on the easiest ways to add more veggies to your daily meals.

Easy Ways You Can Add More Veggies to Your Diet

If you have:

• the right kitchen tools
• some great ideas
• a few recipes

There are plenty of easy ways to add more veggies to your diet. A lot of the time, you can hide them rather well for the pickiest eaters, or have them front-and-center, but easy to work into meals. Timing everything properly so everything finishes at the same time is one of the hardest parts when cooking a meal. But it CAN be done!!!!

Blend Them & Add to Sauces

Clean your vegetables, cut them up, and blend those bad boys so you can add them to sauces. It’s one of the easiest ways to add more veggies to your diet. We’re big on the tomato sauce in our house. Onion and garlic are staples when making sauce, but it’s rather easy to throw those into a blender with other vegetables like carrots (yes, it adds a bit of sweetness without having to add sugar), zucchini, celery, spinach and even red pepper if the mood hits you right.

Make the Veggie the Vessel

When you don’t want to slice and dice, just cut a pepper in half, roast it and make it the vessel for your ground meat mixture! When you use the right spices, you don’t have to add much of anything to the meat. Just throw your meat in a pan, add hour favorite spices or a store bought spice blend like taco seasoning, and once your bell peppers are roasted, toss the meat into them with some toppings like shredded cheese, sour cream, and chive – and you’re good to go!

Dice them Super Small & Add to Ground Meat

You can dice vegetables by hand, but it can take a long-ass time. Instead, pick up an inexpensive dicer that cuts everything into uniform small pieces and it makes life much easier and faster to make meals heavy on the veggies! Once you’ve got them diced super small, add them to your ground meat when making burgers, tacos, chili, or meatloaf. I love mushrooms, carrots, and of course, onion in my ground meats.

Grill Your Vegetables

Summertime is one of the easiest times to add more veggies to your diet! When you’re grilling meat, throw your veggies on the grill with your meat. Spray them down with some olive oil, or whatever oil you like, add some seasoning and toss them onto the grill right next to your meat. If you’re worried about them falling through the grill to the fire below, put a sheet pan down first and drop the vegetables on the pan. PERFECTION!

Make Sheet Pan Meals

Sheet pan meals are my obsession. Tossing everything on a pan, loading it into the oven, and maybe making some rice to go with it – divine. Less to clean up, especially if you use sheet pan dividers that are oven, fridge, microwave, and dishwasher safe. Use the dividers on your sheet pan, whatever isn’t eaten, pop lids on the dividers and put them into the fridge. When you want to have leftovers, heat them in the microwave, and after all of it is consumed, you can wash them in the dishwasher. LOVE IT.