Sometimes I notice that I get stuck in a rut when walking down the produce aisle. Week after week the same fruits and veggies appear in my shopping cart. While it's great to have go-to veggies that you enjoy and find easy to include in your weekly meal plan, all fruits and vegetables have a different variety of vitamins and nutrients. By adding one or two fruits or veggies that are slightly outside your comfort zone each week, you increase your chances of consuming a complete range of necessary nutrients. A professor once told me that a good way of thinking about varied fruit and vegetable consumption is to "eat the rainbow." Every day try to eat at least one fruit or veg that's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. I wish I could say that I do that everyday! Nutritious AND beautiful!
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| Taste the Rainbow...no, not Skittles. |
This week I picked up fennel (so out of my comfort zone). I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Maybe a huge success, maybe an epic fail but it's worth a shot!
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