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GETTING YOUR SERVINGS OF FRESH FRUITS AND VEGGIES SHOULD BE ONE OF your main goal as you try to lower your cholesterol in under 30 days, for life! Here are some handy suggestions for you to include these fresh delicacies in your daily diet. LOTS TO CHOOSE FROM and VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF LIFE! Try to discover and experiment with variety! Eat something you have not had before that is not considered a mainstream vegetable (turnip/anis for example) EASY MEALS: Soups and salads are great ways to ‘experiment’ and introduce tastes. Make is a priority to try/eat/cook/include lots of different types of fruits and vegetables at every meal or also as healthy snack alternatives. There are lots of “veggies” we do not often think about or consider. Consider all those that you may not have tried yet … can you think of a couple. Take a look the next time you are picking up your groceries and actually buy something you have NOT had before. This reference list below is not meant to be a complete listing – only quoted and provided here for illustrative purposes and to give you a checklist of sorts to start buying some new vegetables: Alfalfa sprouts Anise Apples Apricots Artichoke Arugula Asparagus Avocado Bananas Bean sprouts Beans Beets and beet greens Berries Bok choy Breadfruit Broccoli Brussels sprouts Cabbage Calabrese Carrots Cauliflower Celeriac Celery Chard Cherries Chicory Chives Clementines Collard Corn Cucumber Daikon Dates Eggplant Endive Fennel Fiddleheads Figs Frisee Garlic Grapefruits Grapes Guava Kai_lan Kale Kiwis Kohlrabi Kumquats Leek Lemon grass Lemons and Limes Lentils Lettuce Lychee fruits Mangos Melons Mushrooms Mustard greens Nectarines Nettles Okra Onions Oranges Papayas Parsnips Passion Fruits Peaches Pears Peas Peppers Persimmons Pineapples Plums Pomegranates Potatoes Pummelo Qunices Radicchio Radishes Rapini Rhubarb Rutabaga Skirret Spinach Squashes Star Fruit Sweety Tangelos Tangerines Tomatoes Tubers Turnip and turnip greens Ugli Fruits Water chestnuts Watercress Zucchini BE CREATIVE: Think of ways that you can use some of these in your meals. Do you see any you have not tried yet? Make this your starting point. You do not have to only eat the ‘boring’ choices you are used do and do not have to deprive yourself. You can create exciting meals and cuisine, delicacies to die for, if you do opt for more fresh produce. Make it a food and culinary adventure. Try a new fruit/vegetable every week.
Pauline Gwen Fererra |
