Veggies & Sides
8 Ways to Help Kids Eat More Veggies
A diet focused on real foods obviously includes plenty of vegetables.
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Paleo Sweet Potato Crispies
Sweet potato fans, you’re going to love these sweet potato crispies! Isn’t that a fun name? I made it up.
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Simple Paleo Sweet Potato Cakes
These Paleo Sweet Potato Cakes are the bomb! Perfect for any meal of the day, including snack time.
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Foraged Salad Greens from Your Own Backyard
Eating fresh salad greens from your own veggie garden is pretty cool, but you know what’s even better? Eating foraged salad greens from your own backyard. Like my son said the other day, It’s like a garden you didn’t have to grow! Zero work with a huge payoff. Sounds pretty good, right?
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Paleo Plantain Fried Rice
Trying to cut back on grains? You’ll love this Paleo Plantain Fried Rice! As you may have noticed, plantains are one of my favorite new tricks for serving up nutrient-dense, grain-free foods.
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Mashed Cauliflower Faux-tatoes
You win some, you lose some. Especially when it comes to kids and vegetables. Take cauliflower, for example. Cauli-rice? My kids are not fans. Mashed Cauliflower Faux-tatoes? Score!
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Sneaky Veggies: Colorful Rice
As mentioned in Project Eat More Veggies, I’m always looking for ways to make vegetable consumption more appealing to my boys–specifically Little Brother, now almost 5. Colorful Rice was a happy discovery for all of us. It’s easy for me (hooray), and for some reason Little Brother will happily eat veggies in Colorful Rice that he…
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The Secret to Cutting Spaghetti Squash
One of my absolute favorite fall and winter dishes is this Ragu Meat Sauce. We serve it over roasted spaghetti squash, because it allows us to avoid pasta and because it tastes amazing. So by now, I’ve cut open my fair share of those hard-as-bricks, yellow, oblong vegetables. At first, the task seemed nearly impossible.…
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Sauteed Baby Mushrooms, Del Frisco’s Style
Mr. Native Texan loves a good steak. Unfortunately, he’s been unable to find one that lives up to his standards here on the east coast. Back in Texas, good steaks practically grew on trees! Del Frisco’s, located in the heart of downtown Fort Worth, was one of our favorite fancy steak houses. They also have…
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Fried Plantains
On a whim at the grocery store the other day, I picked up two plantains. I’m not exactly sure why, but they were calling to me, reminding me of the amazing fried plantains I enjoyed long ago at the home of a friend’s Puerto Rican grandmother. She actually allowed me to assist in the process,…
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