#vegetables

Food & Drink | Recipes and Food Related

How to Eat More Vegetables: Easy Tips and Recipes

Struggling to eat your veggies? Use these simple tips and delicious recipes to get enough fiber (and flavor) with every meal.

Home Improvement | In the Garden

10 Things Nobody Tells You About Starting a Vegetable Garden

You've finally decided: a vegetable garden is in your future. Congratulations are in order because you could fill a basket with all the benefits of growing

Food & Drink | Food & Drink

What foods and spices look like before they're harvested - INSIDER

From banana blossoms to pineapple bushes and peppercorn plants, some of the most common food items are almost unrecognizable before they're harvested.

Home Improvement | In the Garden

Gardening: 12 Best Fruits, Veggies & Herbs To Grow In Containers For An Endless Supply Of Free Food

Gardening: 12 Best Fruits, Veggies & Herbs To Grow In Containers For An Endless Supply Of Free FoodIf you love fresh fruits, vegetables and herbs but don’t want to always drive to the grocery store to get them, consider container gardening. It is a rapi

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Just One Serving Of Fruit And Vegetables Daily As Good For Mental Health As Taking A Walk - Study Finds

We all know that eating more fruit and vegetables can help us keep the extra pounds off and improve physical health, but a new study shows that even as little as a single serving also boosts mental health.

Recipes | Recipes

Cauliflower Fritters

I love making fritters of all kinds, sweet and savory. If you have someone in your family that doesn't like cauliflower, this is definitely a way to get them to eat it. These take me back to my Grandmothers kitchens where they taught me all about making f

Recipes | Recipes

Winter Vegetable Soup With Turnips, Carrots, Potatoes and Leeks Recipe

I use the food mill instead of a blender — immersion or regular — because I love the texture of the soup when it’s put through the mill’s coarse blade, resulting in a flavorful, colorful mixture that you can almost chew on But you can use a blende

Food & Drink | Recipes and Food Related

Horseradish – The Potent, Pungent Root Vegetable

Horseradish is a tough, thick, gnarly looking root believed to be native to southeastern Europe and western Asia. It belongs to the Brassicaceae botanical family, a category that also includes other potent medicinal and culinary plants, such as mustard an

Food & Drink | Recipes and Food Related

Organic Foods: Which Ones Are Worth The Money?

Apart from the must-haves on the dirty list, you must also consider buying organic dairy, beef, soy and coffee.

Food & Drink | Recipes and Food Related

If You Like This, Try That

Switch up your dinner routine with seven healthy ingredient swap ideas for your tried-and-true favorites from Food Network.

Food & Drink | Recipes and Food Related

Why Carb Counters Are Running for the Cauliflower

A cauliflower shortage has sparked a food frenzy among dieters crazy for the low-carb vegetable, but sky high prices at the grocery store are hard to swallow.

Health & Fitness | Health News

Vegetarian and 'healthy' diets could be more harmful to the environment, researchers say: Eating lettuce is 'over three

Following the USDA recommendations to consume more fruits, vegetables, dairy and seafood is more harmful to the environment because those foods have relatively high resource uses and greenhouse gas emissions per calorie, say researchers. A new study measu

Food & Drink | Food & Stuff

4 Amazing Ways to Eat Way More Fruits and Vegetables Right Now | Plated

Here are four suggestions for what to do with all that produce you picked up at the farmers' market but aren't sure what to do with....

Food & Drink | FOODZ

Easy Fried Eggplant

An easy and quick way to prepare eggplant, and tasty too! I serve it with sliced fresh tomatoes, fresh green beans and bread and butter. An inexpensive meal from my childhood and still a favorite!

Food & Drink | Cooking Tips

Peeling Butternut Squash Just Got Infinitely Easier, Thanks To Your Microwave

Butternut squash is one of the great joys of the fall, but peeling it is also one of the worst chores. The rock hard skin is basically impenetrable. Trying to slice through the squash and peel the skin off is so difficult, we're all too often tempted to just buy pre-cut squash at the store.