We all need to eat more vegetables. That's just all there is to it. One way I've tried to get my family to do this is to make at least one meal per week that has no meat. This is what we had for dinner last night, and it was super easy and super yummy!
Hungarian Mushroom Soup
This soup is AMAZING! Well, if you like mushrooms. To make it truly vegetarian you should probably use veggie broth instead of chicken broth, but I'm a fan of doing that most of the time anyway. The fact is, chicken stock was on sale at Costco so that's what I ended up using.
Soups are one of the easiest ways to make a vegetarian meal. What I usually end up doing is looking around at what veggies I have that need to be eaten, then I google a soup recipe for that veggie. I can tell you right now that I have made some delicious soups out of sweet potatoes, cauliflower, butternut squash, pumpkin and split peas.
We paired this soup with some Brussels sprouts, which is basically all my son ended up eating, lol. My favorite way to cook these powerful veggies is to saute them in lots of butter with some salt. I admit, it would be better to do without all the butter. But here's the thing: If butter gets you to eat a vegetable that you would otherwise not be eating, I say add the butter. You can eventually wean yourself from it if you want :)
So that's just a quick idea of how you can have a vegetarian meal pretty simply. The more ideas you gather, the more able you'll be to come up with your own as you get used to playing around.
Hungarian Mushroom Soup
This soup is AMAZING! Well, if you like mushrooms. To make it truly vegetarian you should probably use veggie broth instead of chicken broth, but I'm a fan of doing that most of the time anyway. The fact is, chicken stock was on sale at Costco so that's what I ended up using.
Soups are one of the easiest ways to make a vegetarian meal. What I usually end up doing is looking around at what veggies I have that need to be eaten, then I google a soup recipe for that veggie. I can tell you right now that I have made some delicious soups out of sweet potatoes, cauliflower, butternut squash, pumpkin and split peas.
We paired this soup with some Brussels sprouts, which is basically all my son ended up eating, lol. My favorite way to cook these powerful veggies is to saute them in lots of butter with some salt. I admit, it would be better to do without all the butter. But here's the thing: If butter gets you to eat a vegetable that you would otherwise not be eating, I say add the butter. You can eventually wean yourself from it if you want :)
So that's just a quick idea of how you can have a vegetarian meal pretty simply. The more ideas you gather, the more able you'll be to come up with your own as you get used to playing around.
