Eat Your veggies!

ever since we were little, we've always been told to

eat our vegetables.

But as we get older and we went to the

grocery store we could buy whatever he wanted.

Lots of us.

Forgotten vegetables even existed.

Hi, I'm claire acosta and I love vegetables.

And I'm here today to show you some delicious and

yummy ways to incorporate vegetables into your diet.

All you need is the right information, the right tools

and the right ingredients.

Some of you may be wondering are vegetables really that

important here is the study.

There was a study done in 2019 by the National

Institute of Health about plant based diets.

I'm not gonna g go totally plant based, but I

do think that this article really provides some insight on

the benefits of any more vegetables in general.

Here is one of the photos I took from the

article but I realized it has a lot of medical

jargon. So I'm just going to skip to zoom into

the bottom left hand corner where it has some overall

health markers.

Um a lower body mass index, meaning less fat in

your body, which leads to um lower risk for obesity

as well as cardiovascular disease, which is the number one

killer in America and a lower risk for diabetes also

lower risk for all cause mortality, meaning just a longer

lifespan and a lower risk for certain types of cancer.

So obviously those are all great things.

And now that you know the reason to eat more

vegetables, we can go right into which vegetables to eat

because not everybody loves all vegetables here on this top.

We have some root vegetables, carrots, beets and I'm actually

not sure what those other ones are embarrassingly enough.

And those are really great for roasting.

Also have some leafy greens.

There in the middle is arugula, which is my personal

favorite. Those are really great for salads or smoothies and

salads are not your thing.

We also have some squash here.

This is just winter squash, but there is uh summer

squash, like zucchini, which I will show you how to

turn into noodles in the next slide.

So I know what you're thinking.

You come home with bags full of groceries and bags

full of vegetables and you're like, what do I do

with all these vegetables?

I can't just sit here and eat them like a

rabbit. Luckily I have some ideas for you.

Like I said, roasting root vegetables is a great, great

way to incorporate them into your diet.

All you need is an oven and a cookie sheet,

which pretty much everybody has.

I like to add olive oil and oregano onto my

um root vegetables.

Also, salads and smoothies are super great for leafy greens

if you're not into If you're not into salads, I

like to add pineapple and banana into my green smoothies

to kind of hide that levi taste.

And squash is super versatile.

You can roast it, you can grill it or you

can turn it into noodles with something called a spiral

Isar, which I will show you how to use.

I have one right here, it's a little handheld one

and you just put the zucchini right in here and

you spin it like that and then the noodles come

right out and you can just add marinara sauce to

it or your favorite sauce, marinara is my favorite sauce.

So that's the example that I used there.

Uh huh.

So now that you have a little bit more information

on why vegetables are important as well as some ideas

on which ones to buy and some ideas on how

to incorporate them into your diet.

Um you are well on your way to sticking it

to your parents and eating more vegetables really.

Most importantly it's just just to keep trying um there

is going to be, I have definitely made nasty recipes

before and things that I didn't like.

You just got to keep trying and just remember that

this is all for the benefit of your body.

Also pro tip the more colors in your vegetable variety,

the more nutrients thank you guys so much and remember

to eat your vegetables

Eat Your veggies!

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