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Need More Veggies In Your Diet? Get That Blender Out :)


Hi everybody,

Sorry for the long absence.  Had some computer issues and then had to serve as a juror in a trial.  I'm back now :)

Something I've been wanting to try and plan on starting very soon is making vegetable and fruit purees in your blender and freezing them to add to sauces, while baking and in main dishes.

I always make a goal of adding more fruits and veggies to my diet, but never seem to be able to stick with it.  I like this idea because it's fairly simple and you can blend really healthy fruits and veggies into purees, adding them to your favorite foods and the idea is that you don't taste them, but you get all of the goodness of them :)  Sounds like a winner to me!

Below is a Redbook Magazine article with ideas for purees excerpted from the book "Sneaky Chef" by author Missy Chase Lapine.

From the article:  The results: "We made chocolate-chip cookies with white bean puree — and they were awesome," said one staffer (even though they had half as much butter). "The blueberry-and-spinach-infused taco meat was yummy — if a slightly odd color," noted another.

Anything that combines healthy ingredients with chocolate chip cookies is a winner in my book :)

There are other great resources for these purees.  One other are the books by Jessica Seinfeld (wife of comedian Jerry Seinfeld).

I plan on trying these out and will report back to all of you on the results.



Photo Credit:  Michael Rosenfeld/Getty Images

Click On The Following Link for puree recipes and foods to try them in :)

Comments

  1. EsterMarch 18, 2011 at 5:06 PM

    The perfect ending for an Italian dinner, a tricolor salad is simple, and you can do it with the colors of the flag you want, I used kiwi, lychee and strawberry, I decorated with a mint leaf and the result here, if you want to commit a little more you could do a sorbet flag, you can use instead of kiwi green apple, mint or pistachio, instead of strawberries, red apples, cherries or watermelon, and bananas instead of lychee, white currants, coconut or yogurt.
    I made it for the Anniversary of 150 years of the unification of Italy!"

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  2. purelight57March 18, 2011 at 5:09 PM

    I don't have a problem with veggies; mine is fruit. I like bananas mostly and eat other fruit on occasion. I'll take a tomato before an orange any day.

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  3. DeborahMarch 19, 2011 at 3:48 PM

    I wish I had that problem Purelight. Fruit for me is not a problem (I too especially like bananas), but veggies...that's a whole other story. I'll be posting a link today that may help :)

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