#vegetables

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i mean this in the gentlest way possible: you need to eat vegetables. you need to become comfortable with doing so. i do not care if you are a picky eater because of autism (hi, i used to be this person!), you need to find at least some vegetables you can eat. find a different way to prepare them. chances are you would like a vegetable you hate if you prepared it in a stew or roasted it with seasoning or included it as an ingredient in a recipe. just. please start eating better. potatoes and corn are not sufficient vegetables for a healthy diet.

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Creamy roasted garlic tomato soup

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-Zucchini bread is So Good if you like carrot cake-y baked goods; most recipes want grated 'kinis, so how noticeable they are in the end is up to which grater you like!

Tl;dr for the cut: if u hv spare hours to ignore a pot, stew either softens or dissappears vegetables, & consider buying a blender for smoothies, especially if u like/need liquid meal alternatives

-barrier to entry is time to mince/a blender with a goodish blade, unfortunately, bc produce (esp skins, which are good to include for the concentration of nutrients there) is Hard--but smoothies mask veggies well!

Liquid meal replacements are also good for physical/mental/medication caused issues with solid food--personally got Fucking Sick of Ensure/etc, but 'home-cooked' smoothies usually satisfy

The strongest sweeteners are apples & ripe bananas (freeze them if u don't want ice watering stuff down, or ur blender can't handle ice!) If you go a shake-direction, sweeten with ice cream/protein powder/nut butters.

There are also a ton more extract flavors than vanilla! My favorite is coconut & they're great in blender shits/coffee (& jazzing up medicated chapstick but I digress)

I find spinach the least/kale the most noticeable add-ins

FRUIT PITS & STONES ARE POISON BTW (APPLE SEEDS @ QUANTITY TOO IIRC)

(ALSO CITRUS RIND IS NICE GRATED/ZESTED INTO SOME THINGS, BUT GROSS. DON'T BLEND THAT SHIT)

(Juicing with no juicer hack: a 'nut milk bag' will strain blended produce, down to the tiny bits/berry seeds!)

(Also use the bag on berry drinks, if you have textural issues--fresh & frozen berries (except the humble blueberry) have Noticeable and Un-pulverizeable seeds)

personal faves:

1 overripe frozen banana

1 handful frozen Dole pineapple chunks

drops of coconut extract to taste

2 to 3 handfuls of fresh spinach

1/2 cup coconut water/milk/white Monster Energy/whatever tbh

Blend in stages depending on blender size, & if using fresh/thawed fruit add ice if u like, but this portion size is a filling meal substitute 4 me

-Stew!!!! My friend stew!!!!! With a base of stock, or water & a bouillon cube/salty spice mix, you can do anything to fit most any diet.

Good thickeners are beans (protein bonus!) & brown rice, which melt to nothing if you simmer it long enough.

Basically all veggies melt; leafy veg cooks fastest/root veg longest. For meat, stick to fattier/tougher cuts, which tenderize over long cooks.

BIG REC for Cuban bean stews!! Traditionally eaten over white rice

I've never made the same stew twice, but some fave staples are bay leaves/star anise (neither are edible, spoon out after cooking)/pot roast cuts of beef/sliced chorizo/washed, whole itty-bitty potatoes with their skins/a dry (bitter) wine, cognac, sherry (tbh red wine is v similar & cheaper tho), or vodka/thyme, & tbh dried is more flavorful than fresh sprigs, save ur $

okay so if you need more veggies/fruit, protein or fibre (bc most people do NOT eat enough) in your diet but you struggle to do so, hear me out:

look up recipes (especially snack recipes) that are child/toddler/baby-friendly

i can guarantee there is a woman with a cooking blog out there who has found away to pack a bunch of vegetables into a surprisingly delicious little snack for her kids. this process has never failed me when i feel like i am not eating enough fruits and veggies. my entire flat is eating spinach muffins at the moment, which doesn’t sounding particularly appealing to most people and yet somehow. they’re delicious.

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mine are carrots, specifically raw. i can demolish a bag of baby carrots in one sitting. eat them like chips, no dip required

(sorry if tumblrs limit made me forget yours but pls tell me)

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Bohug can be a fruits or vegetables, if he wants

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Sheila Metzner, Bega. Peppers, 1982

Ph. Sheila Metzner

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Vegetable Muppets

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Spinoffs: Space Station Innovations in Your Cart (and Heart!)

You might think NASA technology is just spaceships and telescopes, but did you know the camera in your cell phone is, too? It’s one of many NASA innovations now found everywhere on Earth.

The International Space Station has had crew living on it for 25 years straight. In that time, the space station has enabled a tremendous amount of research, helping NASA and scientists better understand long-term living in space – but it’s not just knowledge coming back down to Earth! Technologies developed for the space station and experiments conducted aboard the orbiting lab also benefit people on the planet below. Here are a few of these inventions, or spinoffs, you can find in your everyday life.

A Sunscreen That Blocks Radiation in Space – and on Your Face

After surviving for 18 months outside the International Space Station, an extremely hardy organism is now improving sunscreens and face cream products from a cosmetics company, which licensed use of the organism from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Build Muscle With or Without Gravity

Muscles atrophy quickly in space, so when astronauts began long stays on the International Space Station, they needed some specialized exercise equipment. A resistance mechanism made of a coiled metal spring formed the basis of the first way for astronauts to “lift weights” in space. Soon after, that same design became the heart of compact home gym equipment.

Fresh Greens Every Day of the Year

The need to grow fresh food in space pushed NASA to develop indoor agriculture techniques. Thanks to the agency’s research, private companies are building on NASA’s vertical farm structure, plant-growth “recipes,” and environmental-control data to create indoor farms, resulting in higher crop yields and better-quality produce while conserving water and energy and eliminating the need for pesticides.

Cultivating Hearts and Knees in Space

Gravity is a significant obstacle to bioprinting cells and growing human tissue on Earth because heavier components settle to the bottoms of petri dishes. In the absence of gravity, each cell layer stays in place, which is how it’s possible to grow heart and knee tissue on the space station. The same principle also allows mixing of complex pharmaceuticals on orbit.

Storing Oodles of Energy

NASA chose nickel-hydrogen batteries to power the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station because the technology is safe, reliable in extreme temperatures, and long-lived. NASA’s improvements brought down the cost of the technology, which is now used by large-scale utilities and renewable power plants that need to store energy generated by intermittent sources.

You can read about many more products sourced from the ISS on spinoff.nasa.gov.

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1972 Hallmark Springbok Vegetable Desk Set (via: Etsy)

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needle felted tomato by chai felt design

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Creamy broccoli & bacon

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