Easy Dinner Fix: Fewer Calories, More Vegetables!
How to add more vegetables to dinner? How to make the meals lighter? How to blend it all seamlessly so it still tastes good? I’ve found a great way to do all of this when making taco meat and spaghetti sauce. I’ve started using half the amount of meat I usually do and instead add a filler vegetable as seen in the table below. This is working out so well because we are getting more vegetables mixed into our meal and I’m only using 1/2 the meat which is cutting down on the grocery bill and my daily calories! Finally, we are using all of our purchased produce, which is awesome!
Old Way | New Way | |
Tacos | 1 lb of lean ground beef or turkey – veggies for toppings | 1/2 lb of lean meat and 1+ c. of corn, black beans, or chopped mushrooms |
Spaghetti | 1 lb of lean ground beef or turkey – no veggies | 1/2 lb of lean meant and 1+ c. of chopped mushrooms or diced asparagus |