{"id":4025,"date":"2009-07-22T14:56:38","date_gmt":"2009-07-22T20:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2009-07-27T22:16:36","modified_gmt":"2009-07-28T04:16:36","slug":"easy-dinner-fix-fewer-calories-more-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withamymac.com\/news\/2009\/07\/22\/easy-dinner-fix-fewer-calories-more-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy Dinner Fix: Fewer Calories, More Vegetables!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"corn\"<\/a>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!<\/p>\n

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Tacos<\/strong><\/td>\n1 lb of lean ground beef or turkey – veggies for toppings<\/td>\n1\/2 lb of lean meat and 1+ c. of corn, black beans, or chopped mushrooms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Spaghetti<\/strong><\/td>\n1 lb of lean ground beef or turkey – no veggies<\/td>\n1\/2 lb of lean meant and 1+ c. of chopped mushrooms or diced asparagus<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[408,20,406,405,409,23,225,93,312,407,410,21],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-add-vegetables-to-meals","tag-amy-mac","tag-dinner-ideas","tag-easy-recipes","tag-fewer-calories","tag-fit-life","tag-fitness-tips","tag-health-and-fitness","tag-lose-weight","tag-lower-grocery-bill","tag-meal-prep","tag-withamymac"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t