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User Post: Can super-sizing fruits help you shed weight?

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I’m very skeptical of promises that sound too good to be true.

No field is as rife with these as the diet industry, where new dream diets are invented daily and claim to have found a magic trick allowing us to eat as much as we want yet lose weight.

But…

User post: Broccoli : Do you like eating this vegetable?

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I personally abhor broccoli. I cannot stand it in any way, raw, steamed or stir fried. It makes me want to throw up and I hate seeing it on appetizer trays. I always remember the arguments I used to have at home about eating the 'WONDER VEGETABLE'. My mother always went on …

User post: To CSA or Not To CSA

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I have come to the conclusion, after a winter of scraggly, watery kale, bruised zucchini and abused swiss chard, that my cooking has suffered from its being beholden to…

I can't believe this, but I'm a little obsessed with Brussels sprouts right now

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A few months ago, my mom made Brussels sprouts and made me swear I'd try them. I felt like I was ten years old. Except that when I was ten, I didn't have to try Brussels sprouts. Maybe since I am a lot less picky than I was when I was a kid at the dinner table, or maybe since my mom likes to wrangle me into eating heaps of vegetables with her, I agreed to try them that night.

Really, there was no way I could hate them. My mom roasted them with what she said was "an embarrassing amount" of butter and salt, and then sprinkled them generously with hazelnuts. They were delicious.

Roasted Broccoli

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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I am not a vegetable fan. I was the girl who would never eat her vegetables, and everyone knew it.

Now that I'm older, things are changing. Lucky for me (well, for my health) my boyfriend won't take any nonsense when it comes to me eating healthy, so I don't have much of a choice. To make life a little more enjoyable for myself, I've tried to find vegetable recipes that I actually enjoy, rather than having to force them down.

The credit for finding this recipe goes to my sister. She'll randomly send me links to recipes that she wants me to make for her, and this was one of the better ones... in fact, just plain amazing! Sure, broccoli used to be one of the only vegetables I'd eat, but I certainly wouldn't go out of my way to eat some when I was younger. Who would've ever known I'd crave broccoli? Recipe adapted from Amateur Gourmet. The recipe for the tuna cake sandwich seen in the background can be found on my food blog, Fridgg.com.

Three Easy Vegetable Recipes for Kids

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No matter how carefully you plan your weekly shop, by Friday your crisper has turned into a sorry collection of orphaned mushrooms and onion halves. Before your lettuce is liquid, fuel a little creativity with your waste-based guilt with any of these easy vegetable recipes. Just about any leftover vegetables work but toss out anything moldy or smelly, and cut sprouts off potatoes, garlic, and onions. (Head over to cookiemag.com for more kid-pleasing meal ideas.)