Add Side Salads to Your Meals
An easy way to use all those winter veggies you keep picking up is to have side salads with your meals. The salads ensure you get your greens each day and will add more bulk to your meals. Just make it a point to have a small salad every time you make dinner and add at least 2-3 veggies to the salad. Fresh veggies like carrots, bell peppers, broccoli, onions, tomatoes, and cucumbers all go great with salads.
Make Soup or Chilli
It is straightforward to hide fruits and vegetables in soups and chilis, where even your pickiest child will love it. If you want to eat more winter produce but have some picky eaters in the house, just sneak it in your soups.
Whether you are making a big pot of beef chilli, vegetable soup, or even a cream-based soup, you can sneak in veggies like spinach or kale, broccoli, cauliflower, zucchini, and bell peppers, and nobody will notice it’s there.
Add Fruits to Your Salads
There is no reason you can’t have fruit in your salad!
Many winter fruits pair beautifully with salads, including pears, apples, cranberries, and pomegranates.
The great thing about this is that it can help with any sugar cravings you might have in the winter and help to reduce how many sweets you consume. With fruit on your salad, just switch to a lighter dressing like a vinaigrette or balsamic dressing instead of ranch or blue cheese.
Holiday Sides All Winter Long
Enjoy your favourite holiday dinner side dishes all winter long, not just during the holidays! This might be mashed potatoes or sweet potatoes, green bean casserole, brussels sprouts, green beans and carrots. These are all available in the winter season, contain many nutrients, and can improve your meal.
Serve them on the side of ham, turkey, chicken or even fish. Your family will love it, and it will feel like a holiday celebration every time you sit down with your family to enjoy dinner.