6 methods for learning to love vegetables

Vegetables come in exciting varieties, with each kind packing in different nutrients to help your body in different ways. If you want to improve your health, try these 6 methods for learning to love vegetables.

• Flash-frying broccoli, onions, snow peas — well, just about any vegetable — in a little peanut oil and soy sauce transforms vegetables into savoury bites that actually make you want to overeat
• Serve them over 125 millilitres (half a cup) of brown rice, and you have a tasty meal that will in no way resemble wimpy, boiled, grey greens

• Buy ready-to-eat cut-up fruits and vegetables (or cut them yourself) and put them at the front of your top refrigerator shelf
• The next time you're snooping for a snack, a fresh and crunchy one will be right in front of you

• Whenever you make a soup, a stew, or a casserole, halve the meat and double the vegetables

• If you're having a sandwich, add a layer of onions and tomatoes, a slice of avocado, some curls of carrots
• They will add crunch, flavour, and bulk to your meal
• The same goes for hamburgers or pizza. Vegetables make great toppings

• Maybe you're used to tossing lettuce and tomatoes together and calling it a salad
• Add some variety and extra veggies by adding some shredded cabbage, carrots, or zucchini

• Like stir-frying, grilling vegetables transforms them
• Brush onions, asparagus, yellow squash, mushrooms, and eggplant with olive oil and throw them on the grill
• Grilling, like roasting, brings out vegetables' inherent sweetness. Guaranteed: You'll never find vegetables boring again

Just because they're good for you doesn't mean vegetables can't be fun to eat. Use these six methods to help get more healthy and delicious veggies in your life.