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- Hey Wholesomes.
Welcome back to my channel.
My name's Nikole, in case you're new here, welcome.
Today we are talking about one of my favorite things
besides smoothies is eating more greens.
I'm actually sharing 10 ways to eat more greens
in your diet, in your life because I just feel like
personally you cannot eat enough greens.
I think it's one of those foods that we still don't get
enough of, just like water.
I think water, greens, smoothies, these are things I try,
I feel, did that just rhyme?
These are things that I try to make sure to get every
single day whether it's blended, in a salad, sauteed,
grilled, you name it, I'm always looking for more ways
to add greens onto my plate, really.
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So without further ado, let's hop in and find out how
we can all eat some more greens.
My first tip when it comes to getting more greens
into your food is of course green smoothies.
You guys know I love a good green smoothie.
It's such an easy way to pack a lot of greens into a blended
breakfast cup that you almost won't even taste them.
Add the right ingredients like banana, mango, peanut butter,
almond milk, and you won't even notice they're there.
The only detection will be the vibrant green color.
This is how I start pretty much most of my mornings
and I actually have a free downloadable guide
for how to make the perfect green smoothie.
I will link that down below.
Tip number two is to add greens to your sandwich.
I've been obsessed with veggie packed sandwiches
lately for lunch.
They're so quick and easy to make.
I'll add some hummus, avocado, any veggies I have
hanging around in the fridge
and then I will just pack a handful of fresh spinach.
I have some onion sprouts here
which will add a lot of flavor.
And there you have it.
A delicious veggie packed sandwich full of greens
and I've just been having this on repeat.
I highly recommend it and it's so easy
to get your greens in this way.
My next tip for getting more greens in is to add a handful
of kale or some hearty greens like collard greens
to your soups.
Any time I'm heating up leftover soup or I'm making one
on the spot I will just throw in a couple of handfuls
of some nice hearty greens
during the last few minutes of cooking.
It still keeps them nice and vibrant and keeps that texture
without them going too mushy.
But it's just a really easy way to get in those greens
and especially if you don't wanna have a cold salad,
this is a great way to eat them warm.
This next tip is actually one my mom started doing
and I love this idea.
So basically when you're making dinner or lunch
line your plate or bowl that you're about to serve
your dinner into with some baby spinach.
You can also do this with baby kale.
Basically you want a baby green that also works well
when it's warmed up so you can put your hot chili
which is what I have right on top here.
Pasta works really good with this.
It's like chili meets a salad.
It's such an easy way to just add more greens last minute
to your meal especially if you're just warming up leftovers.
My next tip is to add your greens to a stir-fry.
I have some collard greens that I just chopped up here
and I'm adding them to a quinoa and bean stir-fry
with a little bit of tamari sauce.
You can use whatever seasoning or sauces that you like
and just cook those right in.
I love sauteing or stir-frying my greens especially ones
like kale or collard greens.
They cook up really nicely and they just absorb any flavor
you add to them especially garlic, tamari, olive oil.
It's delicious and it just adds a nice hearty touch
to your stir-fries.
And if you wanna go the extra mile,
you can add a spoonful of kimchi on the side.
This next tip is one I've been doing for years now
and it is to add greens to your pesto.
I mean, pesto is already green
so it's really to sneak them in.
I have some baby kale here.
You can also use spinach.
I'm just gonna blitz that into a little food processor
in with my pesto sauce.
This is one I made that you can also use a store-bought one
and it's just such an easy way to sneak them in
and add them to your pasta.
It just kind of melts right in and you don't even know
they're there but you definitely
are getting more greens in your meal.
Toss everything together.
I'm adding in some cherry tomatoes.
And you have a delicious pesto pasta with some extra greens
on the side and if this was for kids,
they won't even know they're there.
They'll just think it's pesto and it's delicious.
For all my breakfast lovers, guys, omelets.
One of the easiest ways to add some fresh greens
into your morning.
Sometimes I eat omelets for lunch or dinner.
It's like an all-day kind of meal.
You can make an omelet but I actually ended up
kind of making this into a scramble.
I don't know if that ever happens to you.
You have the intention of an omelet and it doesn't work out
so you turn it into a scramble.
Either way it's delicious
and I love adding in extra veggies to my eggs.
Now I'm sure you guys know that salads is a great way
to get your greens in but did you know you can actually
add them to your salad dressing?
So this is such an easy way to just blend them right in.
Just add it to your blender
with your salad dressing ingredients.
It not only makes the most beautiful color dressing
but it tastes delicious and you can't even notice them.
It's kind of like a smoothie but in a salad dressing form
you sneak green in there and it's delicious.
I will link some of my favorite dressings down below
and you can add greens to pretty much any of them.
Next up we have pizza.
This is actually a cauliflower pizza I picked up from Costco
but I'm just gonna zshoosh it up a little bit
with handful of arugula.
Arugula has a peppery taste to it and goes so good
on pizza and this is just a fun way when you're having
pizza night whether you make it fresh at home, you order in,
or you buy a frozen cauliflower pizza like I did.
You can just sprinkle on some fresh greens right on top
before serving and it's just a sneaky way to make it look
both gourmet and add in those greens.
Last but not least, we are making kale chips.
This is such a fun way to get in your greens
because who said chips and greens can't go together.
So this is a really easy way to do it.
I'm just taking some purple curly kale here
which is a heartier kale and it works really good
in chip form.
So I'm just de-stemming it, kind of roughly chopping it up,
laying it on one of our silicone liners.
We sell these in the shop.
They're amazing, reusable, they're awesome.
I'll link them below.
I'm massaging in some olive oil
and then adding my seasonings.
I have nutritional yeast, garlic powder, smoked paprika.
Really anything you want.
Salt, pepper.
Pop these into the oven to bake and get crispy.
I will have the directions linked down below
and you have crunchy kale chips which taste delicious.
You can eat them like a snack while watching Netflix
or you can even crumble them on a salad or pasta.
They're really fun to eat and it's just another fun way
to get in those greens.
There you have it Health Nuts.
10 ways to eat more greens.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video.
Let me know down below which one was your favorite
or maybe you have a new way that you eat greens
that I did not mention.
I would love to know.
I'm gonna have a bunch of recipes down below in the info box
for you guys to check out that's on the blog
that will be helpful to use some of these tips in.
Like whether it's a smoothie, a salad.
I'm gonna put some of my favorites down below.
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I hope you guys get your greens on
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