Thursday, February 27, 2014

30 vegetables in 30 days

on the radio this morning - when NPR switches to local programming for a couple minutes an hour - there was a story about an initiative in houston that is encouraging people to try to eat 30 different kinds of vegetables in 30 days.  this sounds like my kind of challenge!  here i go.

day 1:
today for lunch i had an asian salad from whole foods that had the following in it:
1. red peppers
2. zucchini (this is clutch, because i really don't like zucchini, but it was chopped up super small in this salad and thus it was acceptable)
3. cabbage
4. onions
5. kale
and chickpeas and cilantro, but i don't think those count.  unless - cilantro?  is that a vegetable?  what's the difference between a vegetable and an herb?

also had some veggie spring rolls from whole foods with 6. lettuce & 7. carrots inside (plus tofu and noodles).

i eat a lot of vegetables, but i'm pretty sure i don't have 30 different vegetables in my repertoire.  i guess we have 29 more days to find out!

[updated: i forgot!  i had an omelet this morning with 8. asparagus and 9. spinach in it, with some 10. potatoes on the side.  i am totally counting the potatoes even though they are a pretty starchy and not-good-for-you vegetable.]

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