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Speaker 1: Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good Morning.

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Speaker 1: This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's

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Speaker 1: tip is to make vegetables more interesting. Many of us

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Speaker 1: eat less produce than we think we should because veggies

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Speaker 1: on their own can be pretty bland, But a few

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Speaker 1: little strategies can make them far more exciting to eat.

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Speaker 1: So a few weeks ago, my daughter got a hankering

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Speaker 1: for the Olive Garden Salad a last there was no

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Speaker 1: good spot in the schedule for us all to go

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Speaker 1: to Olive Garden, so she decided to make a version

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Speaker 1: of the Olive Garden salad, and particularly their version of

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Speaker 1: Italian dressing. We had that on lettuce that night, and Wow,

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Speaker 1: I was a lot more excited about eating lettuce than

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Speaker 1: I have been in a while. I ate a lot

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Speaker 1: of lettuce. That is probably a good thing. One of

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Speaker 1: the things restaurants often do right is adding spice or

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Speaker 1: kick to their dishes. People tend to under season food

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Speaker 1: at home, and that's a reason that restaurant food often

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Speaker 1: tastes better. But it's not like they have some special

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Speaker 1: magical secret that is unavailable to the rest of us.

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Speaker 1: Anyone can add hot peppers and other such things to

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Speaker 1: normal dishes, particularly with salad dressings. This can make eating

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Speaker 1: vegetables in general a lot more fun. So if you

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Speaker 1: are looking to add more veggies to your life, one

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Speaker 1: easy way to do this is to come up with

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Speaker 1: a salad dressing that you really like. They are not

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Speaker 1: that hard to make. Usually there's oil and vinegar involved,

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Speaker 1: maybe things like garlic. Make enough for a few meals

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Speaker 1: and put the dressing in the fridge. Buy some bag

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Speaker 1: lettuce at the grocery store, and now you'll be motivated

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Speaker 1: to eat it now. Obviously, you can buy salad dressing

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Speaker 1: at the store too, but this is a category where

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Speaker 1: fresh is often significantly better and that hard to pull off.

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Speaker 1: You can also, in general, try making better salads. Not

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Speaker 1: all salads have to be lettuce based. There are some

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Speaker 1: cool ones out there featuring beets and a grain or tomatoes.

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Speaker 1: I've been working my way through a tuna bean salad

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Speaker 1: with a rugela and it's been quite good. Try making

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Speaker 1: a batch of a salad that sounds appealing some night.

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Speaker 1: Maybe just check out a cookbook from the library with

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Speaker 1: lots of them and make enough for leftovers. Now you've

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Speaker 1: got a veggie forward lunch. For the next two days,

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Speaker 1: I will also sing the praise of roasting veggies. This

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Speaker 1: has been one of my resolutions this year to do

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Speaker 1: this more frequently. You can chop up cauliflower and broccoli,

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Speaker 1: or buy them pre chopped if you like, put some

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Speaker 1: olive oil and salt on them, and then roast it

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Speaker 1: four hundred degrees for a bit, maybe around fifteen minutes,

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Speaker 1: depends on your oven. Some people might add pepper for

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Speaker 1: more kick, or you could eat the roasted veggies with

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Speaker 1: a chipotle eoli and get creamy and spicy flavors in

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Speaker 1: there too. Roasting things that are covered with olive oil

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Speaker 1: and salt gets you fat, salt, and sugar flavors when

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Speaker 1: the veggies caramelize. Those are the exact flavors of junk

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Speaker 1: food that keep us hooked. Now. I am not saying

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Speaker 1: that veggies will be exactly as good as junk food,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of people use phrases like eat your

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Speaker 1: spinach to imply doing something necessary but unpleasant. The idea

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Speaker 1: is that it must be gotten through because it is

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Speaker 1: good for you, and that may sometimes be true, but

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Speaker 1: in a great many cases in life, things that are

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Speaker 1: good for you can be made infinitely more pleasant through

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Speaker 1: a few wise choices. Exercise can be more fun when

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Speaker 1: you're doing it with a friend, or taking a class

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Speaker 1: with an amazing instructor, or working out within an encouraging trainer,

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Speaker 1: or running somewhere beautiful. Studying with a group of smart

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Speaker 1: and encouraging classmates is more fun than hitting the books

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Speaker 1: on your own. Good teachers know how to make material

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Speaker 1: that people need to learn more engaging. If you're leading

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Speaker 1: a meeting, really thinking through how to keep people interested,

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Speaker 1: maybe even with moments of delight can make that hour

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Speaker 1: feel a lot less like eating spinach and maybe a

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Speaker 1: bit more like eating roasted coliflower with sriracha aoli ra.

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Speaker 1: Spinach is tedious. That couliflower, well, that's something we might

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Speaker 1: actually look forward to in the meantime. This is Laura.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, and here's to making the most of

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Speaker 1: our time. Thanks for listening to Before Breakfast. If you've

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Speaker 1: got questions, ideas, or feedback, you can reach me at

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