On Eating Ginger
I’m aiming to improve my nutrition by incorporating healthy foods like peas, strawberries, and blueberries.
I also want to include ginger in my diet due to its numerous health benefits. Ginger contains compounds that can aid digestion, reduce inflammation, and alleviate pain. Additionally, it is a good source of vitamins and minerals.
Unfortunately, I don't like ginger. I've tried to mix it with scrambled eggs however, it just tastes disgusting. Does anyone know a way I could mix ginger in with something else and still enjoy what I'm eating?
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Yeah...I'm gonna say you could just, you know, not eat ginger.
Do you like vegetables better than ginger? If so, do I have good news for you! Just eat those.
I’m aiming to improve my nutrition by incorporating healthy foods like peas, strawberries, and blueberries.I also want to include ginger in my diet due to its numerous health benefits. Ginger contains compounds that can aid digestion, reduce inflammation, and alleviate pain. Additionally, it is a good source of vitamins and minerals.Unfortunately, I don't like ginger. I've trie
The easiest way to get plants in your diet that you don't really like is to add them to healthy smoothies. Make a pineapple-berry smoothie, add ginger. Add some greens to it too. With enough pineapple the smoothie will taste good.
As far as peas. Here's my vegan split pea recipe I make that feeds a lot of family members for the week:
You'll need a large pot to cook everything in. This is a large recipe to feed my dad, mom, grandma, my gf, myself and 3 teenage boys (2nd cousins). It may be best to halve everything or cut everything by 1/3.
3 LBs dried split peas rinced, 2 containers of chopped up onions, celery & carrots from Whole Foods (This is the lazy way to do it, if you're at Kroger then it's four containers cuz they're smaller). If you wanna do your own chopping, I'm guessing this equates to 2 yellow onions, 4-5 celery stalks, and 4-5 carrots.
4 shallots diced up
12 cloves garlic diced up (approx 1 large bulb)
Saute in Pacific mushroom broth. Add spices:
½ ts garlic powder
½ ts onion powder
½ ts adobo seasoning
½ ts chimichuri seasoning
½ ts black pepper
¼ ts lemon pepper
¼ ts white pepper
¼ ts celery salt
sauté around 10-15 min then add:
3lbs dried split peas (rinsed and drained)
16 cups salt free or low sodium veggie broth (4 full containers) plus 1 cup water
Add:
1 ts smoked paprika
1 ts black pepper
¼ ts turmeric
1.5 ts garlic powder
1.5 ts onion powder
1 ts adobo seasoning
1 ts chimichurri seasoning
1 ts thyme
1.5 ts parsley
1.5 ts marjoram
1.5 ts sweet basil
1.5 ts Italian seasoning
1/8 ts cayenne
1/8 ts crushed red pepper
4 bay leaves
1 ts liquid aminos
1/4 cup Edward & Sons mashed potatoes (roasted garlic) mix (buy it on Amazon).
Cook to boil then simmer on low with lid on for 1.5 hrs, stir occasionally (every 10 min is what I try to do). After 30 min add another 1/4 cup Edward & Sons mashed potato mix and another cup of water. After an hour add another 1/4 cup Edward & Sons mashed potato mix, another cup of water and another teaspoon of liquid aminos. At this point you're only 30 min away from being done. I'll eat this all week cuz I'm lazy and I'll freeze a good portion for a week I don't wanna cook.
Don't get too intimidated by my spice/herb mix. The basic picture is you are sauteing chopped carrots, onions, celery and garlic in mushroom broth or veggie broth (everything I make is oil free). And then you're adding split peas and veggie broth + water and cooking it. When it comes to spices and herbs you can really choose your own adventure here. So don't think to yourself, "I don't have all this **** so I'm not doing it!" Just work with what you have. It will be fine.
Here's a fun way to get some ginger in your diet:
Whole food plant based gingerbread oatmeal cookie recipe. I love these.
Dry ingredients to whisk in large bowl:
1.5 cups oat flour
1 cup oats
½ tsp salt
¼ tsp baking soda
1 TB cinnamon
1 TB ginger powder
1/2 tsp ground cloves
1/2 tsp allspice
Whisk well then add:
2.25 cups raisins
1.75 cups chopped pecans
Mix well with wooden spoon.
Wet ingredients to blend in a Cuisinart 14 cup food processor for 6 minutes:
18 medjool dates (approx 12 oz dates)
1 cup walnut butter or almond butter
1 tsp vanilla bean powder (order on Amazon)
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup grandma's molasses (order on Amazon)
2.5 cups unsweetened oat milk
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
When done blending pour the wet mixture into the dry ingredients bowl. Hand mix with wooden spoon thoroughly. Then use an ice cream scooper or a ¼ cup or a large spoon to scoop out and put onto a baking sheet with unbleached parchment paper. You'll need 2-3 baking sheets probably. You can fit probably around 12-14 cookies per sheet.
Assuming oven has reached 350 degrees, bake for 10 minutes. Then pull out the sheets and mash each cookie down with a fork, then put the cookies back in for 15 minutes. Then you're done. Wait 10 minutes after you pulled the cookies out of the oven, then eat for that perfect fresh out of oven taste. Let cookies rest for 1 hr then store in fridge.
Notes: Don't use blackstrap molasses. It tastes terrible. Grandma's Molasses is the move.
I’m aiming to improve my nutrition by incorporating healthy foods like peas, strawberries, and blueberries.I also want to include ginger in my diet due to its numerous health benefits. Ginger contains compounds that can aid digestion, reduce inflammation, and alleviate pain. Additionally, it is a good source of vitamins and minerals.Unfortunately, I don't like ginger. I've trie
I recommend posting a photo of one of your food choice(s) for the day and be open to criticism. You can build a weekly routine of what you eat, so that you don't get bored etc. After a while, there will be fewer criticisms and your choices will be easy and automatic. You can check out Mindflayer's looking for abs thread to see some of my meal (lunch) photos from earlier this year. Some of the later food choices were because my eye doctor recommended natural lutein ... corn and egg yolks.
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