| Broccoli is said to be one of those super foods that | | | | broccoli and makes it rather tasty. I've found that beef |
| are very healthy and good food you. It is a good | | | | or chicken with broccoli is pretty good; but my favorite |
| source of fiber, vitamin C, iron, and potassium which | | | | is chicken with broccoli, sugar snap peas, and water |
| are four very good reasons to eat it often. And we do | | | | chestnuts. |
| like broccoli at my house. Some of our favorite foods | | | | The second way is a broccoli and cauliflower salad |
| contain broccoli: broccoli covered with cheese sauce, | | | | that does contain some salad dressing but it's not an |
| cream of broccoli soup, broccoli and cheese dip, | | | | overwhelming amount. To make it you'll need: 1 large |
| broccoli cheese soup, and deep fried broccoli cheddar | | | | bunch broccoli with the florets cut into bite sized |
| bites. Yes, at my house we only like broccoli if it's | | | | pieces; one large head of cauliflower with the florets |
| swimming in cheese or cream, or has been battered | | | | cut into bite sized pieces; 1/3 cup chopped red onion; 1 |
| and deep fried. Even when I steam broccoli in an | | | | cup Miracle Whip light; 1/3 cup sugar or sugar |
| effort to eat it more healthfully my entire family puts | | | | substitute; 2 tablespoons vinegar; 2 hard boiled eggs. |
| butter on it to make it taste better. | | | | Optional: 4 strips bacon cooked and crumbled and 1/3 |
| While I think it's good that we are eating broccoli, I think | | | | cup shredded low fat cheddar cheese. |
| the high fat foods we are eating with are so bad for | | | | In a large bowl combine the broccoli, cauliflower and |
| us that we are better off skipping the broccoli and | | | | onion (add bacon and cheese at this time if using). Set |
| batter, cream, and cheese sauce that goes with it. | | | | aside. In a separate small bowl, mix together the |
| I have even tried cutting raw broccoli in small pieces | | | | Miracle Whip light, sugar or sugar substitute, and |
| and hiding it in a tossed salad. Those small pieces of | | | | vinegar. Pour over vegetable mixture and chill. Slice the |
| broccoli stuck out like neon signs and my family picked | | | | hard boiled eggs and garnish the salad with them |
| out every last piece before eating their salad. I at least | | | | before serving. |
| tried one bite before picking the broccoli out my salad. | | | | Even though I listed the cheese as optional I do admit |
| What can a person do when they know there are | | | | that I usually put it in the salad. I haven't totally avoided |
| food that are really healthy and good for them, but | | | | having cheese with my broccoli but it's a much |
| cannot seem to find a way to enjoy them in healthy | | | | healthier cheese than the processed cheese sauce I |
| way or at least a semi-healthy way? | | | | used to have my broccoli go swimming in. |
| After years of struggling to find a way to way to | | | | If you aren't a fan of broccoli yet but want to try and |
| consume broccoli in a way that's at least semi healthy I | | | | eat more of it because it is so healthy and good for |
| found two ways that my family loves it and that no | | | | you, try it in the salad recipe above or in a stir fry. |
| longer leaves it swimming in a complete sea of fat. | | | | While it may not become one of your favorite foods, it |
| The first way; we have it in a stir fry! The strong yet | | | | may become a food you enjoy having. |
| delicious flavor of stir fry sauce cut the strong taste of | | | | |