Condiments For Veggies?

Nutrition
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Everyone needs more vegetables, but what if you dont exactly ENJOY the taste of many vegetables. One choice is to suck it up and eat them anyway, the other choice is too add some delicious condiments. What do you guys use to spice up veggies or any other food for that matter? Dressings/Spices/Flavorings etc.

I recently discovered the South Beach Diet Italian and Ranch dressings, which have no bad ingredients to note and around 60-70 cals per serving. Specific thoughts on the South Beach diet condiments line? Thoughts on other good bodybuilding flavorage? :slight_smile:

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Salsa is great for celery, carrots, and other “dippable” veggies. I like to use bbq sauce too.

Grilling vegetables can really help make them tastier.

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get a big load of veg, pumpkin, capsicum, peppers, whatever you like really, cut em up chuck them in a baking tray, add some whole cloves of garlic, dried italian herbs, and cracked pepper abit of olive oil, toss in the oven bout 40min. pull out splash some balsamic vinegar over them, then cook another 10 min till the balsamic caramelises. trust me man, this is a wiked dish and f all fat.

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I bet you’re going to get some very unique ideas on this thread. However, if anyone mentions mixing any type of vegetable with fucking cottage cheese, I swear I’m going to kill someone…

Anyway, my very simplistic “condiment” topping for veggies: fat free butter spray and creole seasoning. yummmmmmmo

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The veggies: slice hot peppers, red cabbage, garlic cloves, fresh spinach, carrots, onion, maybe a little sweet potato, and steam in steamer basket on top of stove. I usually steam for 7 minutes or less, depending on the veggie mix and how thinly sliced.

The sauce: 2 tablespoons tahini, 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil, 1 tablespoon soy sauce, 2 table spoons rice vinegar. Mix in bowl. At steamed veggies. Toss well.

I sometimes substitute peanut butter for the tahini. FYI tahini is to roasted sesame seeds as peanut butter is to peanuts.

Another sauce alternative is to just use extra virgin olive oil, salt, and grated parmesan cheese.

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Ott’s Hot Sauce would make carboard a treat.

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olive oil and various spice get creative.

Put them in omeletes, soups etc.

maybe add cheese with the olive oil and spices.

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Try the brand Braggs. sold mostly in health food stores, and also there is a seasoning, a blend of spices called Spike. it can make the mundane taste great!

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Olive Oil and fresh-squeezed Lemon Juice.

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Cayenne pepper, oil, garlic tossed with cut up veggies. Grill, Fry, eat raw it’s all good, but I like veggies.

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[quote]crazieeights8 wrote:
Salsa is great for celery, carrots, and other “dippable” veggies. I like to use bbq sauce too.

Grilling vegetables can really help make them tastier.[/quote]

Isn’t bbq sauce basically just sugar?

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i usually go for butter.

otherwise i like rice wine vinegar.

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Make a vinegrette.

Olive oil
1 TBsp mustard
salt
pepper
1 TBsp Balsamic Vinegar (or lemmon juice)

whisk up all the ingredients while drizzling in the olive oil. When it gets to a consistency you like, you are done.

You can even put this over fish or chicken. I like to put in some hot Asian mustard for a good topping for salmon.

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Here’s one of my favorite veggie dips

16 oz Cottage Cheese(can use fat free sour cream)
1 pack of fiesta ranch powder
1-2 TBS of Chipotle Tabasco Sauce.

Mix in a blender until smooth, and eat.