Multi–Colored Meals

When you are cooking either new recipes or traditional meals, you can improve your health by incorporating as much color as possible.

Here are some suggestions:

• Soup can be made healthier by adding the colors orange, green, and red. For example, add chopped carrots, mustard greens, and tomatoes.
• Having pasta and tomato sauce? Increase the flavor, color, and health benefits with a colorful vegetable salad and by adding a medley of mixed vegetables to the sauce.
• What is a healthful dessert? Lots of different colored fruits! Skip the ice cream and puree mixed frozen fruit with some non–dairy milk to make a tasty and colorful dessert.
• Turn a boring sandwich into a colorful pocket of veggies. Fill a whole wheat pita pocket with fresh veggies like mushrooms, sprouts, cucumber, tomatoes, red onion, and peppers.
• Order your next pizza without cheese or the usual greasy toppings and opt for extra veggies instead, including peppers, onions, mushrooms, broccoli, and spinach.

Making healthy meals is easy. Just think of the colors of the rainbow and fill your plate with plant foods that are just as colorful.