Vegetables and Fruits: Do you use frozen or fresh?

[MFAAS]

Hey yall,

Obviously our cut diets get pretty damn boring sometimes. When you look to eat X amount of broccoli or green beans or whatever veggies on a cut, do you go with frozen veggies or fresh? Or how often do you do either? I always buy frozen peas, but I don't really get any other frozen veggies. However, I am thinking of getting some just to make it a little easier to prep. Cutting up and steaming a head of broccoli or two is a pain--frozen just seems like it would add a good bit of convenience.

Obviously things like potatoes and my meats I am still cooking and buying fresh, but prepping veggies is probably the biggest pain in the butt as far as cutting things up go and then cooking them.

I get frozen fruits already for smoothies or I will warm some fruit up to eat with greek yogurt. Really the only fresh fruits I buy are apples and bananas and sometimes pineapple, oranges, or mangos.

What do you guys do?

Thanks!

 

[malfeasance]

Can't hack broccoli. I like it, but it makes me all gassy.

 

[MFAAS]

Can't hack broccoli. I like it, but it makes me all gassy.

You could try beano. The same complex sugars in beans that make you fart are also in veggies, particularly broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cabbage. You might find 2 beano pills to really mitigate it well. Worth a shot on a day when you'll be home alone?

Edit: also, what veggies do you eat instead of broccoli? I just called that out as it is such a common one for prepping. I also like bell peppers a lot, I will just eat them raw. Green beans are great. And I already mentioned peas (usually with rice).

 

[MindlessWork]

Fresh fruits and veggies for me but in a pinch would use frozen. For smoothies either fresh or frozen fruit works.

Greens I do fine with and especially broccoli!

 

[MFAAS]

Like for meal prepping for veggies like broccoli, green beans, corn, do you guys get frozen or fresh? I'm considering for my next cut doing everything like normal, but just doing frozen broccoli instead of fresh--like I said, broccoli is a pain in the ass. I might go with frozen green beans too.

Historically I (or my girlfriend) cook EVERYTHING. I haven't been out to eat in over a year, and before that we went like once a quarter. We just like our cooked food better, we cook foods of all ethnicities and both of us like cooking. Plus she doesn't have a job right now so she has plenty of time to cook and do house stuff.

I was just thinking meal prepping with frozen veggies would be SO easy. I think I'm gonna go with some frozen veggies just for convenience sake.

Fresh fruits and veggies for me but in a pinch would use frozen. For smoothies either fresh or frozen fruit works.

Greens I do fine with and especially broccoli!

I almost always go frozen for smoothies because it makes it colder/more smoothie like. I always let bananas get really old then freeze them for smoothies.

 

[malfeasance]

Spinach raw or slightly cooked (sautéed, my wife calls it wilted spinach, just real quick in the pan), green beans, peas, mostly. Peas sometimes frozen. Otherwise usually fresh.

 

[MFAAS]

Spinach raw or slightly cooked (sautéed, my wife calls it wilting), green beans, peas, mostly. Peas sometimes frozen. Otherwise usually fresh.

Nice! Thanks bro.

Anyone else with good veggie ideas for cut meal preps shoot 'em this way!

I do this for cauliflower a lot:Lemon Herb Steamed Cauliflower – A Couple Cooks

This baked curry cauliflower is great or this one if you have more time

Broccoli I just steam and put salt and pepper on, maybe with some olive oil.

I always use extra virgin olive oil for everything. Avocado oil is fucking nasty: Study Finds 82 Percent of Avocado Oil Rancid or Mixed With Other Oils

The Kirkland brand EVOO that comes in the big 1L containers is actually very highly rated by ConsumerLab. It is really good stuff, I use for mainly cooking. I also get other brands of organic EVOO that I use for bread dipping/drizzling on salads or bagels or whatever.

I love steamed green beans with just some salt on them

Baked asparagus with some salt on it too

I love just microwaving some frozen peas, especially with rice. Then put some coconut aminos on it (a lower and sweeter soy/tamari sauce alternative). Makes a complete protein too between the peas and the rice!

I also love bell peppers just raw, but often will sautee some onions, peppers, and zucchini to go on top some noodles with some tomato sauce and chicken breast.

Baked butternut squash with apples is amazing too. You put some olive oil, a good bit of cinnamon, and a little maple syrup on it and it's SOOO fucking good. Almost a dessert.

Baked acorn squash with some olive oil, maple syrup, and cinnamon baked until it's thoroughly cooked is a delicious healthy dessert too.

Lastly, I FUCKING LOVE sweet potatoes. This right here man...I tell you...I always make a big batch of this cinnamon/chili power spice mix and keep it on hand. Then I dice up the sweet potatoes, toss with olive oil, and put a ton of that seasoning on them, bake them on a baking sheet at 380 for like 50 minutes (or until soft and sweet/can easily pierce with a fork) and they are to die for. Plus having the spice blend already mixed up makes it a pretty fast thing to make (although cutting sweet potatoes takes a while, especially when you bake like 7+ lbs at a time like I do).

 

[malfeasance]

Sweet potatoes are great. My wife has this way of making them seem like French fries out of the pan, or bakes them in the oven like you describe, and she also has a mashed recipe with coconut oil in it. Every time she makes these, it disappears quickly. I thought you were asking about non-carb source veggies.

Pro tip from my wife. She microwaves the raw sweet potatoes prior to cutting them up and putting them in the pan or on the baking sheet. They are not all the way cooked, but pretty close. Then she is just searing them in the pan, if that makes sense.

 

[MFAAS]

Sweet potatoes are great. My wife has this way of making them seem like French fries out of the pan, or bakes them in the oven like you describe, and she also has a mashed recipe with coconut oil in it. Every time she makes these, it disappears quickly. I thought you were asking about non-carb source veggies.

Pro tip from my wife. She microwaves the raw sweet potatoes prior to cutting them up and putting them in the pan or on the baking sheet. They are not all the way cooked, but pretty close. Then she is just searing them in the pan, if that makes sense.

Yeah man I make mashed baked sweet potatoes (gotta bake them to really sweeten them up) sometimes that has a few tbsp of EVOO, a couple tbsp of butter, then some milk in it and salt of course. The problem is we ALWAYS eat too much because it is fucking addictingly good, so I only make it every once in a while.

Give that baked sweet potato recipe at the bottom of my post a try! It is really fucking good, the cinnamonny-chili-spice goes to well together.

I always microwave my squashes but hadn't done it with sweet potatoes. That's a good idea I will have to give that a try! thanks bro

Edit:also we'll make air fried sweet potato fries with a salt/pepper/smokey paprika seasoning and they are fucking great. Thick cut fries and just great flavor!

I generally try to avoid coconut oil just because of the saturated fat. The wellness industry has tried to make coconut seem so healthy but it really isn't at all. IMO it is fucking awful due to all that saturated fat. I would MUCH rather get my sat fat from eggs or some beef than from fuckin coconut oil. EVOO or standard grass-fed organic butter all the way

 

[MindlessWork]

Now there's some nice healthy ideas for veggie dishes. I just bought an air fryer so may make some sweet potato fries in it and using very little oil.

 

[eery]

I stick to fronzen because its fresher, cheaper and more practical to buy big.

 

[FR0Z3N_B0MB3RRR]

I m Frozen Bomber and I like ... Pineapple juice instead of the fruit itself... for veggies I eat fresh Fennel or Celery only.. sometimes fresh tomatoes.. I love being hungry in a cut ..
Will try this, maybe without Mozzarella but with a fatfree cheese




Ingredients:  200 g of cauliflower  50 g of mozzarella  50 g of tomato puree  1 egg  10 g of Parmesan cheese  30 g of macadamia and asparagus pesto (you can find it in this recipe book)  Salt, pepper and basil to taste Procedure: Clean and cut the cauliflower and blend it together with the egg, Parmesan, salt and pepper. Spread the blended cauliflower on a baking tray lined with parchment paper or in a 15 cm mold. Bake in the oven for about 10 'to 200 °, then turn it over and cook another 10'. Remove it from the oven, season it and put it back long enough to melt the mozzarella, about another 10 '.

Temperatures are in Celsius..

 

[FR0Z3N_B0MB3RRR]

Based on the fact that I ended back training one hour ago, I didn’t cut the image, I copy pasted the recipe and autotranslated with google, because I m fuckin lazy and would die this night while sleeping, I don’t think I will try this recipe.. the nice fact about cutting is that I don’t have to cook and eat a lot... I would love to stay at 500 kcals daily.. I would have 1 shake pre wo and 1 shake post wo... cool.. stop...


would listen all day to Stairway to Heaven or Fade to Black / Nothing Else Matters or The Man Who Sold the World sang by Kurt Cobain at MTV Unplugged, instead of cooking and eating..


#frozenlifematters