Month One: Eat More Veggies

Soy Glazed & Grilled Chicken Wings, Steamed Broccoli, and Mixed Green Salad

It's August.  In Colorado.  It shouldn't be hard to eat more veggies!  Veggies are fresh, abundant, and thanks to Sprouts being two blocks from my apartment, awesomely cheap.  So I suppose I should start with a little background on why this first months goal to eat more veggies is going to be especially hard to accomplish.  Preston (the fiance), doesn't eat veggies.  Excuse me, I'll get in trouble if he reads that. He eats vegetables.  But his veggies include potatoes... usually cooked at a very high temperature with a lot of oil, broccoli, green beans, and that's it.  No matter how much I love to get down on some broccoli, a girl can only eat so much.

Steamed Broccoli (my veggies) 

Betty Crocker Au Gratin Potatoes (his veggies)

I'm the kind that goes to the grocery store, full of ambition, to pick up new and exciting veggies, only to let them sit in my crisper drawer, and un...crisp.  Because I'm the only one in the house that eats weird veggies, if I don't eat them immediately, I forget that they're there.

So this is my solemn vow that I will do everything in my power this month to be more creative than Chicken & Broccoli.  No matter how versatile and sometimes delicious that combo may be; quite frankly, I'm sick of it.  Unfortunately, tonight's dinner was no different.

Preston actually laughed at me that my first night of "this whole thing", as he called it, consisted of Chicken & Broccoli for dinner.  I reminded him that this adventure starts tomorrow...