{"id":14051,"date":"2011-02-06T09:51:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T14:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14051"},"modified":"2016-09-25T05:26:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-25T09:26:35","slug":"eat-your-winter-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14051","title":{"rendered":"Eat Your Winter Vegetables"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Acorn-Squash.jpg\" rel=\"mfp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-14059 lazyload\" title=\"Acorn Squash\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Acorn-Squash-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>I know it&#8217;s important to include raw vegetables in my diet, but as the winter wears on I find myself eating fewer and fewer green salads.\u00a0 When I&#8217;m feeling cold, I prefer cooked vegetables and one of our favorite ways to prepare winter vegetables is in the oven.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Almost every night we eat baked cauliflower, which is as filling as potatoes but won&#8217;t make your blood sugar spike.\u00a0 We roast green beans, sweet potatoes, and artichokes (boiled, halved, and cleaned first).\u00a0 When we find acorn squash in the market we always pick up a few and roast them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Below are two of our favorite winter vegetable recipes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/a-sweet-life-staff\/recipes\/meal-type\/side-dish\/oven-baked-cauliflower\/7394\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oven Baked Cauliflower<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/a-sweet-life-staff\/recipes\/meal-type\/side-dish\/oven-roasted-butternut-squash\/435\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oven Roasted Acorn Squash<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know it&#8217;s important to include raw vegetables in my diet, but as the winter wears on I find myself eating fewer and fewer green salads.  When I&#8217;m feeling cold, I prefer cooked vegetables and one of our favorite ways to prepare winter vegetables is in the oven.  Almost every night we eat baked cauliflower, which is as filling as potatoes but won&#8217;t make your blood sugar spike.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":14059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1453],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Healthy Vegetable Recipes for Winter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"We eat baked cauliflower, which is as filling as potatoes but won&#039;t make your blood sugar spike. 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