Those of you who’ve known me for awhile have known I’ve a big aversion to vegetables, especially green vegetables. And especially *cooked* vegetables. Lesley has been on me for awhile to get more serious about eating more vegetables. I tried doing V8 for awhile, but as much as I like tomatoes, the beet juice flavor overwhelmed me and I couldn’t take it on a daily basis. I tried doing vegetable drinks from Bolthouse Farms which I did like – the ‘green goodness’ (I think it’s called) is great. But a combination of the cost ($3+ per bottle) and the sugar content (a big bottle would have 2 servings, so that’d be >50 grams of sugar, depending on the drink. If I’m going to get that much sugar, I may as well do it cheaper with little debbie goodness!
Long story somewhat short, I’ve started hitting Sweet Tomatoes, a salad buffet place down the street. Mind you, I’ve only done this for a week, and likely will get sick of it in a bit, but I’m reporting my progress here so far for posterity. In the past 7 days, I’ve been there 4 times, and every time had a big salad chock full of spinach, broccoli, radishes, zucchini, cucumbers, eggs, tomatoes and fat-free dressing. (and those brown crunchy things!). I will be attempting to keep this up for as often as possible – due to meetings constraints here I can’t always get over there in a timely fashion (I’ve walked a couple times too – round trip about .7 miles).
I think the primary reason why I can eat these in the portions that I do is because they are completely raw (washed, at least, but raw). They’re at least palatable, and from what I’m told, generally better than cooked in most cases because nutrients tend to escape during cooking. So, there you have it – finally eating my vegetables. 
