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THIS MONTH’S VEGETABLE
Take a VAM Tour:
- Enjoy Meals with More Variety New vegetables, new ways to cook them, new seasonings and sauces, new meal ideas and recipes
- Be Green, Automatically! Eat with the seasons, transition to organic, delve into
local and sustainable, be eco-
conscious in the kitchen Eating more green is one of the easiest and fastest ways to be green. - Save a Lot of Time Gadgets that save time, plan-
ahead strategies to keep you out of the grocery store, prep tricks to streamline cooking time, plus much more - Save Money Money saving tips, waste-
not- want- not cooking, refrigerator rot prevention, clever ways to re- purpose instead of pitching leftovers - Develop a Lifelong Vegetable Sense Watch as vegetable-
making becomes intuitive and you just know what seasonings to pair with a vegetable, what kind of dishes to use it in, what to do if it tastes too bland or too strong. - Be Part of a Good Eating Community Shifting to and maintaining a healthy eating lifestyle is so much easier with the support of friends. There’s even a scientific study to prove it!
- Feel Jazzed not Jaded Some days, it’s tough to get up the gumption to make a meal. So pop into the membership site for a class, video, fun fact or thought to rekindle your flame.
- Add Creative Color to Your Life Who would guess that the color and vibrancy of vegetables could transform everyday cooking into creative relief at the end of the day.
- Manageable Steps –Powerful Success Cindy felt overwhelmed: “I don’t even know where
or how to begin!” Don’t worry. VAM takes an easy, step-
by- regularly, and that’s a lot!step approach, focusing on just one vegetable per month. But those small steps add up. After just 12 months, you’ll be eating 12 more vegetables, - Finally Vegetable Enlightenment When you’re ready, step into a new way of thinking about vegetables–and food in general. It’s a more natural way that feels like it might be the way things were meant to be.
Good Health, Good Energy
Stress Relief
Vegetable eating can be stressful! As Cindy says, the daily recommendations end up causing a lot of tension around eating right if you don’t know what to do with veggies. Here’s the good news: After just three vegetable cooking classes, Cindy was exuberant: “I feel confident now, like I know how to mix and use ingredients. That takes a lot of the tension out cooking for me.”
A healthy weight goes hand in hand with good health. That’s why Debbie eats vegetables, but mostly cauliflower and broccoli and mostly fixed the same way over and over, which isn’t much fun. VAM’s recipe variety and cooking encouragement are helping expand her vegetable repertoire. She likes that, because she knows each vegetable contains different nutrients and that eating just a couple is cutting her short, What’s more, eating more (and more different) vegetables will help her lose the extra 10 pounds she's been carrying around!
Healthy Weight
Deliciousness
Sometimes, we focus so much on health and weight and nutrition that we forget the
most important thing of all: Great-
Good health and energy are the #1 reasons people want to eat more vegetables. Take Ray. He’s looking at overall lifestyle improvement and knows that eating more vegetables plays a big part. As he says,
- they're the best source of all the vitamins and minerals our bodies must have,
- he feels a whole lot better when he eats more vegetables,
- the more vegetables he eats, the greater his protection against all sorts of chronic diseases
We probably don’t need another study revealing yet one more miraculous effect of eating vegetables. We just need to know how to do it, easily. That’s what VAM is all about.
Does your vegetable life look anything like Jillian’s: lots of good intention but the vegetables just aren't happening? The Vegetable a Month Club makes vegetable eating easy enough, fast enough, tasty enough and interesting enough to survive a show down with any Super Bowl leftovers.
“I know I should be eating more vegetables, and I want to, but here's the deal: I'm sitting in my home office. I feel hungry. So I go to the kitchen and look in the frig. There are some vegetables in the bottom drawer but it's so much work to steam a bunch of broccoli or zucchini or whatever. Meanwhile, the leftovers from our Super Bowl party look really good and don't take any time. So I grab some fried chicken and pasta salad and call it good.”
Simple Straightforward organization makes it easy to find the information you want and need.
Convenient Everything you need for a wonderful vegetable life is sorted, sifted and grouped together in one handy place; don’t waste your time searching all sorts of different sites or flipping through magazines and cookbooks.
Supportive Weekly emails tantalize your taste buds and serve as reminders to take advantage of all the great information on the VAM membership site.
4 Big Benefits
You know you’re on the right track when so many good things line up, which happens
when you join the Vegetable-
Remember how Mom always said, "Get yourself a good guy (or gal.) Don't get tricked by the the ones with the good looks, the fast talk or the fancy cars." Mom also told us to eat our vegetables.
Of course Mom was as right about vegetables as she was about girlfriends and boyfriends, but we ignored her . We went out with and got dumped by the flashy guy or gal.
Likewise, whenever we opened the frig we didn’t even look at the good-
Meanwhile, those dorky vegetables are showing up everywhere. They even made their
way into a major Wall Street Journal article: “More Reasons to Eat Your Veggies,
Government Revamps Effort to Boost Consumption of Produce as Understanding of Benefits
Grows.” In fact, guess how many illnesses and chronic diseases have vegetable-
So if you're struggling to feel good, if you’re feeling overweight, or you’re d tired of having no energy, how about giving vegetables a chance? Just like Mom said!
Finally, What Did Your Mother Always Tell You?
The Vegetable a Month Club: Why Join Now?
4 Features You’ll Love
Flexible Pick and choose features color-
Pressed for time? Focus on “The Least You Need to Know” information
New to cooking? Check out the super simple recipes and post your questions on the Q & A Board
Cooking for Kids? You’ll like the family fun ideas and picky eater strategies
Kitchen Veteran? Jump ahead to more in-
Want to Get Creative? Try some of the creative cooking recipes
Ready for Eating Enlightenment? Peruse the blog and join in discussions on the community forum
Plus 10 More Really Good Reasons to Join
Get your vegetable dreams out of the closet and onto the table–then reap the benefits:
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