Kick off a happy and healthy new year with Green Giant®!

With a new year comes a new you, and Green Giant® is here to cheer you on! Whether you´re already following a weight management plan or looking to start a new one, sometimes it´s the small changes that can make a huge difference.

Green Giant Boxed Vegetables can help you stay on track to achieve your weight management goals in 2011. Twenty-nine delicious varieties are now endorsed by Weight Watchers™, and most have only a 1 or 2 PointsPlus ™ value per serving! Packed with flavor and ready in minutes, Green Giant Boxed Vegetables are available in a wide variety of flavors, many featuring mouthwatering sauces and seasonings.



Adding Green Giant Boxed Vegetables to your meals can be a quick and delicious step to a healthier new you in 2011. Each Weight Watchers™ endorsed variety is:

• Nutritious. Picked at the peak of perfection, Green Giant Boxed Vegetables are frozen fast to lock in essential nutrients.
• Convenient. With ingredients that are cleaned, cut, and ready to go, it´s easier to meet the adult daily need of 2-4 cups of vegetables!
• Time-Saving. Getting more time to enjoy life, without sacrificing nutrition...now that´s a fresh idea! 

Visit http://greengiant.com/ for some great recipe ideas and more information. And, don´t forget to check out Green Giant on Facebook and Green Giant on Twitter and "Like" or "Follow" them to keep up with their latest and greatest products!

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Get your kids to eat their veggies-and LIKE them!

Most kids turn their nose at veggies. "I don't like it" is the common excuse.  I have often felt like my kids aren't getting the proper nutrients they need.  So I started "sneaking" veggies into their diet.  Here are a few of my favorite tips to get the kids to love to eat veggies!!

1. Offer veggies with ranch.  Tried and true.  Offer a variety and see what they like! Keep offering it, as it can take 10 times to like a new food!

2. Offer drinks like V8 Splash, that have a serving of veggies in every serving.

3. Look for canned pasta (such as ravioli, spaghetti rings, etc.) that say "one serving of vegetables inside", these are usually the kinds of things kids will eat.  It is important to find the one that says there are veggies inside, because the others are not as healthy.

4. Make burgers with ground up veggies. We made some with green and red bell peppers, onions and garlic. We just cut them up, put them into a mini hand food processor until it was really chopped, then mixed by hand into the meat.  After making patties we cooked them and they were a HUGE hit!!  There was easily 1 if not 2 servings of veggies in those burgers!

5.The same can be done with treats!  Check out The Sneaky Chef for fabulously yummy treats with lots of veggies!!

Post any other veggie tricks you might have up your sleeves down below!!