Ben Greenfield and Frank Lipman discuss why vegetables, especially leafy greens and cruciferous ones, should be the foundation of what you eat. They share practical ways to build meals around vegetables instead of treating them as a side.
Hey, it's Ben Greenfield.
I think veggies, especially the green leafies and the cruciferous vegetables for most people obviously not everyone should always take up, you know, I say the most of your plate should be or your main course or your main plate should be the vegetable plate and your side plate should be your fat and your protein. So I'm a big believer in like eating a lot of veggies and how do you get people or how do you make it easy for people to get those veggies in to them. So these are the tips that I find really helpful. Like for instance, just make a layer of green mixed vegetables the foundation of every plate and then on top of that.
An easy go to meal for my wife is my chef basically, but she does this foundation of veggies and puts some eggs on top. So something like that. Just always make your veggies your foundation and then put something on top.