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hesperidia comments on Group Rationality Diary, September 16-30 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: hesperidia 23 September 2014 10:24:44PM *  4 points [-]

Low-hanging fruit: I increased my average intake of vegetables with minimal effort by acquiring microwaveable frozen vegetable bags, which have become my default "I want to eat something but don't want to spend effort preparing it" food. Each bag can be transferred directly from freezer to microwave and takes an average of five minutes therein, and then you cut open the bag and transfer to a serving dish (or, like me, just plop the open bag into a plastic tray and eat directly from it).

It's not perfect (for example, I cannot find green leafy vegetables in this packaging - then again, given the texture of frozen chopped spinach I probably wouldn't want to), but it's an improvement over most other foods that take similar amounts of preparation.

Comment author: arundelo 23 September 2014 11:10:13PM 1 point [-]

Ditto on these being a fast and easy way to eat your veg. I never thought of eating directly from the bag, I'll try that!

Comment author: hamnox 28 September 2014 07:00:14PM 0 points [-]

This suggestion is DEFINITELY worth spending two minutes digging in the freezer to see if I already have some.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 September 2014 04:33:05PM 0 points [-]

From my experience, frozen broccoli and frozen edamame are both quite good snacks or dish compliments. I use frozen broccoli on almost every plate of pasta I eat, and edamame is great at parties.

I use a steamer too, which is another way to quickly and easily prepare frozen veggies. I don't know how taste compares between it and a microwave. I'll have to experiment with that a little.