

By Rachael Moeller Gorman, November/December 2007







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summer or winter fresh fruits and vegetables are always expensive


07/22/2013 - 3:55pm

Please read reputable resources for information. This article accurately points out the benefits of microwaving frozen vegetables as a way of gaining the most nutrients from vegetables picked ripe, and those nutrients not being decimated or cooked away by the cooking method.


07/11/2013 - 12:11pm

This entire article is good except for one part. DO NOT MICROWAVE YOUR VEGETABLES.

Unless you have NO other option besides microwaving them, do not microwave them. Just please don't.

1. Steam them. Yeah, you're going to need a steamer or one of those pans that sit inside the pan that has the holes, I don't remember what it's called.

2. If you're adding them TO a meal (like...a stir fry or...mashed potatoes with broccoli, just toss them in still frozen. The damned things will soak up the flavors while they're flash thawing and make the meal like 10x better anyway.

3. For small, 6 or less ingredient dishes (Mashed Potatoes for me have butter/oil, cayenne pepper, basil, potatoes, broccoli, whatever I feel like putting in there), you might want to go out of your want to get fresh. While frozen veggies do have all of the nutrients, you do lose a little bit of the natural flavor in the freezing process, so unless you have army of seasonings in the particular dish...just get fresh, if you can.


07/10/2013 - 2:16pm

If you figure out how to satisfy your need to gain while he needs to lose, please share. I have yet to figure out how to accomplish this one yet. I am about to the point where I give up and suggest that we cook out own meals separately, because our needs are so very different...


07/08/2013 - 1:16am

Fresh seems better than frozen or canned, but fresh spoils relatively quickly. Frozen can keep for a while. Canned has salt or sugar added, and a lot of cans are lined with bpa so that it protects the metal from breaking down. In my opinion, frozen is the best bang for the buck, because you have the freedom to add what you'd like to your meal as you are going along (stir-fry, for example). If fresh were more cost effective, I would go that route, but so many times, I simply don't want to waste food. I just really hope frozen hasn't lost a large amounts of nutrients (although I do try to make up for that by taking multi-vitamins...


07/08/2013 - 1:15am

The point is here that the in season fruits and vegetables, need to be demanded buy buyers, educated to not just children but anybody lacking a healthy diet, and promoted. How much more functional would we be if we where all healthy and subsequently, happier?


07/01/2013 - 3:33am

I though its better to avoid mictowave since it kills vitamins more than steaming / boiling...


06/27/2013 - 1:34am

I went to check my label and to my horror I saw my vegetables where from China. It reads: Product of China, U.S.A.

So I would be extra careful to see see where the produce comes from. Read your labels, no matter how pretty the pictures are, or cleverly worded.


06/21/2013 - 4:32pm

most definitely
Take advantage of frozen fruits & veggies.
use spring water or filter water
Make yourself 3 fruit & veggie
Smoothies per day. Best meal on the planet.


05/17/2013 - 11:03pm

I live in the Pacific Northwest and buy my frozen vegetables and fruit from Costco, Trader Joes and Safeway. To my surprise, there are no US fancy, nor No. 1 nor 2 nor ANY stamps on the packages I have. Does this mean these are not any good, and that I should avoid purchasing these brands in the future? I can't wait to check back at the grocery stores and read the labels of the other brands.


05/07/2013 - 1:56pm

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