Welcome to the Eat This Not That Podcast. I'm John Hammond and this is Megan Murphy.

Hi everyone.

And in this week's episode, we are going to help you fix some very common cooking mistakes

when it comes to your veggies.

Yeah, like so many of us are aware that we need to get more vegetables into our diet.

We're constantly looking for ways to add them to our meals and kind of sneak them in,

you know, of our kids' meals if you have kids. And we recently did an episode about how easy it is

to mess up cooking chicken because it's super simple, but there's so many common mistakes when

cooking chicken vegetables pose the same challenge.

So that's what we're going to get into today.

And I think that's like as I was going through this, that was exactly it for me too,

was thinking of that chicken episode and kind of all of the forehead slap kind of

realizations that I had where it was just like, oh my God, I make all of these mistakes.

I literally make all

these. This is the same kind of thing. And the problem is that when it comes to making mistakes

with like chicken or meats, I mean, you might end up with a dry or tough, you know, meal, but the

nutritional value overall isn't really impacted negatively. But it's not so when it comes to cooking veggies.

The reason that you want to add more to your diet is to get all the great macro and micronutrients

that they provide. But if you're making some of these common cooking mistakes that we're going to

go through, you are actually significantly devaluing the nutrient value of the food.

Yeah.

Which just kind of defeats the point of adding more veggies to your diet.

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