Mom always told you to eat your vegetables. But let’s face it -- most of us don’t get enough veggies in our diets. Increasing your plant intake is really about solving two problems: finding great veggies, and knowing what to do with them once you get them. For the freshest and tastiest vegetables, shop at a local farmer’s market. A free iPhone app called Farmers Market Finder can help you find one nearby, but an old-fashioned Google search for “farmers market” and your zip code will also do the trick. There’s also localharvest.org, which can help you find stores, farmers markets, restaurants, and other resources for locally grown food.
LocalHarvest’s guide to CSA (community-supported agriculture) can help you get fresh veggies delivered to your door.
Tons of iOS apps offer vegetarian recipes, and bushels of vegetarian podcasts in the iTunes Store can get you inspired to try new veggie dishes. But as anyone who’s ever gone crazy buying tons of great-looking produce on a sunny afternoon can attest, throwing out all that stuff a week later is a tragedy. Solve that problem once and for all with Shelf Life ($1.99), an iPhone app that will keep track of your perishables and tell you what you should eat next to minimize the amount of stuff that goes bad in the crisper drawer.
Eat it up before you have to throw it out, thanks to Shelf Life.
