We never had a vegetable garden, but everyone had to help out.

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You can add more if you want later (and are feeling the results), but setting a small habit of a fruit and vegetable will establish an important routine while adding a nutritious source to your daily diet.

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But my favourite is when they tell me they have a delicious vegetable sauce.

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Guillermo Gonzalez, of Amsterdam's Hiding in Plain Sight bar, uses a generic brand from the bar's vegetable supplier, but insists on the kosher variety.

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I'd been diagnosed with low iron before, but the first surprised me, as I have always been a big leafy-green vegetable eater.

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We normally think of the leaves as the edible parts of this plant, but ruby chard's deep red stems cook up as a tender, delicious little vegetable all on their own.

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In a less elegant but no less impressive effort, NEXT Architects and designer Aura Luz Melis built a lamp that's filled with vegetable fat, which constantly changes its brightness through the process of melting and re-solidifying the fat.

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Yangon's vegetable market is a maze of tented alleys overflowing with cabbage, pineapples, eggplant and flowers, but they are still transported by wheelbarrows and bicycles.

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