Day 8 Vegetables...What To Do?

I have a hard time getting enough vegetables in my diet. Vegetables are just too complicated. It does not seem right to me that something I should be building my entire diet around, is the hardest thing for me to eat. I like fresh vegetables. I love a good olive bar. I enjoy summer salads with all kinds of wonderful and healthy ingredients. I love eating something I know is full of anti-oxidants. Vegetables fight cancer. Vegetables make my skin look great. Vegetables provide good roughage. Vegetables keep weight and blood pressure low. Vegetables do not block my arteries. However, vegetables come in chunks and bags and lumpy bulk and with skin on. Vegetables require chopping and cutting and peeling and washing...and I just know I am not going to do any of that at the end of the work day. I have been drinking glasses of V-8 juice...baby steps. I am hoping with the warmer weather and during the summer when I have a little more time, I will discipline myself enough to go to our local public market and load up. I find it difficult to count calories with vegetables. I know I can do it, but it means measuring things out in cups and bagging things and freezing things. I guess I am just lazy. I think I shall stick to canned vegetables and V-8 for now. Sigh.