Increasing your intake of plants is one of the easiest, biggest bang for buck, lowest barrier to entry methods to control your Calorie intake, create a Calorie deficit and achieve weight loss. So if fat loss is the name of the game increasing your intake of plants is almost certainly a good idea.

At FNC we often encourage our clients to increase there intake by providing daily targets which can be difficult to meet at first.

Often the issue is not that 'it's just too much', it's actually not being aware of the ways you can make plant consumption a far easier and more enjoyable daily habit. The key is to look at the 'how' part of eating plants.

Integrated plants into meals in different, potentially novelty ways, enhancing taste and softening the texture and consistency are all examples of how you can turn eating plants from a chore to something you look forward to.

For the sake of your attention, one of the best plant 'hacks' is to make vegetable sauces using a base of passata and any vegetables you can get your hands on.

All you need is a bottle of passata (pureed tomatoes in a bottle), a blender and a bunch of whatever cooked vegetables you can get your hands on. As mentioned the vegetables need to be cooked, and for best results cooked well so they're nice and soft. It doesn't really matter what that cooking method is even if they're roasted vegetable dinner leftovers from the night before.

What you're going to want to do is toss all the vegetables into a blender with the desired amount of passata, and any herbs and spices you feel like including.

Blend it up and you have yourself a large portion of your daily veg intake disguised as a soft, and tasty soupy-like sauce that can be added to any of your meals as you please. Use it as a pasta sauce, perhaps add it to stir-frys. It's not only going to enhance the taste of your food but it'll add a decent amount of plants to your daily targets without it being hard or a chore.

To learn more simple and effective ways to improve your nutrition to help you move towards your goals, contact us today for more individual guidance.