10 Fall Foods Your Family Should Try
Squash
Spaghetti squash is scooped out with a fork after it is cooked and creates spaghetti like strands, hence its name. Butternut and acorn squash are the more traditional orange squash full of beta carotene.
Meals Ideas: Top spaghetti squash with a your favorite spaghetti sauce and you have an alternative to noodle night.
Apples
This year, I purchased 8 different varieties of apples and the whole family did a taste test at the kitchen table of all the apple varieties and guess what? After 9 years of eating Gala apples we all found a new favorite – Honey Crisp!
Versatile and healthier than regular white potatoes make the sweet potato a valuable addition to your weekly vegetable rotation.
Meal Ideas: Boiled, roasted, mashed, baked whole or as fries, the options are almost endless.
Such a funky fruit once you peel back the layers and a good source of potassium, fibre and Vitamin C.
These mini members of the cabbage family are good for you.
Meal Ideas: If you are not a fan, try slow roasting them in the oven with a little extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar for a new flavour and give them another try.
They are great pureed and slipped into quiche, casseroles and soups.
Meal Ideas: Turnip can be grilled, sautéed, roasted or eaten raw but are commonly boiled in water with a potato to remove any bitter taste.
The sweet partner to the turnip and root vegetable family, parsnips have a nutty flavour, are loaded with folate and fibre.
Meal Ideas: Wash and peel if skin in thick, then chop and cook in soups and casseroles, roast in oven or cut length wise to make yummy parsnip fries.Dates
This sweet fruit is high in fibre, antioxidants, potassium and iron and is very versatile.
Meal Ideas: Large dates can be stuffed with blue cheese, goat cheese or melon, wrapped in prosciutto and served as an appetizer, or eaten as is for a sweet treat.
Beets
High in folate, potassium, fiber and even iron, beets are a fall food you should get friendly with.
Meal Ideas: Pickled, roasted, boiled, sautéed or raw, beets can be added to any salad, soup, or smoothie.
Cranberries
Thanksgiving and turkey dinners have made the cranberry a staple fruit in the Fall but their good for you nutritional profile suggests we should be eating these more often.
Meal Ideas: Cranberries add a sweet and slightly tart flavour to any baking.
Great ideas I have never thought of!
these are some good ideas !! i especially like the spaghetti squash. I have never tried it before but would definitely like to especially since my daughter loves spaghetti but doesnt get enough veggies!