Shocking pink, green and orange!

How often do we go overboard with buying  the mesmerizingly stacked veggies, which you can't cook within a week or two and toss it in the garbage with a heavy heart?

I used to do that often, until I learnt to buy in sufficient quantities, though even now, I somehow find one or two veggies in excess at the end of the week.

Here are a few plausible plans i have come up with ; Will be great if all of you can add your tips to it as well!

* A pack of 4 beets from Market Basket - toss the beets into veggie kurma, make stir fried beets for side to rasam rice; When more are left over ( which was my case..) - Use the extractor to beat beets and carrot into an awesome sugarless fresh juice which i have been having before morning work outs! The remaining smooth pulp, add it to chapati dough for shocking pink phulkas! :)

* I have been so happy with the juice idea, that I am planning on implementing it with green veggies as well.. And in prospection, I think its a great way to make kids eat veggies... Imagine presenting them with pink,green,orange chapatis! :)

* Raw mango which i often buy for avial. Since i don't use the whole of it, the remainder is great for -

sev puri toppings

Add it to dal tadka instead of tomato

Make mango pulihora (its a andhra dish)

* Excessive tomatoes - make tomato chutney for dosas; same with excessive onions.

For the patient ones soups.

* Cabbage - the giant that never seems to be done! I haven't found a great solution, but here is what i do -

cabbage/beans/carrot dry sabji for sambhar rice

cut it long for noodles

Cabbage + dal + coconut gravy for rice

.... and there is still cabbage left over! sigh!

Do post suggestions.. Will be great to know some new ways to eat different veggies and not be intimidated to pick them at the market!

Happy Healthy eating!!