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You arent Russian by any chance?
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NO!!!
I'm worst than that - I'm a jew...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Yeah, that was pretty obvious given your name, but your list of veg looks like a typical Russian salad. 
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It is maybe, because I grew up in Hungary with very few vegetables (and very expensive) in summer time... but with a lot of cheap roots in winter...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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17 kg!? Are you feeding livestock? The wife and I would be lucky to consume 1 cucumber, 1 zucchini, 2 potatos and 2 carrots in a week. Beetroot, we don't see this often prepared in the US excepting the purple pickled variety that grows in a can. We do like lettuces, peppers, tomatos and onions.
How're my vegetables? Waiting for a saute, I think.
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So what ARE you eating, then? The list you present is hardly enough to provide calories for a single day! It sounds as if you are treating vegetables as a small side dish to the "real" food!
If you make you main meal a vegetable soup: Start with some chicken broth (I actuall use turkey broth - every time I bake a turkey, I make 5-8 soup size portions of broth from boiling the bones), chop up carrots, onoion, leek, beets, cauliflower, ... whatever are your favorite vegetables. If you don't want to leave the table still hungry, it takes half a kilogram of vegetables per person. Maybe more, depending on how physiucally active the people are.
Often, when I make a mostly-vegetable soup, I add some minced turkey meat - but almost like a spice, it makes up a minor part of the nutrition, both in proteins and calories.
Or, when you make chili con carne: You really don't need that much carne! (In our canteen at work, they serve "vegetarian chili con carne", leading to so many laughs that they now have renamed it "chili sin carne") If you use a proper mix of beans, tomato, onions, and some broth to replace plain water, you can either leave the meat out completely, or use a third of what the recepie says. Again: An adult will require at least half a kilogram of rice, beans, tomatos, onion and other vegetarian ingredients to still his hunger. (OK, so rice is a grain, not a vegetable, but at least it is plant food. Tomatos are not vegetables either, but berries. So are cucumbers.)
If you consider even grains OK: Serving bread with warm food is not that common in Norway, but I do - and with lots of food, whole grain breads are excellent! Tasty, you won't get hungry again for a while, and if you care for cost: As long as you bake it yourself, it is cheap. (And you should, because it should still be warm from the oven when you serve it.)
Then comes the snacks: Carrot and rutabaga sticks, the pizza sauce with lots of onions and maybe other vegetables. Dark, whole grain breads with lots of spices, or filled with a spiced vegetable sauce, are eccellent as snacks. Then: The in-between meals. The carrot or whatever in your lunch bag.
In my childhood, my mother made meat balls for two adults, two kids, from a quarter of a kg of hamburger... That is slighly above 60 grams/person. We were not starved: Potatoes, carrots, rutabaga, onions... with every main meal. Maybe a plain tomato or spinach soup before the main dish, and a fruit compote afterwards. (Again: Fruit is not vegetable, but certainly plant food.)
We were four people, and I wouldn't be surpised if our consumption of vegetables were more than 17 kg/week. If we include grains and fruits, it most certainly was more.
I have gradually been reducing my meat consumption over the last ten years, and now I guess it is around 100 grams/day on the average (most of it poultry, which is more healthy and more envioment friendly that red meats - and I prefer the taste!). I use almost no butter/animal fat. Maybe I consume 1 liter of whole milk per week. I will never go completely vegetarian, but after I have learned how to prepare plant food properly, it takes over more and more, with some, but not much, animal products added. I enjoy it.
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17 kg is only the average...
Summer is probably higher than that...
Think about it - counting only six of us for 3 meals in seven days, it is only 120 gr of vegetables... About half the meal... Not that much at all...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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I enjoy teasing some parents - usually mothers about corn (i.e. maize): Popcorn was introduced in Norway approx 50 years ago, as a Saturday night snack in the same main group as ice cream and chocolate. Or a special treat in movie theaters. Something that is not very healthy, but we must allow ourself some slight "misbeaviour" every now and then.
Lots of Norwegian people/parents still have the conception that popcorn and sugar sweets are equally unhealthy. So I ask these parents: Why don't you serve them maize instead? (We call it 'mais') They look back: I could never make them eat maize as a snack! Sure you can, I tell them: There are special variants that you can fry in a couple tablespoons of oil util the grain pops open and they are crispy and tasty! Add a little salt, not too much, and I am sure that they will love it!
Very few parents accept that popcorn and yellow, boiled maize essentially is the same food. But it is.
I must add that not one of all my friends can stand this crazy American idea of having butter dripping down on the corn to soak it with butter as it pops. Also, a major reason for popping your own is to reduce the amount of salt to a third of that in pre-popped corn. Rather, try spreading a little garlic granulate and/or ground juniper berries on it immediately after popping. Or experiment with other spices. Even though it is possible to force maize to be unhealthy, if you insist, you certainly don't have to do so!
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In no particular order and leaving out staples like ToFu, Rice and potato (knish!)
1 - baby Bok Choi
2 - Tomato
3 - (hot) peppers - (home made hot sauce when garden dies)
4 - eggplant
5 - onion
6 - Mushrooms
Mixed in with this is an assortment of frozen vegs (for cooking) which includes string beans, broccoli, corn (maize), green peas, periodic outburst of Romaine lettuce, particularly when I'm in a mood to make egg rolls.
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Broccoli
Cauliflower
Potatoes, No other root "vegetables" of any kind
Green Peas
Uncooked Spinach, (exception my wife's "Spinach Madelaine" - see River Road Cookbook for recipe)
Artichokes, hearts or stuffed
Olives
Whatever is on the salad bar any given day, except the aforementioned root vegetables.
Make the roads safer, run over a bicyclist.....
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I recommend that you add potatoes (of different colors).
They have a lot better flavor than the standard bakers.
Potatos or potatoes?
Tomatos or tomatoes?
I noticed that you purposely wrote "potato" to avoid the controversy.
I think Dan Quayle wrote the spell checker here...
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Most of my vegetables sit in Congress and various bureaucracies.
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Interesting read of the post and the majority of replies for actual varieties consumed...
And this leads to what you consider a vegetable to be, and which is the right way to go. Is it based off the scientific/biological definition OR is it what the government considers it OR is it how a cook prepares it.
I am more of a scientific person; in that if it is either seed or fruit based then it is a fruit. Vegetables are not actually defined in themselves, but are considers to be "plant parts" that are not ovarian products.So in my world; cukes, squashes, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, artichokes are all fruits.
One interesting plant is Coriander. Both the fruits and plant parts are edible commonly used. Confusion is prevented in the US by calling the "vegetable" portion as Cilantro or Chinese Parsley.
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If you punch your computer and break your hand, would you need tech knuckle support?
Sent from my Amstrad PC 1640
Never throw anything away, Griff
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I hate casting a doubt on your premise, but if you try to put your finger on the problem you realize that's just sprain silly! That's only a small fracture of the problems when you compound the impact with fixing your machine
If you really smash it, you may find a humerus effect.
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I've given up; I just knuckle under to our new computer overlords. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Was it better years ago, when programmers would punch cards?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Or even worse, when they used to punch tape...a sticky situation indeed 
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Eric Lynch wrote: punch tape
That IS worse! 
Many moons ago I worked at a place where I had to create punched tapes for CNC machines, using a typewriter-like device. You learn how to splice very quickly, I still cringe when I think about it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Yup, I still cringe as well, I suffered through an IBM ASR-33:
Teletype Model 33 - Wikipedia[^]
On the bright side, the paper tape made half decent party streamers
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Back in 1975 I started programming using one of these for remote connection via an acoustic coupler to a university mainframe about 50 miles away.
I wrote code to generate messages punched in holes on the tape for party streamers!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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ER no, gauze it will be Ok!
I may not be that good looking, or athletic, or funny, or talented, or smart
I forgot where I was going with this but I do know I love bacon!
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Mike Hankey wrote: it will be OkK.O.!
FTFY
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
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be sure to do a full check, you may also have problems with some of the digits.
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Don't bother calling them knuckle-heads.
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