purple veggies: a quest

Recently, I decided I need more purple veggies in my diet. Not just eggplant, which is mostly white on the inside, but veggies that are purple or purplish through and through. If each different color of veggie represents different vitamins and minerals in that veggie, I'd better be getting a variety. That's my way of thinking anyway. Also, I like the idea of getting my vitamins and minerals from food sources rather than pills. (This stems from my distrust of multi-vitamins, but that's a different story.)

I consistently include green, orange, and red veggies (well, tomatoes are fruits, but still) into my diet. Purple, however, has been tricky.  Months back, I went on a quest to bring purple into my diet. First, I found purple (well, "red") cabbage and learned to cook with it and add it raw to dishes. Next, I found purple potatoes. (So awesome! So tasty!) That was followed by beets (not exactly purple, but close). Here are some pictures that I've snapped along the way. 

I may make prints of these and hang them in my kitchen. Veggies make me so happy!