Sounds picture perfect–except for one thing:\u00a0 vegetable exhaustion.\u00a0 At our last Whole Kitchen<\/a> class, she confessed that she’d hit a vegetable chopping wall the night before.<\/p>\n I knew exactly what she meant!\u00a0 About every 10th day I hit the same wall.\u00a0 The lesson I’ve<\/p>\n learned?\u00a0 Don’t beat yourself up just because you occasionally want a healthful meal with minimal effort.\u00a0 Give yourself a break instead, with frozen vegetables from your freezer pantry or with pre-cut veggies from a salad bar.<\/p>\n Don’t worry that utilizing a few healthful modern conveniences will lure you onto the slippery slope back down to a fast food diet.\u00a0\u00a0 Quite the opposite is true.\u00a0 Refreshed after a break, you’ll be anxious to once again create colorful, flavor-full, meals with fresh vegetables–which is an especially good thing right now, at the peak of the summer harvest.\u00a0 Don’t let vegetable exhaustion keep you from the season’s gorgeous produce any longer than need be.<\/p>\n Need a good, take-a-break recipe?\u00a0 Check out the next post for “Creamy Gingered Peas and White Fish<\/a>,” an easy but tasty meal-in-one dish.<\/p>\n![\"Frozen](\"http:\/\/i722.photobucket.com\/albums\/ww230\/mcolletterogers\/IMG_6044.jpg\")