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I love vegetables.  I love them in salads. I love the grilled and steamed vegetables in summer.  In winter pureed vegetables for a soup base or whole vegetables in a chunky stew.  Eight vegetables that can’t be beat are tomatoes, carrots, celery, beets, parsley, lettuce, watercress and spinach.  I use these all the time.  The first three are always in the majority of my homemade soups when prepared from scratch. 

But I know you’re busy as I am and when I find I’m running out of time, or I want to get some essential vegetables into my diet I have a short cut.  It is a 75 year old short cut that hasn’t changed much with one exception.  The short cut is V8 which is celebrating its 75th year. 

Invented in 1933, V8 was ahead of its time.  Today V8 is improved compared to its 1933 predecessor.  It has less sodium giving it the warranted heart-check mark on the label from the American Heart Association.

I’m not trying to sell product, but when I need to make a short cut in the vegetable check list for my diet du jour it is V8.  Really, I don’t have a lot of time to chop, crunch and chew sometimes.  I like some vegetables straight up with a nice sprig of celery.

It’s not too late to have one too!