— Diane Kirschner

So the first thing is that you want to start slow. So if right now you're eating one vegetable a day or you are working with somebody and they're only eating maybe one vegetable a week or something, you just wanna start slow. I try with one vegetable day. And then you work your way up to two when that's comfortable, three to four. So going slowly that can help. Um, soaking raw vegetables in water for about 15 minutes and cooking them well can also help with the gas. Um, the most gas producing vegetables really are like your onion, garlic, as well as your cruciferous vegetables. 'cause they have like a whole host of complex fibers and um, they contain sulfur, um, which, um, can cause quite the odiferous gaseous state of affairs. Um, so if you can't do cruciferous vegetables, then you switch to jarred green vegetables and you wanna make sure that any legumes are cooked thoroughly. So, and maybe you have irritable bowel syndrome. So I would start with is there an issue going on or is it just really you're increasing your vegetables too fast? If you're increasing your vegetables too fast, slow it down. Your body's your your test tube, right? So which vegetables agree with you, which ones don't? There are so many of them, you don't have to eat them all right? And if you find that the broccoli and the cauliflower, like that's not really working too well raw. I've got some cauliflower over here, I'm gonna make a curry cauliflower cold soup when I'm done. Um, so just cook it and, and try that way slow and easy really wins this, this race.