Shrinking Sisters checks out Green Giant boxed veggies (giveaway!)

So you're trying to lose weight and you're assuming that plain, flavorless vegetables will be your lot in life for the time being.

Not necessarily. Green Giant has more than two dozen varieties of its boxed frozen vegetables, and its Broccoli & Cheese Sauce is only 60 calories (2PointsPlus) per serving. A serving of it over a baked potato would make a great quick lunch.

Or you can do what Hungry Girl Lisa Lillien does and make a great broccoli-cheese soup with it. Her original recipe uses the Just for One! size veggies, but I doubled the recipe with the regular box of vegetables.

All it uses is a package of Green Giant Broccoli & Cheese Sauce, 1 cup light (plain) soymilk, 2 wedges Laughing Cow Light Original Swiss cheese, chopped into pieces, and salt and pepper, to taste. All you do is cook the vegetables and put them into a blender with the other ingredients -- voila!

"Like" Green Giant on Facebook or follow the Jolly Green Giant on Twitter for more information and recipe ideas, or visit greengiant.com.

And now, the giveaway

Shrinking Sisters is dishing up a Green Giant prize pack that includes a coupon for one box of Green Giant vegetables, an insulated tote bag, groovy green silicone spoon, serving bowl and a pedometer.

To enter

Leave a comment below, telling me how you're fitting more vegetables into your diet. Contest deadline is Feb. 28March 8. When you comment, please make sure there's a way for me to contact you should you be the winner. (The comment system can be a little slow to load, so make sure you're commenting to the IntenseDebate System.) We'll choose one winner at random by pointing blindfolded at the computer screen after being spun around 50 times on the office chair.

Extra entries

• Subscribe to Shrinking Sisters.
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• Become a fan of Shrinking Sisters on Facebook.
• Tweet about this giveaway using the phrase Enter to win a Green Giant Prize Pack Giveaway by Feb. 28 http://goo.gl/xraGx #myblogspark

Disclosure: Green Giant provided a sample prize pack and information through MyBlogSpark. No other compensation was received.