are vegetables healthy?

[Guest guest]

hi all,

i am just wondering how many i actually need in my diet? w/ talk of

anti-nutrients and food chemicals, plus the fact that I am trying to

eat locally, i just wonder which ones to eat and how much. I am also

totally revamping my diet to go gluten free and possibly casein free

and low grain, so what to eat? living in colorado, the only local

veggies I have right now are beets, onions, potatoes, turnips and

carrots and I am at the bottom of the barrel of those. so really, i

just have kimchee and some frozen pureed squash and frozen tomatoes. i

will look into freezing more veggies for next winter, though. but

that's it until probably sometime in may. for fruit, i have some local

frozen peaches and i have been buying apples and bananas at the store.

thanks!

lisa