Who actually eats their 3 and 5 serves a day??

[Kazbah]

Yes on the veg, no on the fruit, but DS loves his fruit so it's more like 5 & 5!

Not sure how the cost thing works for you KM, as whenever I'm on a strict budget I cut out meat & go vego, way cheaper. Of course, that's assuming that you eat what's in season cause it's way to exxy to eat stuff out of season on a whim.

[trishalishous]

Im supposed to eat 5 + 7 for breastfeeding

supposed.

[luna moth]

5 and 7. Wowsers. I could do the 7, I often do that before it's even 2pm, but the 5 fruit might be a stretch!

[Cherished]

Great thread. I would get my RDI and I'd say even more on the veg side of things as we have either salad or veg with lunch and dinner and each time it'd be like 3 serves I think. I also have loads of fruit so I'm never worried about getting enough. It's so good you are feeling the difference beckoes, I feel like crap if I go a day or two without enough fruit & veg or enough water.

Audax I agree with the cost thing, farmers markets or fruit & veg stores are the way to go, not supermarkets.

[suse]

Rumpled Elf - I'd have to agree with you on the serving size thing - I just don't eat that much. For me to eat a proper 2 + 5 I wouldn't stop eating all day. Although I suspect that if I ate less chocolate I'd have more room for fruit and veg LOL.

[Laranna]

I usually get all my servings of fruit in with breakfast. For example, this morning I had 1/4 cup yoghurt with 1 banana, 1 kiwi fruit and 6 strawberries (all chopped). Some days it will be muesli with the fruit and yoghurt.

Veggies is a bit trickier. I put baby spinach leaves or rocket or zucchini with everything lol. I eat wraps most days with tomato and cucumber. Most of my dinners are vegetarian these days. Last night we had a broccoli and zucchini cheesey bake. Or soup - broccoli, cauliflower or pumpkin - gets in a lot of veggies. I'm making a yummy pumpkin & fetta salad to go with dinner tonight (has pumpkin, red onion, cinnamon, basil, walnuts, fetta and red capsicum).

I'll add extra veggies in the day by having carrot or capsicum sticks with a couple of tablespoons of hommus as an afternoon snack.

[Loula]

I usually get all my servings of fruit in with breakfast. For example, this morning I had 1/4 cup yoghurt with 1 banana, 1 kiwi fruit and 6 strawberries (all chopped). Some days it will be muesli with the fruit and yoghurt.

Veggies is a bit trickier. I put baby spinach leaves or rocket or zucchini with everything lol. I eat wraps most days with tomato and cucumber. Most of my dinners are vegetarian these days. Last night we had a broccoli and zucchini cheesey bake. Or soup - broccoli, cauliflower or pumpkin - gets in a lot of veggies. I'm making a yummy pumpkin & fetta salad to go with dinner tonight (has pumpkin, red onion, cinnamon, basil, walnuts, fetta and red capsicum).

I'll add extra veggies in the day by having carrot or capsicum sticks with a couple of tablespoons of hommus as an afternoon snack.

Thanks for listing how you get your's, I would love to hear how others do it so i can start trying to have healthier snacks too, have to shift this baby weight! and need to get back to my old healthier eating habbits, now the baby is out i think ive got a free ticket to eat crap!