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

[beckoes]

I have been making a really conscious effort to eat a good (high iron) diet the last few weeks and as a result have been eating my 3 serves or fruit and 5 serves of veggies every day ..... and i feel great!!

It made me wonder....who actually eats that much fruit and veg every day??

[MrsFabuloso]

I do try to, and I'm conscious of my diet, though lately I have been failing miserably! I try to feed the kids a propper diet!!

[beckoes]

DD gets her 3 and 5 no problems, but mine seems to fail most the time too !

[Arimeh]

I thought it was 2 and 5? Wow I must of been short changing myself.. LOL

Most days I have 2-3 pieces of fruit, maybe not the WHOLE fruit, but at least half of it.

We're vegetarian, so we would definitely have the 5 serves of vegies required every day.

My main problem is drinking enough water.. LOL

[Olive]

we eat 5+ vegies a day, kids eat fruit but DH and i dont always

[Nai]

I do - but I am vegetarian so it isn't really a stretch for me

[Loula]

I was pre and during pg. But now I struggle. I only have max two fruit and sometimes only two veg at the moment. I did feel much better when I was getting more F&V and this thread has reminded me to do it!

Thanks

[Jellyfish]

I easily surpass 5 vegetable serves each day but usually only eat 0-1 serves of fruit. I've been trying to make more of an effort to eat fruit when DD does but I'm just not big on it.

[Michelle71]

Veges - easily. Fruit - not so well, it depends on the day. I would rather eat veges than fruit most of the time but coming into summer with the mangoes and other nice tropical fruits in season, I can make up a fruit salad and eat enough fruit easily

[Sagres]

Yeah I was thinking 2 and 5?

Generally yes, I do 2 fruit and 5 veg. I won't say everyday but pretty often. I just follow the principles of the CSIRO eating plan and that has all the fruit and veg bases covered so I don't really have to think about it.

[deletedit]

Not even close. If I ate that much each day 1) I'd have no money for anything else and 2) I'd be sick from trying to force myself to each so much food.

They need to come up with a serving size that actually correlates to the size of the eater, not just a one-size-fits-all approach.

[ezymay]

I'm terrible I really need to work on it!! I eat lots of veg prob not the 5 and very little fruit!!! I must do better!!!!!

[Antheia]

Fruit is easy, veg not so much. I only eat 3 meals a day so how can i get 5+ veg in each day?

Fruit and veg is expensive for us. But I am feeding 5 of us who eat and soon to be 6 when Jackson starts eating. So it can be hard some weeks.