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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??
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!!
:) DD gets her 3 and 5 no problems, but mine seems to fail most the time too !
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
we eat 5+ vegies a day, kids eat fruit but DH and i dont always
I do - but I am vegetarian so it isn't really a stretch for me :lol:
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
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
I do try and i did do it almost everyday when i was pregnant as fruit and vegies was all i could stomach!
And i agree that if i did i wouldnt have any money for anything else.
i agree with it being abit exxy sometimes!!! Im the opposite though, i could easily eat 5+ serves of fruit but struggle with the veggies unless i make an effort! all ive eaten today is sweet corn! :(
Seriously? I find eating fruit and vegies SOOOO cheap compared to eating other processed stuff. I shop at a farmer's market, and only eat what's in season. For $30 per week, DH and I are both getting at least 2 and 5, and probably more like 3 and 7 a day.:
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.
Im supposed to eat 5 + 7 for breastfeeding :)
supposed.
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!
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.
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.
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!:
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!!!!!
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.