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Are you eating enough fruit and veggies?
Movotti
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Theres a new study that suggests that very few of us are, and that we should all be eating 10 portions of veggies and fuit each day. TEN portions, adding up to a total of 800 grams each day!
How well are you doing so far?
How many portions of fruit/veg do you eat a day?
I thought I was doing ok, but I guess I could do better.
I usually have spinach in an omlett, or fruit and yogurt for breakfast. So that's about 1-2 portions.
Lunch often includes salad, or soup containing lots of veggies (depending on the time of year), so maybe another 2-3 portions.
And it's rare for me to not have veggies as part of my dinner, another 2-3 portions.
Ok, I easily reach the traditional 5 portions of fruit/veg, but I guess I could squeeze some more in... maybe I should have more smoothies?
Also, potatoes don't count towards your 10 portions of veggies.
I think I should have got kale, rather than potato chips to snack on.
How well are you doing so far?
How many portions of fruit/veg do you eat a day?
I thought I was doing ok, but I guess I could do better.
I usually have spinach in an omlett, or fruit and yogurt for breakfast. So that's about 1-2 portions.
Lunch often includes salad, or soup containing lots of veggies (depending on the time of year), so maybe another 2-3 portions.
And it's rare for me to not have veggies as part of my dinner, another 2-3 portions.
Ok, I easily reach the traditional 5 portions of fruit/veg, but I guess I could squeeze some more in... maybe I should have more smoothies?
Also, potatoes don't count towards your 10 portions of veggies.
I think I should have got kale, rather than potato chips to snack on.
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Looks like I'll need to update my portions of veggies each day, so that I not only beat the 5 a day, but also the 10 a day.
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Just make sure about half your plate is vegetables every meal and that's pretty much all there is to it.
Here is are some examples:
I'd say more like 3/4 of your plate should contain veggies. A small piece of meat (no bigger than the palm of your hand), and 3 portions of veggies.
You don't want half you meal to be meat, so what else would you have on the non-veggie half? Sauce? Gravy? Maybe something starchy, but you're better off replacing it with more veggies.
Peppers and onions? That's a start. Personally, I like spinach on pizza. Did you have any salad with it?
What did you have on your baked potato? I like bacon, pineapple and coleslaw, on the rare occasions that I have one.
French fries... well, if they were made from sweet potato, or zucchini, then they'd certainly count. But like the baked potato, they don't count as a vegetable on their own.
I think the world needs more veggie based junk food.
Pizza loaded with veggies, sweet potato and zucchini fries, deep fried cauliflower in cumin batter, yiros with plenty of salad and garlic sauce crammed in around the meat...
There is a burger place in Australia that does sweet potato and zucchini chips, along with regular potato chips
Their burgers are pretty awesome too.
Yes, that is beetroot on the burger. It's a thing in Australia. A proper hamburger should contain beetroot and/or pineapple... and bacon, and egg, and salad.
Beets on a burger? That would be delicious! I love beets, and sweet potatoes. I like pineapple too, and eat it in stir fry but I've never tried it on a burger. It sounds good! I also like egg sandwiches, so maybe the egg wouldn't taste too strange for me on a burger. Now I'm hungry...
I have been very careless in taking care of myself for years now. I did do something amazing last year and stop drinking pop, but as for managing what I eat, no. Managing my diet is very hard because I physically cannot eat a lot of things. =/
I went through a phase last late summer where I loved rice and ate a lot of it. Other than that, I can not say vegetables are present in my diet at all. I rarely eat rice anymore. I ate too much of it and got tired of it. =(
My diet is horrible. I just tried to think of what I've had for veggies and fruit today and well... I got nothing, honestly nothing. Which actually makes me feel kinda sick now. I pretty much always have a little bit at least. My snack and/or lunch usually are pretty good. I usually have some kind of fruit and a yogurt for my snack and usually more fruit and sushi (california roll), salad, or a sandwhich for lunch. The sandwhich usually has like no veggies though, and the sushi well it's mostly rice so it doesn't have a lot but it does have some. Actually if I get the california spring roll, which I do if the have them, that's more veggie than anything
Supper can go either way some days it's a good half or more veggies. Some days it's got like nothing.
Breakfast is... a disaster. I'm not a breakfast person, I have a really hard time being able to eat at all for a good hour after I get up. By which point I'm usually halfway to work and I end up stopping at the cafe or a burger joint (yeah, a burger joint. My breakfast is well after typical breakfast hours 'cause I work nights and very easily adapt to a night schedule) and getting something not healthy at all with little to no veggies.
I am working on it though. And honestly I was doing so much better for a while, but work got me so run down that I just gave into the exhaustion and laziness, and opt for the convenient options which don't tend to be the healthy ones. Which I know is still not a good excuse. But whether I really wanted it or not work is giving me a bit of a vacation (got a couple extra days off and then I go back for 2 short shifts, and get more days off) and I'm planning to use that to my advantage. Getting myself back on track and figuring out how to set myself up to stay on track. Because WOW, days like today are really not acceptable... and I'm sure this is probably more common than I'd want to know
I do like fruit juice though. And since I seldom drink soda/pop now, I tend to replace it with fruit juice. Sugar content isn't much if any better... but I do get the real fruit juices not these artificial fruit cocktail things. So I still get the vitamins and good stuff fruit offers at least.
*curses under breath*
I had lot of struggle eating spinach and kale, not my favorite greens. But they are great with miso.
Smoothies are great, especially for those who want to get every single vitamin and mineral from their food. Edamame is one of the best snacks.
Still can't believe potatoes doesn't count. They are the best salad.
Ugh...that looks like a logistical nightmare to make sure everything is measured out like that...
It's still a bit confusing for me. 1 tomato is the same as half a grapefruit or 3 tablespoons of peas? Just seems so...arbitrary...
Might just be cultural differences though. Where I come from rice is generally the main course with meats and vegetables being secondary. Plus with the way things are cooked and how meals are shared...I don't know. The whole concept of portion size just seems weird and pretty impractical. Funny thing is, people here are generally healthy. Dietary experts be darned.
Then there was the egg alarm "ZOMG DONT EAT MORE THAN 1 or 2 EGGS A WEEK - BAD BAD" and now they've suddenly decided that "ZOMG EGGS GOOD - EAT AS MANY AS YOU LIKE"
I don't pay attention to things like that. Eat a healthy diet with plenty of fresh produce, wholegrains, and everything in moderation, and you'll do yourselves right.
I'm a diabetic, and due to a change in medication because pharmaceuticals have stopped manufacturing the medication I was taking, my sugar levels have been out of control for the last six months. Trying to avoid taking excess amounts of insulin, I've spent long sessions with a dietician to work out how to improve slow release energy to keep my sugar levels balanced. She told me the above, and not to pay attention to fads, or anything like that.
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