Do you eat the recommended 2 fruit and 5 vegetables a day? Or do you struggle to even eat an apple a day? Keep reading for some hot tips on how to meet your fruit and vegetable needs.
Ways To Add Fruit & Veg To Your Breaky
Omelet with tomato, yoghurt with blueberries/banana/mango/strawberries, mashed banana/apple sauce in oatmeal, cooked mushrooms, avocado on toast, banana on toast, tomato on toast, raisin toast, fruit smoothie, vegetable juice or just eat a piece of fruit.
Ways To Add Fruit & Veg To Your Lunch
Baked beans on toast, salad sandwich, salad wrap, stir fry veggies, scrambled eggs with tomato & onion, sliced tomato on crackers, any kind of salad, fruit salad, any kind of soup with vegetables in it.
Ways To Add Fruit & Veg To Your Dinner
Always have a salad with your dinner, always. Just any kind of lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot etc. If you have time and energy cook vegetable but the fail safe way is just to chop up some salad. Try a vegetarian dish once a week, also try adding grated vegetables to dishes such as spag bol, hamburgers, lasagne anything get creative. Then after dinner, dip fruit in dark chocolate.
Grab a bowl leave it on the kitchen bench, put in it a carrot, an apple and a mandarin, a banana for example and make an effort to have eaten them by the end of the day. Ease into it to make it a habit, next thing you are wanting to eat them. Start eating more fruit and vegetables today for a healthier you.
Renee
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Shannen says
Renee can I ask what you think about dried fruit? I dry my own so it has no added anything, and usually keep some in my nappy bag with some nuts as a snack.