How do you get your 5 a day?

fittyinthemaking

Just wondering what fruit and veg you all love? is there anything you fill up on because you know its an easy 1 of your 5 a day? i try to have at least 100g of fresh broccoli with my evening meals and 1 apple a day but i know its not enough, just looking for ideas

MelaniaTrump

Have you ever tried V8? I'm often busy, and this is something I can just drink quickly.

Hell_Flower

I snack on fruit a lot. Bananas are easy to have with breakfast, apples too throughout the day. Check whats in season so you can vary it. If you're cooking broccoli for dinner, you can easily stick some peas or carrots in there with them

I LOVE cherry tomatoes and I like cucumber sticks and radishes too. Oh! And bell peppers. All colours I just chop them up into a little box and grab some to stick in a little tupperware box to take to work.

It's just habit. Once you get used to, you miss not snacking on them. (Still allow for treats of course, but they dont make up the bulk of my day to day snacks or meals.)

Lizzy622

I try to get 2 in the morning for breakfast. An omelet with broccoli or spinach and an orange or a green smoothie with baby spinach or kale and a banana start the day off on the right track. When I start my day with fruit and veggies, I tend to keep reaching for them throughout the day like hummus with carrot sticks or peanut butter on celery sticks for snack.

365daystofitgirl

smoothies soups and salads, the 3 S's

ValerieMartini2Olives

Before breakfast: Orange juice and a fruit (strawberries or bananas, mixed fruit, etc)
Lunchtime: a fruit cup and an apple, mixed veggies
Dinner: 2 servings of mixed veg. Right now I'm doing coleslaw mixed veggies and broccoli/cauliflower/carrot mix, stir fried in a little oil with some ponzu sauce for dinner. The same mixed veggies but not raw with wasabi dijon dressing for lunch.

fittyinthemaking

ValerieMartini2Olives wrote: »

Before breakfast: Orange juice and a fruit (strawberries or bananas, mixed fruit, etc)
Lunchtime: a fruit cup and an apple, mixed veggies
Dinner: 2 servings of mixed veg. Right now I'm doing coleslaw mixed veggies and broccoli/cauliflower/carrot mix, stir fried in a little oil with some ponzu sauce for dinner. The same mixed veggies but not raw with wasabi dijon dressing for lunch.

Yum! sounds very tasty

chelsea7162

I personally cannot eat much without getting sick feeling so I love smoothies as I can normally drink most of a decent sized one without feeling too sick. Frozen fruit and veggies are cheaper than fresh and blend well! A personal favourite smoothie meal (good for on the go) is a mango peach tofu dessert (check out the tofu section of your grocery store for this, it really adds an amazing creaminess especially if you can't have dairy like me), 100+ grams of spinach, 100 grams of frozen berries, a scoop of your fave vanilla protein powder (optional), and what ever else you'd like! Other favourites are frozen mangos and pineapples with some kale or spinach (I prefer spinach because it's hard to taste and gets overwhelmed by all the other flavours). For getting vegetables I'd go to a local Asian grocery store and grab a bunch of things like snap peas and a type of bok choy. You can make a simple stir fry with your preferred protein and it's super yummy! Also invest in a wok it's so helpful for cooking veggies

Dovekat

The main component of a lot of my meals is mixed vegetables, not so much of a fruit eater so that's how I get mine.

ValerieMartini2Olives

I also love loaded veggie soups. You can have a TON of broth and water plus 3-5 veggie servings in a sitting. It's hot so you have to eat slow so you get really full.

PiSquared

I'm a big fan of fruit as snacks. I have a banana for my mid morning snack (my 10am banana), and then another piece of fruit mid-afternoon. These days, I'm eating oranges because citrus is in season and they are super cheap right now.

I always have a veggie with my dinner. Broccoli, green beans, and snap peas are my go to veggies. It's winter now, so I can can oven roast my veggies, and they are delicious that way.

I also tend to cook with fruit a lot. Sliced fruit on a salad is super awesome. Sliced strawberries are awesome with chicken, walnuts, and goat cheese for an entree salad. Plums and other stone fruit work great with sliced steak and blue cheese on a salad.

You can also put veggies where you might not expect them. I made a stove top mac and cheese the other night that relied on pureed squash to thicken the sauce and give the dish a nice golden yellow color. There was also broccoli in the mac and cheese as an expected veggie, but you may not be aware of the squash.

Soups and casseroles are great places to up your veggie intake. Everything cooks together, and I've had luck with getting a lot of veggies this way, instead of eating a pile of them on your dinner plate like an afterthought.