10 portions of fruit and veg a day
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Will anyone be following the new advice of ten 80g portions of fruit and or veg a day? (UK) It used to be five and now it is recommended to eat ten portions a day to avoid deaths from cancers/strokes and heart attacks. And what do you think is the best way to do this?
I dunno but I sure won't be attempting it. I put all those foods in my calculator and I get 630 calories....just for fruits and veggies. Yeah not happening.0 -
I'm tempted to give it a try too. I average around 5 a day and thought I did well.2
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I eat a pretty good variety of fruit and veg, but not in large enough quantities for it to count as a portion, so no, probably not!1
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Right now I'm probably already eating about 800g anyway. I eat 400g of mixed frozen vegetables each day, usually at lunch time alongside my sandwich I've made. I love carrots, peas, corn, broccoli, cauliflower etc. It is ALOT to eat but I'm use to it. I actually find myself craving vegetables now and its made my skin look great. I have two pieces of fruit as well over the course of the day usually a large orange which is around 300g and then another piece...grapes, peach, pear or dried fruit. I watched a documentary on Netflix called 'Hungry For Change' and a lot of the healthy food advocates on there had INCREDIBLE skin and looked so young and its because they're eating so much veg. People pay thousands of dollars over a lifetime to improve their skin...why not just eat more fruit and veg? Cheaper and healthier.
I would try and focus on the vegetables you really like and include more of those. You can include more veg in certain dishes and recipes, add more to sandwiches, casseroles, stirfrys. Have a look at recipes online that include your fave vegies and cook those. Eliminate processed snacks and eat fruit instead...fruit you like of course.1 -
I always believed that multiple servings of the same veggie and potatoes didn't count... i'm hopeless at getting 5 in, so won't even attempt going for 10!
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For most of my life, I ate about 10 servings a day. I grew up eating large portions of veg and continued that as an adult.
A few years ago, I had to cut the amount of produce I eat due to IBS. Maybe someday my body will get back to being able to eat that much, but for now it's just not doable for me. I long to eat that amount again.
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Blueberries on my oatmeal. A fruit for lunch. Lots of veggies elsewhere.2
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I routinely get lots of fruit/veg servings. I stopped counting a while back, but do spot check when I'm concerned that I've gone a little light on a particular day. It's super rare for me to get fewer than 5, 10 is common, and (gasp!) 18-20 isn't unheard of.
How? I love veggies (and fruits, but I rarely get more than 3-4 servings of those, often 1-2). High-volume foods help me stay satiated. I'm vegetarian (ovo-lacto, not vegan). When I started losing weight, I realized via diary review that a lot of what I was eating (calorically) was higher-carb filler food (whole wheat pasta, multi-grain tortillas, etc.) - good stuff, but really not worth its caloric "cost" to me for the amount of nutrition, tastiness & satiation.
So I pretty much dropped those things out of my eating, and would eat (instead of pasta) the stuff I'd previously have put on pasta, or (instead of a sandwich/wrap) the stuff I would've put on the sandwich. I found I could increase the volume of those things, besides, because they were calorically efficient.
Then I started going to farmers markets regularly - nice fresh, local produce - even in Winter here in the North. So yum!
Many of my meals are lots of veggies with enough protein and fat. That's a lot of veggies. I enjoy big salads, cooked veggies of various sorts (especially roasted). Usually at least one meal a day includes a heaping plate (side dish plate, not full dinner plate) of raw veggies: Celery, carrots, celeriac, cucumber, carrots, sweet peppers, jicama, olives, kohlrabi, and many, many more.
Just for fun, I went & counted up yesterday, a random day: 1,306 grams of fruit & veggies, or about 16 servings.
800g is no trick at all. But fruit & veggies make me happy . . . not everyone feels that way.6 -
I generally have 3-4 serves of veggies every night for dinner either as a large salad with protein or a smaller salad as a side to a main like enchiladas or pasta (which have veg in them too). I have 2-4 serves of fruit for snacks. Usually I'll have another 1-2 serves of veggies for breakfast and/or lunch between mushrooms or tomato on toast, salad sandwiches, dinner leftovers.and the raw carrots I like to munch on while I'm prepping my food.
In Australia our guidelines are 2 fruit and 5 veg a day for general health which is what I aim for. I think I'm going to aim for the 10 a day but I'm not sure if it'll happen.
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That is an amazing amount. I do like fruit and veg and especially homemade soup. I do, however, get fed up with the chopping sometimes.0
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I eat over 500g of fruit everyday, I really need to work on those veggies! I'm having stir fry for dinner tonight which contains 1.2kgs of different vegetables, but that's split in two for me and hubby.
I think the 10 portions is a great idea, nothing wrong with encouraging folks to eat more fruit and veggies.1 -
RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »I'm tempted to give it a try too. I average around 5 a day and thought I did well.
I'm going to try it next week, you should join me! I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of how to actually eat that much though lol. I do 16:8IF and only eat two meals a day usually, so this could be tricky
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Looks like it could be the start of a new challenge!crzycatlady1 wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »I'm tempted to give it a try too. I average around 5 a day and thought I did well.
I'm going to try it next week, you should join me! I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of how to actually eat that much though lol. I do 16:8IF and only eat two meals a day usually, so this could be tricky
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Whoa. Just realized my 270 gram apple would count as over 3 servings a day if we're going with 80 g a serving lol. How much would guacamole count for lol. Maybe 0.5 hahah. So I'm at 5.9 servings today then. Hmm. Though... I guess I don't usually have carrots too so that is bumping me up today.
Also... 80 g of lettuce would be a lot of lettuce.1 -
http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/5ADAY/Pages/Whatcounts.aspx
White potatoes apparently don't count and there's a rule about only one serving of beans, but they do count.
Makes me feel better about my overall diet at least.
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ActivatedAlm0nds wrote: »
Looks like it could be the start of a new challenge!crzycatlady1 wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »I'm tempted to give it a try too. I average around 5 a day and thought I did well.
I'm going to try it next week, you should join me! I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of how to actually eat that much though lol. I do 16:8IF and only eat two meals a day usually, so this could be tricky
I could definitely be in this challenge. Wouldn't hurt me to push more veg.2 -
crzycatlady1 wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »I'm tempted to give it a try too. I average around 5 a day and thought I did well.
I'm going to try it next week, you should join me! I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of how to actually eat that much though lol. I do 16:8IF and only eat two meals a day usually, so this could be tricky
I'm in!
I best go to Aldi for a fruit and veg stock up. Start Sunday?1 -
RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »crzycatlady1 wrote: »RuNaRoUnDaFiEld wrote: »I'm tempted to give it a try too. I average around 5 a day and thought I did well.
I'm going to try it next week, you should join me! I'm still trying to figure out the logistics of how to actually eat that much though lol. I do 16:8IF and only eat two meals a day usually, so this could be tricky
I'm in!
I best go to Aldi for a fruit and veg stock up. Start Sunday?
I'll be starting on Monday, since Sundays we always have lunch at the in-laws and then usually do a local pizza place for supper lol. I'm going to do it Monday-Friday, and will measure out all my veggies/fruit in grams, and try to hit the magical 800g number
Already putting my grocery shopping list together!
I think I'll start a new thread for our little challenge on Monday morning, and then whoever wants to join in can! I think this will be eye opening for me-I have a suspicion that I eat less vegetables and fruit than I think I do
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No, it's nonsense.1
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