10 a Day (800g) Veggie&Fruit Challenge Participants Check in!
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I'm at a loss for counting yesterday. My double partner (rowing) and I decided to row into an oldies cover band concert the city was sponsoring for boaters, with a mobile stage pulled up on the river's edge. So, I was throwing together a light picnic supper we could eat one handed (in rowing, one must always hold the oar handles, or swim). The prep happened at lightning speed, so I didn't weigh or measure.
This is what I ate:- 100g mixed berries (lunch)
- 3 veggie cups (2 cucumber, 1 Cousa squash), maybe 1.5-2 inches tall, filled with egg salad that was heavy on chopped Vidalia onions and garlic-stuffed green olives.
- 3 romaine lettuce wraps filled with a roll-up of broiled eggplant slices, balsamic-vinegar rehydrated sun-dried tomatoes with minced fresh garlic & fresh oregano, and a chunk of string cheese.
- Small sandwiches on Greek-olive and sun-dried tomato focaccia, with sweet corn cut from the ear, chopped Vidalia, fresh sage, goat feta, and enough Greek yogurt cream cheese to hold it together.
- 3 cherry tomatoes
- 4 Mirabelle plums
Along the way while cooking, I ate the off-cuts from the lettuce, the cut-outs from the cukes/squash, and probably some random other bits I'm forgetting.
I'm thinking that's not 10 servings. Maybe 7 or 8, including the scraps eaten while cooking?
I'm not doing too well this round of play, so far!
Edited: typos
Now my mouth is watering, thinking of that delightful repast enjoyed from the river!2 -
Today's tally:
1 serving pizza sauce in stuffed pretzel
2 c romaine
1 c kale
2 boxes raisins
4 servings cukes, supplemented by pickled peppers
1 serving cider
1 serving steamed broccoli
So, 12 servings, but the cider and pizza sauce, although following the letter of the rules, is cheating the spirit a bit. Oh well!1 -
Thanks @French_Peasant for the advice. I'll take it slow.
I don't think I'll count potato as generally I don't have time to cook them in a healthy way. Not sure about legumes. I do like Fava beans and they're quite healthful. So might include...
In the end yesterday was
1 Banana
Large salad including delicious roasted cherry tomatoes and organic cucumber!
1 Orange
No juice. No potato. No legumes.
Good luck with all those cucumbers! I've been struggling to eat them as they're so flavourless. However these organic ones do seem a bit tastier. I need high water content for satisfying meals so tomato paste isn't great for grams. So 800g is know important than 10 portions.
Today. Another banana. Getting repetitive. Need to look for more rainbow options!1 -
I'm sucking at this challenge today.
30g dried fruit =80g
76g raspberries
64g peppers
89g carrotts
94g mushrooms
5g garlic
149g fresh apricots
Gives me only 557g/7 servings, need to get another 243g from somewhere.
Stuffed though so not sure I will. Ended up eating a packet of Ramen with the small amount of veg as I couldn't be bothered to go shopping for more veg.
Need to buy more in the morning!1 -
French_Peasant wrote: »Aw man! We are just returning from 6 days of vacation in the Traverse City/Sleeping Bear area. I am in need of some vegetative penance after considerable misbehavior at the regions fabulous breweries and restaurants, but not tonight...we are stopping at the A&W in Big Rapids for dinner! I will join tomorrow.
I think we're neighbors, I live in a suburb of Grand Rapids
And we used to camp at Cran Hill Ranch in Big Rapids-I've been to the A&W many times lol.
Didn't realize the challenge had started again (I originally started this thread with my old account).
I haven't weighed what I ate today but I've had
broccoli
carrots
riced cauliflower (1 1/2 cups)
mushrooms (whole package, de-stemmed)
green onion
banana
strawberries
blueberries
greens mix (swiss chard, broccoleaf, kale, dandelion greens)
and then tonight the plan is
1 serving black beans, (refried style)
tomato
red onion
red lettuce (new to me)
and then sweet cherries
(unless my husband comes home from work and suggests pizza lol)
and then possibly a red bell pepper-I sliced one up last night and ate the whole thing with a bit of low calorie ranch and really enjoyed it
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OliveGirl128 wrote: »French_Peasant wrote: »Aw man! We are just returning from 6 days of vacation in the Traverse City/Sleeping Bear area. I am in need of some vegetative penance after considerable misbehavior at the regions fabulous breweries and restaurants, but not tonight...we are stopping at the A&W in Big Rapids for dinner! I will join tomorrow.
I think we're neighbors, I live in a suburb of Grand Rapids And we used to camp at Cran Hill Ranch in Big Rapids-I've been to the A&W many times lol.
Didn't realize the challenge had started again (I originally started this thread with my old account).
I was trying to figure out who you were--I hadn't gotten baffled enough to send a pm, but I suspected it might have been you. Yay!
I've noticed your posts--"who is this Olive Girl? Her responses are really good!" Ha ha! 'Splains a lot.
Yes, I am about 2-1/2 hours from you; we are always endeavoring to get into Michigan one way or another. We have Grand Rapids on our list to visit, in particular the Founders brewery. I was, regrettably, outvoted on the A&W and we went to Culver's instead. They didn't like my plan to eat burgers and do the river walk after being marched up and down the dunes and in and out of lighthouses for a week, and eating all the burgers at Joe's and Art's in Empire and Glen Arbor. I cannot understand why!!
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Thanks @French_Peasant for the advice. I'll take it slow.
I don't think I'll count potato as generally I don't have time to cook them in a healthy way. Not sure about legumes. I do like Fava beans and they're quite healthful. So might include...
In the end yesterday was
1 Banana
Large salad including delicious roasted cherry tomatoes and organic cucumber!
1 Orange
No juice. No potato. No legumes.
Good luck with all those cucumbers! I've been struggling to eat them as they're so flavourless. However these organic ones do seem a bit tastier. I need high water content for satisfying meals so tomato paste isn't great for grams. So 800g is know important than 10 portions.
Today. Another banana. Getting repetitive. Need to look for more rainbow options!
I have taken to picking them when they are quite small (maybe 2/3 the size of what you normally get at the grocery) and they are really spectacular. I grow things about 97.5% organic and have these in soil amended with a lot of compost. I have noticed it affects the flavor and general robustness, compared with plants I grow on a very thin soil with industrial fertilizer and very little organic amendment.
Unfortunately we have at least one vine succumbing to powdery mildew so hopefully they don't all get wiped out after all my whining!0 -
@French_Peasant and @OliveGirl128 . . . I'm in Lansing.
I had another difficult-to-count day with restaurant food. (Jeesh, who picked this week to reboot the thread, and why did I join??)
100g of mixed berries
A fresh brown fig
Half a good-sized order of edamame
A small dinner salad, maybe 3C of lettuce, fennel, mandarin oranges, among other things.
An eggroll that was all veggies except the wrapper.
2 oz of crispy broadbeans, but only the beans count, not the crispy
161g raw tomato
Maybe 6 or 8?
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Welcome back! I was trying to work out who you were as wellOliveGirl128 wrote: »French_Peasant wrote: »Aw man! We are just returning from 6 days of vacation in the Traverse City/Sleeping Bear area. I am in need of some vegetative penance after considerable misbehavior at the regions fabulous breweries and restaurants, but not tonight...we are stopping at the A&W in Big Rapids for dinner! I will join tomorrow.
I think we're neighbors, I live in a suburb of Grand Rapids And we used to camp at Cran Hill Ranch in Big Rapids-I've been to the A&W many times lol.
Didn't realize the challenge had started again (I originally started this thread with my old account).
I haven't weighed what I ate today but I've had
broccoli
carrots
riced cauliflower (1 1/2 cups)
mushrooms (whole package, de-stemmed)
green onion
banana
strawberries
blueberries
greens mix (swiss chard, broccoleaf, kale, dandelion greens)
and then tonight the plan is
1 serving black beans, (refried style)
tomato
red onion
red lettuce (new to me)
and then sweet cherries
(unless my husband comes home from work and suggests pizza lol)
and then possibly a red bell pepper-I sliced one up last night and ate the whole thing with a bit of low calorie ranch and really enjoyed it
I had another ,166 grams of mandarins last night so I wasn't far off the 800g.
Just weighed in and I'm down 3lbs this week.
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Grrrr! I wrote a message and it's disappeared!
Shortened version.
@OliveGirl128 I like the idea of riced cauliflower. Already found some recipes on YouTube.
My results for yesterday..
1 banana
1 satsuma
350g watermelon
Large salad with bell peppers and cranberries.
Half a tomato
Tomato Juice (spiked with Worcestershire Sauce and Chipotle Sauce (no vodka))
The F&V filled me up so much that I was be low on calories for the day. Had couple slices whole wheat toast to top me up!
So far today. Guess. 1 banana. Rolls eyes.
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Hi all! I've decided to dip my toe into this challenge
Thanks @OliveGirl128 and @French_Peasant for the advice!
800g is alot of fruits and veg, so I'll have to work my way up.
Question before I start... are there any foods that do not qualify? Corn, potatoes, olives... anything? Any qualifiers I should know about?
Any starting tips?2 -
My daughter was sick last night so I spent a wild Friday night trying a couple of recipes and folding laundry, rather than the wild Friday night of going to Target as I had planned.
Edit: Aaaaaarrrrgggghhhhh!!! !!! I wrote a huge post with recipes and most of it, too, disappeared!! (Rends garments)
Short version, I had 15 servings yesterday, but will probably have to carry them over because we are headed for the state fair.....and I am a huge nerd because I have packed around 9 servings to take with me.
I will link to recipes later once whatever gremlins are wreaking havoc are out of the system.
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MommaGem2017 wrote: »Hi all! I've decided to dip my toe into this challenge Thanks @OliveGirl128 and @French_Peasant for the advice!
800g is alot of fruits and veg, so I'll have to work my way up.
Question before I start... are there any foods that do not qualify? Corn, potatoes, olives... anything? Any qualifiers I should know about?
Any starting tips?
Awesome!!! Welcome to the group!
For the rules, take a look at the very first post on this thread, and read the Guardian article and the UK 5-a-day overview, and then subvert them to your own preferences, as we all have.
I personally would count both sweet corn and jacketed potatoes, but limit them like legumes because they are not as low calorie as, say, kale. Post out here, and just have fun. It is definitely eye opening!
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Excellent, thank you very much! Time to hit the grocery store 1
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Today I've had
100g of apricots (never had that happen before, had to shout of my husband to come look lol)
79g raspberries
229g new potatoes
25g kale
21g spring onion
75g brown onions
68g mushrooms
5g garlic
Only 602g/7.5 servings so I'll have some mandarins before bed and maybe some carrots.
Going to have a day off the challenge tomorrow as I'm travelling for work and they have pre booked my meals. I'll be back on it from Monday for another week. Welcome @MommaGem2017
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Nice work with exact 100g!
I'm not so precise. But I've had
The usual banana (remember that band?)
450g water melon
Stir fry vegetable.
Roasted mushrooms onions and capsicum
10 olives
A few carrot sticks.
A bit of veg in my omelette. Including very hot green chilli ':(1 -
Okay, day 1 wasn't bad.
100g iceburg lettuce
125g chopped tomatoes
125g nectarine (and that was only HALF of the nectarine - it was huge!)
250g sliced cucumbers
100g sauteed cabbage
100g sauteed zucchini
and some pickles
and that's 800g! Well.... maybe short a few because my kids kept sneaking veggies from me, but there are worse things than kids who like veggies 4 -
Okay, yesterday was successful as well:
122g nectarine
160g steamed cabbage
160g sauteed zucchini
50g pickles
240g cucumber (that was just one single cucumber )
124g white potatoes
75g asparagus
932g of fruits and veggies!1 -
Here are my past 2 days:
Saturday, State Fair Day
1.25 serving cucumber
1 serving pickles, tomato, lettuce, onions (lunch at the Beef Exhibit, obviously!)
2 servings bell pepper
1.5 serving freeze dried mangoes
2.5 servings apple
1 serving apple in an apple dumpling
9.25 servings...would have been more if the kid's hadn't been circling around my packed foods like vultures! (It's a good problem to have, because they are not always so cooperative).
Sunday
1 serving cucumber
3 servings greek salad
3.5 servings cucumber (again)
3 servings bruschetta topping
4 servings minestrone with extra veg added in
.5 serving cole slaw
15 servings. Adding fresh veg and herbs to canned soup does not improve the flavor as much as one could wish.
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Spent most of the weekend at the local folk festival, eating very abnormally.
Saturday:
2C broccoli
Lettuce/pickles/tomato/guacamole on a Boca burger (don't think the Boca counts as veggies - in my world, it barely counts as food
)
Refried beans, maybe 1C
1/2C salsa
Lettuce, guacamole, tomatoes, onions on bean taco & tostada
2 oz crispy broad beans
2 prunes
Maybe 6-8 servings? (Too bad for me sangria doesn't count. ).
Sunday:
Strawberries (with whipped cream, on Anishinabe fry bread - delicious but extreme)
1C refried beans
1/2C salsa
So, pathetically, about 4 servings?
Sigh.
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It's been over a week, I think, but I'm going to report 1 more day in the hopes of redeeming myself, since my eating has (finally) returned to something like normal (whew).
100g mixed berries
263g tomatoes
116g sweet corn
293g cucumber
3/4C approx. refried beans
So, 772g + 3/4C = 10 servings.0 -
Spent most of the weekend at the local folk festival, eating very abnormally.
Saturday:
2C broccoli
Lettuce/pickles/tomato/guacamole on a Boca burger (don't think the Boca counts as veggies - in my world, it barely counts as food )
Refried beans, maybe 1C
1/2C salsa
Lettuce, guacamole, tomatoes, onions on bean taco & tostada
2 oz crispy broad beans
2 prunes
Maybe 6-8 servings? (Too bad for me sangria doesn't count. ).
Sunday:
Strawberries (with whipped cream, on Anishinabe fry bread - delicious but extreme)
1C refried beans
1/2C salsa
So, pathetically, about 4 servings?
Sigh.
Heck yeah I'd be counting the sangria! It's a juice (orange juice, lemon juice, and fermented grape juice), it gets one serving. Bonus points for eating the fruit! Now I want me some sangria...1 -
I had a pretty pathetic day yesterday...first of all, it was the last day before my kids started school, so I worked from home so they could lounge about and play. That meant I missed my Monday gym class and didn't get in my normal work steps (my work is stretched over 2 blocks and 8 floors). Plus we walked down to the neighborhood ice cream shop for ice cream, which is delicious but not helpful. I was planning on doing some walking and running during my daughter's cross country practice, but it was at a new park, so I sat, read, and talked instead, as I was a little nervous about leaving my son at the playground. (Plus it was hot...whine, whine!).
Anyway, here was my vegetative day:
[puts on green eyeshades, starts tallying up the numbers):
2 servings orange bell pepper
1 serving skin-on mashed potatoes
2 servings green beans
3 servings cucumber
2 servings freeze dried peaches
1 serving raisins
Hey, 11 servings, better than I thought. I was a little off my chow (obviously not off enough to decline an ice cream cone) so didn't do quite as well on the protein side of things. Oh well, I will make up for it today.1 -
Water Melon twice today. Satsuma. Large salad. But someone has hidden my carrot sticks!
I'll have some olives later... And maybe another salad!2 -
I keep forgetting about this challenge -- I rarely check the challenge section -- but I want to do it to motivate myself to log.
Today I am focusing on using up the insane amount of seasonal produce that is building up -- I am overrun with tomatoes and corn, among other things.4 -
I managed around 700g yesterday.
Aiming for the 800g today. Had blueberries for breakfast, banana for lunch and I'm having sausages with stir fried veg for dinner.2 -
Ended on 894g today.
Blueberries
Banana
Mandarins
Mushrooms
Kale
Onions
Spring onions
Carrot
Garlic
New potatoes0 -
Here is yesterday's:
1.25 salsa
.5 granny smith
1 snow peas & carrots
2.5 green beans
2 romaine
2 roasted zucchini
1 Naked Green Machine
1.5 banana
11.75 total...and I didn't even have to do numerous servings of cucumber, fortunately! Although I best keep up with them seeing as they multiply like gremlins...1 -
1478 g yesterday.1
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After my last post on Wednesday, I think I did this one or two more days, but I won't post those out...I just wanted to share what I thought was an interesting observation. When I first started doing this at Lent, it was a struggle to reach 10 servings a day; once I stopped, I probably continued to get 7 - 10 servings a day in, although I haven't reviewed my diary specifically for that (might be an interesting exercise). However, in starting back up, once I started "trying" again, it was fairly effortless to get in 10-15 servings a day in, when I thought I was getting fewer, which surprised me. I guess that if you practice, eating more veg just becomes effortless and second nature. It is nice to have a litmus test every once in a while to make sure I am still on track.
Also, I don't remember if I made this point previously, but the Green Smoothie thread brought it to mind. When I did this over Lent, my complexion really cleared up (not that I have a bad complexion, but get a spot here or there, easily covered with make up). To the extent that I realized I had a spot that was not healing and realized it could be cancer (it ended up being a benign keratosis). So, the challenge was very helpful in more ways than one!
I don't think anyone else is continuing the challenge right now, but if anyone needs a Veggie Partner in the future, I am pleased to participate. 3
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