9 portions of fruit and veg a day?

I freaked out about that until I realized "servings" are pretty small: 1 cup of salad greens or half a cup of cooked vegetables, for instance. Even a half-cup of marinara sauce counts, or chili made with tomatoes and beans. So spagetti and a good-sized salad would be three servings.

Told by whom?

Servings are based on the amount of food.

And really it can be beneficial to track your food a little tighter, especially at first ... meaning actually weigh/measure stuff for calories, not just do servings sizes.

Can you put fruit into your smoothie? My green smoothie for breakfast consists of banana and spinach plus whatever fruit is on hand, and water. It usually makes 500ml and is really filling - that all the fruit I have for the day. Lunch and dinner always includes a cup of salad or coleslaw (depending on season). I used to be a plan that had raw veges (salad) for lunch and dinner plus another serving of cooked veges - seemed like a ton of food but easily digestable and filling.

Do you have an allergy to fruit? Just don't like the taste? Texture?

I ask because all fruits have different allergen properties, tastes, and textures. I have no issue at all with someone being picky (there's plenty of produce I don't like....carrots? peas? bananas? EW), but certainly there is ONE fruit out there you can eat. Maybe even more.

My day yesterday included about 40g of asparagus within a quinoa salad and 12 ounces of vegetable soup for lunch, 170g of sauteed zucchini and onions, 40g of green leaf lettuce, and 1/4C of marinara sauce with dinner, and then 71g of celery and 78g of cucumber with homemade spinach dip (which surely has vegetables but I couldn't tell you how much without some maths), 250g of watermelon and 120g of strawberries (with greek yogurt) as snacks. I don't know, how many servings is that? 10-12? That's in 1600 calories. It's not that hard if you plan for it and you have some variety available to you.

Can you put fruit into your smoothie? My green smoothie for breakfast consists of banana and spinach plus whatever fruit is on hand, and water. It usually makes 500ml and is really filling - that all the fruit I have for the day. Lunch and dinner always includes a cup of salad or coleslaw (depending on season). I used to be a plan that had raw veges (salad) for lunch and dinner plus another serving of cooked veges - seemed like a ton of food but easily digestable and filling.

I'm just worried if I put fruit in it would make me puke. I have so far never managed to keep fruit down but I've not tried in a while, but the smell of some fruit (banana, oranges) makes me gag without even trying them so I'm not ready to try those again for sure.

I know where you're coming from because the smell of ripe bananas makes me want to vomit. I can only eat bananas while they're still slightly green. You'll need to experiment and see what agrees with you.

Do you have an allergy to fruit? Just don't like the taste? Texture?

honestly don't know why I react badly to fruit. My guess is the acidity upset my stomach when I was a kid and now it's just psychological conditioning.

Many (most) fruits aren't acidic at all. If you think it's a psychological thing (which is completely legit), then now is the time to start experimenting and find fruits you like. Maybe try fruits you haven't had before first, since you won't have a pre-conceived notion of how your body will react. All fruits are very very different - it would be a shame to allow a bad experience with a limited subset of the fruit out there to take you off of fruit entirely. I got terribly terribly sick off fish sticks when I was about 6. 27 years later, I will NOT eat breaded fish. Never again. But, it would be downright silly to say that just because cod fish sticks made me sick that I'll never eat shrimp or salmon or any kind of sushi or any other fish. See what I mean?

Eat double portions in one sitting, think I eat around 150-160g of green beans or spinach in one go, so only need to do it 4 times a day. Snack on vegetables throughout the day too...

I freaked out about that until I realized "servings" are pretty small: 1 cup of salad greens or half a cup of cooked vegetables, for instance. Even a half-cup of marinara sauce counts, or chili made with tomatoes and beans. So spagetti and a good-sized salad would be three servings.

This! It is most accurate to measure and log foods by weighing them in grams, but when you are looking at recommended servings per day, it's really helpful to remember that only 1/2 C of most fruits and veggies or 1 C of leafy veggies is needed to fill a single serving. Most apples and bananas and even pears, oranges, etc. are 2 or more servings anymore.

My salad at lunch today was 5 servings of veggies - 3 C mixed chopped romaine and spinach, 1/2 C fresh pico and 1/2 C corn salsa (plus chicken and dressing). Dinner tonight we will be having a side salad and roasted potatoes with dinner. There's my daily recommended servings in 2 meals. For a snack, I had 1/3 C dried mixed fruits (blueberries, cherries, goji berries and raisins) and if I have watermelon for a snack tonight, I'll probably be at close to 15 servings for today alone. Some days I get way more than 10 and on a rare day I might only get 4, but it all averages out in the end.

As for adding stuff to your smoothies - just keep trying stuff. A lot of fruits that I don't like any other way, I can stomach in smoothies. I have been known to make a smoothie with 1 C strawberries, 1 C mixed berries or peaches and 1 C fresh spinach leaves with milk and yogurt and that's 5 servings of fruits and veggies in one go.