10 a Day (800g) Veggie&Fruit Challenge Participants Check in!
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Today I'm being "bad". Fruit overload: apple, banana, mango, raspberry and sour cherries. Dinner will be homemade kebab with lettuce, tomato, onion, cucumber and peppers.2
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I need to get back into the swing of things so I ate half my allotment of vegetables in my lunch today. It was a salad and it was super good but I am stuffed to the gill! LOL
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So I just got some blood test results back. I have high potassium (like, over the high end of normal, absolutely don't want it getting any higher, have had some symptoms this past week that could absolutely be attributed to that). Doc wants me to repeat the test next week, but in the meantime I'm gonna scale back a bit on the fruit and veg to keep under RDA.
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Nony_Mouse wrote: »So I just got some blood test results back. I have high potassium (like, over the high end of normal, absolutely don't want it getting any higher, have had some symptoms this past week that could absolutely be attributed to that). Doc wants me to repeat the test next week, but in the meantime I'm gonna scale back a bit on the fruit and veg to keep under RDA.
What the what???!!!
Hope everything turns out okay. Do you take a multi vitamin as well?0 -
Sitting at Red Robin waiting for my guacamole bacon burger. I might be a fail on every front today, gang. Eh, at least I got my lifting in.
ETA I did at least order a broccoli side...and see I have 122 g of protein for the day so all is not entirely for naught.2 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »So I just got some blood test results back. I have high potassium (like, over the high end of normal, absolutely don't want it getting any higher, have had some symptoms this past week that could absolutely be attributed to that). Doc wants me to repeat the test next week, but in the meantime I'm gonna scale back a bit on the fruit and veg to keep under RDA.
How much sodium do you get? Sometimes when we get a lot of vegetables we get less sodium due to the food itself not having added sodium even if we use salt when we cook. Maybe you need more sodium. I hope you get it all sorted out! What were your symptoms if you don't mind my asking?0 -
Oven-roast some cabbage in 1/2-inch slices, or thereabouts, with a small bit of olive oil. Hot oven (425F), until the sides brown and few of the outer-edge bits are dark brown. Might take an hour. Flip them once or twice along the way. Optionally, eat with basamic vinegar & a bit of coarse salt, or perhaps a mustard vinaigrette (made with malt or beer vinegar for this, would be my choice). Pretty delicious!
Roast cabbage is delicious! I bake wedges of it.
I had a wisdom tooth pulled out this week, and burnt my gums rinsing them with hot salt solution (wah!).... Eating was painful so I had to give up salad (double wah!). Also tried to eat less frequently so really only had one main meal - roasted vegies:
500 g zucchini, 200 mushrooms, 150 broccoli, 100-300 pumpkin, 100 raw grated Beetroot, 50 avo.... And 150g berries with dessert.1 -
I'm still here, though last week I kind of got off track and stopped tracking my intake (for all my food). I've been experimenting with my new discovery of coffee and have been playing with different add-ins, and now I'm pretty sure my calorie intake has gone waaay up (darn you amazing Almond Joy coffee creamer!). Sooo-tomorrow I'm back at it, not only for the veg/fruit challenge, but also at tracking my total intake to make sure I'm still within my calorie target (scale is up a bit, but it could be sodium etc).
Going through the ads right now and both Aldi and Meijer have some really good produce deals this week, so I'll be loading up tomorrow and jumping back in!3 -
I have likewise been off the tracking wagon.
BTW, doc doesn't think the symptoms I was experiencing last week will be from the high potassium (as in, I think it's not high enough to cause symptoms) and thinks it will resolve on its own (as it should, one's kidneys usually do a good job of getting rid of any excess from diet). I'll get it retested sometime this week and we'll go from there.4 -
Today:
Breakfast - a banana and a slice of cream cake (unplanned but rather delicious)
Lunch - Lettuce, green beans, cucumber and kohlrabi salad with prawns
Dinner - Carrot soup with peppers and onions
That leaves me 2 fruit/veg short, so I guess I'll have an apple for dessert and maybe throw some peas into the soup as well.2 -
I didn't realize this was still going on. I'll join you all!6
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I'm in! I got 250 grams of fruits and veggies yesterday and plan to double that today.
I just read the first and last pages - have people shared how they are tracking? Spreadsheet examples?1 -
Just getting started....:)1
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kshama2001 wrote: »I'm in! I got 250 grams of fruits and veggies yesterday and plan to double that today.
I just read the first and last pages - have people shared how they are tracking? Spreadsheet examples?
For the first week we listed it here (and some still are). I have taken to putting it in my "notes" section and just making sure I get over 800 g a day, which I even managed to accomplish on Red Robin Burger night...yay. The bad part is I just realized when I went back to look at things that you also have to actively save the note (sad trombone, wah wah wahhh). All my math, lost for posterity.2 -
kshama2001 wrote: »I'm in! I got 250 grams of fruits and veggies yesterday and plan to double that today.
I just read the first and last pages - have people shared how they are tracking? Spreadsheet examples?
I was in at first, now out (from reporting overload, not reduced veggie/fruit consumption!).
One of the ways of tracking (UK version, I think) is, for most common fruit/veg, to count 80g as one serving. Therefore, for those already weighing/tracking food, it's easy just to run down the day's diary & total up the grams.
There are a few wrinkles like only counting legumes as 1 serving even if more than 80g, and I think there's maybe something special about fruit juice or dried fruit (know the US guidelines count those differently). I don't think the thread has "counting police", though, that will call you out on minor variations!
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kshama2001 wrote: »I'm in! I got 250 grams of fruits and veggies yesterday and plan to double that today.
I just read the first and last pages - have people shared how they are tracking? Spreadsheet examples?
I was in at first, now out (from reporting overload, not reduced veggie/fruit consumption!).
One of the ways of tracking (UK version, I think) is, for most common fruit/veg, to count 80g as one serving. Therefore, for those already weighing/tracking food, it's easy just to run down the day's diary & total up the grams.
There are a few wrinkles like only counting legumes as 1 serving even if more than 80g, and I think there's maybe something special about fruit juice or dried fruit (know the US guidelines count those differently). I don't think the thread has "counting police", though, that will call you out on minor variations!
For the UK Five a Day, legumes and juice do indeed only count once: http://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/5ADAY/Pages/Tips.aspx
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/23/five-a-day-fruit-veg-must-double-10-major-study-finds/ says potatoes, yams, cassava and plantain don't count
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kshama2001 wrote: »I'm in! I got 250 grams of fruits and veggies yesterday and plan to double that today.
Thanks in part to being able to count lentils once, I did make and exceed my goal of doubling yesterday's 250 and reached a total of 573.
I wish I was still living with Mom so I could weigh her food - I bet she gets 800 grams no sweat.0 -
Woohoo! Can I join!?
I've only got 591g for today
396g Lentils
85g Baby Spinach
110g Banana
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kshama2001 wrote: »I'm in! I got 250 grams of fruits and veggies yesterday and plan to double that today.
I just read the first and last pages - have people shared how they are tracking? Spreadsheet examples?
Love seeing all the new people joining in!
I started by meticulously tracking here on MFP (which I normally don't do), but that took a lot of time so this week I'm doing a more laid back (ie lazy lol) approach and have a notebook on my counter by my food scale-as I measure out the veg/fruit I just write down the number of grams I'm eating and at the end of day I add it all up. It doesn't give a nice breakdown but it's working pretty well for my purposes 1 -
Just added up my totals for the day and I got in 741g, so pretty happy with that! It was a mix of lettuce, spinach, tomato, broccoli, onion, bell pepper, cantaloupe and banana. Plus 53g of mushroom, but I don't know if that counts? Technically mushrooms aren't vegetables but I've always lumped them in the same category since they're sold in the produce section and they also have lots of nutrients. But, I didn't count it because I didn't know?2
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Looks like I'm going to get 568 g today. There were 871 g of veggies in the gumbo I made so I thought I'd get more, but it was a BIG pot of gumbo!4
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crzycatlady1 wrote: »Just added up my totals for the day and I got in 741g, so pretty happy with that! It was a mix of lettuce, spinach, tomato, broccoli, onion, bell pepper, cantaloupe and banana. Plus 53g of mushroom, but I don't know if that counts? Technically mushrooms aren't vegetables but I've always lumped them in the same category since they're sold in the produce section and they also have lots of nutrients. But, I didn't count it because I didn't know?
I totally count mushrooms.
I had planned to get back to it yesterday but was totally lacking in appetite, so 600g (you'll be surprised to know the majority of that was watermelon I'm sure).
Currently munching on lunch and once I've finished that I'll be on 823g so far.4 -
I clocked out at 1141g today!
488g lentils, 200g green peppers, 120g carrots, 120g banana, 100g onion, 70g blueberries, & 43g baby spinach.
That was a lot more veg, and a lot more effort than I expected.
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I want to join this. Sounds like fun.3
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I got 8 servings in today. Wish my potato counted.3
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I clocked out at 1141g today!
488g lentils, 200g green peppers, 120g carrots, 120g banana, 100g onion, 70g blueberries, & 43g baby spinach.
That was a lot more veg, and a lot more effort than I expected.
Sadly only 80g of beans/lentils (one serving) count towards the 10 a day (there's a link somewhere on page one with what counts and if it has limits) but that's still a stellar effort 0 -
So last night was interesting. We went out and I ordered a hummus plate so I could get in my one allowed serving of beans/lentils, and I also ordered a chicken breast sammy piled with veg. Well, the sammy came out and I was happily eating it and the hummus with veg when I realized...the inside of this chicken is dead pink and not cooked. Ugggghhhhh....I was so disgusted I couldn't finish the meal. (We did get a replacement, which I took home, and it was free). I didn't bother adding up my veg till tonight, and I just whiskered in at 810 grams. (And I didn't even have to cheat and add in the mashed potatoes I gphad at lunch...yay). I did a better job tonight at 890 g but I need to get back into my 1000+ groove.
I still kind of feel like puking when I think of that chicken, and I am the kind of person who enjoys her steaks fairly bloody and eats plenty of sashimi and nigiri.0 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »I clocked out at 1141g today!
488g lentils, 200g green peppers, 120g carrots, 120g banana, 100g onion, 70g blueberries, & 43g baby spinach.
That was a lot more veg, and a lot more effort than I expected.
Sadly only 80g of beans/lentils (one serving) count towards the 10 a day (there's a link somewhere on page one with what counts and if it has limits) but that's still a stellar effort
Say it isn't so!! Gah! Ok, so that bumps me down to 733g for today... tomorrow is another day though!3 -
Nony_Mouse wrote: »I clocked out at 1141g today!
488g lentils, 200g green peppers, 120g carrots, 120g banana, 100g onion, 70g blueberries, & 43g baby spinach.
That was a lot more veg, and a lot more effort than I expected.
Sadly only 80g of beans/lentils (one serving) count towards the 10 a day (there's a link somewhere on page one with what counts and if it has limits) but that's still a stellar effort
I believe that's a UK rule (but so is the "10 a day" part).
The US legume rule is even more whacky: As I read it, you count legumes as a protein serving unless/until you have enough protein servings for the day (counting non-legume protein sources first, of course). Any excess legumes that you don't need to meet your protein goal can be used to meet your veggie goal - as many of the legumes as you want. I think maybe peanuts only count as a protein, not a veggie ever, even though they're legumes? Not sure! And don't go counting dairy as a protein food, no matter how much protein it has, 'cause it's in the dairy group, counted separately. Except cream and cream cheese, which are not dairy.
No, I didn't make that up. You can't make this s*** up! (https://choosemyplate.gov/vegetables-beans-and-peas, and you can link from there to the other nonsense.)
The US also doesn't use the 80g simplification. It's in cups, how many cups they say you need varies by age/sex, and while most things count 1C as 1C (including 100% veg or fruit juice), instead lettuce and its ilk are 2C counted as 1C eaten, and dried fruit counts as 1C if you eat 1/2C. There are cup-equivalencies for whole fruits, like a whole apple or pear. Confused yet?
See also: My post up-thread speculating that the national variations have something to do with our national eating patterns. Don't you UK folks eat beans for breakfast a lot, or something, so maybe The Authorities think you already get plenty? We USAians (except veggies like me) mostly only eat beans in Mexican food, or at holidays in baked beans.
Also, our authorities think we're patient with complicated counting rules. They evidently don't know us very well.
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Only 1071 total for me today. I had kind of a weird dinner because my beetroot had spoiled and I decided mushrooms and halloumi don't sound like they'd go together, so had halloumi with baby spinach and watermelon. Was delish, but significantly less veg quantity than my usual dinner salad.1
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