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Feb 5 Weekly Challenge: Fruits and Veggies Extravaganza
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I added a cutie to my first meal ( I am doing IF 16:8 and have 2 meals a day). At my second meal I added 5 more cherry tomatoes. For my snack I added a banana to my ice cream. I was very satisfied with yesterday's menu that I plan on having the exact same thing today.
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I’ve been getting my daily 5 freggies in, but just barely. I’m kind of low on fresh veggies at the moment, but I have plenty of frozen veggies and I’m making a stir fry tonight. I’ve been eating fresh fruits, although I discovered that I bought mandarins instead of clementines and they are not nearly as sweet. But I’ve got plenty of Fuji apples, my favorite apple!2
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prgirl39mfp wrote: »Started my day with an omelet with red cabbage and Swiss chard. For lunch I will have some chicken with riced cauliflower and sweet potato. Dinner will be more spiralized zucchini left over from yesterday and pork chop.
Well done everyone!
Your freggies for today sound great, @prgirl39mfp!2 -
I infuse my water wth strawberries, lemons and cucumber does that count? I also have a smoothie for breakfast every morning with fruit and a handful of spinach/kale or both!3
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themedalist wrote: »I’ve been getting my daily 5 freggies in, but just barely. I’m kind of low on fresh veggies at the moment, but I have plenty of frozen veggies and I’m making a stir fry tonight. I’ve been eating fresh fruits, although I discovered that I bought mandarins instead of clementines and they are not nearly as sweet. But I’ve got plenty of Fuji apples, my favorite apple!
I know what you mean about Mandarins, so disappointing! We have lidl supermarket here in UK, prices seem to be so much cheaper than others!1 -
Another good day for me, tomato juice, sultanas, tomatoes, cucumber, celery, banana, apple instead of choccies bar becoming a habit thank you! Onion, dried fig, and green pepper, everyone is really committing to this, brill4
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Very recently our local store's brand of chopped salads are now being made with more healthy dressings and a wider variety of veggies and other add in ingredients like seasoning herbs, sun dried tomatoes, seeds, etc instead of the before offered croutons. So I stocked up on several for this week and add in whatever extra veggies I have on hand.
I discovered some tiny mandarins from California that turned out to be really tasty. The other week I was looking for clementines, but they didn't look good at all, so I bought these because they looked really pretty, but I did not pay attention to that they were actually mandarins. They turned out to be quite good. We are on our second bag now.
Raisins or berries in oatmeal. Bananas, raisins, or apples with peanut butter or almond butter.
Berries added into unsweetened Greek yogurt. For me yogurt can't get any better than that! Learning to do this was one of my best discoveries when I started logging on MFP.
The convenience of frozen veggies also help me increase the numbers.
I'm still trying to perfect the art of roasting veggies. I have a friend that makes amazing roasted veggies, and often brings them to our Bible study's the fifth Friday of a month pot luck lunch.
DH or I often saute veggies to have on the side with eggs, or for inside omelets, or added into scrambled eggs.
I always add in a variety of sautéed veggies and additional herbs to jar pasta sauce. Doing so makes it taste 'homemade' as well as different (and healthier) every time. My DH really enjoys that I always do this.
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Today I made homemade tomato soup and had 2 servings as a snack. Banana with my yogurt and apples and blueberries with my oatmeal.7
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Oooh...tomato soup sounds so good! You all are killing it this week4
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themedalist wrote: »prgirl39mfp wrote: »Started my day with an omelet with red cabbage and Swiss chard. For lunch I will have some chicken with riced cauliflower and sweet potato. Dinner will be more spiralized zucchini left over from yesterday and pork chop.
Well done everyone!
Your freggies for today sound great, @prgirl39mfp!
Thank you my friend!
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I infuse my water wth strawberries, lemons and cucumber does that count? I also have a smoothie for breakfast every morning with fruit and a handful of spinach/kale or both!
Sounds good to me. Do you always "drink" your veggies? I use to do that when I got tired of eating them. Did not last very long.1 -
@texasgardnr what do you use the frozen veggies on? Today I tried frozen riced cauliflower and sweet potato together and it was so convenient. What other frozen veggies do you use?3
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@prgirl39mfp, I just use plain veggies like frozen green beans, peas or corn for example, and use them for a very simple side dish. Or added into soup. I'll make enough for leftovers and toss in a salad the next day. I've used frozen "blends" on occasion, and they can easily be my late lunch/ early dinner if i'm eating dinner alone. Or for a shared side dish. For example one called a "Protein Blend" that I currently have in my freezer has whole grains, lentils, peas, broccoli, shelled edamame in a sauce.
Right now I have some coupons for veggie pasta and riced or mashed cauliflower. So I will be trying them soon. And another coupon for a another "protein blend" or "super food" blend. I'll have to check out what is new in that area.
Frozen mashed sweet potato would be really convenient. Did you like it? My all time favorite is a plain baked sweet potato with just a little butter and maybe a bit of salt.
When I get on a smoothie kick in the summer, I use store bought frozen fruits to toss in instead of using ice.
By the way, your menu for today sounded really yummy. Well done!!
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My citrus tress are loaded with fruit, so I only need to go out to the backyard for lemons, oranges, and tangerines. I'm thinking of making tangerine marmalade because I'll never be able to eat them all. Of course, the recipes all call for more pounds of sugar than of tangerines. Yikes!6
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@77tes that is amazing. I too have a lemon tree, still no lemons
but I hope one day to just go outside and grab some. Marmalades are tricky. Let us know how it turns out. 4 -
@texasgardnr what a great way to add freggies to your meals. I love smoothies too and having the frozen fruits is very convenient. Fruit does not go bad that quick.
Thank for the compliment. I love to vary my meals since I get bored of the same things easily. The sweet potato I ate was riced, it came in a package combined with the rice cauliflower from Green Giant's Riced Veggies packs. 1 cup is 50 calories so it is not bad. I've never had riced sweet potato before. It was tasty. They also have broccoli tots, think of tater tots but made of broccoli and cheese.
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Today I had the second portion of my veggie omelette, for lunch I will have stir fry veggies (broccoli, carrots,mini corn), and dinner will be zucchini noodles again ( not to self: don't make so much zucchini noodles next time) with some pasta sauce. Apples for snack.5
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Veg soup for lunch and Aubergine bake with a salad made from lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, mushrooms and sweet peppers for dinner on Tuesday. Leftover salad for lunch yesterday and Grilled pork chops with spring greens, carrots and cauliflower for dinner last night, Cauliflower Pilaf for dinner tonight. And an apple every day so far this week.
This challenge has definitely been my most successful so far ;-)5 -
My citrus tress are loaded with fruit, so I only need to go out to the backyard for lemons, oranges, and tangerines. I'm thinking of making tangerine marmalade because I'll never be able to eat them all. Of course, the recipes all call for more pounds of sugar than of tangerines. Yikes!
OMG that sounds awesome, my mouth is watering!5 -
I love it when the 'green -you have reached your fibre goal 'comes up, it certainly has this week thank you Denise and everyone!
Sultanas, cucumber, celery, tomato, tomato juice - this stops me craving sweet things after breakfast... Carrots, red cabbage, leeks, dried fig, dried dates, apple instead of my choccie bar! So glad everyone is doing so well!2 -
prgirl39mfp wrote: »Today I had the second portion of my veggie omelette, for lunch I will have stir fry veggies (broccoli, carrots,mini corn), and dinner will be zucchini noodles again ( not to self: don't make so much zucchini noodles next time) with some pasta sauce. Apples for snack.
Had chick fil a instead and some stir Fry veggies for dinner. Peppers for lunch.3 -
fatbambi2017 wrote: »I love it when the 'green -you have reached your fibre goal 'comes up, it certainly has this week thank you Denise and everyone!
Sultanas, cucumber, celery, tomato, tomato juice - this stops me craving sweet things after breakfast... Carrots, red cabbage, leeks, dried fig, dried dates, apple instead of my choccie bar! So glad everyone is doing so well!
Oh I will check if I got mine. Thanks for posting. You did great!2 -
My kind of challenge
Feb 4 - 4 servings including broccoli, green beans, red pepper
Feb 5 - 6 servings, including mixed veg, broccoli, red pepper, kale salad
Feb 6 - 7.5 servings, tomato, pineapple, broccoli, kale salad
Feb 7 - 5+, butternut squash, broccoli, avocado, beans, Pico de gallo
Feb 8 - 11, lettuce,tomatoes, beans, cabbage, green pepper, onion
Feb 9 - none so far
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@corinasue1143 if you did not want to eat any today you are good! You had a fantastic week!
I had strawberries, zucchini noodles, carrots, broccoli, mini corn, red grapes and celery!2 -
No I eat a salad a day it’s my afternoon snack. Im a vegan...switched over from being vegetarian. I’ve never had meat.prgirl39mfp wrote: »I infuse my water wth strawberries, lemons and cucumber does that count? I also have a smoothie for breakfast every morning with fruit and a handful of spinach/kale or both!
Sounds good to me. Do you always "drink" your veggies? I use to do that when I got tired of eating them. Did not last very long.
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This was my week of intermittent fasting so I didn’t have my smithies this week. I still got my veggies in I had a salad all week for my pm snack and smoke of my lunches (veggie pot pie, eggplant lasagna) had veggies in the as well. I had strawberries and bananas as my fruits all week.3
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Well done!! I’ve been keeping up with your updates and you’ve certainly taken this challenge to heart. I’ve done OK...I’ve met my goal of 5 freggies a day, but not more. We’ve been socked with more snow and ice this week and I don’t make it to the grocery story too often when I’m concerned about falling.
This week has given me the chance to go through the fresh produce I have on hand and pull out some frozen veggies from the freezer. Cleaning out freezer space is a good feeling!4 -
I haven't been posting this week, but I did add more veggies to my days. I don't have a problem with getting fruit in. I love it and ate a grapefruit and an orange every day, sometimes blueberries with cottage cheese. But I always struggle with veggies...not a fan. But I had either a huge salad with lots of veggies cut up in them, or steamed asparagus for dinner every evening, and one night was stirfry for dinner, so I think I came close! I was more conscienscious about trying to fit them in, even if I didn't meet the goal every day, and to me that is a step in the right direction!
Looks like everyone got very creative! I need to try a few of these tips. Love the omelets idea...2 -
Lots of salad and fruit today! It is now my aim to hit that fibre goal everyday, feel so much healthier already! Thank you for all your posts everyone and to Denise!2
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