Do you eat five portions of fruit/veg a day?

But you’d need 80g of those spices etc to make one portion.
Thats a lot
How do you do it

Lentils/beans only count once a day, same with juices and smoothies.

Yes, easily. It's 1:30pm and I've already had 6 portions, my dinner will put my up to 8 or 9 which is a typical number for me.

Occasionally I might have a day where I only have 3 or 4, but that's usually end-of-the-month-and-not-much-food-left days. I make up for it though by often having 10 portions.

Don't forget things like onion and garlic also count if you eat enough!

Agree. Love a green smoothie

We probably do 10 ish a day including lentils and beans ( which apareltly count towards the 5 a day goal in the UK )

A lot of countries recommend more than 5 a day. The UK is just scared of recommending what they think the population can’t achieve.

I am for at least 7. In summer I find it easy, but winter is harder and I maybe achieve 4 on average. I notice when I don’t eat enough as I get constipated and feel sluggish.

Probably about 5-8 a day. I struggle with fruit but do try. I will eat vegetables until they come out of my ears. My downfall is I don't eat any at breakfast. I live a vegetarian diet so should do better but do meal plan and try and shove as much variety in at lunchtime. For example I've had a mixed salad for lunch and there was at least 8 different types in there but none would have been a portion size individually probably.

Years ago someone told me it had ‘changed’ to 7, but I never saw that anywhere else. Reading your post, I think the lady who said it must have stumbled upon Aus guideline and not realised.

Anyway, I have eaten at least 7 from then on!

Not before we had kids tbh. Now it’s the focus of my meal planning to at least offer them 5 a day, normally aim for like 7 as they won’t eat everything I give them. Now I’ve had kids tho I will eat what they leave a lot of the time so most days I get in at least 5, probably more. They’re not full portions for an adult tho.

Before we had kids we were living off finders and kebab. Started being serious about my healthy eating as soon we stared trying and stuck to it. I miss my finders and still eat them sometimes when my kids aren’t here, but oh my god I feel so much better. If I ate lie I did pre kids I would be huge.

I haven’t but it definitely seems like an allergy. My tongue can swell up and get blisters. There’s no consistency though, sometimes it’s citrus, sometimes even bananas can burn the roof of my mouth, other times no reaction at all.

I aim for 10 smaller portions daily and a variety of things. So my morning smoothie has 4-6 types of berries normally, plus seeds and almond butter (1 portion), and apple juice. I also start the day with the juice of a lemon, grated ginger and honey with hot water, so that’s another 2.

I try to have at least 2-5 types of veg in dinner (I often do stir fry types of meals). And if I have lunch, my go to is a salad.

This post is quite interesting, some people counting 4-5 fruits / veggies in a juice or smoothie..... that doesn't actually count ? A single serving of juice is 1 portion and anything after that isn't counted. Its due to the lack of fibre in juices.

Do you make them up as you go along? I have a nutri bullet which is under used. I would like to do something other than my usual porridge oats frozen fruit and yoghurt breakfast mix.

Yes and I find it easy but grew up eating lots of fruit and veg. For example I have:
Breakfast: glass of milk, a banana, yogurt with berries that have been lightly stewed with maple syrup (2 servings of 80g)
Midmorning snack: cheese plus grapes or apple or small glass orange juice (1 serving)
Lunch: Usually leftovers from the night before or soup or a mushroom omelette plus salad or a veggie pasta dish or beans on toast. Then a snackpack of dried fruit. (2-3 servings depending on main course)
Midafternoon snack: veg plus hummus
Dinner: (1+ serving)
Dinner: meal where we aim to include 2 servings of veg per person. Dried or tinned fruit for pudding. (2-3 servings)

That's 8-10 a day in a non-vegetarian diet. You have to view things like puddings, sweets, cakes and biscuits as rare once a week or less events and always have some veg with all meals so e.g. someone said above about having scrambled eggs on toast for lunch, I'd always have a serving of tomatoes or cucumber or avocado or a salad with that. It's a big volume of food and is not a cheap option and you will poo more than if you're on a low fibre diet.

Yes, easily.

I usually have a smoothie with fruit and veg or porridge with 2 fruits for breakfast, then 2 veg for lunch in a soup, salad or sandwich, then 3 veg with dinner again. I often snack on fruit or veg as well. I’m vegan so it’s easier as meals are lots of lentils, legumes and other veg which all count

I would think so, especially at the moment in the summer. Generally three with breakfast (blueberries, raspberries, strawberries), an apple for a snack at some point in the day, lunch will be a salad so probably three there (more variety but smaller portions, so a guess!) and always at least two types of veg with tea.

Usually, yes.

I eat a lot of fruit/veg but I plan my meals that way so today-
bfast - porridge apple and berries - 2 portions
lunch - salad - 3 portions
Snack- yoghurt nuts and fruit - 2 portions
dinner - veg and giant couscous- 3 portions
So 4 fruit 6 veg

i find it hard for my Son as he does not like veg

bfast- bagel apple and berries, glass of orange juice - 3 portions
lunch - school dinner - a hopeful 2 portions
snack - fruit - 1 portion
dinner- sausage , mash , peas and fruit and jelly- 2 portions
supper - toast and banana
so 6 fruits and maybe 3 veg (probably 1)

Veg sticks with a dip can be a quick alternative to salad. Even my kids would always eat them.

Rarely. I’m not a fruit fan, it’s too sweet.

I do like veg but I’m not eating enough at the moment. If I have a salad I do easily but I can’t be bothered every day. i do need to do better.

If veg is a component part of a dish I'll happily eat it, I just don't get to the stage where I'm cramming steamed greens down my gullet because some leaflet somewhere says it's the healthy thing to do.

So yes, garnish and toppings on burgers and so on, but I don't really consider one piece of Iceberg and a slice of tomato a "portion" of fruit or veg.

I try to have the Aussie recommendation of two fruit and five veg. The exception would be on holiday or when travelling for work.

I just had scrambled egg on toast with cherry tomatoes, asparagus and celery sticks so that's three. Nutracheck is very good at counting them for you.

Nope.

Easily most days. Smoothie bowl for breakfast, big salad for lunch, veg with dinner, and fruit for snacks in between.

Easily. I plan my meals as I have a lot of sensitivities, so it helps. Today:
Breakfast - 2 serves fruit.
Lunch - 2 serves vege greens with an egg salad on top.
Afternoon snack - at least one serve raspberries. Maybe 1.5.
Dinner - 4 serves veges at least, usually more.
If coconut milk counts (100% coconut) then add that.
Of course this doesn't include proteins and things.
And sometimes things in between.
A serving isn't actually that big.

Yes, average around 12 a day (often more). I love fruit, but limit that to 2 portions a day, with the rest coming from vegetables/salad. I make use of frozen berries and some frozen veg (depending on the use) to keep costs down and plan my meals around what vegetables and salad ingredients are on offer each week.

I also aim for at least 30 different plants across the week to make sure it’s not always the same things.