How much fruit and veg have you had today?

[RachelLyg]

An 80g serving of fresh fruit or veg and a 30g serving of dried fruit counts as one of your 5 a day.

Spinach (half portion)
Tomato and Bean soup (1 portion)
1 quarter cantaloupe melon (1 portion)
Carrots (half portion)
Hummus (quarter portion)
Celery (quarter portion)
Cauliflower (one portion)
Brussels sprouts (one portion)

That's 5 and a half portions and I don’t think I can fit any more in. I’m trying to get to 7 portions per day.

breakfast a smoothie made of a peach, an easy peeler, raspberries, a strawberry high protein yogurt.

Lunch, stilton cheese salad, mixed leaves, mini pepper, cucumber, spring onion, normal onion, 5 mini tomatoes (different colours)

Dinner , fish in a tomatoey sauce, a lot of courgette the and mushrooms.

280g total of - baby carrots, green beans, sugar snap pea and tenderstem broccoli

We're having wine with dinner, I think that counts, no?

I’d be very happy if wine counted. Along with cider, sangria, pimms. Even G&T usually has a bit of lime in .

I'm how about blending veg for a sauce or soup.
I find I can eat a lot more veg if it's baked in the oven, for example a baking tray of peppers, courgette, onions etc cooks up quite small and I don't it's tastier than boiled veg.

I’m not sure about olives, although I’d be really happy about that too. Love them but try not to eat too many due to the fat.

Potatoes don’t count.

You can count pulses as 1 serving per day, in total. So if you have beans for lunch and hummus for dinner it’s still only 1 serving, no matter how much you eat.

@Othering no veg or fruit for over a week?! How come?

I do eat fruit and veg every day, but probably not enough. Today I have only had half a punnet of raspberries and a few slices of tomato and cucumber. Tonight I will have half a cauliflower and some
Salad.

Tomatoes and courgettes at lunch.
Beans and gooseberries at dinner.

See, whoever decided that potatoes don’t count needs a good slap. They are an excellent source of vitamin C and potassium.

An apple
Carrot, mushroom, onion in a casserole.
Fruit smoothie.

Think that's it.

A banana
Cucumber sticks
An Apple
Handful of grapes
Salad leaves
Beetroot
Olives
Strawberries

Quite a good a day for me!

Avocado with half bowl of home made salsa (tomato, red onion, chilli, corriander) served with poached eggs.

Homemade carrot, red lentil and corriander soup.

Aubergine, spinach and chickpea curry. Served with roasted cauliflower.

Apple, strawberries.

Half an avocado.
A nectarine.
Green salad.
Roasted mixed mediterranean veg.

Maybe 4 to 5 portions.

Banana at dinner
Sweet potato, broccoli, cauliflower with tea

Rocket
Tomatoes
Peppers
Onions
Courgette
Plums
Cherries
Red grapes
Green grapes
Broccoli
Carrots
Celery

Grapes, strawberries, raspberries, dried cranberries, carrot, baby tomatoes, red and yellow peppers, spinach, rocket and watercress. The salad leaves probably add up to 1 and the cranberries 0.5, so 7.5 I think. I didn't have lunch today or it may have been a couple more.

B- Apple
L - salad leaves, julienned carrot, roasted cherry tomatoes, sauteed garlic mushrooms, poached egg
afternoon - apple
D - chicken tacos, with home made tomato and pepper salsa, guacamole, lettuce, refried beans
Now - grapes, lots of cheese.
5-6 portions maybe?

3 nectarines
A tomato and avocado salad (about half an avocado and 4 medium tomatoes)
Some peas (but not many, they were mixed with rice with dinner).

Oh, and a handful of grapes. Probably five portions, more or less.

Raspberries at breakfast
Red cabbage, carrots, peas, green beans at lunch
Dinner out so wasn't at good as usual - olives, avocado in my starter, and tomato and lettuce in my burger. Sweet potato fries but I don't think I can count that, nor the fruit in my Pimms

A bit low for me but I don't eat between meals so harder to get everything in. Dinner at home would normally have around 4 serves of veg

A nectarine
A peach
Peas
Cherry tomatoes
Mushrooms
Peppers
Will have a grapefruit later

Breakfast - strawberries and a nectarine
Snack - banana
Lunch - salad in a pitta
Dinner - stuffed peppers with salad.

Still only about 6 - 7 portions!

Approx 4;

Blueberries for breakfast (2 portions)
Banana for snack
Stir fry veg for dinner

Copious amounts of chocolate and wine to make up for being so damn healthy 😉

Apple
Hummus
Lettuce
Avocado
Nori seaweed

Punnet of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and a banana.
Little gem lettuce leaves, cucumber, cherry tomatoes.
Melon

Blueberries
Raspberries
Satsumas
Cherry tomatoes
Rocket
Green beans
Carrot
Raisins