How many plants in your main meal today?

[DragonsAndDaffs]

I've been trying to reduce UPF and increase the amount of plants we eat. We try to eat the rainbow and hit 30 different plants a week.

Dinner tonight was a prawn and edamame stir fry containing 8 plants.

Anyone else trying to eat 30?

I've read that it's a teaspoon of any dried herb (Across the week is okay) or that each dried herb counts for 1/4 of a plant out of your 30.

I can assure you the amount of my garlic I use, it counts! 😀

If I make a loaf of bread from flour ,water, yeast and salt...that's the same as using chili powder in my 532 types of vegetable curry....

These made up rules make no sense!

I fear my prize is going to be the shits 😂 I overdid the fruit and raw veg today tbh. I was hungry.

You didn’t make the bread out of the kernel of wheat. So (TO ME) it is not comparable to a spice which is a whole berry or seed. As I have already answered.

You disagree, you’ve made your point. I think we can leave it now,

So my understanding is that for anything to count it has to be the "whole" food. So no white bread (flour), white rice, white pasta, fruit or veg juice etc

Although this seems contrary to the long lived Japanese and Italians who only eat the white varieties of said grains.

One of my favourite foodie youtubers cooks this every single Friday night. It looks amazing. She transformed my cooking actually- she has a VERY heavy hand on all spices, herbs (fresh and dried) and garlic generally.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/butter_confit_garlic_92434

Yes I think it depends. I make my own oat milk in the Thermomix using oats and water. Organic oat milks are similar.
The coconut yoghurt I use is minimally processed and 75% coconut milk.
I don’t get too strung up by UPF definitions - technically things like tofu and tempeh are processed but they need to be.

Ooh, good thread! Yesterday’s plants:

Breakfast (yoghurt with fruit and nuts):
Strawberries
Blueberries
Almonds
Sunflower seeds
Flaxseed

Lunch (chicken and mixed bean salad):
Sweetcorn
Chickpeas
Kidney beans
Black beans
Butter beans
Mixed leaves
Spring onion
Cherry tomatoes

Dinner (chicken bolognese):
Courgette
Carrot
Celery
Onion
Garlic
Mushrooms
Tomatoes
Fresh Basil

Snack:
Banana

Much better than I thought it would be, looks like I’m on track for the week 😂 I’m a new WLI starter and whilst I’ve always eaten a lot of fruit and veg, I’m a fiend for UPF, poor portion control and snacking so I’m being mindful to only eat at mealtimes or only have a snack when I am genuinely hungry and make sure the food I am eating is good for my body!

This morning i tried to eat my porridge but am still stress-sick. So I only had half of it but there were raspberries, apples, sultanas, maple syrup, oats, cinnamon, cashew nuts. I couldn't get through it though. DH and I are supposed to go out for lunch. There is a terrific pub near us that do cauliflower tempura bites with whipped feta, chickpeas and pomegranate seeds so that's on my agenda I think.

New plants today;

Kidney beans
Chickpeas
Parsley
Cumin, Coriander, Cinnamon, Ras-al-hanout
Sweetcorn
Lime

Today is my third day keeping track and after adding cucumber, celery, chickpeas, black beans, sweet potato and mango I'm up to 19. I feel like I'm powering through but I guess it will get a lot harder quickly when I've reached the end of my usual foods and I have to try and push myself to add variety.

Onion
garlic
ginger
coriander
spinach
chickpeas
spices
does rice count? Assume so so I’ll go with 8

Oh….haven’t had a main meal.
I had some blueberries at breakfast and some rocket in my lunch sandwich.
Plant-poor.

Ive lost track on my plant app but today Ive had avocado, red pepper, green pepper, onion, capers, mushrooms, beetroot, cucumber, tomato, strawberrie, blackcurrent, raspberry, sesame seed, pumpkin seed, chia seed, tea, coffee, cashew, almond.

I havent included herbs and spices as its too laborious.