Possibly thick question about portions of veggies

[phdlife]

We eat lots of one- or two pot dinners - pasta, chilli etc - mainly made around veggies. Tonight for instance was pasta with onion, a red pepper, mushrooms, a large zucchini, a tin of 5-bean, and about 3/4c of chicken. (Between 2 grown-ups and two small dc's.) Tomorrow night will be singapoe noodles - noodles with cabbage, pepper, green beans, baby corn, etc etc.

So how do these dinners 'count' as portions? Is it really only one portion, no matter how many different veg are in it or how much you eat?

I thought a portion was what you could fit in the eater's hand (ie toddlers have smaller hands).

So maybe a mixed veg dish will have several portions but each handful will contain several veg?

I'm really not making sense! But it sounds like you eat plenty of veg, so why are you worrying?

A 'handful' of veg is the measure I have heard as well - so small people's hands are smaller therefore smaller portions.

It sounds like plenty - and I have long since given up counting/worrying. I am impressed that you know what you are eating tomorrow night - I have no idea what we are eating tonight

I'm gone. I am laundry-mountain climbing.

hm worrying because that's what I do, meltedmars

and also because we tend not to get many veg during the day so I do wonder if those sorts of dinners are really enough. I need to get it Right, doncha know [swot]

each vegetable you eat will count towards a portion (although you can only get up to 1 portion of beans/pulses regardless of how much of them you eat)

More info here