eat five fruit/vegetables a day

I’ve been doing quite well on this goal recently, snacking on fruit and eating more salad.
I’ve also been eating pasta with tomato-based sauce a lot lately, and I’m assuming that counts too.
Off I go to have my daily glass of orange juice.

Well… I had a few weeks of BADness and not eating nearly enough fruit and veg. And I found myself just craving vitamin C. The badness hadn’t been on purpose – I just hadn’t got round to buying the right stuff.

Yesterday I bought a HUGE lot of fruit and veg and feel much better already. I love having a tortilla wrap stuffed full of salad and a wee bit of hummus, with seeds to give it crunch. Oh so tasty!

Today I had my usual glass of OJ at breakfast. So I always get one portion out of the way before 9am.

It’s after that it starts to go awry a little.

Today I had heated up leftovers from last night for lunch, which combined with the satsuma I had as a snack maybe makes one portion. OK, two so far for the day.

For supper I had chicken vegetable soup which gives me another portion – so now I need to have two more this evening – that’s a couple of satsumas and some grapes, which I might just manage.

Today I went to a vegetarian Indian restaurant for lunch (with my brother and his wife as it is her birthday). I guess I probably had a couple of portions of veg there – it was mostly pulses and rice.
And this evening I had spicy stir fried veg for supper.
And I’ll have two satsumas later.

So I’m reckoning I’ve had 4 portions today.

OK… call this day one again. Today I had some spinach, tomato and broccoli. And orange juice. I might have just about managed 4 portions.

Not good enough! I give myself 10 days by which time I want to be hitting 5 every day. Go girl!

And today I’m doing OK. In fact most days I do ok just now – it helps that I love to eat salad in the summer.

orange juice
hmmm not much veg in the shop bought sandwich at lunchtime, maybe half a portion
veg stir fry = 2 portions
melon

orange juice
salad = 1.5 portions
apricot snack
salad = 1.5 portions

Hmmm… see a theme here? Salad seems to work for me!

pomegranate juice
salad (counts as 2 portions!)
home made veg soup (1.5 portions)
home made carrot muffin (0.5 portions)

yay! I did it! And I really thought I hadn’t managed to today!

pomegranate juice
salad
dried fruit as a snack

errrrr… that’s it I think
that’s really BAD!