When you think about it, 9+ fruit and vege would not be that hard...if you had 3 bits of fruit a day say banana with brekkie, apple with lunch and strawberries for dessert, then you would have 6 veges left to have and if you had 3-4 vege serves at dinner you could have salad at lunch and voila 9 serves
I have just challenged myself to eat at least 2 pieces of fruit a day (I don't usually eat any), I am now finding that I am eating at least 4 now and I am doing it easliy. Only day I didn't manage my 2 was Saturday but I drunk wine so that was fruit
I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived!
I don't even buy that much fruit and vege, would certainly increase our supermarket spend if I brought that much fruit and vege. I struggle with eating salad during winter, I do make loads of soup but there's still only a few veges in that - mostly pumpkin or kumara with onion, garlic, carrots and celery - 1 bowl is still only 1 serve though.
We are trying to get away from packaged foods or things that have labels on them.
It is quite easy to get it in. First off snacks is fruit (mostly) for the kids. So morning tea and afternoon snack already is 2 fruits.
Baked things have fruit in them (although I dont count that in)
Then sarmies or rolls, wraps or pita's have salad ingredients in them. And a serving doesnt equal a huge amount (that was an eye opener for us and you dont count it twice. So if you use carrots in that and have carrots that night it is only one.)
So we usually do a min of three at lunch but it usually is about 4 or 5 right there.
Then we have another 4 or 5 at night. We dont do patatoes every night either. A 4kg bag last us about 8 weeks. Most of the time I have to quickly use it in something I can freeze as it will go off otherwise.
Where I use to make bolognaise pasta as a quick meal we make stirfries as a quick meal. And McKayla now begs for stirfries.
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