5-a-day

[HeyWayne]

Yeah - make sure my plate looks right - or else!!!

Composition was my speciality at art college!

[teamladd]

I try to average 4-6 a day. I should eat more but fruit can be expensive Im only 24 and have a wedding and house to save for Thats why ill be glad when my allotment is producing fruit next year!

[Topcat36]

I think i just underestimated my daily amount i'm vegan so basically apart from rice and pasta all i eat is fruit and veg , every meal has some form of fruit or veg in it. Tonight it will be a veggie stirfry and fresh fruit salad, Never worked out how much i actually eat.

[Bramble_killer]

one at breakfast
2-3 at lunch
fruit snack
then 2-3 with dinner

i like colourful plates and 1 portion of veg never "seems" right!

[bluemoon]

I usually manage 3-4, but it depends, I have 'fruit-fads' where I eat loads of fruit and at other times I eat very little fruit, but always manage at least three portions of veg with supper.

[indigox]

I probably eat 6-8 portions of fresh fruit and veg a day, plus juice, dried fruit, beans/pulses etc, so usually more like 10 or 11.

[nikiwitch]

not keen on fruit, although have been sharing lots of strawberries with the doog, and probaly only have 1 or 2 portions a day *cringe*

[IgglePiggle]

Not really a lovely of veg apart from chips and spuds/carrots with a roast. Fruit I only really like grapes, apples and strawberries

[SarzWix]

I've put 4. Although at this time of year it's usually more than that - I've had about 6 today already, in the depths of winter I end up eating much more potatoes, bread and other stodge and I might drop down to 2 - 3 portions.

[OllieMartin]

I love the fact that only 1 person has chosen 5!

I think the people who eat more should send some to the people who eat less. Restore the balance!

[COMPOST CORNER]

3-4 but I have heard that eating them all at once (like in a salad for lunch) counts as only one, but hope that this a load of old shoe makers.

[johninblackpool]

Mine varies from between 3-4 when i'm off work to 9-10 when at work as i mainly take fruit & veg to eat through the shift and a 12 hr shift is a long time....LOL

[magz.mccarthy]

Someone told me that in America the recommended amount of veg a day is 7 portions! But there isn't even enough fruit and veg in the country for everyone to eat 5 a day. Madness. Maybe the White House veg garden will make up some numbers??

[snohare]

Some days I manage 5, many I don't. This is why I got an allotment.
My health is intimately connected to how well I eat - I manage Crohn's Disease using diet alone - so you may not count potatoes and the likes, but I certainly do, I know that if I miss out their nutrients I will get ill ! (Leafy veg and potatoes for maintenance of health, carrots and sweet potato for stopping inflammation, squash and cucurbits to improve longer-term.) Freshness is a large part of nutrition, with some veggies it is a matter of hours before I start to lose the benefit. (Potatoes, for example.) I can only assume I am pretty close to "instant starvation" with minerals, vitamins and other nutrients as I notice the smallest fluctuations - so I never peel or scrape skins off tubers or roots, and I usually steam rather than boil.
I've found the old dietician's advice to have lots of colours on your plate works really well nutritionally.

[marigold007]

I strive for five, just like all the grocery stores tell me to do. I do better when I am getting a fruit box delivered because many fruits in the stores taste awful.

On my recent trip to Greece, I noticed that many meals were based on vegetables and fruits. It was easy to get used to because it was everywhere. I loved it. On return to the UK, it is quite noticeable that starch and starchy veg is the order of the plate in most places, so I reverted back to my chip eating ways... It was March though and understandably, not much salad is growing here, but still...you would think restaurants could try a little harder.