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4. Not too bad, i suppose.
None yet today, but the food i have on my desk to be eaten includes 4 portions, so i suspect i'll manage it!
Yest I had a banana, OJ, onions, tomatoes, sweetcorn, chillis (do they count?).
So far today I have had OJ, banana, beetroot, cranberries and when I get to my gran's I will have stew with lots of veg in it. Feel really pleased about myself!
2 then?
None yet today. I've not been hungry, so i've only had boiled eggs and biscuits so far.
Two bananas
Two plums (with another to go in a minute)
One apple
Also having veg with my dinner tonight plus some fruit juice so I think I am sorted for today
2 bananas
1 apple
Salad with my sandwich
Onions in my evening meal? (I'm not sure if that counts)
So errr 4/5?
it also depends how much onion you had and how much salad.
Like I said, 4/5. I have lots of onion on everything, haha.
I had a rather large portion of salad
ETA: doh! yes they do, stoopid! but i steal my onions from my mum's, and she gets them from auction so no packaging there.
yeah thats true. Unfair, but true!
well that makes sense really. you need to eat the different things to get the different good stuff from them. if you just ate 5 bananas a day you'd only be getting 5 x banana goodness.
Today so far I have had a banana, two apples, fresh orange juice, a salad for lunch and then tonight I am having a stir fry and probably 2 more pieces of fruit.
I hate baked beans.
Anyway i've eaten today -
OJ for breakfast, plus cereal with dried fruit in it plus yoghut and blackberries on top - i'm hoping that counts for about 1.5?
Then an apple, plus home made potato and parsnip soup with ginger and honey - so that must be another two.
3.5/5 - is OK seeing as i've still got tea to go.
Anyway as someone else said you do have to eat wayyy more than you think to get one portion of your veg in - think it needs to be roughly around the size of a tennis ball.
http://www.5aday.nhs.uk/WhatCounts/PortionSizes.aspx
Plus potatos etc don't count -
http://www.5aday.nhs.uk/WhatCounts/WhatCounts.aspx