How much fruit

ET03

black-saturn wrote:

We eat about 3 pieces of fruit per day each and then have vegetables with our evening meal and sometimes some dried fruit too. It really plays havoc with me though.

what plays havoc ?

buying it or eating it

mhoc

I like the idea of growing my own sprouting things. My son is doing GCSE catering so I think he would be interested as well. He likes doing stir fries, cutting up the meat and veg etc.

What do I look out for in the supermarket, just off to Tesco now - keep reading this thread for ideas intead of leaving the house!

Mary

mhoc

ET03 wrote:

what plays havoc ?

buying it or eating it

I dont know what it is about kiwi fruit but they really make me feel unwell. I dont eat the skin so its not that (my kids do, is that normal?) It cant be the seeds because I can eat soft fruit and banans and you eat the seeds in them.

Mary

annie-c

start with either Aduki beans, (little red beans) or mung beans (little green beans). In Tesco they are sold by the 500g bag, the bag is clear celophane and they are kept either near the rice and pasta or in a health food section, depending on the size of the store. While you are shopping, I'll find some links to the threads on this board about sprouting.

PS - If you don't have a bean sprouter, you'll need a glass jar or bowl (a large jam jar size will do), a piece of stocking or an old pair of tights, and an elastic band.

Annie

mhoc

Excellent, tearing myself away from the computer now, this sounds exactly like my sons sort of thing. My student daughter is also trying to eat healthily so this could be woth her doing as well.

Mary

annie-c

Ooh, well if she is a student and has a sandwich toaster in her standard student 'kit', then I highly recomend cheese and beansprout toasties!!!

Here's the most recent 'Sprouting' thread:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=134746&highlight=sprouting

Linda32

mhoc wrote:

How much dried fruit counts as a portion?

Mary

Hi, I think basically an handful counts as a portion, so 1 apple or an handful of grapes / raisens.

We eat alot of fruit / veg / salad, I assume salad counts as well.

We oftern say that 5 apples are alot cheaper than 5 bars of chocolate.

annie-c

Taken from: http://www.vegetarian.org.uk/goingveg.html

At least 5 Fruit and vegetables
To provide Folate, Calcium, Iron, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Fibre

Fresh fruit 1 medium piece - the size of a tennis ball
Dried fruit 1-1 1⁄2 tablespoons or 1 golf ball
Green or root veg 2-3 tablespoons or 1⁄2 tennis ball
Salad veg 80g or 1 large cereal bowl

thriftmonster

I get an organic veg bag delivered - the big one @ £13 - because I felt guilty about not supporting local farmers. This week I got:

Potatoes, carrots, onions, leeks (std every week)
Huge bag of parsley (it's become pesto)
Lettuce, bag of rocket and other unidentified salad leaves
Courgettes - yellow and green
Cabbage
Spring onions
Tomatoes
And quite a bit of mud.....

I also buy
Granny smiths - 2 bags - the only apples ds's and dh will eat
Bramleys
Fairtrade bananas
Fairtrade easy peel citrus
grapes
frozen peas and sweetcorn
raisins

Like a lot of others it is a fair proportion of our budget, but I make it a crusade not to waste any veg that come - you can get some interesting chutneys!!!

thriftlady_2

annie-c wrote:

Ooh, well if she is a student and has a sandwich toaster in her standard student 'kit', then I highly recomend cheese and beansprout toasties!!!

I love bean sprouts in cheese toasties too Bean sprouts are brilliant in the winter. much better than buying all that out of season salad.