Do You Always Get Five A Day?

teddysmum

helcat26 wrote: »

I get 5 of something..


Never know if fruit juice counts, or potatoes, etc etc


I have not got rickets so so far so good

Fruit juice only counts as one,no matter how much you drink,but the entire fruit is better as it has more fibre and takes longer to turn to glucose.

teddysmum

When the '5 a Day' campaign was first started, I recall discussing it with my sister and we both agreed that, if we were full enough with , say, three, there was no point in eating extra, just to make the score up to five.

beluga

i don't every day, but over a week it evens out. Most days I'll have fruit juice with breakfast, if I'm out I'll have a piece of fruit with lunch, at home I'll cook something with veg in or have leftovers from the night before, also with veg in. Evening meal is something like a stir fry, so plenty of veg. Fruit and yogurt if I want a snack later.
I always keep some frozen and tinned friuts and veg in so I make sure I eat some.

bigdavecox90

I NEVER get 5 a day hence my NutriBullet post. I want to start using this to be able to get these in more regularly!

PasturesNew

I doubt I do.... hardly ever. I think there's a lot of confusion over it and how much is "one". I eat what I fancy and if there happens to be fruit/veg involved then that's a bonus.

Yesterday I had cheesy mash for lunch and a cheese toastie later on. So 0 for me yesterday.

To include 5 I'd have had to have thought more in terms of "having a meal" rather than "eating food" and that cheesy mash would've had to have been changed to be cheesy cauliflower and mash ... and even then that's only one .... so, with beans .... that's two. Bit stuck next as to what you could add to cheese/cauliflower, mash and beans.

So then you have to eat differently.... and shop differently ..... all a faff.

bigdavecox90

PasturesNew wrote: »

I doubt I do.... hardly ever. I think there's a lot of confusion over it and how much is "one". I eat what I fancy and if there happens to be fruit/veg involved then that's a bonus.

Yesterday I had cheesy mash for lunch and a cheese toastie later on. So 0 for me yesterday.

To include 5 I'd have had to have thought more in terms of "having a meal" rather than "eating food" and that cheesy mash would've had to have been changed to be cheesy cauliflower and mash ... and even then that's only one .... so, with beans .... that's two. Bit stuck next as to what you could add to cheese/cauliflower, mash and beans.

So then you have to eat differently.... and shop differently ..... all a faff.

Cheesy mash and a cheese toastie?! Food of a king ;-)

happy35

I eat well over 5 a day, I have about 4 portions of fruit and 5 or 6veg. This is the main bulk of my food. My protein intake though is poor.

Ben84

Honestly, I don't count. However, I'm a vegetarian and the main components of the food I make are mostly vegetables/mushrooms, or fruit - but mostly I just eat that as it is. I also use rice, pasta and flour, but they're the smaller part of most things I make as I generally prefer the vegetables. The potential downside of 5 a day is how it focuses on the details so much above simply eating what you like. It's rather regimented and diet-like, which may prove difficult for people. I never think for example "I've already eaten a pepper today, I should eat something different." If I want to eat pepper twice, I will, and I don't happen to think the second pepper doesn't do any good either. It's not like your digestive tract is going to say "I've already had a portion of that, I'm going to ignore all the nutrients in any more that turns up!"

Personally, I'd rather just find a recipe I like that's mainly made of vegetables and use the types I like in the quantities I feel like. Plain boiled vegetables don't do much for me either, I hardly eat any this way, even though the idea of a portion tends to make us picture the vegetables as some independent item rather than part of something we might like more. The mentality we're encouraged to have with food is often to treat healthy things as must-do stuff that's always controlled by rules, and then to follow whatever whim we feel like with the treat stuff. That's a bad approach, it saps the fun out of healthy food and hands it all to the treats.

I think why not enjoy and follow whims with vegetables and fruit. I just eat whatever quantity I feel like, and cook it how I like it, and I never put something in because it's good for me, I put it in because I want it. Oddly, I'm kind of repelled by the conspicuously healthy side of healthy food, but I do still eat lots of it. So, a focus on healthy eating isn't needed to eat healthy food. When people say things like "contains 78% of your RDA of calcium" my taste buds just do nothing. Phrases like "roasted peppers" or "garlic and mushrooms" have a totally different effect, they make me want to eat the thing. Maybe I have terrible self control, but I'm ok with giving in when it means extra mushrooms and garlic. So I'm not saying vegetables and fruit don't matter in the diet, but I'd rather do it my way.