How to Get More Fruits and Vegetables Into Your Diet

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Getting the minimum five daily servings of fruits and vegetables is not as daunting as you might think.

To complete this How-To you will need:

Fruits
Vegetables
Imagination
A willingness to experiment
Fruits
Vegetables
Imagination
A willingness to experiment

Step 1: Know your serving size

Know what counts as a serving. A medium-size piece of fruit, a cup of salad greens, or a half-cup of cooked or raw vegetables all constitute one serving.

Step 2: Begin at breakfast

Begin at breakfast: Add dried or fresh fruit to cereal or yogurt; put vegetables in an omelet, or make a smoothie. Pack yourself a banana for a mid-day snack.

Step 3: Slice and dice

An assortment of veggies adds flavor and crunch to a green salad, but don't forget fruit. Apples, pears, mangoes, and mandarin oranges are a nice addition to a salad, too.

Tip: Whenever you eat spinach, have something high in vitamin C, like a citrus fruit. The combination can help your body absorb the iron in the spinach.

Step 4: Wrap it

Use romaine or green-leaf lettuce in place of tortillas to make wraps.

Step 5: Puree it

Enrich tomato sauce with pureed vegetables like broccoli, squash, and carrots. Blend pureed cauliflower into your mashed potatoes.

Step 6: Get souped up

Beef up canned soup with extra chopped veggies, either fresh or frozen, and spice it up with nutritious herbs like oregano and parsley.

Tip: If you have children, add one teaspoon of sugar per two cups of water when you boil vegetables; a study showed that teens are more willing to eat broccoli and cauliflower cooked that way.

Step 7: Eat the bowl

Serve one-pot dishes like chili, stew, and baked pasta in hollowed-out bell peppers or baked squash halves. When you finish the filling, eat the bowl!

Step 8: Do the salsa

Enliven a baked potato, an omelet, or a piece of chicken with salsa. A few tablespoons of store-bought salsa counts as a serving of vegetables, but you can also add extra chopped veggies, like onions, mushrooms, and peppers. Fruit salsa is another option; it goes well with chicken, pork, and fish.

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[DarthHuru]

How to Get More Fruits and Vegetables Into Your Diet?

WTF ?

1. buy

2. eat

[vault101lt]

steamed broccoli is the best.

[mirmeg2010]

You will need:

IMAGINATION!

Spongebob Voice! :D

[CookingWithLiccy]

How To Get More Fruits And Vegetables Into Your Diet,

You Will Need:

Fruits

Vegetables

...NO SHIT!!!

[CassieAnnaCary]

FRUITS & VEGGIES ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[werwer607]

SHOLDA HAD A V8

[Miikoong904]

you can drink v8 juice.

[zegct1]

@lolzabubbles They were referring to the fact that they'd put the actual serving of dinner inside of the bell pepper, thus making the bell pepper a makeshift bowl. (They put the whole thing inside of another bowl afterwards in case the pepper broke mid-meal.)

[brrowwniee]

cheese wrapped in lettuce....

*exit page*

[lolzabubbles]

Eat the bowl???

What were they thinking???

[HealthTipsAndMore]

Hi there!

I have a channel devoted to health and fitness. If you could give me constructive criticism, that would be great.

Take care!

[thecherryboo1]

The transcribe audio was almost correct on what the howto guy was saying.