Five or Ten a Day - do you?

I’m not entirely sure, I get grumpy if there’s nothing green on my plate. I crave iron rich flavours sprouts, kale, cabbage, even the subtle couli, so even if we are having a takeaway like we did tonight it was chicken saag and pilau rice with added home spinach, and a salad of cherry toms and cuc from the garden.

OH and DD would probably make do with 5, though DD has been told off by the dentist for having too much fruit before now. A lunch for her consists of a wrap, Apple, Kiwi, grapes, blueberries, tomatoes, cucumber and carrot sticks plus a packet of crisps. It’s nothing for her to polish of 4-5 pieces of fruit in one sitting, she’d happily suck on a slice of lemon.

I think I have about 3 portions per meal generally. Today was banana, apple and blueberries at breakfast with porridge, peas, carrots and swede mash at lunch with some sliced ham from the butchers, and tomatoes, cuc and spinach for tea. Yet it felt like a veg light day so perhaps I normally have more, either that or my portion sizes are normally more generous.

I don’t think 10 is an unreasonable target, if I was to add snacks into the day, I tend to consider dried fruit as sugar so a handful of raisins, apricots or dates are sugary treats not fruit aren’t they? I need a dehydrator then I could add sliced apples, pears and fruit leathers into the equation along with the pickled veg that goes into salads and sandwiches I think I do ok.