Other ways to get your daily servings of fruits/veggies?

Question

How else can I get my "daily 5-7" servings of fruits/veggies, besides the obvious way (eating them in the whole)? What constitutes a serving?

Answer 1

You can drink the juices of vegetables or you can prepare foods that has vegetables as the main ingredient (you can find these in many vegetarian/vegan recipes). I think a serving varies based on what you are eating.

Answer 2

There's a chart of 100 common fruits and vegetables here. The size you see is a serving:
http://www.dole5aday.com/ReferenceCenter/NutritionCenter/Chart/R_NutrChart.jsp?topmenu=1

You can drink juice, but you can also see that you can mix things together or add them to other food to get what you need. Clearly a banana in cereal and/or a quarter cup of raisins are one serving each of fruit, so you could get 2 servings in the morning if you did bran with a banana and raisins.

A nice salad which besides all sorts of veggies can include hard boiled egg, cheese, chicken, etc. would give you more servings.

Also you can dress up something to make it a relatively healthy snack--peanut butter on an apple, for example, is good. You could make your own trail mix--dried fruits would count. Wasabi peas (dried peas coated in wasabi) are a nice snack item. Smoothies can be very good--make with yogurt and some honey if you need a sweetener and you can put all kinds of fruit in there.

Answer 3

You could have a V-8! LOL