MARCH 5-a-day Veggie Challenge

By popular request, veggie challenge continues!  State your goal!

Maybe you've been trying to increase your servings of veggies for a long time and just need a concrete goal and tracking system.  Maybe you hate veggies and this will be a BIG challenge for you.   Whatever the case, if you know you're not getting the recommended 5-A-Day with a variety of veggies, this is your chance to change that.

Actually, 5 servings is the minimum you should get each day.  The range is 5-9 servings of veggies.  So if you want to sign up for more than 5-A-Day, that's cool too.

What's a serving?

• 1/2 cup of fruit
• 1 medium piece of fruit
• 1/4 cup of dried fruit
• 3/4 cup (6 ounces) of 100% fruit or vegetable juice
• 1 cup of leafy vegetables
• 1/2 cup of cooked or raw vegetables

Trying to visualize the serving sizes? This may help:

• 1 medium apple or orange: the size of a tennis ball
• 1 cup vegetables or fruit: the size of a baseball
• 1 medium potato: the size of a computer mouse
• 1 cup of lettuce: 4 leaves

How do I select, store and prepare vegetables?

For the very veggie-challenged, perhaps a fruit & veggie approach is the way to go.  [And it should go without saying, if you count fried vegetables in your total, while technically true, you are doing your body no good and cheating only yourself.]

How does the challenge work?

Just come here each day and post how many servings you had the previous day.

You might put it like this

• I had 4 serving of veggies and 2 servings of fruit

You can spell out which veggies you had if you like, but you don't have to.  If you try an unusual veggie, it might be cool if you share that with everyone.  =)  But if you do spell it out, please summarize it like above so as to make it easy for me to keep everyone's tally.  I'll convert everyone's daily goals to a monthly total in the OP so you can see how much progress you're making.

If you want, you can make a ticker at www.tickerfactory.com

Week 1 Bonus Veggie - Spinach!

Week 2 Bonus Veggie - Shiitake Mushrooms!

Week 3 & 4 DOUBLE Bonus Veggies - Asparagus! and Sugar Snap Peas!


5 Veg a day >>> that's 155 veg for the month


ctrs ............................................. .....  54 + Week 1 BONUS
kcthomas .........................................&nbs p; 148 + Week 1 BONUS + Week 2 BONUS + Week 4 DOUBLE BONUS
llowery3 ...........................................&n bsp; 14
pisc13 ............................................. .  116

5 veg or fruit a day >>>  that's 155 veg & fruit for the month

chocokat711 ..................................... 20
kallie67 .............................................  141 + Week 1 BONUS + Week 2 BONUS + Week 3 DOUBLE BONUS
nomoreexcuses ................................. 112 + Week 1 BONUS + Week 3 DOUBLE BONUS
thesilverstar121 ................................ 142 + Week 2 BONUS + Week 4 DOUBLE BONUS


7 veg or fruit a day >>>  that's 217 veg & fruit for the month

sarah_11235 ...................................... 1 54 + Week 1 BONUS

3 veg & 3 fruit a day >>> that's 93 veg & 93 fruit for the month



4 veg & 2 fruit a day >>> that's 124 veg & 62 fruit for the month

vrykolia ............................................. .. 129 / 53 + Week 1 BONUS + Week 2 BONUS

4 veg & 3 fruit a day >>> that's 124 veg & 93 fruit for the month

abcsmom .............................................  64 / 48

5 veg & 2 fruit a day >>> that's 155 veg & 62 fruit for the month

 

5 veg & 3 fruit a day >>> that's 155 veg & 93 fruit for the month

wants2lose ............................................& nbsp;137 / 82 + Week 1 BONUS + Week 3 DOUBLE BONUS + Week 4 DOUBLE BONUS

5 veg & 4 fruit a day >>> that's 155 veg & 124 fruit for the month

lightningmd ...........................................&n bsp;60 / 39

Count me in!  I was waiting for this post ever since I saw the one for Feb.  Joined too late for late one. 

Let's get this party started!  :o)

hi again.. any chance I could get a different catagory of 7 fruit or veggies a day? if not 5 and 2 will be ok =) Im sure I could make it work ;-)

*eagerly sits in anticipation of tomorrow's bonus veggie*

well... count me in as well... i could use a few extra fruits and veggies throughout my day!!

I'm in!  I never liked veggies, maybe cuz my mom cooked them to death!  Trying to learn how to eat them now at age 32.

Okay, I'm in!  Today I had 4 veggie, 1 fruit.  Tommorow I go grocery shopping because I realized that's all I had for the week!  Oops!

Please add me again.  I'm ready to up my goal from Feb, and try 4 vegies and 3 fruits  day.  Thanks!

count me in gonna try

5 veggies

4 fruit every day

yesterday 2/28 i had  5 veggies     4 fruit

       &nb sp;               &nb sp;               &nb sp;               &nb sp;

Can we still sign up.  I would love to do this. 

4 veg & 2 fruit a day.

And away we go!!!

I've updated the list of participants. I put you in the 5 veg or fruit a day category unless you specified another goal.

And SPINACH is the Bonus Veg this week! Holy cannoli would you look at that nutrient profile????  I'm going to eat mine raw since I'm not a fan of the cooked stuff....

Let get after those veggies!!!!

I am so ready!  I went shopping last night just for this and they had buy one get one free on carrots and strawberries!  I hit the motherload 'cause those are 2 of my favs!

Going again tonight to get a few other things and gonna add spinach to the list.  Gotta love fresh spinach salads.  MMMMMM!

Good luck everyone!!!!!!

I had 4 veggies & 2 fruit.

6 servings out of 186

I'd like to join.  I'll do 5 vegies a day.
Thanks!

I'll give it another shot this month, hopefully actually hit my goal.

Sign me up for the 7 veg or fruit a day.  Hopefully I'm not too late

Excellent, Spinach is my favorite!

hmmm. spinach. I may be able to work that in somehow...

Only 1pm and I already reached goal of 5 for today.  My trick: I cut up crunchy veggies and much on them at the computer instead of bread or pretzels.  So easy, why didn't I do this before?

5 veggies

4 fruit

4 veggies and 3 fruits for today!  :o)

--5 vegies for the day, including spinach

I get good ideas from other people's suggestions, so I'll share mine:

Servings:
1 carrots, raw
1 V8 - too much salt
2.5 spinach - in an omlette with a little mozzarella & salsa
.5 chopped tomato

7 fruit/veggies today, total 7

so, I guess I'll share mine too, if it might give people ideas :-)
(1) raw green beans
(1) lettuce
(.5) cucumber
(.5) tomato
(2) broccoli
(1) corn
(1) clemetines (two)
and peas too, but I am counting them towards meat alternatives this month :)