What and how much fruit and veggies do you eat to encourage good health?

Today I had tomato, onion and zucchini soup and some coleslaw with caraway seeds for lunch.

Cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, leeks, onions, garlics, the winter squashes, typical salad stuff, the root vegetables.

Apples, pears, pineapples, mangos, bananas, frozen organic berries, and whatever shows up at my local food coop.

That sounds great ! I have a banana each morning and frozen broccoli 2x a week. Onions almost daily but cooked and sometimes cucumber. I don’t have a co-op ; you’re lucky! I want to look for organic fruit today; thanks for the answer. Hard to beat your regimen!

Last night I had Brussels sprouts with dinner. For lunch I had a BLT with fresh lettuce and tomato.

At breakfast, I had ½ a banana. Later on I had some blueberries.

When I was seeing a nutritionist, his simple advice was one red, one yellow and one orange veggie plus four servings of greens daily.

I’m doing well with this now! I’m both focusing on health and trying to repair my angry digestive system. I was off apples since I had digestive distress with them, but just learned that it’s the skin that’s bad. So, these days, I’m having porridge with raspberries at breakfast (or eggs with spinach), then apples and orange/carrot juice through the day, and carrots and peas at dinner. Mmm!

Eat as much as you can, 4–6 of each. However, be aware of food allergies that can be just as harmful as not eating the right thing.

Today I bought peppers, okra, broccoli, onions, apples, plantains, plums, lettuce, mango/lemon/mint chutneys so imagine I’ll be eating them soon.

What I’ve read is that each serving of vegetables you have each day increases your life expectancy. The first four provide the bulk of possible benefits and the gains after seven servings are small.

Generally for breakfast I make a smoothie out of a banana, an orange (or blood orange) some kiwis, spinach, carrots, flax seeds, and pineapple (if I have it). Sometimes I’ll have a grapefruit as well….for lunch, since I work at a salad establishment, I have a spinach salad with black beans and corn, quinoa, sweet potato, and grapes and mango. Then usually for dinner I’ll have some combination of broccoli, cauliflower, quinoa or rice, kale, mushrooms, maybe some other odd vegetables that are in season.

I eat almost nothing but fruits and veggies and yet, I still don’t get enough potassium, iron, and depending on the day, calcium can be an issue too. The point is I don’t understand how many people aren’t dead with the lack of fruits and vegetables they eat. I log my foods on a website every day (not because I am trying to lose weight but because I was curious if I was getting all my nutrients. I thought, hey! I have to be! I eat so many healthy foods!) Nope. Still not close on the iron and potassium usually. So….the end.

When all else fails, there’s gummy vitamins…