How often do you go without eating fruit/veg?

[samy23]

I'm not a fan of fruit, and will admit I used to go weeks without eating a single piece...Im better now as I realised how good they are for us. Vegetables I also would sometimes go weeks without eating, more because I was too lazy to prepare/cook them, and thankfully now am A lot better. I still need to eat fruit more often though.

So just curious how often you all eat fruits and vegetables usually?

[Purple*Lotus]

Every day for me. I work for a school so we have to serve fruits and veggies every day for the kids, and I eat what they eat for lunch and snacks- breakfast too if I happen to be there for it. When I eat breakfast at home I will usually have oatmeal with a handful of frozen berries tossed in.

On the weekends I cook for my parents and I always have some kind of veggies with it. Tonight will be brussel sprouts. Tomorrow I am making fajitas with onions and multi colored peppers. We also usually keep bananas and apples in the house so it is easy to grab on weekends.

If you don't eat enough to justify keeping fresh in the house, what about frozen? The brussel sprouts are frozen as well as the fruit I add to my oatmeal.

[raksmama]

We eat between 3-7 serving of fruits and vegetables everyday. If I don't, I feel like something is missing.
Many believe that fruits and vegetables, rather than grains should be at the bottom of the food Pyramid. I agree even though I don't manage this always. For years I always start my day with a piece of fresh fruit and I alwasy give some to my son before breakfast too.
we try and snack of fruit and vegetables too. In the evening we always have a big salad and or steamed vegetables.

[Sayward]

Never more than a matter of hours. =)

[bandgeek]

I used to not eat many, but now I try for my 5 a day as a bare minimum. I do not count corn or white potatoes towards my intake, but I do count beans. Beans are often the main part of my meals, so it's pretty easy. I don't count juice usually, unless it's pulpy OJ or tomato juice.

I've had breakfast, a snack, and lunch today and I've had 5 already. Unless the giant banana counts as 2, in which case I've had 6. Probably. It was a pretty big banana.

I remember reading a magazine and there was a blurb on things you tell your kids to do but then don't do yourself and one was that you tell them to eat your veggies when "you haven't eaten one in 2 weeks" and I thought "who doesn't eat ANY veggies in 2 weeks!?" But I guess some people don't.

[cocoanib]

I cannot go a day without fresh fruit or veg.
Those are my main sources of food.
Love to start the morn off with some kinda fruit and have more along with some veg throughout the day.

[staceychev]

I don't go a day without eating vegetables, but I'll definitely go days without fruit sometimes.

[marimara]

I eat at least 3-4 servings of fruit and another 4-5 servings of veggies a day. I drink a green smoothie for breakfast every day so that just by itself takes care of a lot.

It's 3:22pm and I've eaten so far:
1 banana
1/2 mango
1 cup kale
2 carrots
2 cups romaine
1/2 cup diced tomatoes
1/4 cup diced cucumber
handful olives
red onion
few slices avocado
and 1 apple, oh an few slices of strawberries as I was chopping for the freezer.

That was 1 green smoothie for breakfast, greek salad and 1/2 turkey/avocado sandwich w/lettuce/tomato/onion/avocado for lunch, and an apple w/pnut butter for snack + the random strawberry slices I stole And I ate some tortilla chips in there too.

[Chicharronita]

Veggies are good but I question eating fruit, especially fruit out of season (like now in the winter). If you didn't have a grocery store handy, how many fruits and vegetables could you realistically eat right now, if you had to rely on your local weather conditions to grow them?

At the Pick Your Own site there's a harvest calendar for each state. There's virtually no fruit and veggies that grow in January and February except in the warmer climates.

[cristeen]

Tops - a day. Not so much with the fruit... I don't eat a whole lot of that during the winter unless it's frozen or dried. During the growing season I'll have fruit 3 or 4x/day.

Veggies though I try to serve at every dinner at the very least. We get a CSA box and too much of it goes to waste, so I'm trying to get better about eating veggies multiple times a day.

[DevaMajka]

Before my ED, I was eating veggies many times a day. Lots of veggies! I always tried to cook mostly vegan meals.
I definitely didn't eat fruit daily, though. Maybe a couple times a week.

[WorldsBestMom]

Maybe a day or two. Vegetables and fruits are always on my grocery list when I go to the supermarket, so i am always in supply.

[BetsyS]

I eat veggies every day. They have always been my favorite, since I was a child.

Fruit, I eat a couple of times a week. I like it, but I forget to buy it, or I only buy enough for my kids.

[Smokering]

I don't really like fruit. I'll occasionally force myself to choke down an apple or nibble on some dried apricots, but that's about it. Watermelon and pears I like, but rarely eat.

I eat veggies every day, but not as many as I should. Last night DH was out and the only veggies I had in my dinner were frozen peas and corn and a spoonful of tomato paste in my carbonara. Other nights it'd be a salad or sauteed zucchini and carrot with cashews (DH's current favourite), or plain boring old steamed broccoli, carrot and peas.

[Sol_y_Paz]

Originally Posted by samy23

So just curious how often you all eat fruits and vegetables usually?

Not even one meal without either fruit or vegetable.

[Magelet]

Veggies at least every day. Our dinners are always very veggie heavy, I always have at least a salad for lunch at work, and sometimes as a treat we'll have eggs for breakfast, and thats usually with veggies in them.

I don't feel fruit is a must have in a diet, but a treat. they have a lot of sugar and no vital nutrients that aren't found in other foods. that isn't to say I think they are bad, I just don't think one needs to stress about including them in their diet if you don't like them.. In the winter, I'll probably have fruit every other day, but 2/3 of that is raisins in oatmeal. I actually have been eating a lot more fruit lately, because the mornings I don't have oatmeal, I usually have a banana for breakfast. I was really craving them for a while. However, I'll sometimes go weeks without fresh fruit in winter. In the summer, I'll have fresh fruit many days.

[Llyra]

We eat a lot of fruit in season-- like four or five times a day. There's a point in time when the local peaches and raspberries and blackberries are ripe, in August, and my ever-bearing strawberry plants are producing, and pears are starting to come in, when fruit becomes the staple of our diet, just for those few weeks. But this time of year, we mostly rely on fruit I put up during the summer and fall, and we eat it maybe three times a week.

But veggies? The longest I go without veggies is the stretch from after dinner to my mid-morning snack the next day. We eat at least two types of vegetables at both lunch and dinner, and often snack on veggies, too. I'd say I eat more vegetables than anything else, actually.

I can remember before we started changing our diet so drastically, though, that DH and I would often go days without eating much in the way of vegetables and fruit. We mostly lived on starchy stuff, then-- breads, pastas, rice, chips, crackers, cereal, etc.

The difference in how I feel, since I eliminated most of that stuff, is indescribable.

[mamadelbosque]

At the very least theres always some sort of veggie w/ dinner - a salad or green beans usually, often with tomato sauce or salsa as well. And I try to snack on oranges, apples, celery, broccoli, carrots, etc instead of crackers and chips and stuff during the day. DS1 has learned he can pretty much always have an apple to snack on and helps himself to them from the fridge when the mood strikes him - once or twice a day, usually.

[Rosehip]

Some days I won't have fruit, or much (sometimes just the dried fruit in my homemade granola). I'm not a huge fruit fan, and a lot of what I do eat is just sharing whatever fruit my kids are eating.

But I always have veggies @ least with dinner.

Today, thus far I had grapefruit at breakfast (along with scrambled eggs & toast) and lunch was homemade beef chili with loads of beans & veggies (carrots, celery, onion, garlic, black beans, mushrooms). I had a couple of slices of an apple that I shared with the kids.

[raksmama]

[QUOTE=Magelet;15126088]

I don't feel fruit is a must have in a diet, but a treat. they have a lot of sugar and no vital nutrients that aren't found in other foods. that isn't to say I think they are bad, I just don't think one needs to stress about including them in their diet if you don't like them.. QUOTE]

I agree that one should definitely eat more vegetables than fruit, but how about all the anti oxidants in berries and grapes, the enzymes in some tropical fruits like papayas or pineapple or the flavoids in grapefruits?
I do think fruit as a lot to offer.