5 Alive

I keep reading about various campaigns to make us eat more fruit and vegetables. Its something Ive always taken for granted, after all eating healthly makes perfect sense. The other night however, I got a bit distracted and actually started thinking about how much I eat, or rather dont eat a day.

Suddenly 5 pieces a day seemed like a lot, maybe 4 and in some cases 5 pieces more than I was consuming. So obviously I need to fix this, but how...

When Im busy with work related stuff, we eat really badly. One meal a day kind of badly and fitting that much fruit and veg into one meal is pretty tricky. But then if Im being strictly honest with myself, even when Im not busy we tend to only eat one meal a day. Ive skipped breakfast ever since my secondary school days when my mother could no longer force ready brek down me in the morning. Lunch tended to be an optional extra that again usually ended up missed (so many more useful things to spend your dinner money on when you are sixteen). Then I went to University and lived on cigarettes, tomato cuppa soup and red wine for four years and by that stage my eating habits were pretty much set in stone.

So now I need to find a way to sneak those fruits and vegetables into my diet.