Tips to Help You Fit More Fruits and Vegetables in Your Diet

5 ways to fit fruit into your diet

1. Fit them in with your meals: 

Breakfast - Top your cereal with fruit, add fruit to pancakes, add fruit to yogurt.

Lunch - Pack a piece of fruit in your lunch, get fruit off of the salad bar 

Diner - Eat fruit for dessert

2. Have them as snacks: Eat fruit as a snack between meals. Spread peanut butter on apple slices or top plain yogurt with berries. 100% frozen juice bars make for a healthier alternative than a high fat snack.

3. Make fruit appealing: Make a fruit salad or a berry mix 

4. Make fruit convenient: Keep fruit in a fruit bowl on the counter to serve as a reminder. When buying whole fruit, cut it up and place in containers before refrigerating.

5. Drink them: Have about 8oz of 100% fruit juice (remember the high sugar and cal content) with breakfast. Use a juicer to juice your own fruit. 

5 Ways to fit vegetables into your diet

1. Include a salad with your diner each night: Eat a small salad before dinner (chose a low cal dressing).

2. Make vegetables appealing: Keep cut up veggies in a clear container in your fridge and eat with a low cal dip.

3. Plan some dinners around a vegetable main dish such as: stir fry or soup.

4. Include chopped vegetables in pasta or rice.

5. Drink them! Make a vegetable juice to drink.