1) I find that if I eat at least one fruit with breakfast, it's easier to get the other 4 fruits or veggies in, two at lunch and two at dinner. Good ideas are: strawberries or bananas in your cereal, a cup of fruit juice, fresh fruit on the side with your cereal, etc.
2) Fruits are great snacks for the middle of the day! So are those ever popular carrot sticks from Weight Watchers days!
3) Often I find that the natural sugars in fruits help me need less artificial sugars that are in other junk foods.
4) Go for big salads for either lunch or dinner! This is a great way to have lots of servings of vegetables (or even fruits, depending on the kind of salad) in one shot. And if you watch the extras and amount of dressing, it's very low in fat. A nice grilled chicken breast on top will give you some protein for the meal. And, with Blaked Goods, you've got lots of other ideas for salads this summer!
Hopefully those ideas will help out. As winter comes, go for soups and stews that have lots of veggies, too! Remember to get your 5 a day!
Heart,
Emily
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About #2..... I don't think I could ever go back to the carrots from the original Weight Watchers days. I ate so many of the baby carrots as I stayed up late in the dorm room working on homework (because the carrots were better for me than junk food) that now I can't ever seem to finish an entire bag of baby carrots before they go bad or I lose my desire to eat them. But, I did continue to lose weight my freshman year (instead of gaining the freshman 15)!
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