This Week's Goal

How many servings of fruits and veggies do you eat? You should be getting at least seven everyday. Fruits and vegetables are loaded with vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fiber and clean calories that your body needs to function optimally. They also contain lots of water which will help in your ongoing quest to stay hydrated.

Getting them all in sounds hard, but when you look at exactly what a serving size is, you will see that it can be done with just a little bit of tweaking.

Each of these listed below counts as one serving:
~1 medium banana
~6 medium strawberries
~15 grapes
~1 inch thick slice of watermelon
~tennis ball-sized apple, peach, orange
~1 cup of blueberries
~10 baby carrots
~5 broccoli florets
~baseball-sized pile of green salad
~1 small boxof raisins
~12 grape tomatoes
~6 asparagus spears
~6 oz. fruit or veggie juice

Box them up and throw them in your purse, add them to your oatmeal, keep them washed and ready in a bowl in your fridge, mix textures (combine the crunchy with the juicy and the creamy), freeze 100% juice for an icy treat; be creative and do whatever you need to do to make it convenient to eat them up. Summer is the perfect time to become a produce-aholic. I love to browse through my grocery store's produce section this time of year and see the mountains of strawberries, blueberries and watermelon. It's enough to make fruit freaks like me giddy!