too many blogs... cutting down!

As suspected, I got bored. Not exactly bored, but writing in a blog everyday has become a little tedious. I have therefore decided that I will write in the blog perhaps once a week.

So far so good this week. Lots of vegies, heaps of water and my 2 fruits a day!! I can already feel a difference after eating the 'right' foods. Having a salad for lunch everyday is easy (and I actually look forward to it.. will be making a new dressing next week to try out! thanks Jamie Oliver!) but its trying to incorporate more vegies into our evening meals, thats the hard bit! The last coupla weeks I have just been doing salad and meat or something like that.. but that can get a bit boring, specially after having a big salad at lunch. PLUS I know Dru would like more variety :-)
I have been looking up vegetarian recipes and figured I can just add meat in there for Dru.. there are SO many yummy recipes out there...
http://www.gofor2and5.com.au/ has quite a lot of good recipes and it tells you how many servings of veges there is per meal!
I have been basing my vege intake from the information on go for 2 and 5.
eg: 1 serve of veges = 1/2 cup cooked veges = 1 cup of salad = 1 medium potato
It also has heaps of tips on how to incorporate more veges in your day :-)

Also on go for 2 and 5, is the food pyramid and the recommended dietary intakes for your gender and age. I am stunned as to how many things you should be eating per day.. how are you supposed to fit all that in!!
5 serve veges - see above for serving of vege
2 serve fruit - a serve is 2 small or one big fruit
4-9 serves of grains eg: breads, cereals, rice, noodles, pasta !!!!!! 1 cup cooked rice/pasta, 2 slices of bread, 1 bread roll, 1 cup cereal, 1/2 cup muesli, 1 cup porridge
2 dairy - 1 cup milk, 1 tub yoghurt, 2 slices cheese,
1 serve of meat or poultry including nuts, eggs and legumes if you're a vego - meat/chicken is max 100gm serve, eggs = 2 small, nuts = 1/3 cup, legumes eg; lentils = 1/2 cup.

I would say i'm good with vege, fruit and dairy... but I eat too much in the meat category (chicken and nuts for me!)... and I'm not even a big meat eater!!! and not enough grains... how is one supposed to get 4-9 servings of grains, based on what the serves are!! and this is what we're supposed to eat everyday! thats tough.. don't reckon I could eat that much! and i even chose my category eg: woman between 19-60.

lots to think about when you're trying to be healthy but I guess once you get used to eating a big variety of foods, it's not so hard.

anyways, ciao!