Eat sandwiches or wraps that include several vegetables, such as mushrooms, tomatoes, sprouts, green peppers, cucumbers, or other raw vegetables.
• Include a mixed green salad or a vegetable soup with your lunch or dinner.
• After a run, ride or walk on your lunch break, snack on some power food — fruits and vegetables. And quench your thirst with 100% juice!
• Choose a baked potato or sweet potato in place of French fries.
• Add crunch and color to pasta or potato salad with green or red pepper strips, broccoli florets, carrot slices, or cucumber.
• When grilling, be sure to wrap vegetables in aluminum foil. Or grill skewers of pineapple, eggplant, nectarines, zucchini, or cherry tomatoes.
• Bring color or character to your salads by sprinkling in baby carrots, shredded cabbage, or spinach leaves.
• Perk up deli salads like coleslaw, chicken, or tuna with apple chunks, pineapple, or raisins.
• Grill fruit or vegetable skewers over medium-hot coals for a fun-to-eat and flavorful BBQ treat.
• Toss grapefruit and/or orange sections in a fresh crunchy salad of mixed greens. The sweet citrus and crisp lettuce are an incredible wake-up call for the taste buds, and the juice from the segments moistens each leaf.
• Make homemade salsa with tomatoes, mangoes, avocados, red onions, cilantro and lime juice.
• You can get some of your 5 A Day at a restaurant too. Try vegetable pizza, vegetable pasta (but watch out for cream sauces), or a fresh vegetable “wrap.” Instead of French fries, order a plain baked potato, vegetable soup, or a small salad.
• Try tossing fruit into your green salads. Oranges, grapefruit, or nectarine slices add extra flavor to your 5 A Day salad.
