5 portions of fruit and veg a day... Do you get yours? • Non-Gaming • Food • Eurogamer.net

Murbs 18 Apr 2006 16:38:57 25,151 posts
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For a healthy lifestyle, and to help ward off the big C. A glass of OJ in the morning, a couple of apples, a banana, a small red box of raisins. They all count y'know.

Do you get enough? Or are you the fat, lazy, overweight, greasy, spotty gamer eating yourselves into an early grave?

Edited by Murbal at 16:39:08 18-04-2006

Deleted user 18 April 2006 16:40:02

I probably have more than 5 portions a day.

Doesn't it have to be something like 5 different portions though? So you couldn't just eat 5 oranges and be done with it, for example.

morriss 18 Apr 2006 16:40:03 71,293 posts
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NO and I'm a lean, mean, fighting machine!

/waits for phAge's bump back down to earth

Grunk 18 Apr 2006 16:41:03 4,718 posts
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oats in the morinig.

soup for lunch with 4 pieces of fruit.

bloody starving by 4pm every day.

then have to go home and immediately overload on cheese and anything that's nice.

StixxUK 18 Apr 2006 16:44:03 8,755 posts
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Don't forget

beer - brewed from plants = veg
peanuts - more vegetable than animal or mineral = veg.

megastar 18 Apr 2006 16:44:14 17,238 posts
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Nope. I just eat loads of crap becuase I have a high metabollll.. Metaboll....... I can eat a lot and im not a fatty.

morriss 18 Apr 2006 16:44:30 71,293 posts
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Well, my dinner tonight is Pan-fried Plaice, with fresh Parlsey and butter with new potatoes and runner beans.

Nigel Slater ftw!

The_Aardvark 18 Apr 2006 16:44:43 3,063 posts
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Furbs wrote:
Chocolate = cocoa beans = from a plant = veg
Coca Cola = cocoa beans = from a plant = veg (even says extracts).
Crisps = potato = veg

Healthier than Jamie Olivers kids me.

Cocal Cola= coca leaves not cocoa beans. That is, the plant they make cocaine out of, not the plant they make chocolate out of.

Also Cola nuts, and mild stimulant from Africa.

Murbs 18 Apr 2006 16:50:52 25,151 posts
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/pops round to morriss' for tea

morriss 18 Apr 2006 16:52:49 71,293 posts
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Murbal wrote:
/pops round to morriss' for tea

Lays table for one more.

Deleted user 18 April 2006 16:55:05

Tuna steak for me! Get fucking IINNNNNNN

Murbs 18 Apr 2006 16:57:50 25,151 posts
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What gets me...

How many grapes to a 'portion'? What about a large banana compared to a small one? Size has to be an issue.

magicpanda 18 Apr 2006 16:58:24 15,130 posts
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Meat and two veg....

WAHEEYYYY!! Eh! eh! eh! ;-)

They look like a cock and balls!

/leaves thread forever.

Decoded 18 Apr 2006 17:22:53 4,426 posts
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On average I consume approximately 0.3 portions a day.

If eating healthily is to be a viable option then some clever fucker should invent healthy food that doesn't taste like shit.

minkyqueen 18 Apr 2006 17:27:01 1,880 posts
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Murbal wrote:
What gets me...

How many grapes to a 'portion'? What about a large banana compared to a small one? Size has to be an issue.

1 portion of grapes would be a good handful. Anything loose is usually worked out into 1 handful per portion.

With bananas, the ripeness is more important than the size. Slightly underripe bananas are better for you than overripe ones.

oceanmotion 18 Apr 2006 17:27:53 17,358 posts
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Most of the time. Love my fruit. Veg, not so much.

Derblington 18 Apr 2006 18:41:13 35,161 posts
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Bollocks do I. 1 multivitamin and I'm good to go.

phAge 18 Apr 2006 18:45:15 25,487 posts
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morriss wrote:
NO and I'm a lean, mean, fighting machine!

/waits for phAge's bump back down to earth

Well, I would, but...

/looks at transparent walls and ceiling

Nah - I'm getting there, on a diet of low-fat meat (chicken, turkey and 3-6% beef) and veggies. The total lack of carbs is strange at first, but it works (sorta)! \o/

Pike 18 Apr 2006 18:46:57 13,459 posts
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Bah! No-carbs is bullshit. At least if you work out on a regular basis. Then you need your carbohydrates.

Edited by Pike at 18:49:19 18-04-2006

AHiFi 18 Apr 2006 18:48:36 1,667 posts
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OJ
Apples
Strawberries
Sour Grapes on PDZ

ProfessorLesser 18 Apr 2006 18:52:10 19,693 posts
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Juice blenders are teh shizzle.

In with apple quarters.

In with orange.

In with half a grapefruit.

In with 10 strawberries.

Half a lemon for luck.

Fucking MMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

EatLessMoveMore 18 Apr 2006 18:58:39 126 posts
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ProfessorLesser wrote:
Juice blenders are teh shizzle.

In with apple quarters.

In with orange.

In with half a grapefruit.

In with 10 strawberries.

Half a lemon for luck.

Fucking MMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm............

How the hell do you drink that, it must be like bloody treacle...

Hunam85 18 Apr 2006 19:05:10 4,114 posts
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I had 5 beers today, and a pizza, do i win?

Hunam85 18 Apr 2006 19:34:06 4,114 posts
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isnt there anyway i could get to the bright light with out walking, is there a taxi service available?

Deleted user 18 April 2006 20:55:09

Heh, great thing about the '5 a day' thing is that it's apparently a bare minimum - health authorities in the US are now recommending that people eat 7-9 portions a day (here).

I started trying to do this a few years ago and although at first it was a complete pain, it eventually became second nature - pure orange with breakfast, banana midmorning, salad with lunch, apple after, random fruit smoothie in the afternoon, two to three veg with dinner, some random fruit for dessert. Mind you I've never had much of a sweet tooth so that does help somewhat.

Excellently, work has just started providing free fruit for everyone too - I'll save a fortune!

reality_cheque 19 Apr 2006 08:26:57 7,486 posts
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ProfessorLesser wrote:
Juice blenders are teh shizzle.

3 oranges, quarter of a pineapple and a handful of grapes. Fookin' lush.

Annoyingly my kitchen isn't big enough to have my juicer out on the side so it tends to get forgotten about along with my George Foreman.

pjmaybe 19 Apr 2006 08:56:53 70,666 posts
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Sure do.

Dried fruit on my brekkie...fresh fruit for snacks and lunch, apple and fruit-stacked yoghurt for tea...

And a nice round peach before bedtime

Peej

catterz 19 Apr 2006 09:02:28 8,763 posts
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I'd say I get two or three portions of veg, but normally very little fruit.

Oh well, I'm still alive.

/checks

Aw, shucks.

Furbs 14 Jun 2007 22:45:51 45,740 posts
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Chocolate = cocoa beans = from a plant = veg
Coca Cola = cocoa beans = from a plant = veg (even says extracts).
Crisps = potato = veg

Healthier than Jamie Olivers kids me.