5+ A Day. Have you practice that?

5+ A Day was a campaign launched in NZ in 1994 by the non-profit organization United Fresh NZ Inc to encourage all New Zealanders to eat and enjoy eating 5 or more servings of fruit and vegetables every day for health, taste and variety.

There was similar campaign launched in Singapore as well but it was called 2+2 - "Eat two servings of fruit and two servings of vegetables daily".

I like serving portion image shown on United Fresh NZ Inc website (as shown below):

“A serving is about a handful – this is why we have a hand in our logo to measure servings. Everyone uses their own hand to measure their servings. This means a serving for an adult is a lot bigger than a serving for a small child.”

BUT… how many of us really practice it? I doubt, even myself. Hehe..

Why said so? The facts are...

• Many people do not eat breakfast
  
  May be they do not have time? Some people do have the habit of having breakfast. Yesss… I ever heard one of the ladies in the office saying “Oh.. I usually don eat breakfast. I don have the habit of eating breakfast la…”. Alamak!

• Carbo and protein breakfast

What breakfast would you have? Beehon/fried noodle with egg, nasi lemak, currypuff, sausage with egg, chicken porridge or yao za guai?

• Lunch without fruits and vege
  

What lunch you usually have? Prawn noodle, fried fish noodle, cha siew rice, chicken rice, noddles? Some people eat 2 vege + 1 meat rice. Some people will have fruits after lunch. The number of fruit and vegetable serving could be just 3 servings or less after all.

• Dinner? How many serving of fruit and vege you mange to take?

I had a jumbo fruit set with my daughter yesterday evening. She was so excited to see so many fruits on the plate. Haha...we ate everything on the plate... feeling great.

Hmm…I gotto really put the 5+ A Day in practice. How about you, my friends?