Dietary Advice

[sunny-dave]

I am anxious to improve my consumption of green carp (sp?) - so I had an extra large portion of mushy peas with my fish&chips.

Can anyone tell me how many of my "5 a Week" this counts as?

[spathiphyllum]

at least three

[spathiphyllum]

how many peas roughly were there?

[TonyV]

Spath never counted peas

[spathiphyllum]

i usually have one or two a day, sometimes three. Is that normal? Am i drinking enough?

[Patsy33]

About 80gms counts as 1 portion of your 5 a day

[ubasses]

3 tablespoons will be one portion.

[ubasses]

This will make it easy for you to measure your 5 a day.

https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/5ADAY/Documents/Downloads/5ADAY_portion_guide.pdf

[spathiphyllum]

Don't forget to count the chips dave, potato is a veg

[Mamyalynne]

A dollop of ketchup will up your intake Dave.

[pixie374]

I've had a Google and seen suggestions that one bowl counts as one portion and also that they have too many additives to count at all... but the 5 a day is made up, so I wouldn't worry too much x

[Patsy33]

I don't think potatoes count as 1 of your 5 a day Spath..

[Tilly2]

Haha!

Green carp is a fish, Is it not?

[Captain2]

@ S-D, ;0)))

[spathiphyllum]

Mamy i like your thinking!

Enough of that Patsy ;P Of course it is!

[Mamyalynne]

I got round all this faffing about by buying new plates, not smaller ones - ones decorated with vegetables.

Every meal looks healthy now.

[spathiphyllum]

ah paper plates it is for me, if i've ran out then newspaper will suffice. Can't be doing any washing up on a week day.

[sunny-dave]

Thanks everyone - by my calculation I can fulfil my '5 a day' by eating approximately 20 tins of Mushy Peas per week.

This should ensure my continued bowel health, but the resultant eructations may have catastrophic consequences for the Ozone Layer ...

[tonyav]

Dave, for gawds sake don't eat the sprouts ;-)

[Hopkirk]

Wine is really just grapes, so it counts towards your 5 a year.