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This is a continuation of the fruit and veg theme (click on the “EMFV” in the TAG CLOUD for the other posts).

Now carrots should be an easy win.    Who doesn’t like carrots?     Three tablespoons equals one healthy portion – which must be about one and a half carrots.    They are packed full of vitamins A and C, although again much is lost in cooking.  It rather seems as though cooking is a bad idea when it comes to eating vegetables in a healthy way.

Still, raw carrots aren’t so bad, certainly rabbits think so.

And don’t I remember carrots improve your eyesight, although that seems to contradict the story about rabbits and headlights  🙂

Stay safe.   Stay off the road when you’re  eating your carrots, or it may not be healthy eating after all !

This is a continuation of the fruit and veg theme (click on the “EMFV” in the TAG CLOUD for the other posts).

Broccoli has become the trendy to eat healthy veg.    Two large spears count as one of your seven, if you know what I mean.

It is rich in vitamin C, but the catch is that the vitamin C is lost when you cook it.   I wonder where it goes?    So you have to eat it raw to get the full benefit, which is a bit more of a challenge.

This healthy eating lark is beginning to be hard work.  I feel like I could be wading through a forest of broccoli.

This is a continuation of the fruit and veg theme (click on the “EMFV” in the TAG CLOUD for the other posts).

When it comes to healthy eating, bananas are a no brainer.  Full of potassium, therefore good for blood pressure.  Presumably that means lowering it not increasing it.  Got to be careful though, a large banana contains seven teaspoons of sugar.  Oops!

My childhood view of bananas was they made great doorstop bread and butter sandwiches, liberally sprinkled with added sugar.   Strange that you don’t find them in trendy sandwich shops like Pret a Manger or Upper Crust nor in the Sealed Box, Cost-a-lot, sandwiches of M & S.

Still, these must now be just childhood memories.   Bread, butter and most of all, sugar and all fruit-non-gratis.  Banana sandwiches have had all the fun taken out in pursuit of the serious business of healthy eating.

However, bananas are the most convenient of convenience foods, they come in their own wrapper and fit easily into a pocket or a handbag.    The problem only comes when you eat the banana.    What do you do with the skin?    You can never find a bin when you want one and you can’t put it back in your handbag or pocket.    If you drop it on the pavement you will be liable for a fine from the litter police patrols.

Or worse still, if someone slips on your cast off banana skin, you could be caught up in a no-win, no-fee personal injury claim that could run into millions of pounds.

So be extra careful.    Your healthy eating regime could be expensive.

 There is many a slip between banana and lip 🙂

This is a continuation of the fruit and veg theme (click on the “EMFV” in the TAG CLOUD for the other posts).

The next delicacy on my healthy eating menu must be tomatoes.

Bright red, juicy, plentiful tomatoes, available in the supermarkets all year round.   Of course the winter ones are grown in Israel or Morocco or somewhere, so there will be a little damage to your carbon footprint, but maybe its OK to overlook climate change in the interests of your health.    The other minor problem is the winter tomatoes don’t taste like tomatoes, but they are probably still full of nutrients.

Summer tomatoes are easy to grow in your own garden in pots or in the ground, although they need quite a lot of attention, especially watering every day.     Still, the exercise will all add to your healthy living regime.   It is not necessary to talk to them unless you are  Prince Charles.

Watch out for slugs, snails and caterpillars, they can be added to your salad if you want some variety and fancy a “bush tucker trial”.

Tomatoes are ideal for sandwiches with lashings of salad cream, except in the interests of healthy living you should maybe leave out the bread and the salad cream.   Just one tomato counts as one of your seven.    They are rich in lycopene, and you can never get enough lycopene, it is a nutrient that protects against cancer.    They also contain 40% of your daily requirement of vitamin C, so if you suck a lemon at the same time, that should do the job.

Finally, tomatoes do not last for long, so before they go too soft, make another of your seven by juicing them in a blender adding tabasco, Worcester sauce and a large vodka.

Bloody Mary’s are not on the Government healthy eating list, but who cares  🙂