How many plants do your kids eat in a week?
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Anonymous
| We're an Asian family. Seems easy to hit that mark weekly. We eat a lot of vegetables, grains, and fruits. |
Anonymous
| They only eat when they go to school, so it’s definitely zero. |
Anonymous
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What counts as a plant? Do bread, pasta and cereal count? Because my kids eat a lot of grains.
If you’re just talking about fruits, vegetables, herbs, legumes then my kids eat: -tons of variety in fruits every week: all types of berries, melons, apples, bananas, oranges, plums, pears, etc. -less variety because there are fewer veggies that they’ll reliably eat but they eat at least 2 servings a day. They’ll have: carrots, broccoli, corn, potatoes, salad greens with tomatoes and cucumber, bell peppers, avocado (I know some of these are technically fruit) -peanut butter almost daily for one kid, cashews probably a couple times a week -basil, cilantro, garlic, oregano will be mixed in w their food. |
Anonymous
| When I’ve read these articles, they say that coffee, tea, and spice blends count. Our family has no problem meeting the 30-40 goal in a week if each bite, sip and spice shake counts. Think how much an everything bagel alone will add! |
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Anonymous
| We're probably fairly close to that, definitely over if you count herbs/spices. But I have a kiddo who isn't picky, more so a "foodie" honestly, even loves roasted brussels sprouts, and has zero texture issues. She's not NT, but her diagnosis don't effect her food intake. If that wasn't the case, I could see this being a bigger issue. |
Anonymous
I mean... yes? I took OP's question literally - how many plants does your child eat? OP didn't specifiy healthy plants and I didn't assume this was a healthy eating question, just a variety of eating question. The biggest food crops we eat in the US are corn, soy, wheat, rice, and I forgot about oils so probably rapeseed (canola oil). And yes, sugarcane is a crop, it comes from a plant, so yes, I'm sure my kids eat sugar so does't that count as a plant they eat? I mean - did you think OP was asking how many different types of VEGETABLES my kids eat? Because that's a different question. And yes, my kids and I eat lemons and limes. They are plant foods. No we don't eat a lot of them, but we use them in drinks and in cooking, in sauces and pies too. |
Anonymous
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"Do potato chips doritos count because they are potatoes and corn?"
They do count as plant foods, yes. What did you think they were made out of? They don't particularly help in getting to a more diverse food diet, because we already eat so much corn and potatoes, though. |
Anonymous
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Excluding junk food and processed food (e.g., polenta), probably, but we are vegetarians and kid is not a picky eater. Do we add in fat? Yes, but if you assume 4-5 servings a day of fruit and veg, that’s probably about right.
Home breakfast is either eggs and fruit with nuts or yogurt and fruit with nuts. School breakfast is some bad carb plus a large fruit serving Home-made lunch always has fruit serving and salad serving Dinner is always lots of veg. |
Anonymous
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I’m curious so I’m listing what DS ate today but I’m too lazy to do an entire week.
Breakfast French toast -wheat -3-4 different seeds -strawberries -maple syrup, is that a plant food? Snack -apple Lunch pbj -wheat same as above -3-4 different seeds as above -peanut butter -4 fruits jam -peppers… 3 colors counts as 3 different foods according to the articles -tomatoes -carrots Snack granola bar -oats -amaranth -prob sesame and another 1-2 plant items Dinner salmon fried rice Rice Edamame Soy (tofu) Seaweed Onion Garlic Squash Broccoli Carrot already listed above Ginger Pepper Dessert mini ice cream bar -almonds That’s 31 I think. |
Anonymous
| 17 plants per week |
Anonymous
This made me laugh...thank you! OP your post sounds either tentative or holier than thou---maybe you have too much time on your hands. Time to go back to work? |
Anonymous
6 or 8 types then? Do better! |