How many *different* fruits and vegetables does your kid eat per week?
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Anonymous
There’s a difference between “variety” and 25/week. As I and another poster have said, nature rarely/never provides 25 different varieties of produce in one location at one time, so how can this recommendation possibly be relevant? You sound like you are taking your mom’s recommendation seriously when you really shouldn’t be. |
) for thought and less prescriptive than even "Strive for Five." Maybe it's because my mom is a doctor, and I know how many crappy ones there are, but I would absolutely never take the thoughts of one doctor as Gospel. But you do you.
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My 4yo is pretty picky about veggies, so we eat a lot of the same ones. In a week we usually have peas, corn, carrots, cucumber, zucchini, and either broccoli or cauliflower. His older sister eats almost everything, so add another 2 or 3 for her.
Fruit, we pretty much always have apples, pears, and bananas. The rest is more seasonal. This week we had cantaloupe and mangos. So that’s 11-15 for us for the week. |
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Broccoli, peas, sweet potatoes every week, plus 1-2 more vegetables (asparagus and corn maybe).
Apples, bananas, grapefruit, clementines, strawberries or blueberries most weeks, plus 1-2 more fruits some weeks (pineapple and another berry maybe). So probably 10-12 in an average week. My son a couple less because he is pickier. I can do 15-20 more easily because I like salads and there is a salad bar at work with lots of options. |
Anonymous
| MAybe 2 each week but I have a teenager. It wasn’t much different when he was younger. Apples and either oranges or bananas. Sometimes I splurge on strawberries. |
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This week:
apples oranges strawberries kiwi blueberries (in smoothie) banana (smoothie) avocado garlic ginger scallion broccoli spinach cucumber carrots tomato celery That's a pretty average week for us in terms of number although we buy different fruits and veg each week. I do think buying more variety leads to more overall consumption for me. |
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every week we are pretty much the same
zuchinni bell peppers green peppers cucumber tomatoes mushrooms bok choy spinach green beans celery carrots peas corn cauliflower strawberries blueberries peaches blackberries mango papaya raspberries kiwi green apples and red apples pears |
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Apple
Orange Banana Strawberries Blackberries Honeydew Kiwi Baby carrots Cucumber Bell pepper Spinach Peas Corn Onion Celery Garlic Tomato Asparagus Cilantro We usually eat cucumber, carrots, peppers, tomato, celery spinach raw with lunch (one or two) and the rest usually cooked. Frequently I cook celery, tomato and spinach as well. |
Anonymous
| Is this post for real? How do people afford so many fresh fruits and vegetables? I feel good if I can buy 3 types of fruit each week and enough vegetables to make a few salads. |
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Fruits, yes. Vegetables, no. The rotation includes:
apples, oranges, pears, kiwi variety of berries grapes watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, pineapple bananas, avocado broccoli, cucumbers lettuce, tomato, peppers (only one of my kids) sweet potato and squash (only one of my kids) potatoes only in the form of french fries carrots, occasionally peas, corn on the cob spinach if I can hide it in another dish |
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In the past week I guess:
lettuce cucumber bell pepper carrot olive radish snap pea peas corn potato onion cilantro soup with lots of veggies but unclear which probably frozen broccoli clementine raspberry blackberry cantaloupe red grapes apple peach (in smoothie) lime juice 10 yo which is somewhat more of a challenge than when he was 3. |
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I doubt we get that much variety (25) ...let’s see, per week:
6yo - Broccoli Cucumber Sweet potato Zucchini Green peas Green beans Cantaloupe Carrot Apples Kiwi Oranges Watermelon Grapes Strawberries Pineapple Banana So that’s 16 4yo- Same as above minus broccoli, add beets |
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In a given week they pretty much always eat:
Peas Broccoli or cauliflower Cucumber Green beans or tomatoes with hummus Sweet potatoes or carrots Spinach or kale or arugula Some kind of onions Some kind of mushroom Some kind of olive or pickled something or other Carrots or peppers Apples Bananas Kiwi or pear or peach Some kind of berry Oranges or citrus fruit Dates Pineapple or melon Mango or grapes |
Anonymous
| ok this thread is depressing. How do you guys have kids who eat all of these? My son just hates veggies and anything new. He only eats carrots and sometimes a tiny bite of broccoli after much negociation, but he hates eat. |
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This is interesting. I get a vegetable box and a fruit box each week. They have a lot but I am not sure we get to 25 different things, even with the trips I still do to the store for random things. Tonight we a salad with edible flowers on it. I think they were radish flowers.
What a great exercise! I am going to try to get to 25 next week! |
Anonymous
Just keep offering. For a long time I would sit the kids down for dinner but "accidentally" only the veggies were ready, the rest of the food just had to cook a little longer... Some kids like to dip veggies in things like ranch dip or ketchup or even maple syrup. Let them try crazy combinations if they want to. Hang in there. It gets better. Just keep offering! |