Getting More Fruit Into Your Diet

There are many great reasons to try and eat a lot more fruit, and you are probably already aware of many of them. Having a lot of fruit in your diet ensures that you have a wide range of minerals and nutrients which are essentially for healthy living. It also means that you are going to have a much easier time of keeping weight off, as eating fruit tends to have that kind of effect. But how can you make sure that you are getting as much fruit as possible into your diet? Let’s take a look at some of the best ways to achieve this right now.

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Plan It Out

If you are not already doing this, you might want to think about finding a way to plan out how much fruit and veg you are eating. Having a planner or a diary of some kind and marking off the fruit as you eat it ensures that you are keeping on top of it, and it is just so much simpler this way on the whole. You’ll be amazed at how much you are able to achieve by doing this, so it’s definitely time to start plotting out your fruit consumption a little more if you are able to.

Add It To Dishes

There are a lot of everyday dishes that can have extra fruit added to them, and this is something that a lot of people are starting up and waking up to at the moment. Very often you can improve a home-cooked dish with the addition of a fruit, and this will also help to make the dish a lot healthier as well. Anyone who enjoys being a home cook is going to want to be aware of these kinds of changes, so they are something you might want to look up.

Make Delicious Desserts

Fruits are very important in desserts, of course, and if you are able to make some delicious and amazing desserts then you are going to have an easy and enjoyable way to get a lot more fruit into your diet in general. You can easily make delicious desserts by simply ensuring that you are looking up some new recipes. Sometimes it’s as simple as taking a fruit like a kumquat and doing something very basic with it – learn more about kumquats here – or else you can include it in a tart, pie or other dessert.

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Eat A RainbowIf you want to eat more fruit, one way is to widen out that attempt and to generally try to eat a lot more fruit and veg on the whole. In general, they say that you should eat a rainbow, which means you are eating fruit and veg of all kinds of colours. If you are doing that on the whole, then in general it means you are going to be eating a lot of fruit, so that is something that you should definitely think about in particular. It is really going to help.

Anne

I'm a mother of 2 who likes to get involved in too much! Besides writing here I started a non-profit, I'm on the PTO board, very active in my community and volunteer in the school. I enjoy music, reading, cooking, traveling and spending time with my family. We just adopted our 3rd cat and love them all!

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