Think Fruits and Vegetables First!

To eat fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, that is a fantastic and healthy habit, because you fill your body with a lot of vitamins, minerals and fibres. Almost all fruits and vegetables are low  in energy (nuts and avocados are an exemption) but all fruits and vegetables have high amounts of nutritents. If you eat fruit and vegetables raw, that means your teeth have to work (chewing) and that is also very healthy. 

But how to integrate more fruits and vegetables in your daily diet?  
Here you will find a few steps:

• First you have to buy your fruits and vegetables (if you are not a proud owner of a garden). When you go into a super market, go first in the fruit and vegetable department and buy the best quality of fruit and vegetables you may get.  You may spend less money in the other retailer departments, but you have already the most important part - your fruits and vegetables!
• Go as often as possible to farmer markets or markets in your town or village. Organise yourself to buy your fruits and vegetables there as often as possible.
  
• Prepare a shopping list before you go shopping and try to go only into the supermarket when you are not hungry - that helps to avoid grabbing quick filler.
• Give priority to vegetables and make vegetables the main part of your menu. Think first what vegetable is part of your menu and what fruit as a dessert. Then decide and look for the other parts.  
• Have at home always your fruit basket filled and give the fruit basket a prominent decorative place in your kitchen or house. 
• When you are hungry or you need a snack, think fruits and vegetables first and look in your fruit basket what you can eat (an apple, a banana, carrotts in pieces or cherry tomatoes).
• Enjoy the colours, tastes and smell of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Start with really small steps, and try to fill each day with a legume or a fruit. You know all vegetables and fruits by name?

What are your ideas to think of fruits and vegetables first?

Why to eat a raw carrott as often as possible?

There are four good reasons to eat raw carrotts:

1. You will get a clear and wonderful skin,

2. You will feel well and light everyday,

3. Your eyes will thank you for getting a good portion of Vitamin  A,

4. It seems, that raw carrotts have a positive effect on reducing negative blood cholesterol. 

Start slowly with it and start to wash and peel your carrott in the morning and simply put it into your snack box. You can also cut it into smaller pieces. 

If you buy carrotts, take the best quality you can get. Carrotts are really not expensive, also in organic quality, but the most important point is, that you eat a fresh carrott. Please don't eat your carrott in a hurry, chew them carefully in your mouth and try to find out the taste. Some carrotts taste really sweet. 

If you are interested in more information, look at the digital World Carrott Museum here

What are your experiences with carrotts? Do you like eating carrotts?

Enjoy!