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?