When I told the dietitians/nutritionists at WIC that you guys wanted to count garbanzo beans, brown rice and hummus as vegetables they laughed (and one's a vegetarian). I looked up on the USDA food website and you can get by with calling fresh corn, peas, and green beans as a vegetable but beans should be considered a protein and rice and corn that's made into a bread should be a grain.
I tried to find a good vegan pyramid but I couldn't find one that listed serving sizes or one that I could easily see what constitutes a fruit and vegetable and what counts as a protein or grain.
Roothy, I like you're idea of having a smoothie at night. I haven't been able to force myself to make a smoothie in the morning because it's so cold and then I don't feel like cooking at night either when it's so hot. Why can't I have my smoothie at night and eat my toast or oatmeal in the morning?
So far today I have had a serving of avocado (on a sandwich), a large baby romaine lettuce salad (but the box still said one serving), and a cup of cantelope (with plain soy yogurt) I also had two pieces of toast with marmite, (does marmite count as anything?). Tonight I will have a smoothie and a left-over artichoke. That will clock me in at five servings of five different fruits or vegetables today.
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I have training in Waco all this week so I've been eating out every day for lunch. I had ministrone soup, a double helping of salad, and 1 1/2 breadsticks from Olive Garden. I had my morning smoothie and finished off my bisquits for breakfast. I had a fairly big container of grapes for morning snack and a Luna Bar before my afternoon workout. My Mexican pizza for dinner was a whole wheat pita with mashed black beans, some nutritional yeast flakes, and broccoli slaw heated in the toaster oven and then topped with guacamole. Followed by a lot of grapes and then chased down with Go Lean Crunch cereal (in a mug so I think I'm not eating as much),
ReplyDeleteAlso, even though I worked out for 50 minutes, I've been hula hooping for like an hour as I watched TV and then blogged. It's not easy to type on an iPhone while hula hooping.
All I had yesterday, (July 8th) was a smoothie in the morning and an avodaco sandwich. I meant to eat a salad or an artichoke when I got home but I didn't feel like it. This is why I need to work on eating better earlier.
ReplyDeleteI'm really impressed that you kept up with your excercise routine even when at a conference.
Kipsy, what are you training for?
ReplyDeleteAfter eating a Jethro salad and a V-8 every day, I pretty much reach 8-10 servings of veggies right there. Add a smoothie, and I'm getting 10-12.
ReplyDeleteI see what your nutritionists are saying re: rice, but I think they are wrong re: beans (and hummus, which is just mashed beans). Beans maybe be high in protein, but they are also high in the things we are supposed to be eating vegetables for, too (vitamins and flavinoids). This is not true for other high protein foods, like animal products or even nuts.
The training is for Gifted and Talented students and it's in Waco close to where I work. I go home each afternoon, so it's like a typical workday.
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