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Right Bite: Let’s Get Eight Fruits or Vegetables

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Illustrated fruits and vegetables

Learn how to cut fat and cholesterol from your diet with fruits and vegetables as part of the Right Bite: Setting the Table for Healthy Eating series. Adults and teens will discover fun ways to make tasty changes to their diet and easy changes to their physical activity.

 

Meal or SnackWhat fruit or vegetable could be added or substituted?

Breakfast

  • 2 eggs
  • 1⁄2 cup grits
  • 2 biscuits
  • 2 pats margarine
  • Coffee or milk
Lunch
  • Turkey sandwich
  • Chips
  • Ice cream
  • Iced tea or milk

Snack

  • 2 cookies and milk

Dinner

  • 1 baked chicken breast
  • 1⁄2 cup rice
  • 1⁄2 cup green beans
  • 1 roll with margarine
  • Iced tea, milk, or coffee
  • 1 piece of cake

Snack

  • Popcorn and soft drink

 

Peer ReviewHelen Jones, Shonda Miller, Elaine Softley, and Marilyn Agee, all Regional Extension Agents, Human Nutrition, Diet, and Health, Auburn University

New June 2021, Right Bite: Let’s Get Eight Fruits or Vegetables, FCS-2489

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