Food+and+Nutrition

Reflection on Food and Nutrition

2 fruits and 5 vegetable intake seems like an awful lot to me now that the class has gone over it and explained how large a serving is. Personally, I don't think that I meet this requirement, but am now trying to work on it, cooking meals at home for my partner and I and making healthy choices for both of us. I find that it drives me to be healthy when I'm cooking for somebody else and not just me. When I'm home alone I tend to go for the quick, easy and often unhealthy option. Through summer I tend to make fruit smoothies for breakfast when I have time, and I'd say that I do eat seasonally. I was shocked at the amount of additives in pre-packaged foods and soft drink, I'm now consciously buying juices that have no added sugar, etc. It takes much longer to check out the labels when buying groceries, but I feel better for it. I've learnt a few new things from this topic and it opened my eyes a little bit, it's interesting but I think that we covered most of the important things.