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#ExtraVeg December 2015 – A Simple Way to a Healthier Diet

Published on December 1, 2015 by Elizabeth 2 Comments
Last Updated on July 22, 2017

Extra Veg - A Simpler Way to a Healthier Diet

There is plenty of scientific research showing that increasing one’s daily consumption of fresh fruit and vegetables reduces the risks of heart disease, cancers, obesity and lowers overall mortality. Government guidelines suggest we should aim to consume five portions of fresh fruit and vegetables to maintain good health, but advice released last year recommends increasing this to 7 or even 10 portions per day.

Vegetables are naturally high in fibre, filling you up quicker, meaning if you include plenty in your diet you will, by default, eat fewer unhealthier foods.

How do you get Extra Veg into your diet?

In this blogging challenge, developed by Helen over at Fuss Free Flavours and Michelle from Utterly Scrummy (guest hosted by me this month) we hope to share inspirational Extra Veg recipes from around the food blogging world. Helen’s philosophy is:

Forget diets and eat a generous portion of (raw) vegetables with every meal whenever you can.

HOW TO ENTER

• To take part simply blog about any recipe which includes an extra portion of vegetables.
• Link up your recipes below, grabbing the badge and the blog hop code if you fancy.
• Make sure you link back to Fuss Free Flavours, Utterly Scrummy and me (this blog post).
• Tweet your entries mentioning @TangoRaindrop and #ExtraVeg and I will retweet all that I see.
• By entering you are giving permission for a photo to be used in the round up and pinned to Pinterest.
• Linky closes on the 28th of December.
• Please be respectful of copyright.
• Share with as many other blogging challenges you would like – See the Food Blog Diary for other challenges.



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    December 5, 2015 at 4:38 pm

    […] I am sharing this with this month’s My Legume Love Affair, this month’s Extra Veg, and Meat Free […]

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