Adding Nutrition the 5-a-day Way 
1.  Have fruit or juice with breakfast.
2.  Add raisins, bananas, or berries to your cereal.
3.  Eat canned peaches for breakfast.
4.  Make a fruit Shake.
5.  Add blueberries or mashed bananas to pancake batter.
6.  Have a fresh vegetable with lunch.
7.  Eat a piece of fruit at lunch.
8.  Have sprouts or tomato slices on a sandwich.
9.  Choose a vegetable soup.
10.  Puree soups to blend vegetable flavors.
11.  Top pizza with broccoli.
12.  Have spinach lasagna.
13.  Try a new kind of vegetable.
14.  Cook and extra vegetable for supper.
15.  Make a stir-fry.
16.  Make fruit kabobs.
17.  Grill vegetable kabobs.
18.  Eat celery stuffed with peanut butter.
19.  Eat fruit while you watch television.
20.  Eat fruit with fruit dip.
21.  When baking, replace part of the oil a recipe calls for with applesauce.
22.  Blenderize peaches or pears to serve on pancakes.
23.  Make banana pudding.
24.  Make strawberry shortcake.
25.  Make a fruit cobbler.
26.  Enjoy a pumpkin pie.
27.  Serve yogurt with fruit for dessert.
28.  Add sliced bananas to fruit cocktail for dessert.
29.  Mix canned fruit with gelatin.
30.  Keep dried fruit in your car, purse, or desk drawer for a quick snack.
31.  Bake sweet potatoes.
32.  Use spaghetti squash in your favorite spaghetti pasta sauce.


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