Hey team and welcome to Ask Dr Hazel our new mini episodes that will be dropping throughout

season 7. I'm your host Dr Hazel and I'll be answering all your burning questions.

First of all thank you to everyone who is sending questions already and if you would like to submit

a question to the podcast for your chance to feature on here it can be on any topic related to

health fitness nutrition mindset, women's health, anything that we talk about basically.

Please send your voice recorder questions to Ellie at thefoodmedic.co.uk.

So let's jump into this week's listener question. Hi Hazel I am wondering if you've got any clever

ideas to get more veg and fruit into my diet when I am really busy at work and my automatic lunch

when I'm working from home would just be eggs on toast or toast with cheese and soup. I rarely have

time to prep anything in advance and I'm just wondering if you've got any clever tips of how to

get my five a day. Thank you. Amazing thank you so much for your question and I definitely have

some clever ideas to help you get more fruit and veg into your diet. I actually think a lot of

people struggle with this especially when working long shifts or juggling a hectic schedule I know I do.

So just so we're on the same page here in the UK we use the term five a day which refers to the

recommendation to eat at least five portions of fruit and veg a day and this includes fresh

canned frozen fruit veg and also dried fruit so there's loads of options to choose from.

A portion of fruit juice also counts but only counts as one of your five a day and the same goes

for beans and pulses. So back to the question how can we fit more fruit and veg into our diet?

I'm going to use the examples that you gave me so say you're having eggs on toast that's easy.

You could add in some grilled tomatoes mushrooms avocado even beans to the side or you could

swap it for an omelet and add in whatever veg you have in the fridge so things like peppers,

tomatoes even wilted greens work wonderfully in omelets. You also mentioned that you have soup which

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