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

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 recorded questions to Ellie at thefoodmedic.cote UK.

So let's jump in to 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

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

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