Thanks for the tip, I'll have to check it out.
I think we eat a lot of produce compared to most. My kids eat lunch at school, so I cannot speak for that.
But at home, for example
- breakfast always includes a fruit
- if they want a snack, it's fruit
- yesterday for lunch, I was home with big kid. Lunch was: quesadillas, melon, and cucumbers
- dinner was frozen pizza (husband traveling this week, yay me!), salad, and grapes.
Now, sometimes I wonder if something happened to me, what they would eat. Certainly not as many fruits and veg. My husband has gotten better, as he has to cook dinner a few nights a week now. So he will prep veg.
But honestly - if left to his own devices, he will not give the kids a fruit for breakfast.
If he feeds them lunch on the weekends, at least half the time it's a sandwich or quesadillas, and he won't bother to prep any veggies.
When he takes lunch to work every day, it's a sandwich. He snacks on granola bars. If I have prepped veggies and fruit, he'll take them. If I make a salad, he'll take it. But he won't make it for himself. It frustrates me greatly because he's a 50 year old man. I'd like him to live a long time, so I struggle with accepting that he's a fucking adult, or just making him a salad because I want him to live a long time.
I personally eat a lot of veggies and fruit.
- Eggs with veggies for breakfast
- 1/2 banana snack
- salad for lunch with peppers, lettuce, carrots, tomatoes (and seeds and cheese and olives)
- melon and grapes and nuts for a snack
- rice and chickpeas with sauteed veggies for dinner.
Prepping that amount of veggies for a family of 4 gets really old sometimes.