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LUNCH & DINNER

Eat sandwiches or wraps that include several vegetables, such as mushrooms, tomatoes, sprouts, green peppers, cucumbers, or other raw vegetables.
Include a mixed green salad or a vegetable soup with your lunch or dinner.
After a run or walk on your lunch break, snack on some power food — fruits and vegetables. And quench your thirst with 100% juice!
Choose a baked potato or sweet potato in place of French fries.
Add crunch and color to pasta or potato salad with green or red pepper strips, broccoli florets, carrot slices, or cucumber.
When grilling, be sure to wrap vegetables in aluminum foil. Or grill skewers of pineapple, eggplant, nectarines, zucchini, or cherry tomatoes.
Bring color or character to your salads by sprinkling in baby carrots, shredded cabbage, or spinach leaves.
Perk up deli salads like coleslaw, chicken, or tuna with apple chunks, pineapple, or raisins.
Grill fruit or vegetable skewers over medium-hot coals for a fun-to-eat and flavorful BBQ treat.
Toss grapefruit and/or orange sections in a fresh crunchy salad of mixed greens. The sweet citrus and crisp lettuce are an incredible wake-up call for the taste buds, and the juice from the segments moistens each leaf.
Make homemade salsa with tomatoes, mangoes, avocados, red onions, cilantro and lime juice.
You can get some of your 5 A Day at a restaurant too. Try vegetable pizza, vegetable pasta (but watch out for cream sauces), or a fresh vegetable “wrap.” Instead of French fries, order a plain baked potato, vegetable soup, or a small salad.
Try tossing fruit into your green salads. Oranges, grapefruit, or nectarine slices add extra flavor to your 5 A Day salad.

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