Nutrition Tip | Tryfor5 — Victorian Institute of Sport

It’s Tryfor5 week from the 14th to the 20th of October, a Nutrition Australia campaign to encourage Aussie’s to have 5 serves of veg daily. This year’s theme is ‘Small Change, Big Gains.’ We all know it’s important for wellbeing to get your 5 serves of veg every day, yet despite that, less than 4% are actually getting enough.

Here are some hot tips to make a small change for big gains when it comes to all the benefits of increasing the veg in your diet:

- Cut up cucumber, capsicum, baby corn or carrots to pair with a dip

- Aim for half of your dinner plate to be made up of veg

- When including veg in a meal aim for as many different colours as you can

- Include a serve of veg at breakfast: avocado, mushrooms, spinach, tomato

- Make your own veg based dips with beetroot, chickpeas, lentils or sweet potato

This week look out for some more tips on the VIS Nutrition Instagram page @vis_nutrition

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