PHOTO OF MELANIE: ALEXIS TYMON. PHOTO OF DAWN: ©NICKY JOHNSTON.
There are some numbers in our life it’s worth sticking to. In no particular order: daily steps (10,000); sleep (7 hours); blood pressure (ideally 120/80); waist measurement (under 31.5in for a woman and 37in for a man); maximum weekly alcohol units (14 for men and women). And then there’s that nutrition stat that’s so easy to remember but so hard to meet: eating your 5-a-day. Turns out 69% of us don’t, yet 5-a-day underpins any healthy diet.
That’s why we’ve dedicated half of this issue to practical ways to help you meet your 5-a-day target. We wanted to make it easy, so we asked dietitian Juliette Kellow to cover the essentials and devise a handy portion chart. Recipe consultant Phil Mundy picked his top HFG recipes that include your entire daily target in one meal and, as always, nutrition editor Amanda Ursell hits the number – and sometimes a few more! – for each day of our diet plan.