Vegetable challange

I like to listen to podcasts and a while ago I listened to Holistic's “Health comes from within” which this time was about antioxidants. Antioxidants protect the body's cells against free radicals and since most antioxidants are vitamins and minerals, it makes sense to increase the intake and variety of the "green". Free radicals are a by-product that is formed when we burn oxygen and without antioxidants the oxygen would have functioned as a toxin. By eating nutritiously, we simply protect cells from oxidative stress.

The podcast suggested trying to achieve 20 different kinds of vegetables and berries in one week. Now I know that we are good at eating vegetables for the whole family, but twenty different vegetable varieties might be difficult. (It automatically becomes a lot of vegetables if you already eat foods that are free of sugar, grains, potatoes, rice, etc. because they play such a big role in a "normal" diet).

Our children accepted the challenge with great enthusiasm and now damn it was up to proof. May the best man or woman win. The children's father and I got off to a flying start with a pub visit over lunch and got a superb salad that was full of everything fresh and exciting. We led for two days together but then he pulled away from me. The kids came close after me who was in second place on day three. Then our eleven-year-old ax slipped into second place and in shared third place came me and the youngest teenager in the family. My husband won and he did it no matter how elegant, but the rest of us came panting right after and found that it was actually not very difficult. The challenge suited everyone nicely and focused on the right place, ie to vary and dare to try something new to get as varied and nutrient-dense food as possible.

The big teenager in the family missed the start and chose not to participate. OK! He's a great vegetable chewer after all.