{"id":5715,"date":"2011-08-09T05:29:43","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T09:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=5715"},"modified":"2014-10-26T22:27:27","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T03:27:27","slug":"12-a-cup-is-all-you-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/12-a-cup-is-all-you-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Half a Cup is All You Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5747\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5747\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5747\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5747\" title=\"tomato sauce pasta vegetables\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/tomato-sauce-pasta-vegetables-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5747\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo Credit: Aelle on Flickr.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>&#8220;Make sure you get three to five servings of vegetables&#8221;, <\/em>you&#8217;ve been hearing that\u00a0phrase for years. \u00a0Did you know that you could have had some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Tropicana?sk=app_181630198539913\" target=\"_blank\">orange juice for that serving?<\/a> Or that there\u2019s now a full serving in the leading pasta sauce? It&#8217;s true! How much really indicates a true serving though?<\/p>\n<p>The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) states a serving of vegetables is about \u00bd a cup.\u00a0 This half cup is equal to the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ten baby carrots<\/li>\n<li>\u00be cup of tomato juice<\/li>\n<li>One ear of corn<\/li>\n<li>Half a baked sweet potato<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Since you can get a full serving in a variety of places, don\u2019t worry about heating 50 baby carrots a day.\u00a0 When most people think of vegetables, they think about salads, broccoli, carrots etc.\u00a0 While these are all great areas to get your three to five servings, there are others as well.<\/p>\n<p>Casseroles and tomato sauce are two places that most people don\u2019t think to look when they want vegetables.\u00a0 Most casseroles have five or six different types of vegetables including: onions, peppers, tomatoes, mushrooms, etc.\u00a0 At its heart, marinara sauce is is made of tomato, water, spices and few extra vegetables mixed in.\u00a0 There\u2019s no rule that says you can\u2019t mix and match vegetables to make each serving either; instead, the opposite is true! Because of this, you can get a good amount of vegetables in these two items.<\/p>\n<p>Try out the following recipes and then learn which vegetables will give you the most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=3305\">bang for your buck<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=4531\">Spinach Lasagna Rolls<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=1589\">Sweet Potato Chips<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/?p=2567\">Which Lettuce is the Most Nutritious<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Fitzness\/218599521492381\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5739\" title=\"facebook_button21\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fitzness.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/facebook_button21-300x112.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TDKvmAjDVPc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since you can get a full serving in a variety of places, don\u2019t worry about heating 50 baby carrots a day.  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