As I mentioned in the post Deciding To Lose Weight – Reflecting On Dietary Habits I’d picked up the habbit of supplementing my healthy lunches with a large amount of crisps. Probably because I like savoury/salty food. However crisps would no longer feature in my new healthy approach to life – they had to go.

It’s not that easy though is it. Lunch just isn’t complete unless you have something else with your drink and sandwhich, so I had to find a replacement for the crisps. The obvious answer, given we’re all continually advised to consume at least 5 portions of fruit and vegetables per day was to substitute either fruit or vegetables for the crisps. So that’s exactly what I did.

It took a while to find something I was happy with. I tried apples, but I seem to have some sort of allergic reaction – annoying as I really like apple. Next I tried raw carrots, but I’m not a big fan of their taste. Bananas are great but I was in danger of eating nothing but bananas (I often had one for breakfast). So finally I settled on grapes. 12 to 20 grapes – depending on whose figures you believe – are a portion, they contain a good range of vitamins and minerals and despite containing a log of sugar aren’t really adding that many calories (around 60kcal per portion).

So that was my next small step on my weight loss journey, eating fruit to lose weight – beats eating crisps anyway!