Taste the Rainbow...

So one of the things that I'm working on, in my quest for health and fitness is to pay attention to my diet.

Which means eating lots of fruits and veggies and cutting back on meats. Especially red meats, maybe, because I just read about another study linking red meat to breast cancer.

Anyway, while I was wandering around the open air market in Toulon, picking up fresh fruits and vegetables for the boeuf bourgignon that I'm making for dinner tonight, that the frut and vegetables stands were filled with a rainbow of colors today. There were big, plump peppers - red, yellow and green,heads of green and purple broccoli, sweet fresh asparagus, ripe, red strawberries, plump purple eggplants, green zucchini, white mushrooms, bright lemons...

It was beautiful and I have to remember to take my camera the next time I go shopping, so I can share it with you!

By the way, if you want my recipe for the boeuf bourgignon, you can find it on my blog about the French Riviera .

Here on the French Riviera, my eating habits are completely different than they are when I'm in the states. Here a lot of the time, the only things you'll find in my freezer are ice cube trays. We buy everything fresh - today for example, I bought beef from our butcher, M. Fabre, mushrooms, peppers and salad fixings from one of the vegetable sellers, and carrots, strawberries, lemons, bananas and fresh green beans from my favorite seller.

We eat more vegetables here than we do when we're in the states, and they're almost always fresh, not canned or frozen. Of course, we're spoiled, because our open air market runs every day except for Monday. (Which means that you just buy extra on Sunday, not that you use canned.)

Anyway, I'm going to keep track of how many servings of fresh fruits and vegetables I eat for the next month. I want to see if I can do better. What about you? Care to join me and taste the rainbow too?