Then add yellowspeppers, squashes, and sweet potatoes. Move to the reds with red peppers, beets, and tomatoes. To get healthy amounts from the garden, eat a minimum of 3 fruit and 4 vegetable servings every day. A fruit serving is an average orange, apple, peach or pear. For berries and melon chunks, use the one-cup method.
Vegetables tend to shrink when they get cooked.
For some conditions, like diarrhea, limit fiber. This could wipe out most of the fun in your produce garden. The only safe things are bananas and peeled apples, pears, peaches, and nectarines. It's not exactly a secret that we need far more protein than negatives. Vegetarianism is a commendable practice.