Be honest now: Do you eat your five-a-day? Each and every day?

By five-a-day, of course, I mean the five daily servings [1] of fruits and vegetables, as recommended by the government.

If you don't get them in, then you're like most Americans.

According to CNN [2], a new Centers for Disease Control [3] report shows that fewer than a third of adults eat the five fruits and vegetables a day. What's more, most of us haven't meet our five-a-day requirement on a regular basis for more than a decade.

After reading this, I took a few minutes to see if I'm one of the majority of people who didn't pull it off today. As it turns out, I only got in four servings today. It wasn't a good day for fruits, because I ran out (except for a moldy tangerine in the back of fridge) and need to make a run to the grocery store. But I did good with my veggies, especially if you count the roasted vegetables [3] on top of my pizza.

And, I should point out that I'd definitely hit (and exceed) my five-a-day if you count a couple glasses of fruity red wine [3]... but I'm not sure if that's what the government had in mind.

Fortunately, the CDC has several tips on their website [4] to help people like me figure out how to work in the fruits and veggies.

A lot of them seem like common sense. For instance, add fruit to your cereal each morning or whip up a banana smoothie as a snack. And some of them are a little more creative, such as making homemade salsas using anything from tomatoes to pineapple and mangoes. Or perhaps puree and freeze leftover fruits into popsicles.

It's worth it to take a look at the tips. I got some good ideas so that tomorrow I might make it to five. Plus, it's good to know that the CDC doesn't seem to have any problem counting the veggies on the top of your pizza.