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Why not start the day with a glass of fruit juice with your breakfast (or try the fruit smoothie recipe) or some sliced fruit added to your cereal. |
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Keep a piece of fruit handy for those mid-morning munchies - a banana is packed full of energy. |
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At
lunchtime, try to include some vegetables or salad in your sandwiches.
How about tuna and sweetcorn, egg and salad or cottage cheese and
pineapple for a change? |
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In colder weather, try a bowl of hot vegetable soup and a roll for lunch. |
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For
tea, why not try adding a few slices of vegetables such as peppers,
mushrooms or courgettes to your favourite pizza before you cook it and
serve it with a crisp salad and coleslaw. |
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Add extra chopped vegetables to a ready-made pasta sauce. |
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Desserts
made from stewed fruit are quick and easy to make. especially if cooked
in a microwave. Served with custard or a spoonful of yoghurt for the
finishing touch. |
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Keep
a bowl of fruit where it can be seen - it will be much easier for you
and the family to eat some rather than reaching for the biscuit tin. |
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If time is short, tins of fruit and vegetables are a quick and useful option. |
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Variety
is the key to enjoying fruit and vegetables and combining lots of
different colours and tastes helps make meals more interesting and
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Try the following to encourage your children to eat their five fruit & vegetables a day:
- Make
vegetables interesting by threading them onto a skewer and grill or BBQ
them to make vegetable kebabs. (Hot tip - sprinkle fruit kebabs with
brown sugar to caramelise and make them more tempting);
- Make desserts fun by getting the kids to make their own banana boats, fruit sundaes, and knickerbocker glories;
- Let them make their own bread pizza and get them to add cooked onions, tomatoes and chargrilled peppers and mushrooms;
- If they don't like the look of vegetables, try pureeing vegetable soups so they can't recognise the lumpy bits!
- Serve up veggie burgers in buns with a slice of tomato, gherkins and cheese.
- Add fruit and bananas to ice cream and whiz in the liquidiser to make fruit smoothies.
- Chop
vegetables into interesting shapes and use them for vegetable and pulse
based dips such as tomato salsa, houmous and guacamole.
Remember any meals made up with tinned vegetables and tinned tomatoes are also considered to be portions of vegetables.
Try adding as many onions, mushrooms, carrots etc. to Bolognaise sauce, cottage pies, casseroles and home made pizzas.
