Top Tips

• Mealtime Tips
• Breakfast:
  • Use a combination of vegetables like mushrooms, bell peppers, tomatoes, spinach, baby marrow or aubergine as a filling for your omelette.
  • Add a glass of fresh or 100% pure unsweetened fruit juice, a piece of fruit or a fruit smoothie at breakfast or top breakfast cereal with a serving of fresh fruit.
• Mid-Morning Snack:
  • Top a cup of yoghurt with fresh berries or sliced fruit.
  • Choose a piece of fruit or a handful of dried fruit as a snack.
• Lunch:
  • At lunchtime, make sure you have a significant portion of vegetables in the form of a soup (1 cup) or salad (1 cup) or a serving of cooked vegetables (1/2 cup) to your lunch meal.
  • Add chopped fruit to bulk up savoury salads, such as green apple to tuna salad or diced apricots to couscous salad.
• Mid-Afternoon Snack:
  • Repeat the fruit or try carrot sticks, cucumber wedges, baby tomatoes and celery sticks with hummous or fat free cottage cheese.
• Dinner:
  • At dinner include 2 more veggies (at least 1/2 cup each) or add a dessert of fruit salad with sorbet or low fat yoghurt or try baked banana or baked apple with a little custard or low fat yoghurt.