Getting your five portions of fruit and veg a day can sometimes feel like a real chore. That's why we are giving you the kick-start you need with our Fruit and Veg Price Pledge. Every week we will cut prices on your favourite fruit & veg to help you spend less!*
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Need a little Five-a-day inspiration?
Eating five portions of fruit and vegetables every day is the simplest way for your body to get the vitamins, minerals and other nutrients it needs. That’s just two portions with every meal. Or for seasoned five-a-day followers, our Meal Plans have got lots of recipe ideas containing all five portions.
Easy ways to get five-a-day
- Add fruit and veg to your favourite recipes - such as peppers and sweetcorn to pasta sauces and pizza toppings, peas and beans to soups, root veg to mashed potato.
- When you get the urge to snack, pick up a pear or grab a grapefruit. Fresh and dried fruit is less fattening than most processed snacks, and so is a healthy alternative for in-between meals.
- Have a fruity pudding or add fruit to your breakfast. Why stop at strawberry yogurts? Try adding banana or fresh blueberries to your cereal or raisins and strawberries to your porridge.
- Use frozen veg if it's easier. It counts.
- Add beans and pulses to salads. Canned butter or kidney beans are quick to prepare - just make sure they're low in salt.
- Make a smoothie for breakfast by blending your favourite fruits together. . It’s a quick, easy & healthy way to kick-start your day.
- Mash bananas or fresh strawberries and blend into milk to make a delicious milkshake.
- Add canned or chopped vegetables such as carrots, peas or mushrooms to soups, stews, Bolognese sauce or home-made burgers.
- Carrots, leeks, beansprouts, courgettes and broccoli are ideal served topped with a cheese sauce (use skimmed milk and half fat cheese to help reduce the fat levels!).
- Jacket potatoes make a quick lunchtime snack with chopped pepper, spring onions and tuna.
- Give your children fruit for snacks instead of sweets. Bananas, apples, satsumas, small bunches of grapes or small tins of fruit are ideal in lunchboxes. Try small packets of dried fruit, like raisins, too.
- Add canned, fresh or (thawed) frozen fruit to jellies and top with cold custard.
- Puree or chop canned, fresh or (thawed) frozen fruit and stir into natural yogurt or fromage frais for a quick dessert or snack.
- In the warmer months, don’t forget to include vegetables and fruit kebabs at barbecues. Sweetcorn on the cob and baked bananas in their skins go down a treat.
- Have fresh crudités with a low fat dip. Try things like sticks of carrot, cucumber, celery and pepper, broccoli and cherry tomatoes.
- Fruit salad makes a great pudding at any time. Any leftovers can always be eaten for breakfast.
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* UK Pledge Products vary weekly. Stores may not not range all products. Excludes Express stores. Selected UK stores. Subject to availability.
