Healthy Eating Tips.

• Eat fruit as a snack between meals or as a dessert.
• Use fruit in puddings, for example apple crumble, banana and custard.
• Choose fruit canned in natural juice rather than in syrup.
• Add chopped fresh or dried fruit to breakfast cereals.
• Eat vegetables or salad with your meals.
• Cut the fat off meat before cooking.
• Grill, bake or microwave meat and fish without adding fat.
• Drain excess fat from roast meat or fried mince.
• Add pulses such as peas, beans, lentils to casseroles, stews and mince dishes, or use these instead of meat.
• Use a string flavoured cheese such as mature cheddar or Parmesan in sauces and in cooking - you"ll find you use less than mild cheese.
• Grate cheese it makes a smaller amount go further.
• Choose tomato based pasta sauce rather than cheese or creamy sauces.
• When you have chips choose thick cut or low-fat oven chips.
• Scones, currant loaf, plain popcorn, plain and semi-sweet biscuits such as Rich Tea, Digestive and Fig Rolls are healthier snack options.
• Choose water, diet, sugar free/ low sugar and no added sugar squash and fizzy drinks.