Diet

The diet that you consume is just as important as the exercise that you do, after all what would be the point in working out for hours and then eating a huge fatty pizza? The diet that we promote includes nice food that is very good for you and we do not have any problems with the occasional treat, it's when they become a regular thing that problems occur.

The most fundamentally important aspect of a healthy diet is to cut out as much fat and calories as possible while consuming as many nutritious fruit and vegetables as you possibly can. It is important to eat as many different fruit and vegetables as possible because they all have different benefits and so it is no good just eating 10 apples a day, you will have heard of the government's 5 A Day campaign which is the recommended amount but more will be even better for you and so we say aim higher! That is it in a nutshell; all you need now are easy and tasty ways of doing this and this is where we would like to help. All of the recipes on this web site have at least 5 vegetables and so you can go over 5 a day in just one meal!

Vegetables

There are some very easy ways of consuming lots of vegetables and they can also be very tasty. Combining vegetables into a casserole or Chilli is an extremely effective way of having lots of vegetables that tastes great and we have lots of recipes on this web site, pasta is also a very easy and tasty way of getting lots of vegetables into a meal and for all of these recipes we use the excellent stockpot. Another great meal is a salad; you may shudder at the thought of eating a salad but you can easily make them taste great with some simple and healthy additions.

You can easily create a casserole or salad with five or more portions of vegetables and so they will help you soar past the 5 A Day target, see the recipes in the menu for lots of ideas on how to create these casseroles and salads.

Fruit

Fruit is also very important and is also very easy to consume. You can easily buy fresh fruit such as apples and oranges and this is great but a much easier route is to buy fruit juices and especially smoothies. You would not believe the amount of fruit that these smoothies contain from brands such as Innocent, Tropicana and the supermarket's own brand versions and so for an incredibly easy way of getting a really good of fruit simply have a large glass of fruit smoothie every day!

For an example the Blackberry And Blueberry fruit smoothie from Tropicana offers 3 oranges, nearly 3 apples, 4 bananas, 280 black currents, 8 blackberries and 150 blueberries! So say you had a third of a carton you would be consuming a huge amount of fruit and it would also be much easier than eating all of that raw, especially if like me you are not a huge fan of eating raw fruit (the smoothies do have a strong taste but you can easily live with that in order to get the benefits). The smoothies are quite expensive though and so it pays to look for the special offers at your local supermarket or to buy the own brand smoothies which often contain just as much fruit.

And there are also some great fruit juices on offer so a glass of one of these in the morning will give you one portion of fruit and set you well on your way.

So as you can see you can very easily consume fruit and vegetables using casseroles, salads, fruit smoothies and fruit juices and doing this can also get you way over the recommended 5 A Day and onto more like double that! And that is going to be very good for you; all you need to do is make sure the rest of your diet is relatively healthy and the treats are rare. And also remember that fruit and vegetables are also very low in calories and so are a great way of losing weight and if you combine your vegetables with lean meats and also do regular exercise then the weight is sure to drop off!

See the other pages on this web site for recipes and other ideas to help you create the perfect healthy diet.