Pink Salad

This pretty salad is perfect for a date-night starter. Cheap and easy to make

Start with a plate of spinach and rocket salad

Add red grapes, celery, beetroot and feta cheese and mix

Create the pink dressing by adding any leftover beetroot to your salad dressing or salad cream and drizzle over the top

If you would like to add a little extra, boil some asparagus and add to the side

Healthy Hangover: Sweet Potato and Baked Beans

• Microwave a sweet potato (90p) for 2 minutes
• Slice in half and add a tsp of oil or a small bit of butter in the middle
• Bake for 10 minutes
• Cover the sweet potato in cooked reduced sugar and salt Baked Beans (68p)
• Grate and sprinkle reduced fat cheddar cheese

High in protein, dietary fibre, Vitamin A and B and potassium as well as being low in fat and sugar. Sweet potatoes also have a high in water content to help reduce dehydration.

Baked beans are a great antioxidant. They help to lower cholesterol and are also high in protein and are a great source of fibre. Baked beans have also made it to the 'Mail Online's Top Ten Superfoods' http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-369042/The-10-super-foods.html

This meal is easy to make and costs around £2 and adds up to roughly 350 calories

RYVITA: A Must-Have

Ryvita crisp breads are a lower fat, higher in protein and 11.5 g per 100g higher in fibre alternative to even 'Hovis' wholemeal bread. They therefore make you fuller for longer and girls will be pleased to know they also in comparison to bread, don't make you bloat!
Ryvita crispbreads come in loads of different flavours, shapes and sizes!

Some recommended recipes:

• Breakfast: Try making Ryvita Sunflower Seed and Oats warm over the toaster and spread a tsp of honey over the flat side. Then thinly chop and layer banana over the top
• Lunch: Try Cracked Black Pepper Ryvita with Garlic and Herb Philadelphia Light, lettuce leaves, thin ham slices and chopped tomatoes
• Snack: Sweet Onion Ryvitas with cottage cheese or sour cream

Quick Morning Breakfast or A Ready-Made Snack

Makes 2 breakfasts or 4 snacks
Ingredients:

• 200g oats
• 400g fruit juice (preferably cranberry light)
• 1 large/2 small apples
• 100g low fat yoghurt (I recommend sainsburys basics low fat natural yoghurt at 50p)
• optional extras include: 1 tsp honey, 1 tsp nutmeg, 1tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp ginger, dried fruit, nuts, seeds or any kind of fresh fruit such as raspberries, blueberries or blackberries.

Recipe:

• Simple combine all the ingredients together and leave to soak in the fridge overnight. Pack into small take-away boxes to make your breakfast quick and easy or to pack in your bag as a healthy filling snack for a long day at Uni

Japanese Crabstick Soup

Serves 2. Cost: £3

• Boil 1 chopped carrot in a pint and a half of chicken stock
• Add half a tsp of oil, preferably coconut oil
• Add a sprinkle of chilli powder to taste
• Add half a tin of sweetcorn
• Add 1 bashed lemongrass
• 2 tbsp of light soy sauce
• Sprinkle of ginger powder
• 1 pak choi
• 6 crab-sticks

Simmer for 10 minutes and serve hot

Health benefits:
Lemongrass helps to combat colds or flu with immune building and disease fighting power.  Has also been proven to help reduce headaches

Roast Chicken Salad

Ingredients:

• half a sweet potato
• 1 chicken breast
• handful of iceberg lettuce
• 1 large tomato

An optional side: 2 large mushrooms, half a small courgette, half an onion, a dollop of garlic and herb philadelphia

Recipe:

• Roast the chicken breast (preferably in coconut oil) in the oven at 180 degrees for around 25 minutes
• Chop the sweet potato into chunky slices and boil for 10 minutes
• Scrunch the iceberg lettuce over your plate as a bed
• Slice the large tomato and spread around one side of the plate
• If adding the optional side, chop the onion, mushrooms and courgettes into chunks and fry in the frying pan for 5 minutes, then add the philadelphia spread
• Drain the sweet potato and spread around the parallel side of the plate
• Remove the chicken from the oven and place over the salad bed
• If using the optional side, drain any excess water and place over the roast chicken

Season with salt and pepper and/or pumpkin or sunflower seeds and a dash of balsamic vinegar