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Baked cottage cheese french toast with a courgette and corn salsa

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A recent eggy favourite in our household has been cottage cheese french toast with a courgette and corn salsa. In addition to the satiating power of the eggs, this french toast recipe contains cottage cheese blended into the traditional egg mixture, adding calcium and extra protein and giving the bread that creamy but slightly sour cottage cheese taste. The salsa is delicious and provides a portion of vegetables for breakfast (especially important to factor in if you are skipping a meal and having this for brunch).
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Easy ingredients to make your smoothies nutritious and delicious

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Cassie over at Veggie Meal Plans was saying just the other day that she had got into a bit of a smoothie rut.  The basic fruit and yogurt smoothie recipe we talked about last week is great but like Cassie, I’m always on the look out for inspired ideas to make my smoothies that little bit more tempting. Today’s
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Summer is for smoothies: top tips for nutritious smoothies

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Fresh berries are abundant in the UK at the moment and our household has been making the most of them:
  • sprinkled on to breakfast cereal
  • in a steaming hot crumble with custard
  • scattered through salads
  • au naturel, with a dollop of yogurt and few chopped nuts
  • whizzed up into delicious smoothies

The most fun has to be the smoothie; perfect

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A ‘mix and match’ recipe for a wholegrain lunchtime salad

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Last week was all about those ingredients that sound like they are going to be wholegrains but turn out not to be.  This week is a little of the opposite – I have been cooking with cous cous.  Now those clever foodie types amongst you will know that cous cous isn’t really a grain at all, despite it’s teeny tiny … Read the full post

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