In order to eat well you have to (yes, you really do!) include fruit into your diet on a regular basis. I have known this for years but my body has somehow just resisted it, instead I have reached for the filling pastry, but just the other week I got it!  I started buying fruit and eating it as I would have eaten a high carb nibble. I was in a food store and I bought  blueberries as an eat-on-the-way-home snack and you know what? Surprise, I started liking the fact that my need to eat was fulfilled but I did not feel stuffed.

Well since then I have started adding fruit to my breakfast. If you want to do this the healthy way you need to be ready to do just a little bit of work (it’s OK it’s not much work and its easy – I’ll tell you how). You see, those pre-packed fruit salads often come with syrup and that stuff is not healthy so you need to make your own. This morning I made a strawberry and kiwi fruit salad for Chris and myself, it took me all of two minutes.

Enjoy the blend of tart and sweet in this delicious fruit salad

I have always liked the taste of strawberries but hated the prep, my mum called it hulling the berries, you know pulling on the green bit to get the little sort of cone shaped core out of the fruit. Most times the green bit pulled away and all I got was an icky mess, well I have found a solution to all that, take a small sharp knife and cut a V in the top of the berry and scoop out the green bit and most of the core in one movement. Yes, you do lose a little more of the fruit but hey its quick and its easy. Then slice the berry in two and drop it into a collander. Next you put your same small sharp knife to work skinning the kiwi’s,then once they are skinned slice them horizontally. Just one more step and you’ll be done! Rinse the fruit under the tap for a minute in cold water before shaking dry and serving.

I have been trying to get Chris to eat fruit for months but when I put this on the table with her breakfast guess what? She eats it right up and you will too! Enjoy.