Your guide to fruit and vegetables this summer

There are lots of good reasons to eat seasonal fruit and vegetables – they are fresher, they have more flavour, they are more nutritious (less storage time means nutrients don’t break down) and they are less expensive (plenty of supply means that produce is at its cheapest).

To help you out, we’ve put together our top tips for incorporating summer fruit and veg into your diet – check it out below!

What’s in season this summer? Here’s your simple guide:

Our top tips for incorporating summer fruit and vegetables into your diet

Summer fruits make the best snacks

Mangoes, peaches and strawberries are delicious on their own or chopped up in a refreshing fruit salad, or on cereal and yoghurt.  You can even use them to make your own frozen fruit puree iceblocks like these.

Summer is the perfect time to eat more vegies and salads to reduce your cancer risk, here’s some of our favourites:

• Put crunchy beans in our Bean salad
• Try cold potatoes in a Potato salad – a great source of resistant starch which is good for your gut
• Tomatoes and cucumber combine perfectly in a Greek Salad  
• Add grapes, mango, figs or nectarine to create a tasty Waldorf salad
• Try a simple mixed salad with a delicious honey and mustard dressing

Add more wholegrains for gut health:

• Try a burrito bowl – use our Chicken burrito bowl for inspiration
• Try a new grain like quinoa in our Quinoa caprese salad
• Use brown rice to make our easy Rice salad

Add summer veg to your meat or go meat free

• Tomatoes and capsicum go well together in a Vegie taco
• Add spinach and zucchini to our Lamb and veg meatballs
• Swap eggplant for meat in an Eggplant tagine or a tasty Mushroom spinach and lentil lasagne

For more ideas visit the Healthy Lunch Box website!