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Healthy start

We asked several iVillagers how they make their morning routine healthy. Here's what they had to say

Five a day?
If you have trouble getting your five portions of fruit and veg a day, get at least two portions of fruit (or three if you feel like adding a third) from this breakfast:

1 slice gala or honeydew melon, chopped into chunks
1 banana, apple or pear, chopped into chunks
50g Kellogg's 'Just right', Jordan's Original, or another favourite cereal
2 tablespoons natural bio yoghurt

Combine all ingredients and enjoy. You can substitute any combination of fruit for this breakfast.
-iVillager Veronika Jordan

A Brazilian breakfast
We Brazilians stick to a relatively healthy lifestyle. Normally, many Brazilians will have coffee with milk, and bread with butter for breakfast and lots of meat for lunch. When I turned 25, however, I realised my habits were far from healthy so I changed them by becoming a vegetarian.

Instead of having a bread/butter and coffee/milk combination for breakfast, I now have only fruit and black coffee. I sometimes change my morning diet to yoghurt and granola - a magnificent combination. These days, I get most of my protein requirement from dairy products and I eat little but frequently throughout the day. That's the secret to good health. Milk, lentils and beans provide me with enough protein so I can cut out red meat, while brown bread provides me with fibre, vitamins and minerals. Since I made this change I haven't had a cold for five years.
-iVillager Marcio P. Jorge

The sugar and caffeine demons
Stay away from sugar and all those 'prepared' supermarket foods that contain loads of it. Dilute fruit juices with water and sweeten foods with fresh or dried fruit. Sugar is a serious menace to a diet, especially when you start reading the labels and find it in so many products you would not expect to.

The following suggestion is low in sugar and helps contribute to your 'daily five' fruit and veggie requirements. Try mixing a non-dairy milk with sugar-free cereal like muesli (I found that when mixed with something like a cereal, soya and rice dairy substitutes were indistinguishable from the lactose-based products.) Alternatively, try prune juice - it's very tasty, but every morning can be a mistake.

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