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Winter fruit and vegetables: recipes and tips

Date: April 7, 2021
Time to read: 2 min
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As the days get colder, we start feeling like warm and hearty meals and snacks rather than light and healthy salads. Sometimes we can find it harder to get our five serves of vegetables and 2 serves of fruit each day. However, winter is a fabulous time to enjoy seasonal fruit and vegetables.

Winter vegies include: beetroot, broccoli, brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celeriac, celery, fennel, Jerusalem artichokes, kale, kohlrabi, leeks, onions, parsnips, potatoes, pumpkin, radicchio, silverbeet, spinach, swede, sweet potato, turnips.

Winter fruit include:  apples, avocados, banana, custard apples, dates, grapefruit, kiwifruit, lemons, mandarins, nashi, oranges, pomelo, quince, rhubarb, strawberries, tangelos.

Seasonal produce is often better quality and cheaper, helping you to create delicious, nutritious comfort food on a budget.

Slow cooked and oven baked recipes not only warm your tummies but also your home! They smell delicious too.

Try these nourishing winter meals. Cook extra for dinner and pack leftovers for lunch or pop in the freezer for a speedy mid-week meal.

…and snacks:

To save time you can bake lots of vegetables in one go such as pumpkin, sweet potato, potato and capsicum and use them for several meals and snacks over the next couple of days. Just toss them in a little olive oil with some rosemary or thyme when doing a roast dinner then use leftovers to top pizza muffins or in a quick and easy frittata the next night. Roast sweet potato and capsicum are delicious the next day in a left-over roast meat wrap for lunch. While the roast is on, stew some apples with some sultanas for a warm dessert, topping your breakfast porridge or for sending to school for a snack.

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