Porridge with Prunes and Apricots
Ingredients
- 2 cups organic porridge oats
- 4 cups Alpro Light soya milk
- A handful of ready to eat prunes
- A handful of ready to eat apricots
- 2 tsp unrefined sugar (if required)
Method
Pour the porridge oats into a saucepan and add the milk and water. Bring to a simmer, stirring occasionally. Cook as directed on the packet, adding
milk to stop the mixture from becoming too thick. Add prunes and apricots - chop them in half if they’re too big. Cover saucepan and let the mixture
cook for another 60 seconds. Pour mixture into a bowl, add sugar and extra milk to taste.
Serves 2
Fresh Fruit Salad
Ingredients
- 2 kiwi fruit
- 2 bananas
- 3 oranges
- 2 apples
- 2 pears
- 6 strawberries
- A handful blueberries and raspberries
- 1 mango
- 125ml plain soya yogurt
- 2-3 tbsp honey
- 30g of chopped almonds
Method
Chop all the fruit into small pieces. Add to a large bowl and mix until the fruit juices run into each other. Serve in two small bowls and top with
yogurt, seeds and honey.
Serves 2
Blueberry Muffins
These go down really well with a soya-based smoothie for breakfast - pop it into the microwave for 10 - 20 seconds if you prepare your muffins warm.
Ingredients
- 225g (8oz) plain flour
- 1 tbsp baking powder
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- 115g (4oz) caster sugar
- 85g (3oz) fat spread (not low fat)
- 100ml (4 fl oz) Alpro Light soya milk
- 2 medium eggs - beaten
- 3 - 4 tbsp blueberry jam or conserve
Method
Preheat the oven to 200°C, Gas mark 6. Put 10 paper muffin cases in a muffin bun tray.
Sieve the flour, baking powder and cinnamon into a bowl, stir in the sugar. Melt the fat spread in a medium bowl then add the soya milk and eggs, along with 2 tbsp of the blueberry spread, lightly whisk together until all the ingredients are mixed together. Add the milk mixture to the flour and carefully fold in - do not over mix. Place 1 dessertspoon of the mixture into each muffin case. Top mixture with ¼ tsp of the blueberry spread and then place another spoonful of muffin mixture over the top, enclosing the blueberry spread.
Bake in the oven for approximately 15 - 20 minutes until golden brown. Delicious warm or cold. (Makes 10)
Very Berry Smoothie
Ingredients
- 5 strawberries with stalks removed
- A handful of blueberries
- A handful of raspberries
- 1 banana
- 1 tbsp soya yogurt - Strawberry
- 250ml Alpro Light soya milk
- 100ml apple juice
Method
Add all the ingredients to the apple juice in a blender. Blend until nuts are completed absorbed. Pour into tall glass, add ice if preferred. Cheers!
NOTE: You can use canned fruits like peaches in fruit juice or frozen fruits like mixed berries instead of the fruit specified here, but you do always need the banana.