Home-made fruit yoghurt

Make your own fruity yoghurt by adding chopped fresh fruit to natural homemade yoghurt.  Try kiwifruit, cooked apple, any berry (strawberries, raspberries, blueberries etc) or stone fruit (like plums, peaches, apricots).

Stewed rhubarb

If you like rhubarb, here’s a quick and easy way to enjoy it. It can be grown in a big tub or pot outside on a patio or in the garden.

(The only quicker way that I’ve come across is when my kids used to grab a cut stalk from the sink when I had rinsed it, dip the end in sugar and suck on it! Hmmm!)

Ingredients

6-8 stalks rhubarb
¼ cup brown sugar or honey
½ cup water

Method

1. Rinse the rhubarb in cold water
2. Put the water and sugar or honey into a saucepan and bring to the boil
3. Chop into 2-3cm lengths and add to the boiling syrup in the saucepan
4. Turn down the heat and let the rhubarb cook gently
5. When soft remove cooked rhubarb from the saucepan and let it cool quickly so that it doesn’t go mushy
6. Serve with custard, yoghurt of whipped cream for a delicious quick and easy dessert.

Cooked rhubarb is also a good accompaniment to breakfast cereal. Spoon some cooked rhubarb over porridge, muesli or other cereal, add a dollop of plain yoghurt and you have a healthy breakfast.

Getting your vitamin C

Fruits that are especially high in Vitamin C include kiwifruit, oranges and mandarins, tamarillos.  Alternatively you can take a vitamin C supplement.

Freeze lemon juice

To preserve lemon juice, put into ice cube trays and freeze.

Great to use in summer for cooling down lemon drinks or to give water a touch of lemon.

Will also work for grapefruit or orange juice and passionfruit pulp.

Vitamin C in winter

Vitamin C helps to fight colds and coughs so be sure to keep eating lots of fruit and vegetables in the winter.  Kiwifruit, oranges and mandarins are easy to eat and plentiful in the winter.  Tamarillos and feijoas are also good winter sources of Vitamin C.  A selection of fresh vegetables as part of your main meal each day also increases your immunity through Vitamin C.

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