5 a day – Plus turkey

Want to know how to improve on 5-a-day, the catchy campaign to encourage us all to eat five portions of fruit or veg? Just add some British turkey! Turkey is one of the healthiest of meats, being low in fat and packed with vitamins. Eating a serving of turkey alongside your 5-a-day is the perfect way to keep your body happy, healthy and fit. The key to getting the right balance in life is to plan ahead – and now the people behind British turkey have just made that easier for us.

They have created a series of 5-a-day life plans to cover all sorts of everyday situations. Want to cook with the kids? Your solution is a shopping list and recipe for something they will enjoy making and eating, plus a couple of family games to keep everyone amused afterwards.

Entertaining this weekend? Then check out the life plan that’s got everything you need to impress your friends – from the food right down to the flowers. There’s a life plan for busy family life and one for healthy eating. And all of them include easy recipes that not only taste good but do you good.

Variety is the key to making sure you stick to a healthy eating plan. For your 5-a-day, make sure you pick and mix a good selection of fruit and veg. Salad counts – as do baked beans - and both go brilliantly with turkey.

Talking of variety, remember there’s a different cut of ready-prepared British turkey for every day of the week. Choose from breast fillets, stir fry strips, diced breast, diced leg, mince, breast steaks and joints. Whichever one you choose, look out for look for the familiar farm assured Red Tractor logo alongside the Quality British Turkey mark, your guarantee you are buying turkey farmed in the UK to high standards of food safety, traceability and animal welfare.

Check out Britishturkey.co.uk for recipes.