or the fresh fruit with the nuts and seeds, and/or some grain cereal such as cheerios.

6) Make a dip for the veggies from either humus or beans for more fibre and a delicious taste.

Meals can not only look appealing, but can be delicious when the right fibre foods are included. There are many ways to include delicious fibre foods to your daily meals.

1) Prepare vegetables in your favourite dishes and include them with your supper meals for added flavour and a lot of fibre. Some of these can include corn, potatoes (with the skin because the fibre values are in the skin), sweet potatoes, steamed broccoli, baby carrots and turnip. Note: steam vegetables whenever possible because the nutritional values are destroyed when they are boiled.

2) Add a lettuce salad to your meal and get a lot of extra fibre. Leafy lettuce is loaded with fibre and blends well with other salad ingredients that are also high in fibre such as grated carrots, peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes and onions.

3) Soups made from lentils and barley are not only delicious but they are loaded with fibre.

4) Instead of enriched white bread, use whole grain breads for sandwiches and toast. There are a variety of different breads available such as whole wheat, flax, oatmeal, multi-grain and oat bran. Or make your own bread and invent your own mixtures of grain breads.

5) You can add even more fibre by adding tomatoes, cucumbers and dark leafy greens such as lettuce to your sandwich made from grain bread. This is an excellent source of delicious fibre.

6) Eat breakfast cereals that are made from pure natural grains such as wheat, oats and bran. Read the label on the package to know what fibres are inside and avoid cereals that are processed with sugar because they are very low in fibre.

And remember to drink lots of water during the day to help keep the fibre moving through your system.

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