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Top Tips For Outdoor Eating
A recent study by Uncle Ben’s® Express Rice has shown that we love nothing better than eating outside on a lovely day with 82% saying that they wish they were able to eat outdoors more often. Nothing signifies the start of summer quite like eating outdoors. As the weather warms up, thousands of Brits will be dusting off the barbecue in the hope of enjoying a little al fresco dining.
This summer, the rice experts at Uncle Ben’s are here to ensure everyone can make the most of the good weather and spend less time in the kitchen. Uncle Ben’s Express Rice, now available in 22 tasty varieties, is ready after just two minutes in the microwave, providing you and your family with a perfect, convenient accompaniment for your barbecue.
Each of the delicious Uncle Ben’s Express Rice variants, containing no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives, can be enjoyed with numerous traditional barbecue favourites or alternatively can create tempting, seasonal dishes in minutes such as Chorizo & Sweet Pepper Rice, Stuffed Mushrooms or Vegetable & Cashew Nut Pilaff.
To offer a helping hand to those who want to enjoy the weather without wasting precious time over a hot stove, nutritionist and registered dietician Sian Porter has created some top tips for this summer. Whether it’s at a barbecue, picnic or at home there are plenty of ways you can save time, eat healthily and enjoy summer living.
Sian Porter’s Top Summer Tips:
- How to use up those barbecue leftovers? Add cooked meat and roasted vegetables to Uncle Ben’s Express Rice for an almost instant meal.
- Remember at barbecues to balance the meat with starchy foods like wholemeal pittas, wraps, rice salads or jacket potatoes.
- The diversity of food served at barbecues can ensure you get a little bit of everything by balancing your protein foods like meat and fish with starchy carbs like rice and boosting your vegetable intake. Remember, you can also barbecue fruit to help get your 5 a day.
- Peppers, courgettes, tomatoes and Portobello mushrooms are all delicious stuffed with Uncle Ben’s Express Rice and take minimal preparation.
- Summer is a great time to eat that oily fish we should be having more of. Bake salmon fillets in foil parcels with lemon and black pepper before flaking into some Uncle Ben’s Express Rice – a tasty meal in minutes.
- If you’ve gone to the park or for an al fresco drink and are planning a takeaway on the way home, skip the rice and save money by popping some Uncle Ben’s Express in the microwave when you get in. By the time you’ve found your plate and cutlery it’ll be ready, perfectly cooked and piping hot.
- Buying fruit and vegetables that are in season through the summer months such as broad beans, courgettes and strawberries can save you money, add variety to your diet and if you pick them yourself is a great way of burning calories.
- On rainy days, plan for the sunny ones. Batch cook some meals, freeze them and when the sun is shining you can make the most of it by having something ready to eat.
- Use salsas and marinades to add flavour and succulence to your food without fat. If you can do this before heading out to work even better – while you are slaving away your meat or fish is getting even more flavoursome.
Quick and easy recipes for Chorizo & Sweet Pepper Rice, Vegetable & Cashew Nut Pilaff, Jewelled Rice Salad, Chicken Biryani, Prawn Fried Rice and Stuffed Mushrooms.
For more quick and tasty summer recipes using Uncle Ben’s Express Rice visit www.unclebens.co.uk
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