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Think drinks…

There are two distinct criteria within the healthyliving award relating to beverages. As a caterer, you must meet these conditions to achieve the healthyliving award.

1. Only three drinks can be labelled as healthyliving choices. All three must be available and labelled with the healthyliving apple logo, both on menus and in chill cabinets.

  • Water – still or sparkling (remember to label water coolers too).
  • Unsweetened fruit juice – if you are not sure if a product is sweetened, check the list of ingredients for added sugars.
  • Lower fat milk – this includes semi-skimmed and skimmed milk.

2. Healthier alternatives to certain other drinks must also be available but these should not be labelled with the healthyliving apple logo.

  • Where soft drinks are served, you must have a reduced sugar (less than 0.5g sugar per 100ml) or sugar-free alternative available. This will include diet and zero varieties of popular fizzy drinks.
  • If you serve flavoured waters within your site, these must all be low in sugar or sugar-free (less than 0.5g sugar per 100ml).

If you are in doubt, always check the nutritional specification on the label or, for further advice, please contact the healthyliving award team.

A flavour of…

Lemon muesli cheesecake

Recipe courtesy of The Wishingwell, near Killearn

Serves 8

Method

1. Melt the low-fat spread and mix with the muesli.
2. Press muesli mixture into the base of a greased tin (spring tin). Leave in the fridge to chill.
3. Finely grate the rind of 2 lemons and set aside.
4. Squeeze juice from the 2 lemons and make up to 150ml with water; pour into a heat proof bowl.
5. Sprinkle gelatine over the lemon juice and leave to stand for 5 minutes, until the mixture feels spongy.
6. Stand bowl in a pan of hot water and heat gently until the gelatine has dissolved, stirring occasionally.
7. Remove bowl from hot water and set aside to cool.
8. Mix low-fat cream cheese, yoghurt and honey together in separate bowl; stir in grated lemon rind and cooled gelatine liquid, until evenly incorporated.
9. Whisk egg whites until stiff and fold into the cheesecake mixture, until evenly incorporated.
10. Spoon mix onto the muesli base and chill in fridge for at least 4 hours, until set.
11. Coarsely grate the rind of the remaining lemon over the top of cheesecake and serve.

Ingredients

175g muesli (no added salt or sugar variety)
75g low-fat spread
3 lemons
1 sachet powdered gelatine
225g low-fat cream cheese
150ml virtually fat-free natural yoghurt
60ml clear honey
2 egg whites

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issue eight: November 2008
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