It is really important to eat a varied diet to ensure that your body receives all the nutrients it needs to be healthy ? not forgetting the fact that this will also help you enjoy your food more! And you don?t have to be a great cook to do this.

Looking at your current diet, cereal with skimmed milk is a good way to start the day provided your cereal is not high in sugar or salt (check the ingredients list on the back or side of the pack for this). Cereals based on oats, or containing some nuts and seeds, will provide slow-release energy that should keep you full all morning. Fruit is a good mid-morning snack, but just remember to vary the types of fruit you eat each day to benefit from the different vitamins they contain.

I wouldn't recommend repeating your breakfast for lunch, but introducing some variety and nourishment with other foods. It would be good to include some wholegrain carbohydrates to give you energy for the afternoon - by that I mean something like a wholemeal sandwich. Alternatively you could make a simple large salad with mixed beans (you can buy these in a can, just rinse under a tap) or have some oat cakes, vegetable sticks and houmous.

For dinner, you need to include some protein (e.g. tofu, beans or eggs), ideally 2-3 different types of vegetables and some carbohydrate (e.g. a jacket potato or brown rice). If you like pasta, why not cook some wholewheat pasta, add a non-fattening tomato sauce and top with some grilled strips of red pepper, courgettes, tomatoes or anything else that you like?

I don't recommend restricting the size of your meal at all, as I want people to eat loads of healthy vegetables. Try and fill at least half your plate with these and you should feel full and bursting with goodness and virtue!