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Do you have enough calcium, Vitamin D in your diet? (review)

You need to grow big and strong too – JD, 5

I got an interesting email from Yoplait this week. Apparently, while most people know how important it is to have a diet rich in calcium, far fewer know that Vitamin D is essential for promoting calcium absorption in the gut, which in turn allows it to get where it needs to maintain healthy bones.

This isn’t so much of a problem in the summer, as we can absorb the majority of our recommended daily Vitamin D intake from the sun, but in the winter it’s not so easy.

So, Yoplait sent me a new yoghurt that contains 50% of the recommended daily allowance of calcium as well as 100% of vitamin D. Apparently it’s the only product of its kind currently on the market. Seems like a fairly smart choice of snack for the winter months.

But how does it taste? I tried the strawberry flavour and found it perfectly pleasant, with pleasingly fresh tasting fruit pieces and an impressively creamy texture, particularly as each pot comes in at under 125 calories.

If you want to give Calin+ a go, it’s available from all major supermarkets for £1.99 for a pack of four.

Disclosure: I was sent a pack of Calin+ for review. No payment was received for this post. All posts are 100% honest.

Scotch pancake breakfast

They’re like little flat cakes – JD. 4

Here’s a quick and yummy breakfast recipe for you to try this weekend. It’s essentially Mary Berry’s basic drop scone recipe (oh, how I love her) with extra stuff filling the plate and drizzled all over them.

It makes about 12 pancakes, so should feed 3-4 people, depending on how hungry you are, and is super-duper-make-with-the-kids easy.

Ingredients

110g plain flour
3/4 tsp of baking soda
1 1/5 tsp of cream of tartar
1 tbsp of sugar
1 egg, beaten
125ml of milk
1 tbsp of golden syrup
1 chopped banana
1-2 tbsp of natural yoghurt
1/2 tbsp of runny honey

Instructions

Sift the flour, baking soda, cream of tartar and sugar into a bowl
In a separate bowl, beat the egg, milk and golden syrup together with a fork
Beat the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients with a fork for about 30 second until it looks bubbly
Put a frying pan on a medium heat, with a little butter
Use one generous tablespoon of batter per scone (I can comfortably fit four at a time in our heavy gauge frying pan)
Serve straight onto a small plate, stacked up roughly to cover half the plate
Stack-up the sliced banana to fill a quarter of a plate
Fill the final quarter with the generous dollop of natural yoghurt
Drizzle honey all over the plate from a height
Eat while the pancakes are still warm

Since writing this piece (which originally appeared on Love All Blogs) we’ve tried these pancakes with some Luscious Lemon yoghurt from The Collective and Oh. My. WOW. Just gorgeous. Go get some.

Disclosure: we were sent some free vouchers so that we could try The Collective range of yoghurt. No payment was received. All posts are 100% honest.