Hot buys to try

Heat & Eat

no excuse to skip breakfast with these fresh porridge pots from yorkshire provender. Just heat in the microwave and eat straight from the pot. choose your favourite flavour from With a touch of honey, With honey, apple & cinnamon and With coconut milk, cranberries & pumpkin seeds. £1.79, 300g, serves 1, Waitrose, sainsbury’s and ocado.

Guilt-free Snack

these light and crunchy organic chickpea puffs are so moreish and tasty it’s hard to believe they’re good for you – low-fat, packed with protein and fibre, gluten-free and only 91 cals a bag! hippeas come in four flavours, pepper power, sweet & smokin’, Far out Fajita and in herbs We trust. 99p, 22g, ocado, Waitrose, holland & barrett, Wh smiths and boots.

Spice it up

Keep all your spices to hand in one tin, called a masala dabba, for authentic Indian home cooking. It makes measuring spices quick and easy rather than using individual jars, so you can rustle up an easy korma quicker than a takeaway. authentic India by anjula Devi masala Dabba, £14.99 (not including spices), Lakeland.

Oodles of veg noodles

sales of spiralizers (gadgets that cut vegetables into thin ribbons) are on the up. courgetti and boodles make a great lowcarb meal and help us to reach our five or 10-a-day target. many supermarkets sell fresh ready-made vegetable noodles or it’s easy to make your own. oxo 3 blade hand-held spiraliser. £22, John lewis.

New Brew

ring the changes with your afternoon or evening cuppa with Tetley’s Indulgence Teas. choose from light and refreshing spiced apple, soothing gingerbread, yummy cookies & cream, and chocolate mint (after eights in a mug), £1.99, 20 bags, asda.

Smart Cakes

made with alternative grain flours such as spelt, white rye and quinoa, combined with fruit and veg, the new range of cakes from m&s have big flavours but are surprisingly light too. try roasted pineapple & coconut cake, £2.50, 305g or chocolate chip loaf cake, £2, 275g for starters, but there are many more fab flavours.