Straight from the Can: Quick Meals

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Spanish Style Tortilla

Make it!

1 Fry a chopped onion until soft, add a diced red pepper and 300g of sliced tinned potatoes. Add 200g of canned peas. Preheat the grill.

2 Beat six eggs, pour over the potatoes, sprinkle with grated cheddar and cook on the hob for five minutes.

3 Put under the grill and cook until firm. Cut into wedges.

The Healthy

Eat onions every day for five per cent better bone mineral density in later life, says a study carried out at the University of South Carolina, US.

Eggs are one of the few food sources of bone-boosting vitamin D; researchers say it can also boost your ratio of fast-twitch to slow-twitch muscle fibres.

Red peppers contain nine times the carotene of green peppers: the pigment bolsters bones and could reduce your risk of stress fractures, says Gidus.

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