Nutrition

It’s not easy being green – is it better for the environment to be a vegetarian or to eat local meat?

This week is Farmhouse Breakfast Week. The idea is to encourage people to start their day with a healthy breakfast. There are some interesting statistics surrounding breakfast; for instance:

Over on the diary of a frugal family, Cass has set up a cooking with kids challenge. The aim is to inspire parents to cook with their children. Every fortnight, Cass will post up a recipe, participants have two weeks to create fun messes in the kitchen with their angels and you can either send…

You may remember Reduce Footprints challenged us to source and eat local food for a month. I decided that knowledge was power and spent a day listing the foods I ate together with their food miles. I ate 28,000 foods miles in just one day!

Are you stuck in a rut with grains? Perhaps you only eat rice and pasta but prepared well, other grains are tasty, nutritious and bursting with health. In their unrefined form, grains add much needed fibre to your diets which promotes a healthy digestive system. The fibre in cereals also helps to slow down the…

Are you confused about ‘good’ and bad’ oils? Many of you might have been frightened off anything remotely fatty by the fear of heart disease, but cutting back too far can lead to a whole host of problems including, yes, heart disease! Fats and oils are just as important to us as protein, minerals and…

We have a fantastic Change the World Wednesday challenge this week. Reduce footprints has asked us to find and enjoy local foods for a month. We have to research what items are local in our area and then incorporate them into our family meals. This ties in beautifully with something that has been on my…