Cooking & Menu Planning
Healthy Christmas Mains
(Date published: 17/12/2012)
A Cocktail Christmas Bash with a Nurtitional Twist
Try Chirstmas Tapas Style
(Date published: 4/12/2012)
Cooking for One Menu Week 1
Week 1 of the 4 week Cooking for One Dinner Menu Plan
All recipes are available to view with ingredients, instructions and nutrition information in the Recipe section of the website, under Meals for One.
(Date published: 10/07/2012)
Cooking for One Menu Week 2
Week 2 of the 4 week Cooking for One Dinner Menu Plan
All recipes are available to view with ingredients, insturctions and nutrition information in the Recipe section of the website, under Meals for One.
(Date published: 10/07/2012)
Mother's Day
Going out for mother’s day is great but the restaurants are busy and if the weather is nice a picnic in a park or a nice meal at home that mum doesn’t need to prepare may be even better. If you are a mum, give this to your family and leave it up to them.
(Date published: 3/05/2012)
Cooking for One Made Easier
(Date published: 25/03/2012)
Turning Winter Warmers into Summer Slimmers
Its time to swap your winter comforts for some summer slimmers, and we have all the tips you need to do just that.
(Date published: 31/10/2011)
Working Out Lunches
Having a healthy lunch makes a big impact on your daily nutrition. Here we look at what to include in your healthy work or school lunch.
(Date published: 21/06/2011 2:25:00 PM)
Cooking and Eating for One
Eating for one can be interesting and nutritious. Planning ahead will help you maintain variety and nutrition and prevent boredom. This article gives a detailed menu plan for one for weekly evening meals.
(Date published: 7/02/2011)
Kids in the Kitchen
It is important to encourage kids in the kitchen. This can help ensure that they will grow up as capable adults understanding the importance of nutrition and knowing how to prepare quick healthy meals.
(Date published: 13/12/2010)
Making Better Restaurant Choices
In today’s fast paced world, families are often eating out 2 to 3 times or more a week. Many young singles and couples rely solely on take away and restaurant meals for both lunch and dinner on a daily bases. With this ‘eating out of the home’ schedule many people are going to miss out valuable nutrients if restaurants and take away chains don’t offer healthier options with a higher portion of vegetables and salads.
(Date published: 23/03/2010)
Healthy Cocktail Party
Cocktail parties are a popular type of festive entertaining. It may be a private function, a work party or an end of year wind up. Food served on these occasions is often high fat that is concentrated energy and not the type of food you would choose on a weight reduction or low fat diet. Sometimes it is better to have something light before hand such as a salad and then limit eating to healthy choices. Watch alcohol and high sugar soft drinks. Choose soda water and low joule drinks.
(Date published: 19/12/2003 10:29:00 AM)
Fare go for luscious, lazy lunches
The Christmas break is a time for easy interesting lunches that take minimum preparation time and incorporate left over Christmas fare.
(Date published: 19/12/2003)
Dairy and Dieting
Dairy foods can be high in fat, but you can reduce the fat content of many meals which contain dairy foods by substituting low fat ingredients for higher fat ones. This article shows the fat content of many common dairy foods.
(Date published: 15/02/2003)
Summer Entertaining
Summer is a great time to catch up with people and do some entertaining. If you're trying to watch what you eat, recipe selection can sometimes be difficult so to make things easier for you, we have drawn up a list of "Recipes for Entertaining" from the extensive recipe listing on our web site.
(Date published: 5/02/2003 11:56:00 AM)
Bulk up with salad and stay slim
Don’t be dull and boring with your salads. Expand your views, shrink your waistline and enjoy summer.
Yes, use the common lettuce, carrot, tomato and cucumber but lets add a huge range of other fruit and vegetables and protein rich, low fat foods as well. Make it a main meal salad.
Add an interesting low fat dressing based on yoghurt or balsamic vinegar and you can have a delicious meal.
(Date published: 24/01/2002)
Food Cents
Eating better can save households up to $2000 a year in their food bill and at the same time improve variety and nutrition. You can eat a better diet by spending less money on extra foods such as cakes, biscuits, pre-prepared and takeaway foods.
(Date published: 17/05/2000)
Breakfast
Breakfast should be the most important meal of the day. It can be interesting and varied while still keeping to a low fat healthy diet.
(Date published: 10/05/2000)
The Mediterranean Diet
What is it about a Mediterranean Diet that may assist us in the control of heart disease?
On the Island of Crete in the Mediterranean they have a very low rate of heart disease.
The diet in Crete is very high in fat but 95% of it comes from olive oil. Olive oil is monosaturated but is high in antioxidants. This is particularly so if it is a deep green colour. Antioxidants help the body battle free radicals that damage cell walls of arteries and therefore antioxidants can protect against heart disease.
(Date published: 3/05/2000)
Good food on the run
Meals on the run can still be balanced. A combination of convenience and easily prepared food means you can put an attractive, healthy meal on the table in minutes.
(Date published: 8/12/1999)