Go directly to recipes When you’re planning a weekend breakfast with the family, or brunch with friends, your first choice will usually be a hearty fry up of bacon and eggs. Delicious, quick and easy to prepare, their high protein content will keep you feeling full and satisfied all morning. …
Go directly to Recipes I don’t know about you, but I’m one of those people that likes to have the same thing for breakfast every day. I find it comforting and I’m not up to being creative first thing in the morning. My preference is toast and coffee. Yours may …
Go directly to recipes A stroll down the aisles of a supermarket will reveal a host of quick and easy desserts. However, while most of those desserts might be filling and tasty, they are generally high in fat, sugar and other additives. When you make your own desserts, you can …
Go directly to Recipe Collections In our early days, just after our gastric or bariatric surgery, our nutritionist will recommend a restricted diet, but one of the few old favourites we can still enjoy is the humble egg. Highly nutritious, small, easy to digest and versatile, the egg will be …
Go directly to recipes For many people, their first thought when planning a quick meal will be to reach for the pasta, and what a good thought that is. Pasta might be sneered at by the ‘low carbs’, ‘keto diet’ brigade, but it’s been part of the much vaunted ‘Mediterranean …
Go directly to recipes The cultivation of bananas can be traced back to Southeast Asia as early as 8,000 BCE. Bananas were gradually introduced to India, Africa and the Middle East by ancient traders and travellers. Arab conquerors carried them to the eastern Mediterranean, and eventually, European explorers encountered bananas …
Go directly to recipes The Granny Smith apple originated in New South Wales, Australia in 1868, when Maria Ann Smith propagated the cultivar from a chance seedling. Since then, it has spread around the world and is the third most popular apple in the United States. The Beatles used the …
Go directly to recipes Spinach originated in ancient Persia, or today’s Iran, and surrounding countries. From there it crossed into India and then China. It was brought to Europe by the Arabs through Sicily and Spain and had spread to Northern Europe by the 14th century. It was a particular …
Go directly to recipes When you have a limited stomach capacity, you have to think carefully about what snacks to choose. You don’t want to fill what little space you have down there with snacks that provide only ‘empty calories’ i.e. lots of bulk, sugar or salt, and little else. …
Go directly to recipes The best dessert is a piece, or a bowl, of fresh fruit, but there might be times when we don’t have any fresh fruit on hand, or just feel like something different. That’s where frozen berries come in. They’re a great standby, and can simply be …
Go directly to recipes Lettuce was first cultivated in ancient Egypt in the third millennium BCE for the production of oil from its seeds, but over time was selectively bred into a plant grown for its edible leaves. From the Egyptians, lettuce cultivation was passed onto the Greeks and by …
Go directly to recipes In summer, on my way home from work, I would often pop into the supermarket to buy a container of spinach or eggplant dip and a packet of rice crackers, and that would be my lunch. It was a great way to get my daily all …
