Live For Food

Do you want to know how many calories you’re eating? It can be a complicated game to play. When I first started counting calories it often involved pencil, paper, calculator and weighing scales, and it would take me a few minutes and some sums to calculate exactly how many calories I was eating. These days [...]

So you’ve got guests coming for dinner, or you want to make something a bit special for your other half or family, but you’re tight for time.  An easy way to make a meal special is to do a starter.  A three course meal automatically sounds impressive, but it can be very easy to whip [...]

The dilemma – you want a healthy dinner … but you don’t feel like cooking. So you’ve just got in after work, you’ve had a long day, and you don’t feel like cooking. Or maybe you feel off color but you’re still hungry. Or maybe you’ve run out of energy after running round after a [...]

This week I’ve had another go at a recipe using chicken breasts.  I seem to cook with them once or twice a week so its good to try out some new recipes.  Once again this is an Epicurious recipe, and I halved the ingredients below as I was only cooking for two people. Ingredients (for [...]

A lot is written on the internet about weight loss and relatively little about weight maintenance.  If you view any internet forums, you may see twenty boards about various diets, and then one board for weight maintenance.  However weight maintenance is the most important part of the journey!  If you don’t focus on it then [...]