Live For Food

When I was overweight I assumed that most slim people were just lucky and that genetically they were naturally slim. I thought that if I was putting on weight as I got older, it was natural, and that I should just accept the way I was. It wasn’t until I had a go at cutting […]

In the next post in this series I shall be looking at dairy products. Advice differs widely as to whether we should include dairy products in a healthy diet or not. At one point I remember a study which said eating low fat dairy can aid weight loss. On the other side of the coin it […]

If you’re cooking dinner, and making it up as you go along, it’s not always easy to tell what you can add to your dish to make it taste nice.  A bit of trial and error is sometimes required, although you can rarely go wrong with grinding some black pepper into a dish. Many resources […]

Another year is here and as always it signals the end of the holiday period. I suppose January is typically the month when we have the most negative thoughts about food. We wonder how on earth we could have eaten so much, and decide to spend the month of January living on salad!  I’m probably not […]

This is yet another recipe that uses chicken breasts. I tend to keep this one for holidays or special occasions as its quite high in calories! Ingredients (serves 2): 2 chicken breasts 6 strips of smoked streaky bacon 2 long rectangles of cheese, about half the length of a chicken breast, and about 1 cm […]