Live For Food

I’m sure you’ve heard that to get all our vitamins and minerals we should ensure we are eating fruit and vegetables of many different colors.  So here’s my suggestion of a day’s food that includes all the colors of the rainbow in fruit and veg: Breakfast: Branflakes with greek yoghurt and chopped strawberries Photo: arki […]

Chicken pie is a great way to use up leftover meat from a roast chicken.  Its also a really comforting meal in the evenings when its cold outside.  If I make pie on a weeknight I normally serve it just with some steamed vegetables, no potatoes or anything, just to keep the calorie count down […]

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 […]

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 […]

I have a vegetable box delivered to my door every week.  I had been debating whether or not it was a good idea, when my neighbour opposite happened to pass us  a leaflet about a local lady who went to the farmers’ market every week, bought vegetables and delivered them in boxes – so I decided […]