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Easy Basil and Parmesan Chicken
This will take you less time to prepare than stopping for takeaways.
oh..and it's much healhier for you too.
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Strawberries are in season!
Only 125 calories each, these are a heavenly treat.
Indulge yourself - Cick here.
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"Your body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess the baggage, the shorter the trip."
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Lynda's Famous Kebabs
Kebabs making losing weight easy! At only 260 calories per serve, these kebabs make a tasty filling dinner option.
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for all of our recipes including this one.
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Smoked Chicken with Roast Pumpkin and Tomato Puree
Smoked Chicken is Versatile. This easy recipe will give four good serves. Serve with extra vegetables.
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New Detour Bars
These are amazing, just like those yummy snickers bars but low sugar!
You can get your hands on them here.  Click Here
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Spice up your meals
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Use our flavour guide to make quick tasty meals that are healthy too. A healthy meal doesn’t have to be a tasteless one. With a few sauces, herbs and spices at your fingertips, you can create delicious meals night after night that not only taste good, but are easy to prepare and good for you. Try some of the following to spice up your meals: Click Here.
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Quick Bean Salad – serves 4
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420g can Five Bean Mix (I used Select, Woolworths brand)
2 sticks of celery chopped into small pieces
1 red capsicum cut into small pieces
½ medium red onion cut into small pieces
2 tbs lite dressing
Freshly ground black pepper
Chopped parsley or other fresh herbs as desired
Drain beans and then mix all together, sprinkling parsley on top.
Serve in lettuce ‘cups’ together with a protein source.
Veggies can be altered to suit personal tastes – sliced, raw button mushrooms could be added, or chunks of cucumber, grated carrot, etc.
Approximately 130 calories per serve
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Healthy Vegetarian Burgers
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The key to a healthy vegetarian diet is to enjoy a wide variety of foods. Since no single food provides all of the nutrients that your body needs, eating a wide variety of food, and taking a good quality multivitamin will ensure you get the necessary nutrients you need. Try our vegetarian burger tonight.
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Omega 3 For 11-13 year olds
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A NZ School’s informal experiment with Omega 3 supplements showed that writing skills and focus improved definitely. The children, between ages 11-13 took Omega 3 capsules once a day for a month. The principle, in Wellsford is continuing with more trials.
Source NZ Food Daily
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Beat the Bloat
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Do you sometimes feel like your tummy is blown up like a balloon? Does your waistband dig into your tummy, yet you know you haven’t gained any body fat? Lynda Smith explains
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Fruit Juice Not So Good
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A recent study published in the journal Pediatrics, revealed that the higher a child’s juice intake, the greater the gain in body fat over time. The summary revealed the weight gain applied more to children who were prone to putting on weight, and on the verge of being classified as overweight. In contrast children who ate whole fruit, (instead of drinking juice) put on less body weight.
The problem: Juices typically contain sugar, which makes them higher in calories.
The results are based on data gathered from 2800 children aged between 1-4 years. Data was gathered on their dietary intake, their height and weight was recorded every 6 months for a 4 year period.
Most of the popular brands of boxed fruit juices contain 100 or more calories, so two or more servings of these a day can add up to a significant amount. Source: NZ Herald.
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New Zealanders eat about 100 million pies a year.
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Now Tui have come up with a way to get us drinking a beer with our pie, The pies come in three flavours - mince and cheese, mince, and steak and cheese - and each contains 6% Tui beer.
"We'll be selling Tui tucker in all good food outlets, supermarkets, bars and tuckshops across the country. With a dash of Tui, we know they will be hot property," said DB Breweries commercial manager, Nick Rogers.
He said Tuimato Sauce was a success earlier this year, and pies were a natural next step.
Tui brand manager Jarrod Bear said pies are a national institution, and adding Tui to the mix makes perfect sense. (we don't think so)
Tui pies will retail for $4 at food outlets and Caltex service stations nationwide.
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Check your beans
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We don't want to put you off your beans because we think they are one of the healthiest vegetables, but it may pay to check your batch number though if you eat frozen beans - here's why, - Watties has withdrawn one batch of packs of "choice cut" frozen beans after an Auckland woman reported finding what looks to be a mouse's head in one. "I thought it was a little husk or something so I took it out of the microwave and pulled it out, it had eyes looking back at me, which was incredibly nauseating, I thought if this is your head where exactly is the rest of you?," she told reporters. Heinz-Watties say the beans were grown and packaged in Canterbury and occasionally wildlife does get into food products. Watties has undertaken a precautionary withdrawal of the batch of green beans that the offending packet came from. The batch number is 88270.10, with a best before date of 26 September 2010. Check your beans.
source NZ Food Daily
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