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June 25, 2013 By Melanie Leave a Comment

What Makes A Healthy Well Balanced Diet?

healthy-diet When it comes to healthy eating, we all have our own interpretations of what makes a healthy well balanced diet, and to be fair there is no real right or wrong way. Well that’s what I think anyway. It’s what works for you. For some of us following a low calorie, low fat diet will help us lose weight while some of us might prefer a low carb, high protein diet.
Its finding what works for your body. The two key elements for a healthy well balanced diet are keeping the balance right by eating a wide variety of food and eating enough food to sustain your active lifestyle.
A good variety of foods should include all major food groups, so… [Read more...]

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June 24, 2013 By Melanie Leave a Comment

Lets Fight This Weight - Full on Together

Hey peeps I know it’s been awhile since I wrote on the blog… I’ve been lazy, I’m not going to lie to you, I got distracted, still that’s No Excuse!

I am responsible for my actions… And at the end of the day I still want to lose weight, so I’m climbing back on the wagon and this time I’m making it happen, are YOU with me?

Quick Update:

Long story short I was doing really good, lost quite a bit of weight experimenting with new recipes, even documenting them to add to my “Quick & Easy Cooking – Low Calorie Recipe Book”, and then… What happen? I don’t know… What I do know is I started gaining weight again. Without sounding sorry for myself, some unwanted distractions in my life caused me to rely on fast food, takeaways, microwave meals, street food (Oh yeah I did go on holiday too, but that was Just the distraction I needed), bar food etc. [Read more...]

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March 14, 2013 By Melanie Leave a Comment

Spicy Mixed Bean and Chorizo Soup

With the weather turning cold again, you can’t beat a bowl of healthy filling homemade soup. This spicy mixed bean and chorizo soup is one of my favourites, and I just had to share it with you. [Read more...]

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February 22, 2013 By Melanie Leave a Comment

Low Fat Sweet Chilli Beef Stir-Fry

With the weather turning rather cold again I needed something that was hot, tasty and quick for lunch so this sweet chilli beef stir-fry was just perfect. The best part about this recipe you can use up any leftover roast meats or if you’re not too keen on meat some prawns would work just as well. [Read more...]

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February 1, 2013 By Melanie Leave a Comment

Low Fat Pasta with Ham, Leeks & Mushrooms

Well it’s been quite a while since I last gave you a recipe video, as I was making a quick lunch today I decided I would shoot this for you as I thought you might enjoy it as much as I do. Its quick, simple and very tasty so hope you enjoy it.
You can vary the ingredients too, so don’t be shy get experimenting. [Read more...]

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November 5, 2012 By Melanie Leave a Comment

Slow Cooker Batch Cooking To Avoid Fast Foods

When you’re strap for time and your belly is rumbling, fast foods like takeaways and microwave dinners are just perfect, or are they? Yes they might be convenient for filling a hungry tummy, but satisfaction is only half.

Fast food might get rid of that hungry feeling, after eating a lot of it due to the high sugar content most fast foods contain (Sugar makes you eat a lot), but your health and weight must now pay the price. Other than sugar, fast foods and microwave dinners are also high in salt and saturated fats, not to mention all the hard to pronounce preservatives.

On the other hand, when time is against you and all you can think about is food, you could reach into the freezer, take out a pack of that healthy, nutritious chunky beef chilli you cooked in your slow cooker a few days ago. You know, the batch of chilli you cooked, portioned off and freezed for a day just like this. [Read more...]

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November 3, 2012 By Melanie Leave a Comment

How Your Slow Cooker Can Free Up Time To Exercise

Two of the biggest factors that prevent most of us from exercising are motivation and time. Today we’ll tackle the element of time by showing you how your slow cooker can free up that all-important exercising time.

If you want to be fit and healthy, exercise is just as important as healthy eating, so how can your slow cooker help? Well to begin with your slow cooker does not require you to constantly stand over it, stirring, tasting until the meal is complete, no instead you just take 10 – 15 mins to fill it with your ingredients, usually in the morning and then carry on with the rest of your day, fitting in your exercise routines and then sitting down to a stress free meal in the evening.

Okay, how about getting up an hour earlier, take 5 mins to put some porridge mix into your slow cooker, whiles it’s cooking away for the next hour and half, you can fit in a quick workout, get a shower and then sit down to a nice warm bowl of porridge, compliments of your slow cooker, just before heading off to work, or doing the school run, or doing whatever it is you need to do for the rest of the day. [Read more...]

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November 2, 2012 By Melanie Leave a Comment

Slow Cooker – Perfect For Healthy Nutritious Meals

The slow cooker has grown in popularity due to the ease of cooking and the wonderful, delicious heart warming meals it delivers. It is also perfect for cooking healthy nutritious meals, making it even more popular amongst the health conscious person and dieters alike.

When cooking with your slow cooker you are more likely than not to use fresh ingredients. Because the ingredients are cooked on a low moderate temperature for many hours, the natural juices produced by the meat and veg are retained, preserving most of the vitamins and nutrients.

Unlike conventional cooking where the liquid escapes via vaporisation, with slow cooking the liquid becomes part of the meal. Also meaning the leaners of meats are juicy and tender too. [Read more...]

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October 31, 2012 By Melanie Leave a Comment

How To Eat Healthy On A Budget Using Your Slow Cooker

Believe it or not but you can eat healthy and save on the pennies by utilising your slow cooker. If you’ve put off healthy eating in the pass because you’ve been under the impression that healthy eating comes with a hefty price tag, you’re about to discover that this is not the case if you put your slow cooker to good use.

First of all you would save on your energy bill, because even though slow cooking can take up to 7 hours to cook a meal, the slow cooker itself is actually very energy efficient. Let’s compare the slow cooker with the conventional oven. One hour of cooking in your oven would use on average about 4000 watts, whereas your slow cooker would only consume on average about 250 watts of energy. I’ll let you work out what that means in monetary value.

Next is your grocery bill, because the slow cooker does what it says on the can, cooks your food slowly on low temperature for a number of hours, you can use cheaper cuts of meat and still be served a healthy meal with meat that is tenderised, melt in your mouth succulent… Drool! [Read more...]

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October 30, 2012 By Melanie Leave a Comment

Mexican Shredded Chicken – Slow Cooker Recipe To Deter Weight Loss Excuses

The slow cooker is a great way to ensure you stick to your dieting plan. Do you ever notice that every time you choose to pursue your weight loss goal, you are suddenly faced with obstacle after obstacle? You are not alone, one of the main reasons people never stick to their diet or reach their weight loss goal, is due to the obstacle of time or should I say the excuse of time.

Not enough time to prepare a healthy nutritious meal, It’s late in day, it’s been a busy day at work and the kids are screaming blue murder, they want to be fed. The takeaway menu that’s stuck to the fridge is now starting to look like a godsend. It’s convenient and what can one night’s takeaway do to your diet, not much right? And you’ll be more prepared and back on plan tomorrow right? You will wont you?

Look, it happens to the best of us, no matter how good your intentions are towards weight loss and healthy eating, they are useless if you are not prepared and find yourself slap bang in the middle of a situation like described above. [Read more...]

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