Millet Week: The oldest cultivated variety of cereal in the world, an important basic foodstuff in Africa & Central Asia. Millet is highly nutritious, gluten-free and is not acid forming, so is soothing and easy to digest. It’s alos gluten free and sustainable. Millet is very rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins. It is […]
July 31st, 2014 A few weeks ago on FB I covered some of the sweeteners available to us now. Here I’ve made a more complete list and a table with each sweeteners GI, Calories, carbs and fructose content. Lots of people ask me which one is best. I really don’t think there is an absolute […]
I posted some of this information on my Facebook page during the ‘Ingredient Of The Week’ I did on Cooking Oils a couple of weeks ago. From this I was asked to put it altogether together with a summary. So here ‘tis is. Which Oils to Cook With – my post last night has brought […]
Turmeric (Curcuma Longais) also known as the ‘Golden Spice of Life’. Turmeric is said to prevent cancer and childhood leukemia thanks to the ‘curcumin’ it contains. Other reasons to include it include – – it helps in detoxifying the liver. – turmeric aids in fat metabolism so helps manage your weight along with improving digestion, […]
It’s a wonderful anti-inflammatory (sooo important), a liver tonic and estrogenic, and research has proven that eating about 1 tablespoon dried turmeric a week (1 tsp fresh) reduces our chances of getting Alzheimer’s by around 50%. Here’s an easy and very popular recipe using turmeric. ‘Lentil Patties’ Gf, Df, Vg, V, SF, NF, GrF Makes […]
‘Ingredient Of The Week’ is – Cooking Oils. A lot of you ask which ones are best to cook with due to their Smoke Point, toxic levels and nutritional content. So over this week I’ll do my best to answer these questions as well as post recipes and storage tips. Let’s start with an oils […]
I hear about a lot of new diets these days, and I wonder what is going on with these. Yeah of course I realise many of us have serious trouble digesting some foods, and there are foods we just dont want to eat due to spiritual, moral or ethical reasons, or because we are concerned […]
