Discover the Secrets of Good health

Our best plans often go more than a little awry during a busy day, and snap decisions taken in a second can alter the course of our whole week or diet. How would you deal with these five make-or-break moments?
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Many moons ago Dennis Kercher from The Hidden Kitchen shared with me his favorite grilled cheese sandwich - one with smoked salmon, Gruyere, and lemon confit made from preserved lemons. I finally got around to making this fabulous sandwich, but instead of using preserved lemons (most people don’t have those sitting around), I boiled [...]

Eating a good breakfast is one of those generation-tested mantras that have become lost on many these days. Teens are of particular concern as more of them seem to opt for an extra 20 minutes of sleep, a shower or some Facebook time instead of a good breakfast.
Take that iPod out of [...]

Weight loss clubs and pools have become popular in recent years whereby groups of people get together and have contests to see who can shed the most weight. Getting some form of financial reward can be motivational, but what if not reaching your goal meant you could lose your savings?
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From the recipe archive in honor of the Easter weekend. (More Easter recipes) ~Elise
A reader of Simply Recipes recently left a comment on our Pavlova recipe with a recipe for what she calls “Easter Cookies” (called “Resurrection cookies” by another reader). The commenter, Linda, describes them as a meringue cookie with pecans that [...]

“Shocking proof!”… “The Reason You Can’t Lose Weight has Nothing to Do With Your Will-Power, Over-Eating or the Right Diet! … The Reason You are Fat and Unhealthy is Because You Have Disgusting Plaque and Horrible Little ‘CRITTERS’ Living in Your Guts!”
I came across this advert recently and found it so unbelievably outrageous and cringe-inducing [...]

Okay, pardon me in advance, but I think I’ve just had a Sandra Lee moment with this dish. Wait, the parsley is fresh from the garden, does that count? Let’s look at the ingredients - shrimp (best to get frozen and defrost yourself, unless you can get fresh, because most of what you [...]

Before I go on, I would like to wish everybody a happy “Break your Diet” day. That’s right - as I write this on March 18th, this is the day where the average person who starts a New Years resolution diet breaks it - 78.6 days. Well a newly released survey shows that [...]

Have you ever attempted to make a soufflé and it just didn’t live up to your expectations? That’s when it pays to have friends who actually know what they are doing. After trying unsuccessfully to recreate a fabulous soufflé I enjoyed at a brunch given by chef, and fellow food blogger, Brett [...]

The shelves are full of chocolate eggs at the moment, many at bargain prices: it’s difficult to walk through a supermarket without succumbing. If you’ve got Easter eggs in the cupboard, you’ll sometimes be in that mood when you absolutely must have chocolate … and you know you won’t be able to stop at just [...]