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This is the first post in a four-part series on “Dieting on a budget” - tips and tricks for sticking to your healthy habits when money is tight.
Food prices have soared recently, with increases as high as 20% on bread, 60% on rice and 81% on pasta. (UK statistics - see Families struggling as bills […]

Here are a selection of various food price increases over the past year from the Cattle Network.
Eggs +28%, milk +15%, Cheese +11%. A handful of items have dropped: carrots, cucumbers, oranges, tangerines, and pears.
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When you have your own fruit trees (or access to someone else’s) sometimes you can feel a bit buried in fruit, whatever happens to be dropping off the trees at that time. Summer becomes a mad dash of canning, jamming and freezing, trying to preserve the bounty to enjoy throughout the year. One […]

This is some of the best chicken I’ve ever eaten - grilled, roasted, baked, whatever. Juicy, spicy, tender, lipsmackin’ good. Here’s the deal, there are two ways to make this recipe. One way entails making your own red chile sauce from scratch, using dried ancho and guajillo chiles that you can usually […]

I’m sure the title has gotten your attention. Author Dean Geddes offers what he calls a “2 Fuel Tanks System” which ensures fast, efficient weight loss. Let’s explore its contents.
Geddes provides a compact and succinctly-versed book that tackles weight loss by finding the most efficient way to tap into fat stores through exercise […]

Supermarkets can be very manipulative: the candies at the checkout counter (at the perfect height for a 4 year old); the more expensive items are at eye level - budget options often sit nearer the ground; the colors, the smells, the ambience.
It’s all there to make you buy more. On-line grocery shopping is a good […]

Stop me if you’ve heard this before… but before you click out, keep reading - it gets interesting. Eating a big breakfast with copious amounts of (gulp) carbs and protein, followed by a low carb, low calorie diet the rest of the day has shown some pretty promising results - and get this; obliterates […]

I’m a little bit out of touch with what’s popular on TV - but I do know that crime shows are perennial favorites. We really are fixated with murder and violence.
A curious study has shown that people eat more when they contemplate death.
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You’d think that the heavier a person is and the more exercise they do, the more benefits they receive-right? It doesn’t seem that way. A new study has determined that exercise reduces hunger in lean women, but NOT obese women.
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There are, I think, three essential ingredients to this salad - corn, which you can grill or even prepare by toasting frozen kernels on the stovetop, onions, and cumin. The rest is a medley of whatever fresh vegetables you might have on hand. In this case I had zucchini and a serrano […]