Most Popular Recipes

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Hickory Nut Cake
Wholemeal Red and Yellow Pepper Quiche with Pansies
Cherry Jelly

Top Rated Recipes

Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookies
Classic Challa
Souper Meat Loaf

Cooking tips

Buy Local Food : Cultivate an awareness of how far your food travels. When Rich Pirog, Food Systems Program Leader for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture at Iowa State University, tracked the miles traveled for 16 types of produce, he found that locally sourced fruits and vegetables such as apples, lettuce and tomatoes traveled an average of 56 miles, compared to 1,494 miles — nearly 27 times farther — for the same fruits and vegetables delivered through conventional retail channels. Things get stickier with combination foods, strawberry yogurt for example. Pirog came up with 2,216 miles by adding up the distance traveled for the yogurt’s milk, sugar and strawberries. That figure could be slashed by 90 percent if you buy plain yogurt and stir in some locally grown honey and fruit.


Buy Local Food : Check out farmers markets, roadside farm stands and tailgate markets (where parking lots are temporarily transformed into areas of commerce), and don’t be afraid to ask questions about where the food is grown.

Losing weight

Low calorie diet

In simple terms, the low calorie diet is based on the fact that in order to achieve weight loss, the important thing to eat fewer calories than you burn up.

Definition of a calorie?
The calorie is a unit for measuring food's ability to produce heat and energy. A food calorie is the the amount of energy required to raise one cubic centimeter of water by one degree centigrade. If something has more calories, then it will gives you a larger amount of energy when your body burns it.

Examples of low calorie foods include cabbage, tomato, watermelon, meals containing beef, and bamboo shoots.