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How to make healthy eating incredibly simple this year (2012 revisit)

Thumbnail image for How to make healthy eating incredibly simple this year (2012 revisit) January 1, 2012

A year ago today I was writing about new years resolutions and how to have a big impact on health without spending the first weeks of the new year prioritising complicated, short-lived unrealistic goals.  The post I wrote then struck a chord with a lot of people looking for a simpler way to focus their [...]

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Summer fruit salad, as you like it

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I hated fruit salad when I was a kid. Hated it. And then I grew up and started to enjoy eating fruit, but strangely the dislike of fruit salad persisted. It’s only in the last few years that I’ve realised the the secret to making fruit salad enjoyable. Only use fruit that you enjoy!  D’uh. [...]

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Online grocery shopping – healthy helper or costly convenience?

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You’ve probably guessed by now that I’ve been a busy bee recently.  It’s all good stuff so I’m not complaining, but it has interfered with my food shopping quality time.   It’s easy to let healthy eating slip when you’re pushed for time but actually when you’re busy is when you need to eat well more [...]

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Does it really matter if your 5-a-day is all fruit or all vegetables?

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It seems like just days ago that we were talking about the surprising knock-on effects of really concentrating your efforts into eating plenty of fruit and veg.  It’s a great way to make healthy eating incredibly simple.  The idea prompted a lot of discussion and also this question on Twitter – does it matter if [...]

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Shake up your wake up!

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The week just past was Farmhouse Breakfast Week 2011. In the spirit of this year’s theme Shake Up Your Wake Up there have been a plethora of fresh and inventive breakfast recipes appearing online and offline.  There weren’t enough breakfasts in the day to get through this lot in a week and so thought I [...]

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How to make healthy eating incredibly simple this year

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Today is 1/1/11. There’s been a lot of talk about resolutions already, particularly around health, nutrition and exercise. And you know what, it’s all getting a bit complicated out there – do eat this, don’t eat that, cook it this way, not that way. Rather than create a set of complicated resolutions, how about we [...]

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