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Revealed – why you are not a freak of nature if porridge doesn’t fill you up

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Everybody and their Mum knows that porridge is a super-filling breakfast. Except that you really wouldn’t think so from reading the comments on my last post about having quinoa for breakfast; it’s just not true that porridge is a filling breakfast for one and all.  There are a whole host of reasons why this might be and I’ve jotted … Read the full post

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Handpicked Links December 2008

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A few favourite finds from over the last few weeks.
  • Winter fruit salad – Smitten Kitchen has a gorgeous winter fruit salad made with pear, apples, pomegranate seeds and dried fruit, scented with star anise, vanilla and lemon zest.
  • Ginger jewelled salad – Heidi Swanson has come up with a stunning dried fruit studded salad that somehow combines a lightness
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Seasonal Fruit and Vegetable Guide – Autumn

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This post is first of a new set of seasonal guides on Mostly Eating.  Quarterly seems like a good timescale for a produce guide; long enough to hide those little uncertainties induced by geography and climate which can easily throw things out by a few weeks.

Here’s what you will find in here:

  • a list of fruits and vegetables in
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Improve your diet with your mobile phone!

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This New Scientist article, Snap-happy dieters reap benefits caught my eye recently over at SmarterFitter blog.  The dietitian and nutritionist’s favourite tool, the humble food diary, has been given a technological revamp using the mobile phone camera.

In the study described in the NS article a team of researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison recruited volunteers to compare the … Read the full post

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