Nutritious recipe book

Nutritious is a recipe book with a difference – it contains 100% healthy recipes which are both tasty and easy to make, and utilizes organic ingredients, healthy alternatives to sugar, dairy, wheat and bad fats whilst being fun and informative at the same time.

You will find health information and funny quotations peppered throughout the book, together with cooking and general health tips. Put together by Sally-Ann Creed and Jill Fraser Halkett for Leading Edge Nutrition Centres, Nutritious has done extraordinarily well for their first effort and is published by Storm Books.

To order your copy of Nutritious, please contact us via e-mail.

You will also find it at Leading Edge outlets.

Hunger-buster salad

This makes an amazing lunch for hungry youngsters.

Serves 1 or more

Wheat free; sugar free; dairy free; vegetarian

Take

A few slices of freshly baked rye bread

1 handful of frilly lettuce leaves

Extra virgin cold-pressed olive oil for drizzling over the salad

1 juicy lemon freshly squeezed

Finely chop the following:

A tomato

A few sticks celery with leaves

A few slices cucumber

2 slices of a deep red onion

1 quarter sweet pepper – any colour

1 carrot, and

Half an apple

A handful mixed raw nuts – walnuts, pecan, cashew, almonds, etc

Mix together:

1 crushed clove garlic

1 seeded chilli

1 tsp chopped parsley

1 tsp torn basil leaves

1 tsp chopped coriander leaves

1 small spring onion

2 or 3 dried dates

1 tsp chopped coriander leaves

Herbamare and freshly ground pepper

A few fresh dill or fennel sprigs

Do

• Cover the slices of bread with washed and dried lettuce leaves
• Arrange the rest of the chopped ingredients on the lettuce
• Top this with the garlic mixture
• Sprinkle with chopped nuts
• Season and drizzle with lemon juice and olive oil
• Serve immediately

From Nutritious by Sally-Ann Creed & Jill Fraser Halkett

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Dieting does not work, researchers report

Anyone who has been on a diet will tell you that over time, they do not work – that is why so many people yo-yo diet. The temptation of a ‘quick-fix’ will always lure overweight and obese people to ‘try just one more diet’. It’s a mug’s game that is certain to fail. From a common sense angle, we know our bodies understand feast and famine very well, as we are conditioned to store nutrients in our fat cells if a drought shows the slightest chance of being apparent.

Think of it this way:

As soon as we reduce our intake of calories, our bodies are conditioned to store food because they think a drought is at hand and could get worse. So food is stored in the fat cells ‘for later’.

Another aspect that is going to encourage a diet to fail – our bodies crave fat, but the world has gone mad and has encouraged a ‘fat-free’ lifestyle to reduce fat, which is completely against the way our bodies function best. Our brains alone consist mostly of fat, and work at optimum levels when our essential fatty acids are in balance. If we reduce fat, we unknowingly turn on a craving for fat which manifests itself in a craving for something sweet. So we have a quick fix bar of chocolate or muffin or breakfast bar (even worse!) in the hopes of stilling the nagging urge, and so set up a cycle for storing fat once again. Sugar turns quickly to glucose in the blood and if we don’t use it immediately it becomes toxic, so turning on the insulin response which removes the toxic sweet stuff out of the blood stream – into the fat cells!And so the cycle goes on.

There is only one certain way to lose weight and keep a healthy body as a result, and that is to eat a variety of foods which are not processed and are still in their natural form, exercise sensibly, drink plenty of water and make certain you have enough good fats and oils in your diet. Find a nutritionally trained health professional who understands how your body reacts to different foods and keep away from fad diets.

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What’s happened to our food?

Do you ever look in people’s shopping trolleys to see what they’ve bought for dinner?

If you have, what’s the bet:

• You’ll see boxes of ready-made meals taking up loads of space


• But what real value are they getting for their money?


• Do those beautifully labeled boxes of processed food warrant the prices we pay for them


• They’re labeled with pictures of delicious looking food


• But what’s inside is always a disappointment

If you’ve always bought ready-made meals, check out the difference in cost between them and what you’d pay to make that meal yourself. Over a month this could be as much as the cost of a meal out for four Local Food Suppliers

Years ago, before I knew much about how our food is manufactured, and long before I came to realize that we’ve in fact had our food stolen from us by the food manufacturing industry; Food Standards Agency I can remember longing to earn enough to buy all my family’s food requirements from Marks & Spencers or Waitrose.

But now I know better:

• Not only do I have more money to spend on our food because fresh and organic food is cheaper than processed meals


• But we are also healthier


• Finding new recipes is loads of fun


• And I really enjoy cooking for friends and families on Sundays


• It’s great to have lots of people around our dining room table


• Enjoying good food and wine, with some controversial banter to spice things up

Nowadays I never buy ready-made meals and have reduced my kitchen waste so re-cycling is a lot simpler too Planet Ark

Visit us again soon for more on Real Food and how to make it!

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