Christmas Recipe Index
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Food Tips of the Week
Losing weight
In deciding on a meal plan, it is important to attempt to moderate your consumption of fats, refined carbohydrate and salt.
Some low carb diet tips:
* Understand the food labels
Watch out for food labeling that boasts 'low carb' - check the real nutritional information on the reverse of the tin or packet. A good number of are only marginally less and in some instances still more than a competitors standard brand. Also, beware of 'low sugar' and 'low fat' labels - 'low sugar' does not always mean 'low carb' - often the carbs are identical.
* Replace sugar with a low carb substitute such as splenda.
Recipes that call for sugar can be modified to make use of a sugar replacement like splenda instead. It is much lighter so you will need to expirement with it and it might not be perfect for everything, but it does bake up nice once you have it cracked.
Brassicas, Superfoods that also help with your Weight loss
(eg. Cauliflower, Broccoli, Collard greens and Rutabaga)
Members of the brassica family are full of vitamins (eg.vitamin c), minerals (eg. potassium and selenium), fibre, chlorophyll and antioxidents.
In addition to their many other health benefits, the minerals and nutrients in these are believed to reduce the risk of cancer.
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