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Mushroom soup with Parsnip cream

August 30 Lunch Dinner Supper, Recipes, Vegetarian no comments

This delicious, essentially vegan soup which is very filling. If you are really hungry eat with a warm wholemeal roll. As no fat whatsoever was used, it is great for weight loss too! Another plus is that as the parsnips ...

Healthy Eating Recipes

August 20 Uncategorized no comments

The Healthy Eating Organisation will give you answer to the question “what is healthy eating?” with our selection of healthy eating recipes! Our recipes are designed to incorporate as much fresh healthy food as possible....

What is a healthy eating breakfast?

February 17 Health and Nutrition, How to no comments

Once you understand why a healthy breakfast is so important, which foods do you use to make one? A breakfast that will give you energy until lunch time and stop you reaching for the biscuits and coffee mid morning needs ...

Fabulous Fibre

September 2 Food School, Health and Nutrition no comments

Fibre doesn’t sound that interesting, but it is amazing.  Fibre in itself helps us to feel full for longer, it slows down the release of sugars which is good for sustained energy and helps protect us from diabetes and it...

Protein:How much do we need?

September 2 Health and Nutrition no comments

The UK government say that 15% of your energy requirements should come from protein.  Therefore if your energy requirements are on average 1940 calories a day (which is the average required for a woman who weighs 60 kg),...

Nutrients: What are they?

September 2 Health and Nutrition

We are made out of nutrients that we find in the food we eat and what we drink, and we cannot function without them. In fact without these essential nutrients in the right quantities, we would not be able to sustain life...

Creamy Carrot, Coriander and Orange Soup

September 2 Lunch Dinner Supper, Recipes, Vegetarian no comments

This is another very simple and quick recipe. Soups usually involve cooking the life out of the vegetables. The Simple Healthy Soup range offers an alternative to this. In this recipe the vegetables are blended with seas...

Quinoa Tabouleh with Roasted Vegetables

September 2 Lunch Dinner Supper, Recipes, Vegetarian no comments

This recipe is great for vegetarians as the quinoa has a higher protein content than bulgur wheat, which is traditionally used for this recipe. Using quinoa gives a healthy boost to a family favourite. Recipes usually ca...

Protein: What is it?

August 27 Health and Nutrition no comments

The word protein comes from Greek and means ‘first importance’. And with good reason as nearly every chemical reaction in our cells involves protein. Protein also provides our bodies with structure and is needed to make ...

Freshly squeezed pear and spinach juice

August 26 Liquid food, Recipes no comments

Spinach in the morning juice may sound scary but believe us when we say it is delicious! The lemon improves the juice and brings out the flavours. Ingredients Serves 2 3 Pears, washed Fresh spinach approximately ½ 200 gm...