Category: Healthy Food

Help – I Want To Eat A Balanced Diet!

Kylie
At school, we are all taught about the importance of eating a balanced diet. But as we grow older, we tend to forget about this. We eat what we want to eat and what will fulfil our hunger. But sometimes there comes a point where we want to eat a balanced diet once more but have forgotten what a balanced diet consists of. It’s important to remember that eating a balanced diet is not only about eating healthy food. A balanced diet needs to have a full balance of every food group to ensure you are getting the correct nutrients from every food group. So whilst healthy items like fruit and vegetable take a big chunk of your diet, there is still the ability to eat sugary foods, the option...
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Making Your Meals Healthy

Kylie
One thing we all need to become more conscious about is our meals and making them healthier. Ensuring our meals are healthy is something we should all be doing to improve our bodies health. Today, we are going to share with you some of our tips on ensuring your meals are healthy. Plan Your Meals One of the best ways to ensure you are eating healthy meals every day is to plan. By creating a plan for your meals for the week, you know what ingredients you need and can plan what of your five a day you are including. By planning, you will be able to ensure you have each of the food groups in every meal to ensure you have healthy meals. Know Your Portions Another way to...
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When did halloumi become so popular?

Kylie
Talk to your parents or grandparents about halloumi cheese and they may not know much about it. For those who don’t know, probably not many, it’s a Cypriot semi-hard, unripened brined cheese made from a mixture of goat’s and sheep’s milk. But with it now holding a spot on many restaurants’ menus, when did it become so popular here in the UK? It’s hard to say but it’s largely come from the gourmet burger market, whereby popular brands began adding it to some of their burgers. This squeaky cheese can now be found on most menus, but the likes of GBK and Nandos played a part in its revival here in the UK. That said, Greek and Cypriot food is more popular and easier to find now, so supermarkets played...
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Are cups of tea good for you?

Kylie
The average British person drinks somewhere between 4 and 10 cups of tea a day. That’s a lot of tea! The good news is that the amount of caffeine is small in tea so this makes it a healthier alternative to coffee. So in short the answer is yes, tea can be good for you. Obviously drinking water is a better way to hydrate your skin, however, tea is a good alternative and It’s full of antioxidants, so it can also help you lose weight. It is also said that drinking tea can reduce the chances of developing type 2 diabetes by up to 25 per cent if three or four cups are consumed a day. So while tea may not be as healthy as water on its own, it...
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