Happy New Year everyone. Hope everyone had a great festive season and the return to the routine has not been too hard! Have you made a new year’s resolution? Does it involve eating better and getting fitter? Or have you opted for a January ‘detox’? There is so many articles and advertising telling us it…
Social Media and Health – Food Matters Live seminar got me thinking…
Social media is radically changing the way we communicate. There are some great things happening using social media, debates can really get out there and good users of social media (which I sadly don’t count myself in that bracket) really use it well to get a message out there, they reach a wide audience and…
Food Matters Live – Lots of sweet debate
A big strand running through Food Matters Live is the whole tackling obesity challenge with a big focus on sugar. Lots of debate about the sugar tax, although it should be communicated more as a levy on soft drinks. I think it is important to understand it fully before having a view on it. This…
Make it up as you go along chicken noodle soup!
If there is one thing I love about the cold weather is pulling out the biggest pot I have and throwing together a large quantity of soup. There is nothing quite so comforting as a big bowl of soup on a cold day with a nice big chunk of crusty bread and maybe a bit…
Food Matters Live 2016 – off to London next week
Food Matters Live is booked along with accommodation and flights. It feels quite extravagant to be off for a multi-day conference – everything is a little more complicated and expensive with a commute from Paris. Fingers crossed that the military planning that is necessary to head off for the best part of 4 days all falls…
Work Place Health
It is harder living in Paris to get to CPD events, and after the long, long summer break (my children had 2 months off school) I was feeling a little out of touch. It was really exciting to be jumping on the Eurostar last weekend to go to a Nutritionists In Industry meeting to hear…
Processed foods – recipe #3 Moroccan Spaghetti
Moroccan Spaghetti is a very quick recipe and so easy to do with store cupboard ingredients. Thanks to Simon Rimmer’s Accidental Vegetarian Cookbook for the inspiration for this one. This is so quick that you had better get water on the boil for your pasta! The sauce will be done by the time the spaghetti…
Cooking with processed food #2
Refried beans Not fried at all in fact. The name is lost in translation. In Spanish the name of this dish is Frijoles refritos which translates as recooked beans. This is a must when we have fajitas at home, I have adapted a recipe from Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall’s Veg recipe book. In a frying pan,…
Cooking with processed foods – recipe number 1
In my last post I defended processed food. I highlighted lots of processed foods that are not really much different from fresh with regard to their nutritional value and that there are lots of quick meals to cook using them. I know, I know – part of the reason we want to use convenience foods…
Processed food – Good or Bad?
I had an article to write, about convenient long life food that you can stock up on if you might be stuck for getting out to shop for fresh bits and pieces. It was for a publication going out in the Autumn with the thought that winter weather can sometimes keep people at home. There…
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