Healthy Households

I just watched an interview with Cyndi O’Meara, author of Changing Habits Changing Lives. Her message is simple, eat good quality natural ingredients. You can still eat chocolate cake, just make it yourself with quality ingredients. Butter instead of Margarine. Rapadura Sugar instead of Cane Sugar. Watch the interview for more details and check out [...]

When choosing fresh fruit & vegetables, they’re always cheaper and nicer when you pick something that’s in season. Now that spring has sprung, it’s the perfect time for avocados, mangos, melons, papaya, strawberries, asian greens, asparagus, sweet potato and ann things salad! We found a beutiful Nutty Roast Sweet Potato Salad at taste.com.au that’s perfect [...]

We all know McDonalds. Many of us have a love / hate relationship with it. For the most part, their menu isn’t very good for you, but they do have a lot of healthier choice options these days and they are very open about what’s in it and listing the nutritional content of their meals. [...]

Looking for an all-over skin scrub that doesn’t cost the earth? With three simple ingredients you may already have in the home, you can whip one up in no time. Epsom Salts Vegetable Oil Coconut Palm Sugar Just mix a fairly even quantity of each together and apply in the shower. For the best results, choose [...]

If you’re stiff and achy at the end of the day, a swedish healing mat may be just what you’re looking for. With almost 9,000 trigger points, lay back and feel the tension melt away. The first 10 minutes are quite intense, but the longer you lay on the mat, the longer the trigger points [...]

When you picture pancakes, most people see a stack with a big scoop of ice-cream, dollop of cream and lashings of golden syrup. All very sugary and not very healthy. It is quite easy to make a healthy pancake stack that’s just as delicious as the naughty stuff. INGREDIENTS 1 cup self-raising flour (use spelt [...]

Yesterday, while tackling the mad crowds at Charlestown Square in Newcastle (and that was just in the parking lot!), we had to find somewhere quick and healthy to eat lunch. In a food hall of a major shopping centre, that usually just means the sandwich bar, and I wasn’t really in the mood for that. [...]

There’s been some margarine type spreads around for a while specifically designed to help lower your cholesterol, and now Kraft have come out with a new cheese called Live Active. Enriched with plant sterols, they recommend eating 2 slices a day. Tests have proven the cheese can help lower cholesterol by up to 10% over [...]

It is reported that sour cherries are the latest superfood! The juice from sour cherries can help with sore muscles, sleepless nights and more. Fresh & dried sour cherries pack the same punch as the juice, so you can pick your favourite or swap them around to suit your fancy. Sour cherries contain melatonin, a [...]

There’s a problem I have with MSG & chips. I ‘LOVE’ flavoured potato chips (and Twisties, Burger Rings etc.) but MSG gives me a headache, so I have made the choice to completely remove it from my diet. Alas, this means no flavoured potato chips. While at Coles the other day, I noticed a new [...]