Creative Ways to Prepare Eggs for Children

by Amy Nutt Eggs have always been a popular and healthy food for the entire family. When eaten in moderation eggs are a healthy source of protein. Eggs are especially popular with children. If you are looking for creative ways to prepare eggs for your children, below are a few recipes that you can try: 1. Make some toast and add butter. Cut a hole in the middle of the toast. Fry or poach an egg and place it in the hole. With a glass of milk and fruit, you will be giving your children a healthy and delicious breakfast. 2. Scrambled eggs have always been a very popular meal. You can add some flavor... [Read more...]

Take The Time To Eat Healthy Breakfast Foods

by Jamis Hartley No matter how rushed you may be, breakfast can still be a part of your day. Using breakfast foods that are easy and fast doesn’t mean they can’t deliver what your body needs to get a good start in the morning. The ready made breakfast foods purchased at your local grocer are typically very high in sugar content. It might be fast and it certainly is easy, but it isn’t going to last. Our bodies need energy and the sugar we love in the morning is so quickly burned off you will find yourself wanting more before the morning is through. It is a challenge to get the... [Read more...]

“A healthy breakfast cereal for kids? No such thing!”

You must be loopy to serve this for breakfast I’ll start this article with a lament. How can we have our kids eating good, healthly meals when there’s so much temptation (and advertising) for the fatty, sugary and, admittedly, delicious alternatives? Well, there are healthy breakfast cereals in a box and some you can create. It’ll take time to break the breakfast sugar fix. The rewards will be leaner, healthier, energetic. focused and less sick kids. Pester power If we parents haven’t heard of this saying, we’ve certainly experienced and relented to it. It’s... [Read more...]

Healthy Meals From Bondi

Here’s some ideas and recipes for healthy meals inspired by beautiful Bondi Beach. My local beach for 40+ years. This article mainly concentrates on a healthy breakfast. Bondi is an active, energetic, vibrant place, especially in the morning. I work-out there 3-4 times a week from 6-7am with a friend. (Thought some days. like today, we decide just to wander about and grab a coffee. Bondi has great coffee). Bondi is just 7 kilometres from the CBD of Sydney. So many people work-out each morning before going into work. There’s not many better ways to start the day than with a surf. Bondi... [Read more...]

Fast Breakfast Recipes

Breakfast used to mean ‘breaking the fast’. In other words eating your first food after many hours. In today’s world it just means fast. No-one has time for cooking or complicated breakfast recipes in the week, especially the working week. But, that’s no excuse for eating badly in the morning. I think most of us have heard breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It’s just that not many of us treat it importantly. Looking at the supermarket breakfast aisle we’re faced with a wall of cereals all making some sort of health claim. To be perfectly honest... [Read more...]

Why a Low GI Diet is the right diet

Whether you’re looking to lose weight, control your weight or just be more healthy, a Low GI Diet is well worth considering. Unlike other diet strategies which end-up being fads, Glycemic Index diets and foods are part of the mainstream nutritional advice for weightloss. Importantly, Low GI is just one of a few ideas to keep in mind when looking to manage weight or be healthy. The other ideas include ensuring you eat more and more fresh, natural, unprocessed foods and simply move more – get out and about and move your body. What’s a Low GI Diet? The glycemic index, or GI, is simply... [Read more...]

Healthy Breakfast Ideas

It’s been said that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. With this, it is as only as important as what we decide to eat for breakfast. You need to eat something healthy so that you will not be hungry half way through the morning. Eat something filling enough that will last you till lunch time. One of the easiest and most common healthy breakfast foods is cereal. You want to choose a whole grain cereal that has at least three to five grams of fiber per serving, and that doesn’t have a lot of sugar. You can add some fruit and low fat milk to your cold cereal to add some more... [Read more...]

Say yes to a no-added sugar breakfast cereal.

There is no better way to start your day than with breakfast. Your body needs to ‘break the fast’ it’s been on for the last 8-10 hours since it’s last meal. We often place breakfast cereal in the ‘healthy’, ‘good for me’ category. It must be to do with the ingredients – grains, dried fruit and the milk we add. I wish it was so simple. Are you eating a healthy breakfast cereal or a bowl of sugar? More and more we’re becoming aware of just how much sugar many cereals contain. The sugar is either naturally occurring in the ingredients or... [Read more...]

Do You Know The Right Way To Lose Weight?

Let’s be honest here. You don’t seriously expect to lose weight in 3 weeks that took you 3 years to put on, now, do you? Well, for some they probably canbut it will only be temporary. Losing weight in a slow, steady manner is the healthiest way you can do it, and it’s also the only way to keep it off for good. It requires not just a diet plan, those don’t work. It requires a change of lifestyle. You know why so many people can’t lose weight, or have such a hard time trying? Because they don’t want to accept the truth that there is no quick, fast, easy way to... [Read more...]

Healthy Breakfast cereal. Is there such a thing?

I used to think breakfast cereal, especially museli, was pretty a healthy breakfast option. Now, with all the information available about what’s in many cereals I’ve changed my mind. I also think many others have changed theirs as well. Nothing good ever comes out of a box. I once heard this from a nutritionist friend when we were chatting about cereals. (Yes, I actually do chat about cereals). And when you look a bit closer at what’s in most breakfast cereals you’ll probably agree. It’s too easy to point the finger at the obvious culprits – the mass-produced... [Read more...]

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