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The Best of Cooking Light Everyday Favorites is certainly not a cookbook that one should leaf through on an empty stomach.
The food looked so good that my appetite increased ten fold, luckily a fast walk during lunch kept me from hitting the Chinese buffet.
This new Cooking Light cookbook, edited and compiled by Heather Averett, contains over 500 of their best recipes and really covers just about all aspects of eating, but as usual in a reduced-Calorie way.
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Real Meals: Free Recipes for 11 Year Olds
Could this be the solution to tweens' inability to recognize fruit and veg? The UK government is giving a free recipe book to all the nation's 11 year olds. The book contains 32 recipes voted for by the British public as "real meals", such as chicken tikka, chilli con carne, spaghetti bolognaise and vegetable curry.
Even if you don't have an 11 year old, or you're not in the UK, you can get the book for free - download all the recipes from Real Meals on TeacherNet. But is it any good - and what else is the government doing to make sure that children have the chance to learn to cook?
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How To: Stock Your Kitchen for Health
Having a well stocked kitchen is like having armor for health and fat loss. This requires consistent and planned grocery shopping and preparing, but having a continuous supply of healthy staples makes healthy eating that much easier. Here are some kitchen essentials:
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Time To Stop Picking Food While Cooking?
You stir the sauce for dinner and you try a teeny bit ... and a bit more ... and another spoonful. You grate some cheese and slice a hunk off to nibble on. And maybe more olives find their way into your mouth than into the salad. It's easy to clock up an extra couple of calories before you even sit down for a meal.
Here's five simple ways to stop yourself picking at food while cooking:
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