recipes

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.

Help is at hand. The Guardian (a UK national newspaper) has published a complete guide on "cooking for kids", which you can get for free on the website.

So what does this guide include?

If you've got kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews or younger siblings heading to university, what can you do to encourage them to eat healthily? (If you're a student yourself, show this post to a friendly adult and persuade them to buy you some groceries!)

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?

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:

Whether you're looking for a breakfast on-the-go, a post workout recovery or a mid-afternoon pick-me-up, smoothies can be a fast and easy way to pack a good nutritional punch.

Here are some smoothie basics and a couple of recipes to try:

Are you crazy about puns and low calorie cooking?

If so, you will like Eat, Shrink & Be Merry - a healthy cookbook from Janet & Greta Podleski.

With the current high cost of groceries, everybody is looking for ways to cut costs, but still maintain the same high level of quality of their food and nutritional content for their meals.

Since time is a valuable commodity as well, a way to save money and time is to purchase your food items in bulk.

But how do you make your own prepackaged meals and soups?

Here's an interesting site I stumbled across - that will help out with food ideas. Each of the main foods is surrounded by a diagram of appropriate food combinations.

Which fruits go best with cooked chicken? Which cheeses? What about the vegetables?

Given that most ready-to-eat breakfast cereals tend to be high in added sugars, what alternatives are there?

Here is a great recipe for muesli (sometimes called Bircher Muesli). This version is from English chef Jamie Oliver. He calls it "Pukkola Muesli".

I always thought there had to be more to internet video than laughing babies, or strange people mixing Mentos with Diet Coke...

VideoJug has a nice selection of cooking/recipe videos. The recipe is displayed below the video -- along with all sorts of bells and whistles.

Here are a few samples.

Eating well can be challenging at the best of times; especially when you're away from your own kitchen.

Here's a look at several nutritious foods than can be prepared in advance - ready for you to take to work with you.

Dee's Mighty Cookbook promotes an approach to eating that is free of processed foods. Author Dee McCaffrey heads up the Center for Processed Free Living - a non-profit group that recommends minimizing or eliminating processed foods from our diets.

I read through a copy of the Cookbook and even tried out a few recipes.

When you think of popcorn, you may think of the buttery movie-theater variety - heavy on trans fats and calories. However, you can make popcorn in your own home that tastes just as good - without all the extra fat.