The aim of a good healthy lifestyle is to include a variety of many different foods that will supply plenty of nutrients and to balance your energy intake with your activity levels!
Food, Wine & Beverages
The Peachy Time of Year
"An apple is an excellent thing…until you have tried a peach." - George du Maurier 1834-1896
Summer Heights
A belated Happy New Year! I have always found this an unreal time of year in New Zealand; Christmas is past, the New Year celebrated but with many still on holiday and the country itself has got its shorts and jandals on and is just cruising slowly throug
BBQ Oily Rag Style
Happy New Year! It's summer and for many that means dusting off the BBQ. Some BBQs have more gadgets and style than a Lear Jet but that's not really the oily rag way.
Santa’s List
Whether these thoughts help you to solve your Christmas present problems or just give you something to put on your own wish-list to Santa, Donna and I wish you the very Merriest of Christmases and a New Year of Peace, Joy and Happiness.
Don’t Panic
I have no wish to cause uproar in the aisles, but realising yesterday that there is less than a month to Christmas I thought it perhaps time to give a thought or two as to what to eat over this hospitable and celebratory season.
Irene_M’s Carrot Cup Cakes Recipe
Get Irene's great carrot cup cake recipe here - it'll make about six large cup cakes.
Irene’s tuna mousse
Find out how to make Irene's Tuna Mousse recipe here. This recipe serves 2.
Rabbit, Rabbit, Rabbit!
Wild rabbit meat has fewer than half the calories of pork and about half those of lamb and beef. Delicious and nutritious though these animals undoubtedly are, they are also a major pest.
The One-Armed Cook
My sister in law is a fount of wisdom. One of her sayings is "Inbetween falling, kick up your heels!". I sit here with my left arm encased in a fetching apple green plaster cast. Luckily the supermarket has a lot to offer the one armed cook.