Microwave ovens have been around for awhile now. They are one basic appliance that can be seen in the kitchens in every household and who wouldn’t buy this perfect appliance anyway? They made our lives so much easier than it used to be. It heats leftover food and liquid and have a defrosting capability. It’s
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Top 5 Tips for Dining Out the Healthy Way
If you’re like me, you have the best intentions when it comes to cooking meals for yourself and your family, but it seems that time gets away from you and you end up deciding to dine out instead. Eating out can be a time saver but it can also be a challenge to make healthy
Baby Food Mill – Puree Wholesome & Natural Food for Your Little Ones
Get your little ones off to a healthy start in life by feeding them with homemade baby food. They provide an efficient way of preparing healthy and nutritious food for your little ones. Today’s mills are multi functional in that they can grind most products (carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, apples and even meat) to the desired
Easy Entertaining – Frugal Holiday Entertaining
One aspect to take into consideration when entertaining is the financial cost. If you aren’t careful, expenses can add up, pushing you over budget when feeding a crowd. Follow these easy tips to keep your holiday gatherings memorable and budget-friendly! 1. Don’t worry about decorating the entire house. Focus the festive decorating in the room
4 Qualities That an Excellent Bed and Breakfast Should Have
Booking your stay at a bed and breakfast is not just about having a place to spend the night. There are various elements that make up for a worthwhile experience. Here are 4 qualities you ought to find in such a place: 1. Location of the Lodge Location is extremely important. When deciding on a
Basmati Brown Rice Pulav
Deeply love rice but avoiding it due to diet or carb issues? But this substitute will fulfil your cravings for rice in the most delicious ways. Yes it is the unmilled, unrefined, unprocessed form of white rice. It is the healthy gluten free option which will help you meet all your nutrition requirements without compromising
Freezer Cooking – A Great Way to Save Money on Your Monthly Grocery Bill
Some people call this once-a-month cooking, once-a-week cooking, or freezer cooking. The names may be different but the concept is the same. You block out one day and do the bulk of your cooking for the designated time period. This can really be a great money saver for those families who don’t feel like they
A Compact Refrigerator Can Bring Health Benefits
Do you live in an apartment or dorm room? or do you enjoy traveling and want to save time, money and live a healthier life? If so, a compact refrigerator or mini fridge can be the answer you’re looking for. Many people already know about some of the benefits that a compact refrigerator provides, but
How To Vacuum Seal And Freeze Food In Canning Jars
I want to cook soups and freeze them in canning jars and have ordered a product online that will vacuum seal these jars for me. I have never canned but I found online that there are canning jars that I can freeze in. I know that I must leave space in the jar for expansion.
5 Reasons Having a Mobile Pizza Party Is the Best Idea Ever
Who says you can’t serve pizza in your party? In fact, hiring a mobile pizza company to do the catering for your party is the best idea you can ever think of. Here are some of the reasons why you should definitely consider serving pizza on any party or get-together. Why Pizza is the Best
5 Reasons to Make Your Own Baby Food
Many parents feed their infants store-bought baby food, and why not? They are convenient, cheap, and come in an assortment of flavours for a baby to enjoy. When I was pregnant with our first son, I decided to do some research about the food I would be putting into his mouth when the time came.
A Recipe for Salisbury Steak With French Fried Onions and Tasty Sauce
Salisbury Steak is an elegant hamburger with seasonings and sauce. Though the steaks resemble hamburgers, the flavors are quite different. In fact, families may adapt the traditional recipe to suit their tastes. Some cooks form the patties into ovals instead of rounds. I’ve made Salisbury Steak many times. One recipe, which I only made once,
The Procedure to Make Basic Gelatine Jelly
1) To make 1 litre of gelatine desert gel, you will require about 20gm (1 sachet) of Halal gelatin. Soak gelatine in about 700ml water (not boil water) and stir until swells. Add about 160gm sugar or to taste. Heat up the solution until gelatine and sugar dissolve. Add flavoring and coloring. Done! Simple isn’t
The Benefit of Beans, Peas and Lentils
The word is out, beans are in! Legumes(beans, peas and lentils) are not only nutritious but delicious. Though beans have often been neglected in the Western diet, they have long since been an important part of traditional diets around the world. Many people in North America are discovering that beans are not only tasty, easy
Benefits of Healthy Eating For Kids
Children’s growth and development depend very much on the foods they are fed and the benefits of healthy eating for kids is detailed in this article to alert parents to the dangers of neglecting this aspect of the child’s development. Balanced, nutritious meals are a must for every growing child because the benefits transcend into
How to Start a Keto Diet Plan
The keto diet plan is a high-intake, high-fiber, sufficient-potassium diet which in medicinal circles is often used primarily to treat childhood epilepsy in very young children. The keto diet forces your body to use up fat instead of glucose for energy. This results in reduced hunger and allows you to stick to a reasonable diet
Eat Guts & Grease For Increased Strength & Vitality
I hate diets. I hate people who talk and teach about diets even more. If you can’t tell, I’m a bit angry and confused. For thousands upon thousands of years we as a race of humans have walked the earth in extraordinary health living WITH nature and sharing of her abundance. No diets, just eating.
It’s A Pyramid Scheme
Let us forget for a minute about “the who”, or “they” and let us look at the facts and the “whys”. Yes, this article is about sales and marketing. But sales is all about thinking logically and educating people so they can make their own decisions. Here is what “they” say about multi-level marketing and
No-Bake Biscuit And Banana Pyramid Cake
If you would like to start baking, the best way is the easy way. To become a baker or a cake enthusiast, I would first recommend to develop a few necessary basic skills. How to prepare the ingredients, how to mix them well or just simply to get more familiar with equipment and ingredients. I
Awe Nuts – Just the Healthy Ones! Part One
Healthy Nuts: The Best Ones Which are best healthy nuts available in the market? The perfect answer is not available currently. From one study, around 32% of nuts consumed were peanuts, 16% walnuts, 29% almonds and 23% are other types. But researchers could not judge whether these nuts were oil-roasted, dry-roasted or fresh. From
High School Wrestling: Diet and Weight Loss Options
As wrestling season draws near, wrestlers begin to contemplate the weight class in which they may wrestle. Wrestlers often believe that they will be more competitive at the lowest weight they can reach without sacrificing their strength and endurance. This isn’t always the case. Too often, wrestlers end up dehydrated. They end up starving themselves
A Big, Fat, Deadly Lie About Produce
Fruits and vegetables. The phrase sounds innocent enough, and we hear it all the time. But here’s the problem. It makes them seem as if they’re equal, and they’re not. In fact, fruits always get top billing, which reinforces their healthful status. A status they don’t necessarily deserve. Here’s another phrase that has become a
Calorie Shifting Diet Generator
The calorie shifting diet provides a diet generator online which helps you to map out your own meal plan. This will take you into your weight loss road to success. The meal plan duration is for 11 days and it consists of four meals per day. These meals can be eaten with no predetermined order.
Diabetic Food Exchange
Summary Diabetic food exchange is a food categorizing system to make meal planning easier for people with diabetes. The system groups foods according to their nutritional values, helping diabetic individuals eat carbohydrate-consistent, nutritionally balanced meals to achieve glucose (blood sugar) control and overall heath. The American Diabetes Association and the American Dietetic Association devised the
Breastfeeding Diet – Benefits of a Good Breastfeeding Diet
Depending on your height and weight, a breastfeeding mother needs to consume between 2,000 to 2,500 calories each day. The calorie count may seem to a bit extreme however, a good breastfeeding diet means that you are eating enough healthy foods for two people. One great resource is the Food Guide Pyramid which is provided
Fat Loss Nutrition – Start Losing Weight By Using These 8 Simple Nutrition Tips
There’s a lot of confusion about how and what to eat in this country. That isn’t surprising if you consider that a search for nutrition books on Amazon.com turns up with over 50,000 books! Are there really 50,000 ways to to eat? Possibly, but my opinion is that effective nutrition programs tend to have more
5 Effects of Good Nutrition
The effects of good nutrition on the body are as visible as the effects of bad nutrition on the body. The difference is that bad nutrition can destroy the body, while good nutrition only supports and builds up the body. Hence, the better goal in life is to maintain a lifestyle that promotes good nutrition.
Is Drinking Juice Good For You?
Eating more fresh fruits and vegetables and leafy greens is recommended for better health. They are rich sources of vitamins, minerals, fiber and more. These sources of food are vital in helping keeping our weight down, improving our heart health, cutting down the risk of chronic diseases and generally keeping us healthy and fit. The
An Awesome Six Pack Abs Diet
Look if we want to achieve six pack abs then we have to eat the correct food right. I am going to share with you what foods are good for us and what foods are bad and why we need to stick to our six pack abs diet. Firstly let me explain how the body
Healthy Living For a Healthy Life
Having a healthy living is the most important factor in our life. Most of us know that living with a healthy body is the best path to live happy, to feel better, and to look better. Healthy living will lead us to the point where we can enjoy life to the fullest until we grow
Carp Love French Fries?
In the fall of the year normally the last week of September my son, brother, I and a friend takes a 3 hour trip to McConnelsville, Ohio. This is a fall fishing trip in which normally we stay about three days. We fish an area owned by AEP (America Electric Power Company) this area is
Burmese Salads – Tenderly Tossed by Golden Hands
One of my many favorite places to eat in Rangoon, Burma is at an excellent Burmese fresh salad bar on the street right next to Sule Pagoda. It opens in the evenings as the parking spaces empty, spilling off the sidewalk and across the street. This place is famous in Burma for the best hand-tossed
Gluten-Free, Sugar-Free Cooking by Susan O’Brien Review
When you want to lose weight it can be very hard to find recipes that are as nice as your mother used to make, but not quite so fattening. With 200 recipes, this book holds out a lot of promise for diabetics or people like me who want to lose weight. Now, by sugar-free it
Why the Food Pyramid Sucks
Have you ever had one of those moments… Someone asks you a question which seems to be really simple, yet you know if you answer it, it opens up for a 100 more questions? After explaining to my friend about my feelings on why counting calories doesn’t work, I think he was having a little
Processing of Sugar From Sugar Palm
Sugar palm or kaong is abundant along river banks of Philippine archipelago. It has sweet yummy sap coming from its cut male flower. It has sugar content ranging form 10 to 20 degrees Brix. This characteristic makes it possible to process it into sugar. Kaong sugar is healthier compared to regular sugar and other substitute.
How To Make Coconut Wine or The Process of Making Tuba Wine
Introduction: In the northern part of the Philippines, coconut wine or tuba is referred to as Lambanog. It is made of pure sap (no bark mixed), milky white in color or almost colorless. It is usually consumed fresh as it easily turns sour. Some are distilled to make a harder and more potent alcoholic drink.
Coconut Vinegar Benefits and Uses
There seems to be not enough exposure on the uses and health benefits of Natural Coconut Vinegar. The whole world needs to know more about this unique and tasty product which is a traditional food in the Philippines and many other Asian countries. The versatility and goodness of this vinegar can be enjoyed in so
Aklan’s Chicken Inubaran
Chicken is the most common poultry dish feature in Philippine cuisine. The widespread recipes in various restaurants and by home chefs are evidences of this liking. What’s great about Pinoy delicacies is the creativity in indigenous cooking. When you get the chance to travel around places, each locality has popular specialty dishes that leave a
Enjoying Familiar Flavors With Chicken Tapa
If you are a fan of beef tapa and are quite fond of having some for breakfast, you may want to try this chicken breakfast tapa for a change. It may not be as famous as its beef counterpart, but it can definitely serve as an interesting and healthier alternative. Like the usual chicken meat
Pineapple-Lemon Punch (Pineapple-Calamansi Punch)
If you are looking for a tasty, refreshing drink for a special occasion or a casual family get-together, the Filipino Pineapple-Calamansi or Pineapple-Lemon Punch is a great choice. It is very easy to prepare at home and is great to serve at anytime. Here is an easy recipe to prepare this cool, revitalizing fruity mocktail.
Rachel Ray Cookware – Making Savory Rolled Rib Roast With Rachael Ray Cookware
Making good food has never been fun with the help of Rachel Ray cookware. In my previous article, I have shared to you the secrets in preparing the very tasty Filipino Embutido. Now, I will be sharing with you another delectable dish that your family will surely love. Using Rachel Ray cookware, I will teach
Beef Stew Or Karne Asada – How To Make It
Karne Asada is the regional name for beef stew in the Philippines. Although, it is just the simple beef stew served on your dinner table but ingredients such as Patis, lemon juice, Maggi and Soy Sauce, and the method of preparation add a distinct Filipino taste to it. So, if beef is on the list
All About Sinigang Mix and Seasonings for Easier Cooking
Your in-laws are coming for dinner and you are searching for easy recipes to impress them. Why not try sinigang? It is easy to get the perfect taste of this dish with the help of a sinigang mix available in stores. If you are not familiar with this tamarind-based soup, here are some things you
Tips on Processed Meat Products Or Processed Foods
By definition, processed foods are those that are altered from its natural state by applying a certain step to be able to produce a variant out of that natural food. With meat for example, the pork undergoes certain processes such as slicing, marinating, smoking and freezing for it to be able to be made into
Cashew Nut Milk Candy – Pastillas De Casoy
Cashew Nut Milk Candy is a very popular sweet candy recipe from the Philippines, This Filipino desert is very delicious and extremely easy to make. Although it is like any other candy recipe, the method of preparation gives it a distinct Filipino character. Following is a simple recipe to prepare it at your home: Makes/Servings:
Nutritious Nilagang Baboy (Boiled Pork)
Boiled pork or “Nilagang Baboy” is another Filipino recipe that is easy to make that you just throw everything in the pot and let it cook until tender. Nilaga in Filipino means boiled and baboy means pork. It can be with pork or beef of any kind you like and just add the vegetables of
Beef Caldereta and Beef Pochero – Comparing Filipino Cuisine to North American Cuisine
Beef Caldereta is meat spiced with tomato sauce, chili paste, liver spread and cheese. It is traditionally made with goat meat, but beef can be substituted The recipe has many variations, depending on the province where served. It is an excellent beer match. Beef Caldereta is usually served in fiestas and various social gatherings. Beef
Why People Love Barbecue
When it comes to grilled food, the first thing that comes to our mind is the deliciously pronounced word, Barbecue. This word came from barbacoa, which is from an early Indian language called Taino. It is their method of making fire and dry meat in them. Later, in the Spanish regime, they borrowed the word
The Best-Tasting Food You’ll Find In Cebu’s Top Restaurants
The Best Lechon at Rico’s Lechon Located at Highway 77, Talamban in Cebu City is Rico’s Lechon, a restaurant where you’ll find the best-tasting, most flavorful lechon (roasted pig) in the country. It’s so good, it’s known to be ordered, flown and enjoyed in Manila by its rich and moneyed residents. This surprises no one
Filipino Fish Recipe – Rellenong Bangus
A Filipino fish recipe – Rellenong Bangus that will take a considerable effort to prepare, but will produce a stunning and unusual result. The dish is traditionally made with a Milk fish. A fish that has a streamlined appearance and can grow up to 1.8 metres long and are typically around 1 metre in length.
Coffee: Pinoy Style
If you are a Filipino, it is safe to assume that you are a coffee lover. You may have grown up in a household where your parents or older siblings often drink coffee, which is probably the reason why you learned how to drink coffee early in your life, too. Actually, as strange as it
Filipino Recipes – Ginataang Suso – Pinoy Food
Ginataang suso, or snails cooked in coconut milk is an exotic food that you will find surprisingly delicious. Just like anything else that is cooked with coconut milk, you will enjoy the rich flavor of this unique recipe. For the adventurous palate, you can try this dish and you will surely agree that the taste
The $100 Diet’s Low Carb and Low Fat Recipes
I understand how you guys all feel. When I first starting changing my lifestyle (and not by choice I might add) I was distraught with all of the things that I couldn’t have anymore. I love bread! I love pasta! It’s not like I never have them, but I definitely incorporate low carb eating into
Favorite Filipino Foods With Their Health Benefits and Risks – The Menudo
One of the top favorite dishes in the Philippines is the Menudo. Found in almost every occasion, this dish is a great source of nutrients. But the use of meat and oil poses some health risks. Learn more about this favorite Menudo from the Philippines. Just like the boy band with the same name, this
Debunking the Food Pyramid
The traditional food pyramid has been revised and updated in 2005 by the USDA and do you know who modified the food pyramid? The USDA paid $2.5 million to a PR/marketing group to help design this new food guide pyramid, and that group is best know for doing work for the dairy industry. In fact,
Earl Grey Tea in Popular Culture
There’s a certain mystique about Earl Grey. It’s distinctive flavor and colorful, mystery shrouded origins make a good story, and it’s probably the best known of all English teas, and possibly the best known tea, period. Repeated references to the blend in popular culture (most commonly, music, movies, television, and books), have only reinforced the
Kentucky Fried Chicken Changes to KFC
The Myth KFC Kentucky Fried Chicken Changes to KFC KFC Version One: The story about why Kentucky Fried Chicken, founded by Harland Sanders, changes it name to KFC is to remove the word “fried” in it’s name. The word “fried” has negative connatations like being unhealthy, having high cholesterol, causing obesity and many more. Therefore,
Fish Skin – Trash or Luxury Item?
Do not be fooled by fish skin – it is much more than a waste product of the fish and food industry. Craftsmen, artists and fashion houses appreciate its beauty and robustness, turning it into exquisite cloth, accessories, pictures or even book covers. Once treated, the skin is known as fish or ocean leather, a
The Cholesterol Conspiracy – The Truth About Statins And Nutritional Supplementation
“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Arthur Schopenhauer (1788 – 1860) What is the true cause of heart disease, and how can we truly reduce the risk of death? Atherosclerosis, or Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), is the leading cause
Treatment of Low Blood Sugar for Autism
Low blood glucose levels on blood tests is something I have seen from time to time in children on the Autism spectrum. Glucose is a fuel source, in the form of simple sugar, that our body and brain need to function appropriately. And while most test results come back in the normal range, which is