This is of course the new year period, and many people make New Year’s resolutions around this time, usually revolving around losing weight and getting fitter. In the previous post I talked a bit about Ayurveda’s 6 essential tastes of life, and how they can help you improve your health in everyday life, and today I just want to elaborate a little bit on that with a helpful chart of some specific healthy foods that you should be looking to incorporate into your everyday meals. It’s important that you don’t make choosing what to eat hard work.  Don’t worry if you get to the end of the day and realise you’ve missed out on one or more of the foods in a particular sense of taste – it will be a long-term lifestyle change that will balance out over time. You’ll feel so much better when you incorporate food from each sense of taste that you’ll actually find it easy and fun to adjust your diet to include them! Sense Of Taste Foods – Sweet Milk Butter Cream Wheat Ghee (clarified butter) Rice Maple Syrup Sesame Oil Apple Juice Coconut Milk Honey Raw Sugar Fresh Fruit Rolled Oats Raisins Cranberries Soy Milk Vanilla Extract Sense Of Taste – Salty Salt Pickles Salty Pretzels Tamari Soy Sauce Seaweed Sense Of Taste – Pungent (Hot And Spicy) Chilli Pepper Ginger Black Pepper Clove Mustard Radish Daikon Onions Thyme Oregano Salsa Asparagus Tomatoes Fresh Chillies Garlic Cinnamon Basil Rosemary Sense Of Taste – Sour Limes Lemon Citrus Fruit Yoghurt Mango Powder Many Immature Fruits Tamarind Plums Blueberries Raspberries Sense Of Taste – Bitter Green Vegetables Kale Broccoli Spinach Lettuce Turmeric Fenugreek Endive Chicory Sense Of Taste – Astringent (Dry And Light) Apples Apricots Beans Berries Cabbage Cauliflower Cherries Coriander Figs (dry) Grapes Green Tea Lentils Peaches Persimmons Pomegranates Prunes Strawberries Your Sense Of Taste Needs Variety Every Day There are foods that taste delicious to us, and those that don’t.  There is enough variety from this sense of taste chart for your health to provide options in a daily eating program that will not only taste good, but also be healthy for you

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Sense Of Taste Chart For Your Health

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I’ve been on a bit of a theme lately – getting and staying healthy, with plenty of easy food recipes that are also good for you.  Now this doesn’t really have anything to do with New Years resolutions (I don’t believe they really provide much long-term benefits) , it’s more about just feeling fitter and healthier to enjoy a better lifestyle. People usually focus on either exercise or eating healthier, but it tends to be rare that both of these are taken into consideration at the same time. I’m not going to make out that I’m some sort of expert on this matter, but I do keep a very active lifestyle, as well as obviously being very aware of the sort of food I’m eating.  So I’d like to share what I know about the benefits of eating healthy , as well as plenty of easy food recipes to get the process started for you, and I hope that this helps to give you more energy and time each day.

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The Golden Rules Of Healthy Eating

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Pay Attention To Your Appetite And Only Eat When You Are Actually Hungry Now this is one of those healthy eating habits that sounds like common sense, but you’d be surprised how often people will eat when they’re not actually hungry.  Your appetite is your friend, don’t think of it as the enemy .  A strong appetite is an important sign of good health , and if you listen to your body it will tell you when to eat and how much so that you can feel healthier and happier! Don’t fight your body’s messages, instead be grateful about its fantastic ability to tell you what it needs through your appetite, and you’ll feel much better for it. A lot of times people will tend to eat out of habit, to be social, because they are stressed or lonely, or because someone tells them that it’s time to eat. What Is Hunger?

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I don’t usually like drinking a lot of coffee, however lately I’ve been a bit hooked on drinking iced coffees (especially with the weather being so hot!) .  Here is a good way of enjoying such a treat, even if you’re a diabetic . Diabetes And Coffee If you want a good iced coffee drink and you can’t have all the sugar that comes in them, you can make your own from home. Make a pot of coffee from your favorite coffee. Add as much artificial sweetener as you like, and cream if you prefer. To add a dash of home, there are sugar free syrups in flavors like hazelnut and vanilla, and you can add those too. Once you get the pot of coffee made to taste like your favorite cup, there are a few things that you can do with it besides just drinking it hot.

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How To Make Iced Coffee Drinks For Diabetics

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When you are diagnosed with diabetes, there are several things that you’re going to have to do, the least of which is changing your diet to eat more diabetic recipes . Before you can change your diet, however, you are going to have to understand exactly what is that you are going through. Were you diagnosed with Type I or Type II diabetes? Is it gestational because you are pregnant

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Understanding Diabetes And Your Diet

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Tomorrow is the day for the Big Breakfast Pizza Challenge , and I’m a little nervous but mostly excited.  It’s the first pizza competition that I’ve ever been in, and I think it will be lot’s of fun!  The battle lines have been drawn, and my weapon of choice will be the Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza . The Eggs Florentine Pizza Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza The concept is reasonably simple – a traditional eggs florentine is an English muffin, topped with wilted spinach, smoked salmon, poached egg, with some hollandaise sauce poured on top.  The trick is, how do you put this on a breakfast pizza? Well, this is how I did it… There will no English muffin of course, that will be replaced by the pizza base.  I cover the base with some spinach leaves, and then add some shredded Caboolture cheese over the spinach (it’s better to put the spinach under the cheese, to protect it from burning in the pizza oven) . Then I crack an egg, and carefully spread it around the pizza as best I can.  This part is a bit messy, but that’s half the fun of it sometimes! Putting a poached egg on the breakfast pizza is out of the question I think.  If you put a cooked egg on a pizza and then cook it again, it will just end up rubbery and terrible

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Eggs Florentine Breakfast Pizza

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Last week I mentioned that I entered a competition to find the ultimate breakfast pizza , and that I would test out a few different kinds.  As a big lover of vegemite from a young age, this was always going to be the first place that I would start Breakfast Pizza With Vegemite – The Concept I love bacon and eggs on vegemite toast for breakfast in the mornings (I don’t do it very often, it’s just a special treat for every now and then) , and this seemed like a natural progression.  It also should be noted that bacon and eggs work really well on a pizza.  I’m not sure about whether other countries and cultures would traditionally have this combination on a pizza, but in Australia you can find this just about anywhere that sells pizzas, and it’s known as the Aussie Pizza! I’ve made all sorts of strange combinations of pizza, most have worked out pretty well, and some have been a total disaster .  I’ve even made plenty of dessert pizzas, however breakfast pizza is a very new concept to me – but I’m loving it!  (I’m even thinking of adding a new chapter to my pizza cookbook , a whole section dedicated to breakfast pizza). Vegemite, Cheese, Egg And Bacon Breakfast Pizza – The Result Breakfast Pizza - Vegemite, Cheese, Egg And Bacon My excitement was building as I began to put this new concoction together, and I was starting to gather some interested onlookers made up of the restaurant staff who wanted to see what I was up to. Their initial responses were a bit less than enthusiastic, but I took it all in my stride and carried on anyway. Anyone who knows vegemite knows that you really don’t need a lot, so I was careful to start with just a thin layer on the pizza base, before spreading the cheese on top.  I cut up 2 rashers of bacon into cubes, which were then spread around.  Lastly, I cracked two eggs, and spread them around as best I could (Note: 2 eggs is probably too much, one would have been enough).

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Breakfast Pizza – Vegemite, Cheese, Eggs And Bacon!

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We can all be a domestic goddess (or hero) when we want to be but the kitchen is a battleground many of us will find ourselves the losers. But who says that it should be this way for the rest of our lives when we have easy food recipes to fall back on? How To Be A Domestic Goddess Food need not be prepared with plenty of blood, sweat and tears for it to taste delicious. You just have to learn the  substitutions to make easy food recipes possible without compromising the overall taste, texture and presentation of the dish. You will find that it will take just a fraction of the time to prepare a delicious dessert by using shortcuts, and you could be a domestic goddess just like Nigella Lawson ! Take for example this easy chocolate mousse recipe done in just under 10 minutes: Easy Chocolate Mousse Recipe Delicious Chocolate Mousse Dessert In a saucepan, combine 150 grams of mini-marshmallows, 250 grams of dark chocolate chips, 50 grams of unsalted butter and 4 tablespoons of hot water. Bring to a boil while stirring until all the ingredients become melted together.

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Easy Food Recipes For A Kitchen-Challenged Domestic Goddess

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As I’ve mentioned in the previous post, there are four important elements for making pizza:- the pizza dough, the pizza sauce , the pizza cheese, and of course, the toppings. Today I’m going to share with you the best pizza cheese in my opinion, and why it is my favourite.  There are of course many kinds of pizza cheese you can use, and mozzarella is traditionally the most popular going back through the ages, even right back to when pizza was first invented. There Are Many Varieties Of Pizza Cheese… I’m not just talking about the kinds of cheese that can be added as a topping in this case either, because really, any type of cheese that you can think of can be used to top a pizza, so long as it also works with the other toppings you’re using.  For example, goats cheese works really well on pizza with pieces of roasted pumpkin, caramelised onion, and spinach leaves, however spreading goats cheese over the entire pizza would overpower everything else (plus it’s really expensive!).

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What Is The Best Pizza Cheese?

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There are four very important elements to any great pizza – the pizza base, the pizza sauce, the cheese, and the toppings.  I’ve covered how to make pizza dough in a previous post, so today I thought I would share how to make pizza sauce! Easy Pizza Sauce Making pizza sauce can be easier than you might think. You can always buy a jar of prepared tomato sauce and use that as a pizza topping but why should you? A fresh, homemade pizza sauce has lots more flavour than any of those leading brands that are perched on the shelves of your local grocery store. Mick Reade Shows How To Make Pizza Sauce Just imagine the tang and savoury goodness that you and your family will taste when they sample that perfect pizza sauce that you prepared right in your own kitchen. Homemade foods beat packaged products any day of the week and creating the right balance of flavours is simple and easy to do

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