Lately I’ve been eating a Paleo diet , which for those of you who don’t know what that is, I’ll be sharing plenty more information about very soon.  Basically it’s about eating like our hunter-gatherer ancestors , foods like meat, seafood, fruits, nuts and veggies, and cutting out grains and dairy. To a lot of people starting down this path, it can seem like it takes away a whole lot of your food options, particularly desserts.  I’m here today to tell you that this don’t necessarily need to be the case, you can still get some good sweet foods in if you desire. Antioxidant Power Of Dark Chocolate The trick is to cut way down on sugars, especially from packaged foods and complex carbohydrates, and using chocolate Easy Paleo Chocolate Mousse With Fresh Berries that is really high in cocoa content, minimum 45%, but use 70% if you can. It may seem a little bitter and hard to eat at first, but this Easy Paleo Chocolate Mousse Recipe that I’m sharing right now will show you how you can add a couple of other natural sweeteners like honey to make it really delicious, and most importantly, maintain the  rich dark chocolate benefits of high antioxidant levels with 70% cocoa mass.

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Easy Paleo Chocolate Mousse Recipe

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It’s been quite a while since the last time I updated this food blog , and I recently took my girlfriend out for her birthday.  We had a great night out and I decided that it would be an appropriate way to get back into blogging by starting off with how our night went and a bit of a restaurant review. African Food Emma Eating Ethiopian Food Recently Emma had gone to Africa for a month on holiday, and when I started thinking about places to take her out for her birthday, African food was the initial inspiration.  I have not eaten a lot of African food, and Emma had raved about her adventures on safari and all the wild meats she had eaten whilst over there. Delicacies including ostrich, crocodile, warthog (her favourite) , camel, impala and cudu (a kind of antelope), were all mentioned with the kind of wide-eyed excitement that comes from eating wild game that the average Australian rarely has a chance to taste, let alone the inclination in many cases. While you may think that many of these game meats could be very tough and chewy, she was surprised that it’s not necessarily the case.  Her description of the warthog was my favourite, “soft and tender meat stew that just melted in the mouth” , making me wish even more so that I could have joined her on this great adventure. Eating African Food In Perth Even though Perth isn’t particularly far away from Africa, in relation to the right of the world (a trip to Johannesburg is about the same distance as a trip to Melbourne) , African food isn’t really a common feature in Perth.  Having said that, I was actually surprised by the number of options there really are, hidden away in dark little corners of suburbs.

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Eating Ethiopian Food In Perth

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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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Healthy Eating Habits – Golden Rule Number 1

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One of my most favorite easy diabetic recipes is a sugar free ice cream sundae because it’s a rich treat that you think is going to be deadly to your diabetes and it’s not. I created this when I was looking for a dessert to enjoy with my friend who has been a Type II diabetic for a long time. There are a lot of sugar free syrups and whipped creams that you can slather on this bad boy and have it taste exactly the same. While the calorie value still might be an upshot, it’s definitely sugar free. Since you don’t want to over do it, here’s a good sundae recipe to make that you can have a small helping of and share. Happy Sundae Recipe Happy Diabetic Sundae You start with, of course, a banana.

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Happy Sundae For Diabetics

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I just wanted to take a quick break from my current sequence of diabetic recipes and information to wish you, my friends, a safe, happy and prosperous New Year in 2011! This is often a time where we all pause and reflect on the year that has passed.  To be quite honest, this year has been extremely hectic for me, with barely a day off, but it’s also been very rewarding!  I’ve achieved a couple of things this year that I’m very proud of, such as winning my 1st pizza cooking competition a couple of weeks ago, as well as getting my own Pizzas And Parmas Cookbook self-published on Amazon. New Years Resolutions This is also a time where many people make a New Years resolution for the coming year.  I rarely make new year resolutions, but a couple of goals that I have for the coming year include getting back into peak fitness again, and adding a Breakfast Pizza chapter to my pizza cookbook. I would love to hear about any resolutions you have, whatever it might be, in the comments section.  I would especially love to hear if you have made any great achievements during this year that you are particularly proud of, and would like to share with me and the rest of our readers. Have A Safe And Happy New Year! Happy New Year! Most importantly, I wish you all the best for the New Year, may 2011 be a prosperous year for you and your loved ones… and make sure you have a glass of champagne for me! Mick Reade All Easy Food Recipes

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Happy New Year 2011!

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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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This holiday period is a time of over-indulgence in food and drink, and sometimes it can be difficult to keep up if you have particular dietary requirements, such as needing some easy diabetic recipes . A lot of diabetic recipes call for little or no sugar, and it can be very difficult to figure out how to make those tasty sweets with an artificial sweetener. How much of one equals the other after all? It depends on what type of sweetener you buy. Sweeteners For Use In Diabetic Recipes For sweeteners containing aspartame, about 24 little packets of the sweet stuff equals about a cup of sugar. This is about a ¼ cup

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How To Substitute Sugar For Easy Diabetic Recipes

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Christmas is a time for getting together with family, sharing gifts, reflecting on the year that was, and of course, indulging in large amounts of food and drink!  A traditional Christmas Day lunch in my family usually consists of a great big roast cooked up, often lamb or pork, with plenty of sides of salads overflowing on the table.  However this year, Christmas day is a very hot, sticky and humid 38C here in Perth , so something a little different was needed. Christmas Lunch Ideas Basically once I heard the weather reports coming out in the previous week, I just knew it was going to be way too hot for a roast Christmas Day lunch.  Out of all the Christmas lunch ideas I had, it really came down to a seafood feast for Christmas Day lunch . The Christmas Day Lunch Seafood Feast The reason I chose to have seafood is simply that it’s quick and easy to cook, as well as being a classic type of food to eat in Australia on any hot day, and seafood makes a great gourmet feast to indulge in.  I got myself some Pink Snapper, a good thick fillet, and fresh from the seafood market early in the day.  I also picked up some tiger prawns, all of the seafood is local produce for the freshest possible quality. Christmas Lunch Preparations Begin… Cooking Christmas Day lunch I start by marinading the prawns in some crushed garlic, chilli, basil, and a little olive oil and lemon juice.  This is probably the hardest part of the day, which shows you why this is one of my favourite easy food recipes.  Cooking the seafood is as easy as heating up a frypan to a medium-high heat, add a touch of oil, before adding the fillet of Pink Snapper. Just before adding the Snapper to the pan I seasoned it with some herbs and spices that I had lying around in my kitchen, like lemon pepper, just to add some nice flavour.  Sear the fish for 3-5 minutes on each side, and because it was quite a thick piece of seafood I actually decided to finish it off in the oven to make sure it was cooked through properly.  To do this I just added a little bit of water, almost poaching it in liquid, to keep the Pink Snapper nice and tender, moist and juicy (there’s nothing worse than dried out overcooked seafood).

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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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How To Make Pizza Sauce

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Lately you may have noticed that I’ve been doing quite a few posts on various pizza recipes , and there’s a very good reason for that.  For starters, working in a kitchen with a wood-fired pizza oven leads me to nights of creativity and experimentation at times, which I find very enjoyable. I also am planning something very exciting for you, my reader, to share all my knowledge and experience with you.  That’s all I can really say for now, there will be more updates when the time is right, but for now I just want to share with you a short article on why I think making pizza is fun… Why Making Pizza Is Fun Making Pizza Dough Cooking in the kitchen can be fun! That is true regardless of what you’re making, and includes creating pizza. Creating a pizza from scratch can be especially enjoyable. These are a number of the benefits of using a specific pizza recipe to make a do-it-yourself pizza: 1.

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