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What to do with left-over turkey

Recipe for chicken noodle soupWell, to be honest it’s a bit too late,  unless you were for-sighted enough to freeze your turkey, but here’s a great site about home-made chicken noodle soup.  Which, of course, still isn’t turkey. But it doesn’t take a great leap of imagination to substitute turkey for the chicken in the recipe.

I’m not going to spoil this lady’s thunder by saying too much, just do yourself a favour and head … Continue Reading

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Self-help Tools

This week I’m looking in the area of healthy living tips. In particular these from a good colleague Bradley Thompson.

Free self-growth tools

Free self-growth tools

If you click on the image you’ll hear a brief introductory video, together with a whole raft of fascinating tools to introduce you to his products. Yes, of course he’s hoping you’ll buy something, but there really is no need to. Just head on over and see if any of the introductory free gifts are of interest.

Self-improvement is a real hot potato now, with … Continue Reading

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Recipe: Baked chicken with lemony carrots

As promised here’s another recipe for carrots. Enjoy!

Recipe: Baked chicken with lemon carrots

Recipe: Baked chicken with lemon carrots

Baked Chicken with Lemony Carrots, Garlic and Potatoes
Serves 4
Per serving: 432 calories, 15.1g fat, 3.6g saturates, 11.1g sugars, 0.88g salt

Ingredients
1 kg chicken thighs, chicken breasts on the bone or drumsticks
500g carrots peeled and cut into batons
3 tbsp olive oil
A little soft butter
3 medium potatoes peeled and cut into slices
2 lemons
2-4 cloves of garlic peeled and finely sliced
2-3 sprigs of fresh rosemary and thyme or 1tsp mixed dried herbs
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Six Days to Saturday

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Free - 6 CDs

Here’s something a little different for you this time. A life-changing program of CDs, free to you, for just the cost of post and packing. You’ll learn the story of Sam Crowley who thought he was following the “American Dream.”

From being a stuttering college dropout, Sam worked his way up to a corner office at a Fortune 100 company. Despite his six-figure salary and all the benefits that go with such a package, he … Continue Reading

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Carrots add sunshine to autumn meal times

honey_and_thyme_roasted_carrotsAs the days get shorter and we all start planning some warming comfort food, make sure carrots are on the menu. They’re a classic ingredient in stews, pies and casseroles and are also packed full of vitamins to help ward of colds and keep you ship shape during the winter months.

Carrots are the most prolific vegetable source of beta-carotene, which is converted into vitamin A in the body. This is essential for the proper functioning of the immune system and keeps the skin and cells that line the airways, digestive tract … Continue Reading

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Treating Yeast Infection

A very common complaint that I come across in clients is yeast infection. So I am pleased to bring you this article  by nutritionist Linda Allen, published with her kind permission.

The Truth Behind Your Yeast Infection yeast-book

Educating yourself about your candida infection is the first and most important step in curing this painful, annoying and relatively dangerous chronic condition and taking responsibility over your health and well-being.

Although yeast infection (known by the names of Candida, Monilia or … Continue Reading

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Self growth tools

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This week I’m writing more in the area of healthy living tips, and am pleased to introduce you, free of charge, to some great self-development tools that one of my associates is giving away from his product range  just to get you to subscribe to his newsletter. Rest assured that you can unsubscribe at any time, and he will completely respect your email privacy.

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Benefits of a Vegetarian Diet

Why choose a Vegetarian Diet

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If you tell many people that you’re thinking about taking up a vegetarian diet, they’ll look at you as if you’re crazy.  However, there are a lot of good reasons to go vegetarian, from your health, to that of the world around you.

A vegetarian diet will often

  • cost less than a meat based one,
  • help you feel a lot healthier,
  • reduce your ecological footprint,
  • help you avoid cruel factory farming practices,
  • help you lose weight.

You just have to make sure you’re doing it correctly – … Continue Reading

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How much should you sleep?

SleepingAlthough this blog is primarily about healthy eating, here’s an interesting article about healthy living, and how much sleep you’re getting.

Click the text here >> Repaying your sleep debt.

So now, I have a valid reason for my luxury weekend “lay-in” :-)

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Calculating food values

If you’ve ever wondered about the nutritional content of food, your problems are at an end, because here’s WolframAlpha, a computational knowledge engine!

Whatever is that, I hear you cry.

Quite straight-forward,  Wolfram|Alpha is an early stage of a long-term project that aims to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone.

The way it works is that you type in a question, or a calculation you need to make, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

The link I’m sending you to is based on … Continue Reading

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