Massel is now making their "Chicken-style" and "Beef-style" stock cubes onion and garlic free!







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A report in Sciencedaily.com has brought my attention to a recent study  published in the American Journal of Epidemiology by a European research group - the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC). We all knew intuitively that eating fruit and veg was good for us!... but now some compelling scientific evidence!

This particular paper finds that 3 out of 100 deaths could be prevented if everyone ate an extra 200grams of vegetables. This is mainly because of a reduct...

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You might think that it is difficult to have your food choices reduced... but really it just depends on how you look at it!

Most restaurants will have a couple of vegetarian options, well-hidden amongst a list of very meat-biased dishes. As a vegetarian, you end up trying all sorts of dishes that you wouldn't otherwise... simply because it's the only vegetarian dish on the menu. I doubt there are many vegetables I haven't tried! I am so used to this scenario, that I feel overwhelmed by the cho...
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I have been a lacto-ovo vegetarian for approximately half my life now... and I very rarely miss eating meat! In fact the only dishes I really miss, tend to be those that are attached to memories... so I often wonder if it is really the meat or the memory which I miss.

The main reason that I am vegetarian, is because I feel that we should not intentionally kill or harm other beings - humans or animals! I keep this in mind when I choose the foods that I purchase, and eat. I feel we should try to...
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Protein is essential for growth, healing and every day bodily function. It is relatively easy to acquire your necessary protein requirements if you think of essential amino acids rather than protein.

Protein is made of amino acids. If you eat protein, the body breaks it down to amino acids first, and then rebuilds from these amino acids the proteins that you require.

What you do need to focus on are Essential Amino Acids. Essential amino acids are the amino acids which your body cannot make, a...
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I recently made my favourite chocolate brownie recipe gluten free thanks to White Wings Gluten free flour - http://www.whitewings.com.au/_catalog_58457/Flour?Page=2&Items=6

I wish I could thank the fellow shopper who suggested i try it when i was standing in the flour aisle trying to decide which brand to try!

The brownies tasted delicious!... I could not tell that the recipe was any different!

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A new web-page is born.

Aim:
To collect on one website all my favourite recipes, health information, trials and tribulations of being vegetarian.

For now the site will remain a free website, if it goes well, it may one day have a proper domain name.

:-)
here goes....

Thambili

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