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This will be the quick and easy guide to sweeteners. I am also writing a lengthy article as the more I was looking into this, the more I felt I needed to share. Here is the short version, without much detail at all. Just quick guidelines.Brown sugarSugarsThis will be a very short bit of information …
Some can afford to get rid of the products they don’t want to use anymore. That would be ideal. This is how you can do it.Jars containing foodsReplacingIn case you can afford it, it is ideal to actually replace the products that aren’t nourishing with nourishing products. So when you can replace products like white …
Butter is much better than margarine. Margarine / spread is made from unhealthy oils, which are hydrogenated and with that become trans fats. We all know trans fats aren’t good for us. So why would you eat margarine / spreads?Supermarket isle with butter, margarine and spreads.Butter versus MargarineThere are quite some differences between the 2 …
There are all kinds of colourful very nice tasting salts. They all contain many more minerals than the white table salt in the supermarket.pink or himalaya saltSaltAll salts have a high content of sodium chloride. This is just the way it is. This is not necessarily bad for you as long as it goes together …
When going fully organic is too expensive for your family, there is a middle ground to be found. When we were on a very tight budget I used the Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists. Tight budgetWhen you are on a tight budget you’ll want to make sure you do the best you can with your …
Another small step that will improve your nutrition without making major changes that may cause stress in the family. OrganicAnother one of the small steps that you can fairly easily do without having a whole family revolt is changing the quality of the products you buy. Organic produce is in several ways better for you and your …
Intro to a series on small steps to a nourishing diet. In blogs I read big steps. Here are really small steps so your family will not revolt, but move over to a nourishing diet. This is my story, how I struggled and got there in the end. Introduction to Small Steps For many years I have …
This is the first instalment on a series on very small steps towards eating a diet of nourishing foods.This one is about home cooking.One of the best things you can do for your family to eat more nourishing is to cook more at home.Home CookingThis step will be about home cooking. Cooking foods at home …
Opinion piece on the drawbacks of the sugar tax and the proposed meat tax.The Sugar TaxIn the UK we have a sugar tax from early 2018 on. I am going to explain to you in this article why I think it doesn’t solve any problems and will likely aggravate some other problems. I am of the …
Liver is a super food, it is chock full of nutrients. Liver has been valued as a sacred food by many indigenous peoples. Some found it so sacred that it was not allowed to be touched by hand. Others only ate it raw.Liver has been and still is a very important food to eat. It …