Posted by kathryn in Health News, A Balanced Diet, Vegetables, Kid's nutrition, Breakfast, Legumes and Main courses

• Overseas action on junk food advertising to kids: tomorrow the UK parliament is having its second reading of a bill aimed at preventing the advertising on TV of foods high in fat, sugar and sodium before 9pm (when in theory young children have stopped watching and gone to bed).
• According to Rudd Sound Bites, Starbucks in the US is about to make reduced fat milk the standard in a lot of its drinks.
• I like this breakfast smoothie from Mostly Eating: a rhubarb and ginger thickie!
• Having mentioned quinoa this week in Q&A Thursday it reminded me of my intention to make this lemon scented quinoa salad from 101 Cookbooks.
• DietMotion compares fast food salads and burgers – showing that the salad is not always the lowest fat (or kilojoule) option . The Taco Bell salad has 45g of fat.
• There’s a surprising number of unlikely foods that contain meat and fish, as the Herald calls it “sneaky meats and furtive fish . However there are also a number of meaty sounding foods that are vegetarian – Masterfood Bacon Chips anyone?
• In a good example of how to lower the fat and hide more vegies in a standard meat-based dish, Tara from Should You Eat That performs a makeover on meatballs . Each portion gives at least half your daily vegie intake and nobody will notice .

08 June, 2007