Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in A Balanced Diet, Fruit, Kid's nutrition, Soups and Main courses
- Obesity: Fascinating article on CalorieLab about the difference between Japanese and American cultures, food habits and attitudes to obesity. It’s written by Makiko from Just Hungry. There’s a follow up perspective here.
- Beetroot soup: It’s been at least a month since I linked to the last beetroot recipe, so how could I pass up the opportunity to show off Green Gourmet Giraffe’s chunky beetroot soup with kidney beans?
- Don’t know what to do with fish? Why not try this quick and easy salmon recipe from the Nami-Nami food blog.
- What to do with fussy kids that don’t eat vegetables? Freddie and his mum are doing the Great Big Vegetable Challenge, going through the A – Z of vegetables. Along the way Freddie has discovered he likes radishes, asparagus, kale, rocket, courgettes, even Brussels sprouts – quite impressive for a seven year old. They have a Naming and Shaming Fridge and at the moment they’re on the letter “R”.
- Silverbeet omelette: Rosa Jackson has made a wonderful silverbeet omelette. Also known as chard, silverbeet is one of my favourite vegetables. I love the fact she doesn’t pre-cook the silverbeet.
- Getting people to eat more fruit: I’m confounded by this article. While I firmly believe in the goal of getting people to eat more fruit, I wonder if cutting it up overseas, packaging it and making it more expensive is really the best way?
25 January, 2008
Comments
That link about the fruit is really good, in an utterly infuriating way…
I tried the radish, bean and cheese salad from the Great Big Recipe challenge earlier in the week and it made a great quick and tasty lunch
I find the rise of packaging fruit and vegetables depressing and the guardian article depressing. It just doesn’t seem helpful to talk about health benefits of fruit alone rather than as part of an overall diet, and the article didn’t seem to address the whole environmental effect of all this unnecessary packaging. Thanks for pointing out an interesting article and for being happy to show off the beetroot soup I made!
Hm, can’t say I was impressed with the article, it had so much breadth in terms of quantity of people cited, but seemed to lack focus. Its message seems to be: “people buying prepackaged fruit are silly – but it’s a good idea – but fruit isn’t really worth anything anyway” ...huh?
I did think it was a good point about singles and large fruit such as melons – I’d never buy a whole watermelon for myself because it’d waste before I’d use it, so providing cut quarter watermelons is a good thing for me. However I don’t think that’s the type of “prepared fruit” the article was primarily concerned with.
Some quotes that jumped out at me, all actually attributed to the one person, Tom Sanders:
Confusing article.
You’re right there are so many problems with this article. I find it infuriating. And much of the “expert” comment is strange and unhelpful. Joanne, you’re right, it’s a long and sprawling article and hard to know what the central theme is.
Sophie – I thought the radish on toast looked wonderful too!
Thank you for the ‘link love’, Kathryn! It was a great salmon dish indeed, and we’re happy to have ‘discovered’ it ourselves :)
Oh, and also thanks for the beetroot recipes – I’m a huge fan of beetroot, and am always looking for more beetroot recipes (even if I do have already three beetroot soup recipes on my blog).
I’m off to read that cut-up-fruit article..
Pille, no worries at all, I’m enjoying your blog a lot. Regarding beetroot – I am pretty much beetroot obsessed. My editor at Life etc has just loaned me a copy of Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins – because the beetroot features heavily in the novel.
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