Quicklinks
Posted by kathryn in Breakfast, Ethics & Sustainablity, Salads, Snacks and Vegan
- Breakfast cereal is healthy right? A recent survey by Which? (similar to our Choice) looked at breakfast cereals. And found some contained more sugar than a Cadbury Flake.
- Tofu salad: I read a lot of healthy eating blogs. But there are other blogs I read for other reasons – the writing, the blogger’s perspective, the photos. Lemonpi is one of those. There’s a lot of cake and dessert on Y’s blog but her photographs and writing are quite beautiful. However today I can link to Lemonpi, as she’s posted a fab looking tofu and sesame salad.
- Fooling yourself: Caitlin sent me the link to a seeminly counter-intuitive report in Neuromarketing – having salad on restaurant menus can increase the sales of fries.
- Muffins: I’ve been eyeing up Green Gourmet Giraffe’s roasted pumpkin and goats’ cheese muffins all week. I can imagine making these for snacks or breakfast on the go.
- Processed foods: In The Guardian Richard Ehrlich asks how much do you rely on processed foods in your cooking? Plus he tries to cut them out for a week.
- Video casts: Two good programmes to watch online, although they’re both about 45 minutes long. Firstly Four Corners examines the effects of supermarket dominance in Australia, in The Price We Pay. And Fiona sent me a link to the Insight programme on obesity and how to get people to change their diet. It’s called A Gutful.
Photographs by Bern@t and MarcoIE.
16 May, 2009
Comments
The processed food article is fascinating. The rule of “threes a crowd” is even tougher than Pollan’s “five ingredients”. I find myself breaking the Pollan rule often enough!
glad you like the look of my muffins – they really are lovely and moist – enjoyed the other links – three’s a crowd is interesting – both this and the breakfast cereal article made me think about how much processed food I really eat
I’ve gone to “making” my own cereal (assembling). So I get the ingredients I want in it, oats, wheatbran, triticale, as much variety as possible, and put that in a jar with some shaved coconut and mixed nuts. Then in a second jar, I put some mixed dried fruit, and finally a jar of LSA.
The idea is that you get your main cerealstuff, the first jar, put some in a bowl with either milk or natural yoghurt, sprinkle on some LSA, and decide if you want a sweetener. If so, add it (eg. honey, the mixed fruit jar, maybe a little spoon of jam or something).
Cheaper, I dictate what goes in, etc. Separating the sweetener gives you more flexibility, and dodges the dreaded first bowl and last bowls of storebought muesli (all dried fruit / no dried fruit respectively).
Thanks for the muffin link Kathryn, and thanks for the recipe itself Johanna!
The subject matter of the Four Corners program Price We Pay is something we all need to think long and hard about. The big two supermarkets are gaining a frightening stranglehold on our food supply. The increase in Coles and Woolworths brands is a new and very worrying trend, leading logically to fewer and fewer choices for us as consumers. I really believe that we need to refuse to buy these brands, and try as far as possible to support local producers, or we face a future where we’ll struggle to source the quality food that we want to eat.
Horray, I made it on Limes and Lycopenes. I consider it an achievement, considering how my blog would normally be considered ‘unhealthy eating’. I also feel more inspired these days from all kinds of sources, for example, via conversations on Twitter with you!
Ever since learning about extrusion I am wary of breakfast cereals anyway. Eek! http://www.findyourbalancehealth.com/2009/04/extrude-me-breakfast-is-served/
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