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  • Saturday. Iku lunch today: tofu burger w/ steamed veg, pickled red cabbage & beetroot, & chickpea w/ beetroot. Plus they're amazing dressing
  • Thurs late lunch: Pad Thai with tofu and double the vegetables.
  • Hungry all morning & knew lunch was going to be late. Had half a tin of white beans, a banana, a peach & square of Beetrotinger cake.
  • Thurs breakfast: rye and pumpkin seed toast again. One w/ white bean paste / dip & t'other w/ marmalade. Plus some pineapple.
  • Made kind of polenta pie for Tues dinner. Polenta top & bottom, w/ filling of lentils & silverbeet cooked in tomato.Topped w/ cheese & baked

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Merry Christmas

Posted by kathryn in Blogging

I’m on holidays now and I’m also taking a blogging break. I’ll be back on Limes & Lycopene in the second week of January. Merry, merry Christmas to you all. I hope you have a wonderful and relaxing festive season and best wishes for lots of good health and happiness in 2010. And of course thank you for being such great readers. Your comments, feedback, emails and suggestions have all been immensely appreciated over the last 12 month. h3. …

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Quicklinks - the Christmas edition

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

  • Is Santa naughty or nice? A bit of headline grabbing, tongue-in-cheek research from Australia this week, asking if Santa is a good health role model?. He’s overweight, eats an awful lot of cookies and milk on Christmas eve, drinks and drives and has never been seen wearing a seat-belt. * Edible gifts: If you’re still after low cost and interesting Christmas gifts, then take a look at Fern’s DIY garden inspired gift ideas from Life on the Balcony. …

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Win a full year subscription to An Honest Kitchen

Posted by kathryn in Blogging and An Honest Kitchen

Menu for Hope is back. Chez Pim’s wonderful annual fundraising event. From now until Christmas Day you can buy tickets for a wide range of prizes offered by food bloggers from around the world. h3. Who are we raising money for? All the money goes to support the UN World Food Programme’s Purchase for Progress. P4P enables smallholder and low-income farmers to supply food to WFP’s global operation. This puts more cash directly into their pockets; bolsters fragile local economies; …

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Quicklinks

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

  • A different type of taco: I like this idea from Spice and More about using lettuce cups instead of taco shells. Add salad, diced tomatoes, cheese and whatever other toppings you want and then roll them up in lettuce leaves. Delicious. * Baked apricots: A simple idea, but such a lovely way to use dried fruit in winter – Wendy from A Wee Bit of Cooking bakes dried apricots in the oven with water, a bit of sugar and …

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An Honest Kitchen: Winter & a Spring/Summer gift voucher

Posted by kathryn in An Honest Kitchen

Two An Honest Kitchen announcements today: h2. Re-release of Winter When Lucy and I released the winter edition of An Honest Kitchen for those of you over the other side of the world, it was the height of summer. Talking soups, roasting lamb cutlets and comforting desserts was just not on your agenda. Therefore today we are re-releasing the winter edition of An Honest Kitchen. This new version has been revised for Northern hemisphere readers. While the core material …

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Christmas Gift ideas (part 1)

Posted by kathryn in Blogging, Summer and Winter

It’s been a busy, busy last couple of weeks. Lucy and I are cracking along with An Honest Kitchen and there will be more about that tomorrow. In the meantime I have some gift ideas/suggestions for you: h3. And the Love is Free Jules Clancy from Stonesoup self-published her first book earlier in the year. It’s called And the Love is Free and is a collection of the recipes her mum cooked. Not everything is healthy, but it’s a …

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Quicklinks

Posted by kathryn in Miscellanea

An ultra quick Quicklinks this week, as I just haven’t had many wedges of time available for online reading. * Change your thinking: I’m new to the Redefining Diet blog. I first found out about it from Sophie and have been exploring ever since. The writing is powerful, the thoughts are challenging, but if you want to change the way you think and relate to food then it’s a wonderful resource. For example, this piece called "We are what we …

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Omega 3s for vegetarians

Posted by kathryn in Fats & oils and Vegan

I’ve written before about how important Omega 3 essential fatty acids are to our health. One of the biggest Omega 3 containing food groups is fish, particularly the oily fish like sardines and mackerel. Although of course it’s a more tricky problem if you try to choose a sustainable source. But what about vegetarians? It is harder for vegetarians to get adequate quantities of Omega 3s. While there are quite a few vegetarian sources which I’ve listed here, most …

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