The 15 Minute Meal Plan for the Mediterranean Diet

Today, I want to bring the lime light back on our local markets, our farmers markets. There are a lot of reasons why the farmers market should be patronized and below are the five reasons.

Have you ever heard the old sayings “an apple a day keeps the doctor away” or, “you need to drink your orange juice to start your day and keep a cold away”? I've heard those sayings many times as I sat down to breakfast with a glass of fresh juiced OJ or apple juice. We all know that fresh fruits and vegetables are good for our bodies, and we should continue to eat them because of the nutrients in the skin. However, juicers are able to extract most of the enzymes, vitamins, proteins, carbohydrates, and minerals essential to good health.

We all know how important water is for living things. There is no doubt that it is one of the essentials for survival. However, have you ever given a thought to the water you drink? Are you aware of what it contains? With the discovery of alkaline water, you now have the opportunity to make sure that only purified water is used in your household.

Snacks that travel easy are sometimes hard to come by. Here are 8 easy snacks that are easy to travel with but taste great too!

“Don't eat that!”, “Enough of those chips!”, “You'll spoil your appetite!!”… do these dialogues sound familiar? Probably because we have all grown up listening to our mothers say all this, but never really understood the rationale behind them. After all, we were just snacking! But as mothers now, you find yourselves echoing the same dialogues to your kids, all the time! You cannot just let them ruin their appetites on a packet of unhealthy chips, can you? So what is the solution?

Let us start with a small story… Harish had to attend a really important meeting with India's bestselling author. The author's flight was delayed, so the meeting that had to start at 1 PM was delayed by an hour. He knew he was cutting it too close but since he did not have a filling breakfast, he ordered North Delhi's specialdum biryani for lunch; ate all of 500 grams of it and then gulped down a bottle of soda.

People are increasingly delving deeper into what they eat and how much they eat. So much so that everything that they eat, is quickly entered into their fitness app to get a quick overview of the protein/ carbohydrate and calorie intake of their food.

Milk is a very popular food product throughout the world, and has several purported health benefits. Eaten with a bowl of cereal for breakfast, or added to a creamy desert for a dinner party, this product is also very versatile, making it convenient to have on hand to prepare a variety of different dishes.

There are many different milk products on our supermarket shelves nowadays, ranging from pasteurized and homogenized milk with a long shelf life to micro filtered, fresh milk that will only last in the fridge for a couple of days. On top of this there is milk from different breeds of cows – such as from Jersey cattle – and organic milk that is produced according to strict guidelines.

Sure, you've read tips on surviving the holidays before. Here is a practical and usable set of tips for negotiating parties, buffets and social dinners in the weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year's.

Feeding kids is fun, but sometimes ends up in a disaster! That is why you need to spice up healthy recipes to get them interested in eating a lot of healthy foods.

For anyone who is toying with the idea of finally taking control of his or her own health must start at the beginning: Plan your grocery list. That means replacing some of the food from the past, just gradually will do. It is fact that food labels don't tell all, but become familiar with them and become aware of the culprits and certain ingredients to avoid. Along the way this becomes a learning curve, and over time you will know what to avoid.