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Home About FISN Blog Recipes Eating plans Food School Guest Contact Happy Healthy Eating New Year!! 0 FN Social Network January 02, 2024 This year we aim to bring you more up to date information on healthy eating; the diets, the info, the hype and the truth! Our goal is to be the definitive guide…
There has been a lot of chat about chia seeds benefits recently. Are they really an easy way to support health or are they just another hyped up super food? I reviewed a product from The Chia Company, an Australian based business who say on their website; “Chia is the richest plant based source of…
The Glycaemic Index, or GI, of a food is a measure of how quickly carbohydrates are converted into glucose and absorbed into the blood stream. Complex carbohydrates tend to have a lower GI than, simple and refined carbohydrates. You can use the GI to choose slower releasing carbohydrates. However, GI only takes into account a…
Home About FISN Blog Recipes Meal Plans Food School Guest Contact Berries with Banana ‘Cream’ Seeds contain phytonutrients that are understood to have significant health benefits. They also provide essential fatty acids that body can’t make and must obtain through food. Plus they are a great source of vegan protein. Bananas whilst giving minerals and…
Home About FISN Blog Recipes Meal Plans Food School Guest Contact Clear-the-fridge-on-Monday juice The emphasis for this juice is finishing up all the bits of veg you have after the weekend. The recipe is our selection from this morning, which will also give you an idea about quantities. Exact amounts will depend on how fresh…
This soup caused a big stir after the famous chef James Martin did a great programme on hospital food. I had several emails and loads of comments asking for his recipe. The BBC advised me that unfortunately it isn’t available yet. I didn’t see the whole series so here is my version! It’s very simple,…
In my experience effective, well priced, freely available, easy to take Next up under the supplement heading is a review of an Unbelievably healthy product based on propolis from bees: ‘Daily Defense.’ ‘Bee Prepared’ comes in two varieties; Daily Defence immune support and Max Strength immune support. As there are only so many supplements a…
There are so many varieties of squash you can never get bored with them. They are great in a soup and they don’t need much cooking. The trick to this recipe is to sauté the onions and spices while you set to work on the squash, which admittedly is a fiddly job – but worth…
This smoothie gives you a huge blast of phyto nutrients all in one glass. The blue-ish tinged cavelo nero (or dinosaur kale) and blueberries are regarded as some of the most nutritious foods available. The blue-ness of the vegetables and fruit becomes green in the glass but the smoothie doesn’t lose the precious immune boosting…
Very exciting developments in the kitchen yesterday; the wall came down! This is singly THE most exciting thing to happen in the project, almost more so than finishing the kitchen, which is a long way off. This is because since we have lived here, I have dreamt of the wall coming down, making the space…
