General kitchen advice
Oven Tips : Stagger pans and baking sheets on upper and lower racks to improve airflow, and don't cover racks with foil. Food cooks more quickly and efficiently when heat circulates freely.
Buy Local Food : The most local food of all comes from your own garden. Plant a new garden, enlarge the one you already have, or extend your growing season by using row covers and cloches.
Weight loss info
The Atkins’ Diet
First invented by doctor atkins in the sixities, the atkins diet is still widely used today. Popular with many famous celebrities, it enables weight reduction but still allows you to eat many foods that are not normally available to dieters, for example pork and hard cheese.
With this diet you are encouraged to eat meat and fat, it is the carbs that are on the banned list. Because of this, it is known as a low carbohydrate, high protein, weight loss regime.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, including cereals and pasta made from white flour.
On the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat continues to be nutrient-rich unprocessed foods like meat, fish and poultry.
You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter and olive oil.
The Atkins’ Diet Theory
The theory of the atkins diet is that although our bodies use both fats and carbohydrates to burn into carbs, it is the carbohydrates which are burned first. If we consume less carbohydrates, we will burn up our fat and we will get rid of some fat. Although tempting, the atkins diet is controversial, not all nutritionalists are in agreement and a good number of think it can sometimes be risky.