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Buy Organic Foods : There are 12 foods where buying organic makes even more sense than normal.
According to the EWG (Environmental Working Group) the 12 most contaminated foods are:
  • apples
  • bell peppers
  • celery
  • cherries
  • imported grapes
  • nectarines
  • peaches
  • pears
  • potatoes
  • red raspberries
  • spinach
  • strawberries
All tested positive for pesticide residue – even after having been washed! Sweet bell peppers were the vegetable with the most pesticides overall, with 39 pesticides detected on a single sample. Conversely, if you're going to buy conventional, peas, broccoli, onions, pineapples, mangoes, bananas, kiwi and papaya had the lowest occurrence of pesticide residue.


Making your own lunch instead of buying from a sandwich shop saves on packaging, and could also save you approx £4 a day or £1,000 per year!


Dieting tips

The Atkins’ Diet
Originating way back in the 1960s, the atkins diet has been one of the most popular weight loss systms over the last few years. Having many well known film stars amongst its supporters, it enables fat reduction whilst allowing you to eat foods that are normally considered bad for diets, such as lamb and hard cheese.
On the atkins diet you eat protein and fat, avoiding carbohydrates almost completely. It is referred to as a low carbohydrate, high protein, diet.
With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, including, but not limited to, cereals and pasta made from white flour.
With the atkins diet the foods you are encouraged to eat are still nutrient-rich unprocessed foods like meat, fish & 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 if we consume less carbs, we will deplete our stored fat and we will reduce weight










Mocha Mousse Slice Recipe
Mocha Mousse Slice Category Chocolate Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2 x 125g packets small sponge

- finger biscuits 1 tb Dry instant coffee

3/4 c (180ml) boiling water

200 g White chocolate

1/2 c (125ml) thickened cream

--------------------------------MOCHA MOUSSE-------------------------------- 200 g Dark chocolate

60 g Butter

1/4 c (60ml) thickened cream

2 Egg yolks

3 ts Kahlua

-=OR=- 1 ts Dry instant coffee and 3

- teaspoons water 3/4 c (180ml) thickened cream,

- extra * Kahlua is a coffee-flavoured liqueur. Tia Maria would also be suitable for this recipe. Sponge finger biscuits are available from most supermarkets and some delicatessens * Line base and sides of 23cm square slab pan with foil. Cover base of prepared pan with a layer of sponge finger biscuits. Brush biscuits with half of the combined coffee and water. Place chopped white chocolate in medium heatproof bowl over pan of simmering water, stir until melted; cool slightly. Stir in cream. Pour half the combined white chocolate and cream over prepared biscuits in pan, cover, refrigerate 10 mins. Repeat with the remaining biscuits, coffee mixture and white chocolate mixture. Spread the mocha mousse over biscuits, then cover, refrigerate several hours or overnight, until the mousse is firm. Decorate slice with whipped cream dusted with cocoa and serve with strawberries, if desired. Mocha Mousse: Combine chopped chocolate and butter in medium heatproof bowl over pan of simmering water, stir until chocolate and butter are melted; cool slightly. Stir in cream, egg yolks and liqueur; mix well. Beat extra cream in small bowl with electric mixer until firm peaks form; fold cream into the chocolate mixture in 2 batches. * Not suitable to freeze * * Suitable to m/wave * Note: For best results, choose good quality dark chocolate and white eating chocolate for this recipe. Posted by : Sue Rykmans.

 
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