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Try Eating Raw Food : You need a balance of three basic food groups as most of your diet:
  • sweet fruits (apples, oranges, berries, melons, etc.)
  • green leaves (dark lettuce, kale, collards, spinach, etc.)
  • raw plant fats (avocados, olives & their oil, coconuts & their oil, nuts & seeds, durian)
    • Eat lots of sweet fruit, lots of green leaves, and some fat (as dressing, pâté, hummus, etc.). Add vegetables as desired, and sprouted grains and legumes occasionally. Try fruit for breakfast and snacks; greens, veggies and fat for lunch and dinner.


    Buy Seasonal Food : If you're eating foods out of season, it's likely that they have come a long way - try to eat food that is both locally produced and can be found at that time of year, locally!


    Dieting tips

    The Atkins’ Diet
    First invented by doctor atkins in the 1960s, the popular atkins diet has been one of the most popular weight loss systems over the last few years. Popular with many famous celebrities, it supposedly allows weight loss whilst allowing you to eat many of the foods you love, like fatty meat and hard cheeses.
    Unlike other diets, with the atkins diet it is considered good to eat fat and protein, it is carbohydrates that need to be avoided. It is often referred to as a high protein, low carb, weight loss program.
    With this diet, the foods you should avoid are processed and refined sugar, milk, white bread, starchy vegetables, white rice and white flour, amongst them, cereals and pasta made from white flour.
    With this diet the foods you are encouraged to eat are nutrient-rich unprocessed foods such as meat, fish & poultry. You also can eat shellfish, regular full fat cheese, butter & olive oil.

    The Atkins’ Diet Theory
    The logic behind the popular atkins diet is that even though our bodies use both fats and carbs to burn into glucose, it is the carbs that are burned primarily. If we eat fewer carbs, we will utilise the fat we already carry and we will lose weight. Although inviting, this theory is controversial, not all researchers agree and quite a few feel it can sometimes be bad for your health.










Nier Beurre (Channel Islands Fruit Butter) Recipe
Nier Beurre (Channel Islands Fruit Butter) Category Fruit Recipes 
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Ingredients And Procedures

2 lb Dessert apples

1 lb Cooking apples

Granulated sugar 2 pt Dry cider

1/2 Orange

1/2 Lemon

Ground cinnamon & allspice Fast boil the cider until reduced by half. Peel, core and slice HALF of each sort of apple; add them to the pan, pushing them well down into the liquid. Half-cover the pan and simmer gently until the fruit is soft. Add the remaining apples, prepared in the same way, together with the juice and zest of the citrus fruits. Half-cover the pan and continue simmering until all the fruit is well reduced, pulpy and tender. Stir occasionally and crush the fruit down into the pan with a potato masher as it cooks. Measure the pulp and process it to a puree if it is at all lumpy. Add sugar at the rate of 10 oz for every pint of apple pulp, and stir in about 1 teaspoon ground allspice. Simmer, stirring frequently, until most of the moisture has been driven off. The readiness of a fruit butter is judged by its consistency, not by set or temperature. It is ready when it is nearly dry - a spoon drawn across the mixture should leave its own impression. Pot in small, clean, warm jars and store in a very cold larder or fridge. Once jar is opened, the contents should be eaten up within 3 or 4 days. Makes enough to fill 4 or 5 small jars. Source: Philippa Davenport in "Country Living" (British), March 1989. Typed for you by Karen Mintzias

 
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