Cooking advice
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!
Oven Tips : With conventional ovens, minimize the preheating time. Unless you're baking breads or pastries, you may not even need to preheat.
Diet info
The Zone Diet
The Zone diet is a diet primarily created by Barry Sears in a number of books. The Zone diet isn’t particularly a weight loss diet, although many people find that they actually lose a few pounds by following it.
The scientific theory behind the Zone Diet is that if you were to limit the secretion of insulin and glucogen (two hormones), then anti-inflammatory chemicals are released which, as a consequence puts the body in a balanced state that is far more healthful than it normally is, known as the 'zone'.
Sears claims that if you get into this 'zone', your body is working at its best and, as a result, doesn't need to convert surplus energy to fat.
The most interesting process of the diet is to keep tight control over the precise ratio of carbohydrates to proteins, and to ensure you get high levels of Omega 3 fish oils.