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Fruit is an essential part of a balanced diet and is a healthy alternative to fatty snacks like chips and sweets. Fruit can be dull and unexciting and is not particularly tempting when hungry or peckish, though. Liven fruit up by preparing it in some different ways and get your children and yourself eating more fruit every day. Choose your favourite fruits or go for something you wouldn’t normally eat and think out of the box. (more…)

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When the baking bug hits or you have some time to make a nice dessert, the last thing you feel like doing is running to the shops to fetch the right ingredients. Desserts can be a wonderful end to a fantastic meal but there is no need to spend loads of money making them. Instead scrounge around your house for some commonly kept pantry items and whip up some delicious, easy-to-make desserts. (more…)

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Fruit is great for breakfast but it also serves as a light and refreshing palate cleansing starter – especially when it is followed by a very rich dinner. You’ll need some port and fresh mint for both the fruit starter recipes below. The grapefruit and melon starters will take a quarter of an hour each to prepare and require a long chilling time of two hours. Because of its slightly bitter taste, a little sugar is added to the grapefruit starter. (more…)

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Making dried fruit slices at home with stock syrup is easy enough to do – and with very little effort, you can make your desserts and cakes look fantastic. Properly dried fruit slices will keep for a week or so if they are stored in an airtight plastic container. You can use fruits like bananas, apples, pineapple, mangoes, pears, plums and strawberries. If you would like to try your hand at these colourful treats, then read on. (more…)

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‘I have always been a slave to juice, that sweet, heady nectar that dribbles from a ripe peach or melon, runs down your chin and drips on to your chest,’ says Nigel Slater in his book Thirst. ‘Juice is what takes fruit from being simply a pleasure to a sensual experience. All juice is good but some juice is sublime – consider mango, mulberry and papaya, cherry, peach and blackcurrant.’ Juices are easy enough to make ‑ one just needs the right equipment. (more…)

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Dried fruit is a healthy snack, and you can save a great deal of money by making your own. People have been drying food to preserve it for thousands of years. Before fridges, people kept food from spoiling by pickling, smoking, salting or drying it. Out of these, drying is probably the easiest method of preserving food. This process removes the moisture in food, which means that fungi, bacteria and mould can’t grow on it and make it go bad. Follow the simple steps below and learn how to dry fruit. (more…)

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Are you considering growing your own fruit in your garden? If yes, that’s fantastic! There is no greater reward in gardening that being able to literally see the ‘fruits of your labour’, as the saying goes. However take caution – fruit gardening is more complex than growing regular plants, especially if you want the quality of the fruit to be top-notch. Below are some helpful tips for starting and maintaining your own fruit garden. (more…)

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When your workday is busy and life in general is stressful, many people don’t pack a healthy lunch for work and either turn to takeaways or neglect to eat entirely. The easiest way to make sure that a quick, healthy snack is at hand when the hunger pangs hit is to keep a few food items at the office – but which ones should you choose? (more…)

Featuring pulp injection, Philips HR1861 Centrifugal Juice Extractor needs 700 watt of power. It has a capacity of 50.72 oz and allows the user to juice without any fuss or mess. Thanks to its patented micro-mesh filter and a powerful 700 watt motor, the juicer has an extra-large feeding tube that takes whole C. It frees you from the work of peeling, coring, de-seeding or chopping fruits and vegetable before putting them through the juicer. A versatile and powerful motor, it has two speeds that can handle hard fruit as easily as soft fruit. Also, since the pulp container is large, the Philips juicer allows the user you to make more juice in one go. The juicer has dishwasher proof parts and 2 speed settings. (more…)

It is a known fact that growing fruits organically will not only benefit our health, but it is also good for the soil. Research also shows that organically grown fruits have a higher level of antioxidants in them and antioxidants provide a wide range of health benefits including slowing the aging process, preventing the occurrence of tumours and so on. Organic gardening does not depend on chemicals or at least it uses a lesser amount of chemicals than that would be normally needed. (more…)