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We love mac and cheese in our house, but it goes against one of my basic food rules: although utterly delicious and my ultimate comfort food, there is no colour! I am not a lover of a plate of beige – I really feel that when my plate is bursting with colour, it boosts my mood. It also makes me feel good knowing that I can tick off a couple more food groups – just adding a few veggies means that you are on your way to five-a-day. So, with this in mind, I have compiled a list of ways …

Make 2021 the year that you reduce your food waste!

Canned and frozen foods are often seen as less nutritious than their fresh counterparts but that’s not always the case.

Meal-planning is the simple act of taking some time to plan for your weekly meals- and yes, this can include going out for dinner or ordering a take-away!  Delicious and Real is a, Harpenden based, meal-planning service that aims to simplify this process and take the stresses out of meal-times. For just £5 a month (99p for your first), you will have access to an online weekly planner which contains 7 delicious dinner recipes: you can swap them for one of the others in the extensive library, you can print them out or you can simply keep them as they are.  …

A study, by Imperial College London, calculated that changing our eating habits in such a way could prevent 7.8 million premature deaths each year. But, we all know how hard it is to get children to eat fruit and vegetables; changing children’s eating habits requires consistency and persistence from parents.  As part of the BBC’s Terrific Scientific Campaign, around 80 pupils (aged nine to eleven) were asked to eat kale every day for 15 days; afterwards almost all the children had changed their tastes and willingly ate the vegetable.  There are lots of ways of ‘hiding’ vegetables in your children’s …