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The Health Pizzazz Of Pizzas
Traditional style pizza is a relatively simple food, made with flour, yeast, water, salt, oil, tomato sauce and fresh cheese. The nutrition and ingredients of pizza can vary widely depending on the type. What you put on your pizza can…
How Clean Is Your Kitchen Bin?
Despite the maximum need for hygiene, a kitchen can quickly become the dirtiest room in the house. Everyone wants their kitchen to smell fresh with no nasty whiffs, but one of the biggest causes of unpleasant aromas is your kitchen bin.…
Try These Healthy Toast Toppings
If you want to be healthy and lean, having a breakfast is a must. Breakfast skippers tend to weigh more and consume too many sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks. Research has shown that those who skip breakfast tend to eat 45% fewer…
How To Store Your Spices
Spices, like all other foods, do go bad. If you are an impulsive shopper and pick up new spices on every trip to the supermarket, or then are a Budget Babushka buying them in bulk, do so only for spices that are used often so that they stay…
How To Avoid Food Poisoning In The Kitchen
To avoid problems leading to food poisoning in the kitchen, remember the following:
Keep raw poultry away from ready-to-eat foods.
Store raw foods below ready-to-eat or cooked foods in the fridge.
Use separate chopping boards…
Care For Your Kitchen Knives
A set of high-quality, well-maintained knives is an essential element of a kitchen. A good set of sharp knives makes the preparation of food quicker, easier and safer.
Even top-quality knives will blunt if not properly maintained,…
Kitchen Tips For Diabetes-friendly Cooking
How successful your attempts to control diabetes will depend a lot on what you eat and how you cook. Since the kitchen is the theatre of where this plays out, here are a few tips for diabetes-friendly cooking:
Replace unhealthy fats – Cut…
Women Can Read Cats’ Moods Better
Contrary to their reputation, cats aren’t hard to read for women and those who work with animals – even if they don’t love cats. New research from the University of Guelph has found that some people are veritable ‘cat whisperers’, who excel…
Handy Kitchen Tricks
Here are a few quick fixes for cooking mistakes, some handy tricks and creative solutions that can save you time and effort in the kitchen...
When working with chillies
Before chopping chillies, rub your hands with vegetable oil to…
That Zesty Citrus Fruit!
Other than adding a delicious, citrusy kick to everything, and having an impressive array of health benefits, lemons are little heroes in the kitchen in many more ways. So, when life hands you lemons, grab them with both hands – and not…
How Safe Is Your Dishwashing Liquid?
Many dishwashing liquids contain triclosan, an antibacterial compound that helps kill germs. However, studies have shown that even after washing, some traces of this compound stay on the dishes. Our skin can be an entry points for toxins,…
How To Care For Cast Iron Cookware
Cast iron cookware remains a favourite in the kitchen because it is durable, versatile, retains heat wonderfully, and cooks food evenly. But cast iron has to be taken care of. If you do that, your cookware will last for years. Here are a…
Coping Without Your Kitchen
Whether you’re decorating, renovating or simply installing new appliances, there can be occasions when your kitchen is unavailable. Or, perhaps, you’ve suffered an emergency such as a fire or flood and your kitchen is suddenly out of…
How to Cut Plastic Out of your Kitchen
Take a look around your kitchen and it won’t be long before you find something made from plastic. From food containers to plastic utensils, drinking straws to packaging; plastic is a common material in most kitchens. But while plastic might…
Bigger Kitchen, Bigger Belly: Is Your Kitchen Killing You?
Your kitchen may be slowly killing you, but not in the way you think. While you may predict this article is about to warn you about the wellness dangers of radon or gas links, your wellbeing is actually at risk from kindness and proximity.…
Kitchen Kings: The Best Ways to Amp Up Your Heart Health
Heart-healthy eating starts in the kitchen, which means that you need to get your kitchen wellness on track if you want to protect your family from heart problems. Here are seven simple tips to help you do it:
1. Switch to…
How to Deep Clean Your Kitchen Everyday in 20 Minutes
Although cleaning up is the unquestionable downside to cooking at home, a clean kitchen is a huge part of complementary wellness and very important to your family’s wellbeing. You may embark on a deep-cleaning marathon every now and then,…
Kitchen Projects To Get Kids To Eat Healthy
It can often be a battle getting kids to eat healthy; but if you want to see your children’s diet improve, your kitchen is a natural source of inspiration. So, instead of asking your kids to keep out of the kitchen, encourage them to join…
Beware Of False Efficiencies In The Kitchen
If you’re on a tight household budget, a good place to save money is in the kitchen. Look online and you’ll find countless articles offering kitchen-money saving tips. It pays to do your research but, sometimes, the changes you make to save…
Germ-Free Tips for Cleaning Your Kitchen
Are you worried about maintaining a hygienic atmosphere in your kitchen? Well here’s presenting some tips that can help you clean the room well. Paying extra attention on how you rinse and wash the kitchen can keep the bacteria way.…
Starting A Home Business From Your Kitchen
Homemade cakes, jam, chutneys... whatever you enjoy making in your kitchen, you can bet someone enjoys eating it! Perhaps you’ve discovered that you’ve got a real talent for making delicious treats for friends and family and hope to take…
Keep Technology Out Of The Kitchen
Do you get twitchy if you haven’t checked your phone for messages in the last few minutes? Like to stay connected while doing your daily jobs?
Carrying our phone or tablet everywhere we go has become a habit for most of us. And while it’s…
How to Turn Your Kitchen Gadgets Into Wellness Wonders
Your kitchen gadgets aren’t just helping for adding a little finesse to your food, or making cooking more convenient; they’re excellent complementary wellness tools. Whether it’s your fancy slow cooker, or the lowly frying pan, take care of…
Ways To Store Dairy Foods
Storing milk, cheese and yogurt is critical for maintaining their safety and quality. Here are a few top tips that you can use to maximise the life of dairy products:
Buy carefully. Make sure that all dairy products are refrigerated and…
Cut The Chemicals, Keep The Shine
Many people are starting to examine the environmental cost of their lifestyle choices. One of the simplest things you can do is to switch to more natural cleaners and reduce the number of harsh chemicals you pour down the kitchen sink.…
The Korean Kitchen
Most of us are familiar with Chinese, Thai and Italian cooking and are comfortable with the various ingredients, techniques and utensils used in preparing these dishes. One type of cuisine that is less well-known is Korean food - yet…
Blender Or Juicer?
Do you struggle to get the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day? If you find it hard to remember to eat healthily, investing in a blender or juicer is a great way to kick-start healthy eating habits. But with so many…
Know Your Labels: Use-by And Best-before
The difference between ‘use-by’, ‘best-before’, ‘sell-by’ and ‘display until’ instructions on labels isn’t always clear. Here’s a useful guide to what these confusing terms mean.
Use-by
Use-by is a common label on fresh products such as…
From Kitchen Nightmare To Kitchen Heaven
Home cooks generally fall into one of two camps – those who tidy as they go along and those who create havoc and then tidy later. While everyone has their own style of cooking, there are lots of benefits from tidying as you go. A tidy…
Kitchen Comfort
Whether your kitchen is a warm, welcoming communal space in which food is lovingly prepared from choice, fresh ingredients, or simply a functional room in which chores are performed, how your kitchen is run will have a big impact on the…