Stew Recipes Index

Dieting tips

In deciding on a meal plan, it is essential to also make sure you cut down your ingestion of refined carbohydrate, fat and salt.

Some low carb diet tips:
* Know what is in your food Be sceptical of food packaging that boasts 'low carb' - check the nutritional information on the reverse of the can or package. Some are only a little decreased and in some instances still higher than a competitors normal brand. Also, beware of 'low sugar' and 'low fat' labels - 'low sugar' doesn't always mean 'low carb' - often the carbs are just the same.

Cruciferous vegetables, Superfoods that also help your Your diet
(includes Cauliflower, Fresh green beans, Mizuna and Rutabaga)
Members of the brassica family have large amounts of vitamins (eg.folate), minerals (selenium and potassium, for example), fibre, chlorophyll, antioxidents, isothiocyanates, and indole-3-carbinol.

Over and above their many other healthy effects, some of these nutrients are believed to help reduce the cancer risk in those prone to it..