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Product review: Four Coconut Waters side by side
Coconut water is the new buzz beverage. Sales are skyrocketing thanks to celebrity endorsements and the claims made on the pack for its high electrolyte, antioxidant and potassium content. Billed as...
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Product Review: COYO coconut yoghurt alternative
COYO coconut milk yoghurt has been on my radar for a while. Being advertised as dairy free, vegan, soy free, gluten free, lactose free and with no added sugar, it's no surprise that it's the new...
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Product review: Up&Go Liquid Breakfast
When it launched Up&Go 15 years ago in Australia, Sanitarium created a whole new category in breakfasts. Today it still holds 99 per cent of the liquid breakfast market and has fuelled early...
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Product review: Devondale Fast Start
I'm sure you must have seen the ads for this new liquid breakfast product. They focus on the fact that it is made "from milk not soy". One shows a man pulling a "yuk face" when he tastes a soy product...
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Book Review: Japanese Women Don’t Get Old or Fat
Sushi, sashimi, tempura, chicken teriyaki, beef yakitori and seafood udon soup. There's lots to love about Japanese food. It's light, fresh and flavoursome. And here's the best reason of all – it's...
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Book Review: The Mediterranean Diet by Catherine Itsiopoulos
When we were planning our trip to the Greek Islands in 2009, I made sure we spent five days in Crete. After all, I had spent years sitting in lectures hearing about the famed Cretan Diet – the...
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Product Snapshots - Bulla Cottage Cheese with crackers
I love this new mini-tub of plain cottage cheese smartly/cleverly packed with a top container of water crackers. Easy to carry, small and compact, it has only 571 kilojoules (137 calories) per pack...
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Product Review: Stevia and monkfruit sachets side-by-side
Use of the sweetener stevia is becoming more widespread and a host of new brands (like Natvia) are coming on the market. What's more, existing sweeteners are being reformulated to contain stevia in...
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Product Snapshots - Kellogg’s Special K Biscuit Moments
From the outside, this looks the size and shape of a muesli bar but contains two crisp, thinnish fruit-filled biscuits packed in an individual 25g pack. They’re sold in a box of 5 packs so you get 10...
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Product Snapshots – Chobani Greek Yoghurt Pouches
Chobani Greek yoghurt tubs have become a favourite on supermarket shelves. Their colourful tubs sold in a range of fruit flavours as well as the standard plain and honey flavours, take up a good...
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Product Review: HelloFresh Meals
Cooking a healthy dinner from fresh ingredients is a big goal of mine this year. At the moment, there’s only two of us at home as the 20-something vegetarian is travelling in Vietnam so it’s never...
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Product Snapshot: Tassal Easy Bake Atlantic salmon fillets
Nutritionists recommend two serves of oily fish a week but I find it hard to eat this regularly without resorting to canned salmon or tuna. I love the cans – don’t get me wrong - but they’re not the...
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Product Snapshot: Barilla whole grain penne pasta
From breakfast cereals to breads, I’m a big fan of eating whole grains but when it comes to pasta, whole grain or high-fibre versions have been, well, pretty dreadful. In the past, I’ve cooked up...
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Product Review: Love Beets
I’m a fan of beetroot and love it in salads – imagine whole cooked beets tossed through mint leaves, coriander, orange segments, radish and pearl couscous. Yum. And there’s nothing more Aussie than a...
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Product Snapshot: Helga’s Lower Carb bread
Bread has been under attack in recent times thanks to the grain-free diets beloveded by “Paleo passionates” as well as the ever-increasing popular trend away from gluten, the main protein of the two...
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Product Snapshot – Simply Nature’s Fresh Wholemeal Bread using 7 ingredients
I recently noticed a bread I hadn’t seen before in my local supermarket. What caught my eye was the tag-line – 7 Ingredients. Take a look at the bread in your pantry and I’m guessing you’ll find...
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Product Snapshot: Sanitarium’s Fibre Start Drink
With claims such as “Fibre made easy” and “One-third of your daily fibre in a glass”, this new milk sounds soooo appealing to anyone who hates 'brown' fibrous food like 'branny', chaff-like cereal,...
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Product Snapshot - Five:AM organic sweetened yoghurt
I love yoghurt! I eat it with my breakfast muesli and any time I feel like a decent snack. Oh, and served with strawberries, blueberries and passionfruit as a quick summer dessert. I keep being...
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Product Snapshot: Kellog's All-Bran Fibre Muesli
Better known for its puffs, pops, flakes and sugary cereals, Kellogg's has never gone into the muesli market. It's copped a lot of criticism for its pre-sweetened cereals aimed at kids and recently...
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Product Snapshot: Sunrice Brown Rice and Barley
White rice – it’s bland, easy to eat, quick to cook, inexpensive and able to take on the flavours of anything. While it’s a nice counterpoint to other strong flavours, such as curries and spicy fare,...
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