Checking the nutritional information on the back of food packaging.
Liz Matthews( Healthy Hay) and Jaclyn Lister from Griffith, took the tour through fruit and vegetables, deli products and the dairy cabinet at IGA before heading down the aisles of biscuit and ready prepared sauces.
Much to the relief of young Emerson Hedt his favourite cookie they can still be eaten as a sometimes food.
Healthy Choices
Shopping for healthy foods can be a nightmare of labels claiming all sorts of low fat, no added sugar, low salt labels. A recent shopping tour, held at IGA, helped a small group of women, and a young man, to decipher the claims made by product manufacturers.
Murrumbidgee Medicare Local( MML) and Healthy Hay conducted the tour. Each participant received a card( see left) which shows acceptable levels of fat, sugar, fibre and salt in food.
A 100g block of chocolate is four servings( not one)- high fat, sugar and sodium levels push this‘ food’ into the‘ only sometimes’ category. Sorry ladies!
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course of two hours, chicken, vegetables and rice were cooked as well as a fruit baked custard dessert and rocky road.
Do you use your microwave to: A: defrost B: reheat C: soften the occasional mars bar so it is all nice and gooey D: Actually cook
If you answered A, B or C or any combination of, then read on. If you answered D – well done.
Terri-Anne Palmer from the Hay Hub hosted a microwave cooking demonstration recently. Over the
Taking at least a third of the time of gas / electric cooking, micro waving can save time and power. A size 18 chicken took 36 minutes to cook and was tender and moist. To create a crust on the chicken, which was cooked in an oven bag, Terri-Anne placed a packet of French onion soup in the bag with the chicken, rubbed
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the soup over the skin and then cooked it in the microwave.
All present enjoyed a taste test after the demonstration and the general opinion was that all would start using their microwaves more often.
Vegetables can easily be micro waved together. Hard vegetables, like potato, placed around the outside of a plate, then a round of medium vegetables and soft vegetables in the middle. Place microwave safe cling wrap loosely on top. A small plate takes 3 mins.