I remember as a young child at my parents’ house a meal had to consist of meat, potatoes, gravy and some veggies (usually cabbage) in the following proportions: 3:2:1:1, where meat was allotted the biggest space on the plate, then came potatoes and at the end some veggies. Regardless of the size of each component [...]
Tosca Reno potato obsession – cookbook review
I first heard about Tosca Reno and Clean-eating from a friend who had a subscription to the Oxygen magazine. I gave it a try and soon started buying the magazine each time it came out. Then came the cookbooks and books on clean-eating. I’ve enjoyed them all, scaled back on the magazines, since they became [...]
Body Conscious Blogger, March 5th 2010
Food/Fitness/Health misconceptions
Calorie counting Many people subscribe to the idea that you can loose weight by counting calories. What that means is that they will follow a low calorie intake diet to lose weight. In principle it does work, but in reality it doesn’t. To prove it you can take as an example an extreme case of [...]
Body Conscious Blogger, February 19th 2010
Creamy Soya preparation
Thanks to my return to the Montignac method I’ve discovered a new product without which I truly can’t imagine my culinary adventures anymore. I’m talking about Belsoy creamy soya preparation. In previous editions of Montignac’s books he’d often times use heavy cream, which I would skip. Somehow the name itself would  scare me enough to [...]
Body Conscious Blogger, January 25th 2010
Pomegranate – the Christmas fruit and the joys of chili peppers
Up until a week ago or so, I cringed at having to deseed a pomegranate. Anybody who has ever tasted the delicious fruit knows what I am talking about and those who don’t should go to their local grocery store and get one. Now to spare you (and those who eat the fruit regularly) the [...]
Body Conscious Blogger, January 1st 2010
