Category: Healthy Eating
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Review: The Real Bone Broth Food Stall
Marlay Park is one of the best public parks in the whole of south Dublin. Easily accessible from the city centre (where I live), just off the M50, and close to both the west and east parts of south county Dublin, it has a popular weekend food market with plenty of eating choices. There’s also…
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Cheap and healthy eating out for January?
Our reader Mary asked us the following question this week: As it is the New Year and I am carrying a bit more body weight than before, I am on the hunt for restaurants in Dublin that have healthy food options and are cheap. For example I am looking for somewhere that would do omelettes…
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Allergy advice
One of my favourite hobbies is winding up my coeliac friend Simon, by asking him if he is also allergic to the tooth fairy, homoeopathic potions, and levitation.There are many coeliacs out there, but I suspect – and I refuse to offer any evidence whatsoever for this – that some people with a self-declared gluten…
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Don’t waste your money on organic fruit and veg
Overheard middle-class conversation: “I really want to switch to all organic fruit and veg – it’s just so expensive.” “Sometimes I feel really guilty buying non-organic,” said the other woman. “It’s just so bad for the environment.” “Can’t be good for your health either. All those toxins.” They’re both wrong. Organic isn’t better for…
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Where’s good for fruit?
One fruit bears the truth: the simple easy peeler. When your teeth glide through an orange segment, its exterior wet and firm, and the juices squirt onto your chin, you know you’re on to a good thing. Bite into a dry and dusty fruit, however, and you’ll feel as though the juice has been sucked…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Paratha Recipe
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Parathas are really delicious little flat breads, which are plain or stuffed with potatoes, herbs, spices, paneer, mint, etc. Paratha Recipe Ingredients 2 cups wholewheat flour Water Pinch salt 1 cup veg/sunflower oil (2 tbsps to knead dough and the rest to fry the parathas) Stuffing…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Part 2
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Earlier this week, I took you on the first leg of my spin around Eurasia Supermarket in Fonthill. My Indian friend, Radha, a food scientist with two kids, is showing me what she puts in her trolley. This week we’re diving into the freezer dept first.…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Vegetable Biryani & Chana Masala
Read the other installments of Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour Radha’s Vegetable Biryani Ingredients Garlic and ginger paste Cassia bark Cardamons Cloves Javantry (flowers) Cumin seeds Kala jeera Bay leaves Black cumin seeds Cashews Green chillies Carrots, green beans, baby corns, etc (the packaged selection of baby veg in supermarkets is a quick option) Sliced onions.…
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Julie’s Asian Supermarket Tour: Part 1
Our writer Julie asked an Indian friend to show her around Eurasia, an Asian mega-mart in Liffey Valley and give her some expert tips. She got such a wealth of information that we”re giving this whole week over to Julie”s Asian Supermarket Tour. Follow the blog all week for some great tips and recipes. jean…
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‘Something to Chew On’ by Professor Mike Gibney
Books on critical thinking and science are one of my favourite nerdy pleasures, and I just got a new one that I’m very excited about reading – ‘Something to Chew On’ by Professor Mike Gibney. Professor Gibney is the Head of the Institute of Food and Health in UCD, and in the book, he tackles…