Baking bread

The thought of real bread is getting our mouths watering! Click here to read about Sustain's Real Bread Campaign.

Being healthy on the inside

Alice was watching 'Big Meets Bigger' recently on the BBC. She found it rather shocking to see what the word 'obesity' means in real life. "I'm fortunate and come from quite a healthy family, and I have no direct experience of seeing such things like diabetes. I really am completely unaware of what it's like to live with diseases linked to obesity, and this program was good in showing that".

Here at MyNutmeg we believe in eating healthily: no fad diets, no weird and wonderful food combinations, just a healthy balance of fresh food. (And Alice has to watch her portion sizes!) If you're looking after your insides, it'll show on your outsides!

New CHEW website gone live today from the CWT

The CWT has produced CHEW (Children Eating Well): a new website with photographic resources of meals for children, plus lots of useful information for feeding children of different age groups. Many of the recipes featured also feature in the Nutmeg Menu Planning programs, and CHEW used the NMP program to plan their menus. To find out more information please click here.

To visit the CWT, please click here.

Wimbledon

We're impressed with the longest match at Wimbledon, between John Isner and Nicolas Mahut. We hope they manage to keep their energy and fluid levels up for the match this afternoon. That's a lot of bananas and sports drinks! To read more about the match, click here.

Salty takeaways

Takeaways are serving food near schools which contain more saturated fat and salt than an adult should eat in their day, according to the London Environmental Health Food Teams, for Consensus Action on Salt and Health. To read more about the news story, click here.

A lot of running

Alice has just advised Rob to drink lots of beetroot juice (to see article click here) before his triathlon this weekend. Unfortunately the taste just doesn't seem to appeal to him!

'The Omnivore's Dilemma'...

Rob's reading 'The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-food World' by Michael Pollan (2007) at the moment - apparently we're all turning into corn. Slightly perturbing!