This month

This month we want to look at cheese and all the possibilities it offers (: I have been having been making some progress with eating and making better decisions where food is concerned. Planning is essential : this type of planning cutting/preprepping veggies, meats and other items that will be used to make meals to cut down on prep time. I stumbled upon this quite by accident I was doing some green leafy veggies and had done too much so I stored if for the next day and thought I am on to something here (: I mean I know it in theory but it really works!!! so thats one tip to share. Cooking and doing different things with the left overs is also a time saver!!!!! fruit and veggies are the food groups I have to work hardest on I mean staples amd food from animail are in abundance!!!! I been thinking about going to the farmers market and may be too about doing smoothies I got a smoothie machine for a wedding gift and may be I have used it a grand total of lemme see????? (: so as always I will keep you posted and lemme know about the cheese!!!

This month

The fruit of the month PINEAPPLE & the vegetable CABBAGE ooooooohhhhh the potential for greatness!!!!! (:

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a reality check

Having a struggle always puts a real perspective on things. As a nutrition professional I can suggest all I want to the client but I believe if i walk through the experience and come out on top then I will be able to give some real life practical suggestions hopefully that work!!!!

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I am having a struggle

I am just about to complete my 6th week at work and I am having alot of issues with my eating pattern. I am a breakfast girl primarily because that is how I was brought up (: breakfast and lunch were a given. So here is whats happening I have to be working at all sorts of crazy hours and I have not been able to sort out the breakfast thing yet........ had a conversation with a few persons including my mum about it and here are some of the possibilities

• Buy a thermos for hot and cold items
• purchase a mix of quick fix items, tuna, eggs, cereal, cheese, peanut butter to keep it interesting and easy
• look for some quick, easy and interesing recipes especially for breakfast and maybe lunch
• prepreparation is also gonna be key!!! no time in the morning so it will have to be the evening or the night before
• excercise even though not food related needs to be added some where in the mix

So I will let you know how that turns out and if you have any suggestions because I know I have not exhausted them plus dem sey two heads better than one (: nuh true!!!! just leave me a holla!!!!

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Friut,Fruit & more fruit

GUINEP
Fruit, good for and filled with so many wonderul nutritents. For starters they are usually fair- good sources of calories due to their natural sugar content; and good to excellent sources of insoluable dietary fibre, various essential macro- and micro- minerals, vitamins and vitamin like factors (Cajanus, The Caribbean Food & Nutrition Institute Quarterly Vol. 39 No. 1 2006). Now I know there are lots of juices and other food items out there that make claims about offering a full or a half serving of fruit, I am not here to dipute that but I would rather eat an orange than drink orange juice or for that matter have any whole fruit and for the reasons metioned in above in Cajanus (fibre, mineral and vitamins).



Here at home there is the tendency I think to think traditonal when it comes to fruit, but guinep, passion fruit, rose apple and hog plum are a few types of fruit that may not come readily to mind but they part of the fruit food group of the Caribbean Food Groups.



What does this mean you can have some guinep and it will count for a serving of fruit so think outside the box it may be cheaper and more exciting to do so.



irie



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Who me????

I was in discussions with one of my mentors/lecturers the other day and the topic of nutrition counselling came up. A very interesting point of if we who are trained and know what to do have such a hard time doing it what more those who do not have the information????? A truer question has not been asked.... what brought me to this today a close friend asked me what I ate today and I told her crackers and cheese (for lunch) to which she replies I cannot tell her any thing about her eating habits again!!!!!

WOW I said but you cannot say that and then I thought why not? I do not have bad eating habits generally but there is room for improvement and so she got me thinking again clean up my own yard and then look to helping others. I need to be an example dont it?

irie

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Juices & Time

Time is what everybody could use more of and what they actually have so little of. In a perfect world we would blend our own natural juices to perfection and store in a cool place until time for consumption nuh true? but alas this is not the case and so a company here in Jamaica had risen to the occasion making some of the juices we would normally reserve for special ocassions or for when a fruit was in season to making them availabe almost year round.

The newest addition to the family of juices is sour sop, the following juices are already in existence

• Cherry (West Indian)
• Mango
• Pineapple
• Otaheite Apple
• June Plum (Golden apple)
• Orange

So I applaude them for taking a step in the right direction....... eating and drinking right is not always easy but making foods available certainly does negate the need for time which seems to be in such short supply.

irie

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