Fresh Fruit - Eating Healthy

Fresh Fruit Eating Healthy

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Making smart choices and nourishing your body with fresh fruit is a sure fire way to ensure a healthy glow and being prepared for your day. The latest research suggests that keeping things simple and within reach of your daily routine makes all the difference. Not having fresh fruit around the house means you are less likely to actually eat it. Same goes with frozen berries and the like - if you have it on hand in a convenient, easy to eat format, you will be more likely to make it a part of your diet.

From choosing the right snacks to making sure you have easy access to a reliable fail safe breakfast in a hurry, get prepared for a fresh healthy diet is not all that hard. First, be accountable – remember that you are responsible for your own eating habits and circumstances.

Looking and feeling great is all about delicious nutritious food – how can you expect to feel your best eating preservatives and old frozen food?

Here's a list of suggestions of handy do's and don'ts to ensure you can make an effortless transition away from processed foods and towards healthy lifestyles. An example is a great fresh fruit basket - which makes a simple gift for delivery to hospital for a recovering friend.

Let's start with a simple meal – for dinner try a fresh piece of salmon on a sweet potato mash with crisp broccoli – simple, colourful food with minimal cooking and maximum freshness and taste.

Next, for a reliable go to drinking snack – nothing beats the old smoothie – built on a handful of ice cubes with yogurt, berries and milk and maybe cinnamon or some vanilla. Simple, filling and easy to digest.

Skip trans fats – there is no use eating oxidized oils like you most likely find in junk foods – highly processed foods and food with long storage times. Trans fats lead to inflammatory reponses in the body and this hinders many natural bodily processes.

Give Sugar a miss - it's quite simple to lessen your sugar intake - don't buy chocolate in big family size blocks for starters - or add sugar to your tea or coffee.

"There's an incredible variety of fresh sweetener options out there today," advises Jenny McCleo, nutritionist, "If you can shift your aim towards natvia based sweeteners you are certainly moving in the right direction."

Whist we a talking about moving - it's important to remember the power of exercise to kickstart your body. Moving in a way that challenges your breathing is ideal, so you actually get a bit puffed at some stage, makes for a great way to give you body a morning "hello!"

Exercise also helps your digestive sytem kick into gear, and helps relieve muscle aches, stomach blockages and keep your bowel regular. In all, keeping a healthy lifestyle and the amazing benefits of fruit gifts delivery makes for compelling reasons to consider slight alterations to our lifestyle.

Coeliac Friendly Christmas 2013

Sending a Fruit Basket is a perfect Christmas Food Gift

WHEN YOU LIVE with Coeliacs or crave a gluten free lifestyle there is no limit on the style and variety of Christmas Gifts and Presents you can share - food related gifts are definitely not off limits.  Thinking of making living with the gluten free diet easier, we have compiled a list of items and accessories that make Christmas as much a time for sharing and giving for people with Coeliacs as any other occasion.

Looking for a great Christmas Gift Ideas list is made simple and terribly efficient when you scan the ideas for Christmas 2013.

Gluten Free Hints and Tips For the Holiday Season

 One of the failsafe methods is to eat before you go to the party, and simply avoid eating any food provided when you are entertaining at the party. This is an easy solution, although it frequently provokes annoying questions — and often some unwanted pressure, as well — from other party-goers ("Surely just a little bit of this won't hurt you!").

Despite their rudeness, they just want you to be part of the celebration, so you may have to forgive them for being over excited.  Also, be wary if you are presented with any food  made "specially gluten free for you" - it probably isn't and you'll feel sick the next day.  Either politely decline, or accept it and dump it in a pot plant when they are not looking.

Have a Merry Christmas and Enjoy yourself.

Gluten Free Christmas Presents 2013

Christmas in December

Short term planning leading up to Christmas is all about suitable storage – if you are fortunate enough to source some discount liquor, wine, beer, sparkling wine or soft drinks that is all well and good so long as you are able to store it effectively. 

Remember, keeping your drinks in a cool ambient temperature means less energy costs bringing them down to refrigeration temperatures closer to Christmas. 

Another novel approach is to buy your drinks at the discount prices and have the store hold them until closer to the day, or even to have them delivered to your home on Christmas Eve.

Gluten Free Food Handling

Pay attention to your kitchen tools and utensils – having your carving knife professionally sharpened is a good idea as blunt knives pose a safety risk. 

Take a moment to ensure your frozen birds fit comfortably into your baking dish, and if you need a bigger dish take advantage of disposable aluminium trays – they are great on Christmas Day as you simply fold it in on itself and pop it into the recycling bin.  Chopping boards are also in heavy demand on Christmas Eve and through to the New Year – again, it can be really helpful to buy some vinyl boards of different colours to avoid cross contamination when handling the food.

Making a Christmas Wreath

Embellish a classic Christmas Wreath with a center setting of white candles to complete your Season's Greeting table setting.

After you have bought your wreath (buy one from a flower shop to make the most impact - it is truly spectacular to have a professionally made item adorning your table) source seven clean glass jars and seven tall white candles.

Melt the end of the candle into the jar, and place artistically around the wreath.  Light the candles as your guests arrive for their gluten free Christmas Dinner.

Making Gluten Free Choices Easier

We all know how infuriating it can be turning up at an event or reception and there has been no provision made for GF friendly foods.  We are stuck and left with the idea that if we haven't planned for the worst and brought our own food prepared along, there might be a time where we don't get to eat at all.

Just a tip is to gently make the host aware that there will be GF people along at that you would be grateful if they could consider your needs.  Makes such a difference if you have some GF options outside of carrot sticks!

Gluten Free Designer

Split testing is a measureable way of keeping tabs on your website and proving whether certain approaches to marketing and promotions are effective. 

At Newcastle Fruit Baskets, we like to test your site so it does not become a “Billboard in the Desert” with a single lost traveller stumbling by each week – which is nice and pretty but not much use in raking in extra turnover.  You want visitors, converted into customers so each morning when you check your email you have a few nice paypal payments and some orders to ship.