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14 easy AND healthy snacks

14 easy AND healthy snacks

Most modern-day snacks are a nutrition disaster and one of the main reasons why many of us are gaining too much weight. We graze, but not on anything healthy and not on anything moderate in portion size either. So should you cut out all between-meal snacks? Or should you make the snacks you eat better for you?

21 February 2018 by Catherine Saxelby

What is your relationship with food and eating?

7 good reasons NOT to eat chips

Many people know that chips – whether potato crisps or corn tortilla triangles - are a discretionary food, only to be eaten...

9 August 2017 by Catherine Saxelby

What is your relationship with food and eating?

Discretionary foods – what the heck are they?

Discretionary foods are often called ‘junk foods’or ‘treat foods’. However, I prefer to call them, ‘sometimes foods’. You...

2 November 2016 by Guest post

September 2016 Foodwatch Newsletter - Got a chip craving?

September 2016 Foodwatch Newsletter - Got a chip craving?

Many people crave chips - be they potato, corn or the new-fangled lentil and chickpea ones. In the interests of helping you find...

27 September 2016 by Catherine Saxelby

Product Snapshot: Ocean Spray Reduced Sugar Craisins

Product Snapshot: Ocean Spray Reduced Sugar Craisins

Dried cranberries are a great tart addition to salads, biscuits, muesli bars and trail mix. However, unlike other dried fruit (think...

13 April 2016 by Guest reviewer

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Health Halo overload

I’ve never seen so many nutrition claims on one pack before! Here in my hand is a bag of corn chips that has just about every...

10 February 2016 by Catherine Saxelby

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