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Smorgasbord Health with Sally Cronin and Carol Taylor – Cook from Scratch to prevent nutritional deficiency – Vitamin B1 – Wholegrains, Mackeral, Pork, Pineapple, Eggs, Asparagus

Variety is key to good health, to provide your body with as broad a spectrum of nutrients as possible that the body needs. Taking a supplement or relying on shakes and bars to provide your daily allowance of vitamins and nutrients is not in your body’s best interest. Giving it foods that the body can process and extract everything it needs is vital.

Today it’s...Vitamin B1- Thiamin

Vitamin B1 (Thiamin) is a water-soluble vitamin. This means that along with the other B vitamins and Vitamin C it travels through the bloodstream and any excess is eliminated in our urine. The body cannot store thiamin but it is found in tissues within the body such as in the liver, heart, kidneys and the nervous system where it binds to enzymes.

This does mean that these types of vitamins need to be replaced from our food continuously.

For a breakdown of Vitamin B1 and recipes please follow the link below…

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Smorgasbord Health with Sally Cronin and Carol Taylor – Cook from Scratch to prevent nutritional deficiency – Vitamin A – Carrots, Liver, Apricots, Trout. Eggs, Frittata

Welcome to the rewind of this series from 2019 where we look at cooking and your diet from a different perspective. Usually, we emphasize the health benefits of food and how they can be incorporated into your diet. But, what happens if you do NOT include them in your diet.

We wanted to share with you what happens if your body is deprived of individual nutrients over an extended period of time.

Thankfully most of us eat reasonably well, with plenty of variety, but if you take a look at a week’s worth of meals, do you find that you are sticking to a handful of foods, all the time.

Sally will be giving you all information on Vitamin A and what an important part it plays in our diet for our health and wellbeing…I enjoyed finding recipes that included Vitamin A…

Best food sources for Vitamin A – The most abundant source of the vitamin is found:

  • liver,
  • fish liver oils,
  • grass-fed dairy butter,(cattle’s natural food is grass, not grain or corn)
  • cheese,
  • free-range eggs
  • oily fish.

These are just a few examples please click the link below to read the original post…

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Smorgasbord Health Column – Food Therapy -Aubergines -Don’t forget to eat your purples! by Sally Cronin

Don’t forget to eat your purples and now I have found purple carrots and purple sweet potatoes I am loving my purples…The goodness in eggplants/aubergines is a given …There is lots of good information here about the benefits of eating the eggplant from Sally….#recommended read and then just click the link for lots of great recipes…Enjoy and be healthy …Love y’all xx

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As a follow on from the recent series on the Weekly Grocery Shopping List of foods that contain the nutrients the body needs I am going to repeat my series from 2017 on the health benefits of some of our most common foods.

Food therapy is a broad term for the benefits to the body of a healthy, varied and nutritional diet of fresh foods.

Most of us walk through the fresh produce departments of our supermarkets without really paying much attention to the individual fruits and vegetables. This is a great pity because the vast majority of these foods have been cultivated for thousands of years, not only for their nutritional value but also for their medicinal properties. If you eat a healthy diet you are effectively practicing preventative medicine. A robust immune system, not only attacks external opportunistic pathogens, but also works to  prevent rogue cells in the…

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Time for part 4 of Sally’s fabulous new series shopping by Nutrient…There are times in all of our lives when we may have been lacking in iron, Vit C anything and we may have been at a loss as to what we can eat instead of popping a pill…

Sally had done all the work for you, easy to read and all ingredients which most of us buy anyway…Do pop over and have read…

 

via Smorgasbord Health Column – Weekly Grocery Shopping List by Nutrient – Part Four – Phosphorus to Zinc

CarolCooks2…Weekly roundup the 9th- 15th December 2019…

Welcome to this week’s roundup and do I have some goodies for you…Lots of things going on in and around the world…Some of this you will find here so take a well-earned pew, grab a drink and enjoy the read…

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Monday…The latest news on recycling and climate change…

I love that around the world much is going on to minimize rubbish and clean up the world…But Christmas is coming…

How much extra waste do you think will be generated around the world over Christmas and the New Year?… What can we do to minimise this waste?

Remember the 3 R’s…Recycle, Reduce and Re-use…Wrapping paper is a great example…

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Habits are learned...That is a proven fact…Please show your creativity especially to the young ones …Get them to help…Teach them …

Try using colorful pages torn from magazines to wrap small gifts, and old maps or the Sunday comics for larger boxes.

Use reusable decorative tins, baskets or boxes…

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Tuesdays...Time to pickle…Cabbage, eggplant, beets and watermelon rinds…

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Someone commented that I was the pickle queen…I don’t know about that but I do make a lot of pickles…I am also saving my pickle juice to put in my Christmas Bloody Mary(s)

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Wednesday…Whimsical Wednesday…with Carol…

Whimsical Wednesdays where I unashamedly indulge myself…I do hope you enjoy my meanderings today…Come with me and let’s begin…These posts are never planned… if I come across anything which I love or which tugs at my heartstrings then I save it for Whimsical Wednesdays… the rest just happens…It is wherever my thoughts take me at that time…Mainly they are random and unplanned…I mean they are the best thoughts…Enjoy! xxx

Christmas…gaining momentum…In our house, the tree is up…and so were the scales yesterday morning…3lb…Guess who gave themselves a big talking too…Yep…Moi…I have been cold I mean for me 9 degrees is cold aka freezing… Cardi weather…That was last week …I am happy to report the 3lbs have gone and I am now warm the temperatures are rising…

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Wednesday…Also saw me over @Sally’s where Cranberries were the star…Not only are they very healthy as Sally will reveal to you but they are awesome to cook with and make a wicked cocktail…A very healthy and versatile little berry…

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Thursday…Christmas…’ Tis the season of love and laughter…Have you chased the Green Fairy?

Chrismas is in my soul and I hope that I can share some of the magic I have always felt at Christmas time with you and of course make you remember and smile…

Christmas is about memories, isn’t it? Old and new ones they all add something…

I am still waiting for some images of Christmas jumpers or have you read what I read and how they are not very environmentally friendly???

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Friday…Christmas…In my house…Traditions, Treats and a touch of Trivia…

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Saturday…

Saturday was meant to be my homemade sweet days …my disaster put me off a bit so I made another Christmas cake instead…I had lots of fruit to use and thought I would make one for my neighbours they love mince pies so I am sure they will love cake…

Sunday…Time to think of our pets…

I always cook Saangchais food fresh and Thai dogs eat rice not dried food etc so I just cook extra for him when I cook our rice…Sally posted a lovely post about what we shouldn’t feed our pets but also some great ideas on what we can feed them…Aptly titled What about Us?

Lily will be pleased as there was also a recipe for treats so she will love to make them for Saangchai…

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Christmas is also the time to think of those for whom Christmas can be a sad time …which is why when Sally asked for festive stories I penned Snow Storm…I hope you enjoy it as I am not an experienced writer and quite unsure of myself…My blog may make me seem confident but writing a story or a novel is another ball game…

It is for me anyway …I do hope that you enjoy my not so festive story but hear the meaning behind it and think of anyone that you know who may just feel a little better for a kind word or a cuddle at this time of year when their memories are sad ones…

Thank you, Sally, for sharing Snow Storm…xxx

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That’s all for now ..Enjoy your weekend xxx

Lastly, remember not everyone is fortunate and some people dread this time of year be aware and if you can add a little cheer please share your joy but also remember the other 364 days of the year pass your smile around and be kind… 

About Carol Taylor: Enjoying life in The Land Of Smiles I am having so much fun researching, finding new, authentic recipes both Thai and International to share with you. New recipes gleaned from those who I have met on my travels or are just passing through and stopped for a while. I hope you enjoy them.

I love shopping at the local markets, finding fresh, natural ingredients, new strange fruits and vegetable ones I have never seen or cooked with. I am generally the only European person and attract much attention and I love to try what I am offered and when I smile and say Aroy or Saab as it is here in the north I am met with much smiling.

Some of my recipes may not be in line with traditional ingredients and methods of cooking but are recipes I know and have become to love and maybe if you dare to try you will too. You will always get more than just a recipe from me as I love to research and find out what other properties the ingredients I use contain to improve our health and wellbeing.

Exciting for me hence the title of my blog, Retired No One Told Me! I am having a wonderful ride and don’t want to get off, so if you wish to follow me on my adventures, then welcome! I hope you enjoy the ride also and if it encourages you to take a step into the unknown or untried, you know you want to…….Then, I will be happy!

Thank you once again for reading this post I hope you all have a great weekend 🙂 xx

Smorgasbord Health – Christmas Cook From Scratch – Sally Cronin and Carol Taylor – Perfect and Healthy Brussel Sprouts

Awww Brussel Sprouts love them or hate them…I am in the love them camp… they always bring a lovely memory of my dad to mind as one of the last Christmas he spent with us he sat at the table saying “Love Brussels, must eat my Brussels ..repeated a few times over we were all in fits of laughter and it always makes us remember him with much love he made us smile ..Enjoy your Brussels daddy I am sure you have converted them all up there 🙂 xx

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It is that time of year when we bring out the decorations and over here – The Cook from Scratch Christmas recipes... I look at the health benefits of the food.. and my friend Carol Taylorturns them into something delicious the whole family will love.

Brussel sprouts are not necessarily the most asked for vegetable by children as they do have a slightly bitter taste (actually the healthy element of the Brussels), but if you prepare them following Carol’s guidance, they should be a hit with all the family.

At this time of year they are readily available in the stores and are a wonderful side dish for Turkey on Thanksgiving or Christmas dinner.

Variety is the spice of life….and our bodies need a wide variety of foods to extract all the nutrients it needs to be healthy.

We are just coming into the Brussel sprout season and…

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