Healthy Food Guide

Healthy Food Guide is a monthly magazine that makes it easy for anyone to make healthy eating choices. Every issue contains practical advice from expert dieticians and nutritionists, dozens of tips and ideas to help consumers and those with special diets choose the right products at the supermarket. Plus a month’s worth of healthy recipes, all with a complete nutritional analysis showing kilojoules, fat, protein, carbohydrate, sodium and more.

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Healthy Food Guide

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Ask the expert… Claire Turnbull

news bites • STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE LATEST IN HEALTH NEWS AND PRACTICAL LIVING TIPS.

Just two changes!

Change your relationship with food • Fed up with dieting or thinking of certain foods as ‘the enemy’? There’s another way to relate to food — and research shows it delivers some surprising health benefits. Welcome to intuitive eating.

Postbiotics WHAT THEY ARE & HOW THEY AFFECT YOUR GUT HEALTH • Prebiotics and probiotics are now well known for their role in keeping our friendly gut bacteria happy. But what about the lesser known ‘postbiotics’ they produce? We dig deeper into gut health.

How to ease arthritis • There’s no telling whom arthritis might affect — but our diet and behaviour can help us manage the symptoms and reduce the pain. HFG shows you how.

Boost YOUR plant-based cooking • Incorporate these eight versatile ingredients into your weekly shop to take your cooking to new heights and boost your plant-based nutrition.

Yep, you’ve got it!

5 pm VIP veg special panic! • Whip up veg-packed, no-meat meals that are tasty, cheap and ready in 20–30 minutes.

Kids can cook! • These easy recipes are a breeze for the kids to whip up, and heathy enough for the whole family.

Burger with the lot! • Tuck into our healthier version of a burger with melted cheese and classic beetroot, plus fibre-filled sweet potato wedges. Yum!

For the fun of it! • Transport your tastebuds with a Greek twist, an Asian whirl and a watermelon salad.

Allergy- friendly lunchbox • Send your kids off to school safely with these nut, dairy and egg-free packed lunch solutions.

Pantry staple winners • Healthy eating doesn’t have to be complicated with these mouth-watering dinners using common ingredients from your kitchen.

Vegie good cake • They look like cakes and taste like cakes — but they’re full of vegie goodness hidden inside.

Stop and smell the ... coffee

shopping news • Our dietitian scours the shelves to find the tastiest, healthy foods in-store now.

YOUR GUIDE TO Bagged salads • How healthy are bagged salads? Healthy Food Guide tosses the pros and cons of ready-made salad mixes.

NUT-FREE KIDS, SNACKS • School’s back! Your littley will love this list of nut-free, dietitian-approved tucker.

HOW MUCH sugar IN sauces & condiments? • Nutritious flavour boost or sugar bomb? Here’s how to spot the saucy sweet stuff on the shelf.

10 ways with capsicum • Capsi-yum! Here’s how to love these red, yellow and green all-rounders.

Your MEAT-FREE meal plan • You’ll love this delicious plant-packed menu!

How much do I need to eat? • Every recipe in HFG is nutritionally analysed so you can devise a daily meal plan that falls within the recommended nutrition intake guidelines (see table below).

References

10 THINGS WE learnt... • Even after 17 years of bringing you credible, science-backed health and nutrition advice, the team at Healthy Food Guide learns something new each issue.

WHAT OUR RECIPE BADGES MEAN