The Healthy Eating Guide

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I’m a great believer in Breakfast – if you start the day off properly with a well balanced meal, you seem to function better all day – and your body is better for it too.  Trying to do a day’s work on an empty stomach is really not sensible, you soon find yourself flagging and unable to function properly.  During the working week we tend to breakfast on the run but at weekends when you have a little more time, you can do something a little more special.

This baked egg dish is a real favourite of my family, either just as it is or if we are promoting it to ‘Brunch’ after a long lie in perhaps, I might add some crisply grilled lean bacon, or maybe some fresh muffins.  I like to use Tarragon but you can substitute any favourite herb.

Serves 4

Ingredients:-

2 tsp olive oil
4 ozs (100 gms) sliced mushrooms
2 large ripe tomatoes – chopped
1 – 2 tbsp chopped fresh Tarragon (2tsps if using dried)
4 eggs
Black Pepper to taste

Warm the oil in a pan and gently cook the mushrooms for two or three minutes.
Add the tomatoes, tarragon and pepper and remove from the heat
Pour everything into an oven proof dish and make 4 hollows in the mixture
Break an Egg into each hollow
Put the dish into a large roasting tin with sufficient hot water to come half way up the sides of the oven proof dish
Bake at 180C, 350F or Gas mark 4 for about 10 minutes or until the eggs are cooked toyour taste.
Serve!

There has been a great deal in the newspapers, on TV and Radio this week about Vitamins and Supplements and the potential damage they can do. I am not a Doctor, however I like to think I am a woman of reasonable intelligence and common sense.

This is my ‘common sense’ view on the topic which is raging all around us at the moment. If you have a healthy, balanced diet - why do you need supplements? I fully accept that there are some times in life when, following illness or as a result of certain health conditions your body might need some support, but surely not all the time. The human body does not hold vast reserves of vitamins and you should get all you need if you ensure that you have a diet that includes all the food groups. Anthing else is a waste of money and a strain on your body to process it.
It strikes me that we often take the ‘pop a pill’ approach to good nutrition because we are aware that we eat too many junk foods that we know are not good - we use them as an antidote. To eat a healthy diet is not difficult - even if you are not the greatest cook in the world, or are pushed for time - there are plenty of healthy and nutritious ready prepared foods available now, and they are a lot less expensive than vast quantities of unnecessary pills