Avocado Saver by Evriholder Products

If you love guacomle and avocados then this product will be right up your street.

The Avo Saver Avocado Preserver is a fantastic way to keep your cut avocados fresh. This item has been designed to reduce air getting to a cut avocado therefore it extends the freshness the fruit. To use this handy fruit saver you just simply place a cut avocado with the pit face down onto the base of the Avo Saver, then just secure it using the adjustable strap. A very simple and quick way to save your fruit and money!

This useful little item is top rack dishwasher safe and is available in green. The item measures 8″ tall x 5″ wide.

If you would like to purchase this handy little device then just click here to go to our amazon shop.

Is it time to brighten up your salad recipes which you make? Do you ever use apples in the salads you prepare? If not, why not try this quick free salad recipe below, we guarantee you will love it.

Apple Delight Salad Recipe
(Serves 4)

Ingredients
4 large lettuce leaves
2 large apples (peeled and cubed)
2 stalks of celery (diced)
1 good handful of raisins
1 tablespoon of low fat mayonnaise
1 tablespoon of lemon juice

Method
Combine all ingredients (except for the lettuce leaves) in a large bowl. Place in the fridge until ready to serve. When ready to serve, place lettuce leave on each plate and spoon mixture on. Great as a side dish.

Whatever your preference, here is one smoothie for Christmas you must try. This smoothie is the perfect recipe, especially as we are now leading up to that festive time once again.

Try our spiced apple smoothie recipe today. Let us know your thoughts and if you too think this is the perfect Christmas smoothie recipe.

Sound the Alarm
This is a technique I’ve used with my students for years. During after-school snack time, I sit and talk with them about their day. When I notice one of them is eating a healthy snack, I blurt out, “Ding Ding Ding! Healthy snack alert! Healthy snack alert!” while pointing to the nutritious choice. Like clockwork, the next day’s snack time is filled with kids proudly unveiling their healthy snacks. Some kids can’t wait to show me. Others quietly unwrap their snack with a sly look on their face, knowing they’re about to be praised.

Try this at home with your young children when they independently choose a healthy snack. Use my “Ding Ding Ding!” routine or come up with one of your own. The more fanfare the better!

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What we advise is to start off with a simple smoothie at first, something like the strawberry and banana recipe or maybe the banana baby smoothie recipe.

The trend at the moment seems to be healthy vegetable/fruit smoothies, so if you are feeling adventurous and want to try a vegetable / fruit combination smoothie then why not start off with a cucumber and apple smoothie, this is a refreshing drink and is great served cold.

Let us know how you get on with your smoothies, we always enjoy receiving your emails and comments.

On this recipe site you will find everything listed by main ingredient, for example if you are looking for a chicken recipe or a vegetarian recipe just click on the link on the left and it will then take you to a list of various free recipes.

One of the popular recipes on Quick Free Recipes at the moment is the ‘Peach Passion Dessert‘. This recipe will certainly impress your friends and is quick and easy to prepare and make. This recipe is just one of hundreds of scrumptious, tasty, lick your lips recipes!

So what are you waiting for? Go and have a browse and let us know how you get on.

It didn’t matter what was wrong with me, be it a stomach upset or a rogue spot, the remedy prescribed by Senegalese friends was always the same. Baobab fruit – and lots of it.

Usually it was administered in the form of a Senegalese smoothie, the fruit pulp mixed with water to make what is known in the local Wolof language as bouye. The white drink delivered hints of velvety yoghurt with a flick of tart sherbet to the tongue. And it was not only mighty tasty, it left Western anti-diarrhoea fixes, such as Imodium, lagging and was soon an ever-present item in my fridge.

The baobab fruit has three times as much vitamin C as an orange, 50 per cent more calcium than spinach and is a plentiful source of anti-oxidants, those disease-fighting molecules credited with helping reduce the risk of everything from cancer to heart disease. Until recently, this super-fruit was off limits to British consumers, unless they fancied a shopping trip to Africa. But now the baobab fruit has won approval from EU food regulators, expect it to be winging its way to a supermarket shelf near you.

The baobab tree is an integral part of the African landscape. Nicknamed the “upside-down tree”, it looks like it has been planted on its head, with its roots sticking up into the air to produce a somewhat eerie silhouette.

Bush legends about the baobab abound. One has it that the god Thora took a dislike to the baobab growing in his garden and promptly chucked it over the wall of paradise; it landed below on earth, upside down but still alive, and continued to grow. In another popular myth, the gods get so irritated by the vanity of the baobab, as it tosses it branches, flicks its flowers and brags to other creatures about its superlative beauty, that they uproot it and upend it to teach it a lesson in humility.

Today, many Africans refer to it as the “Tree of Life”, and it’s not hard to see why. With a trunk that can grow up to 15m in circumference, a single tree can hold up to 4,500 litres of water. Fibres from the bark can be turned into rope and cloth; fresh leaves are often eaten to boost the immune system; and some hollowed-out trunks have been used to provide shelter for as many as 40 people. And then, of course, there’s the fruit.

Read the rest of this article from The Independent here.

The fruit, contained in a hard nut, has six times more vitamin C than oranges and twice as much calcium as milk.

African people have eaten the fruit for thousands of years, but Europeans will consume its pulp as an ingredient in smoothies and cereal bars.

Since 1997, foods not commonly consumed in the EU have had to be formally approved before going on sale.

The baobab tree grows throughout certain parts of Africa and has many different uses.

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If it receives approval from the Council of Ministers and European Parliament, the scheme will be offered to member states, including Ireland, later in the year.

The initiative was announced in Brussels yesterday by Mariann Fischer Boel, commissioner for agriculture and rural development, who said the commission wanted to demonstrate it was serious about taking concrete steps to fight obesity.

“Giving kids good habits at an early age is crucial as they will carry these into later life.

“Too many of our children eat far too little fruit and vegetables and often don’t appreciate how delicious they are.

“You only have to walk down any high street in Europe to see the extent of the problems we face with overweight kids.”

She said the scheme would be paid for with EU funds of € 90 million per year, and this would be matched by national funds in the countries that decided to take part in the programme.

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A new study has found that overweight and obese men and women who exercised and followed a healthy diet lost more weight if they kept a diary of what they ate.

Study subjects who kept track of their eating habits actually lost almost twice the weight – an average of 13 pounds – compared to those who did not.

A Canadian weight-loss specialist said the findings prove that one of the key long-term treatments for losing weight is learning how to modify food intake.

“Journaling helps us plot this course,” Dr. Robert Dent, founder of the weight loss clinic at The Ottawa Hospital, said Tuesday in an interview on CTV Newsnet. “So not only does it help us understand how to restrict certain foods, it helps us understand that we can have certain foods in moderation.”

The study was conducted by researchers at Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research in Portland, Ore. The findings will be published in the August edition of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

The study’s 1,700 participants:

• Followed a diet rich in fruits and vegetables and low- or non-fat dairy products.
• Did moderate exercise for 30 minutes a day.
• Attended weekly support meetings.
• Kept a diary outlining the foods they ate and calories they consumed.

In the United States, two out of every three adults is either overweight or obese. The epidemic costs the country’s health-care system about US$93 billion.

Read the rest of this article by CTV’s Joy Malbon in Washingtom here.