Healthy or Unhealthy

All food is healthy! What is unhealthy is the way it's cooked and the quantities consumed. We can have our chips and cream cakes ... just not every day. Balance is the key – as long as we treat our diets sensibly, try not to overeat and keep walking the dog, we'll all be just dandy.

Sows Ears into Silk Purses

'Cheffy' advice is always to use the best, freshest ingredients. You hear this on all the food programmes and read it in the many magazines, and nobody could possibly argue against it, could they? Well you could if your purse is all but empty and you don't know your stockpot from your elbow. I've been pretty strapped for cash at times and came to regard it as a bit of a challenge to produce a good satisfying meal from the most basic materials. With a little know-how, so can anybody!