If you’re trying to watch what you eat, or your doctor has put you on a diet, you know what it’s like to struggle with gnawing hunger even though you’re all out of calories for the day. Sure, chugging a few glasses of water and going to bed may help keep you from raiding the fridge before the sun comes up, but being hungry still sucks. Thankfully, the blog Syatt Fitness has a solid list of foods you can eat and enjoy even if you’re counting calories.
If you love chocolate milk or stirring a little bit of chocolate flavour into your coffee, there’s no reason to buy an overpriced box of desiccated powder. You can make your own cocoa mix at home, ready for mixing, with higher quality cocoa. Here’s how.
While many of us create obsessive shopping lists or flip through entire cookbooks to make a good meal, it may be simpler to rely on a standard template and basic cooking instincts.
Many of the cooking methods to extract maximum flavour, such as slow roasting or slow cooking, are, well, slow. If you don’t have time for that, you can still make your dishes as flavorful as possible with a few cooking tricks, including frying your spices.
Both chefs and grandmothers have said for generations that we eat with our eyes first — if a meal looks delicious, you’ll enjoy it even more. Scientific studies have said the same thing, but now science explains why good-looking food — or even images of good-looking food — can make bland or otherwise subpar dishes taste better and feel more satisfying, just in time for you to hack your next diet meal.
Greek yoghurt is thicker and creamier than conventional yogurt — and pricier as well. Save some money by making your own version simply by straining regular yogurt through coffee filters.
We’ve shown you how you can freeze herbs in ice for infused cold drinks. If you want another option for your latest herb harvest, try infusing them in simple syrups to give everything from iced tea and lemonade to cocktails and mocktails a tasty, flavourful twist.
If you keep your cooking knives in a drawer with the rest of your utensils, you may be doing some serious damage to them — partially because they’re rattling around in there and bumping up against other utensils, and partially because they’re running into corners and the sides of your cabinets. In addition to keeping them sharp and well-honed, getting them out of that cabinet will drastically improve their longevity.
If you don’t have a reusable steaming basket in your kitchen, but you do have a few disposable plates at hand, this DIY steaming basket is easy to make and gets the job done just as well without cluttering up your kitchen with another gadget.
Egg rings work very well for making breakfast sandwiches, but why spend money on commercial egg rings if you already have jars with lids?
