The OMS Program and Dietary Fats

What does OMS stand for and where does it come from?

OMS stands for Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis. It is a program that focuses on diet and life style. It was designed to help people who suffer from MS improve their health and overall life and in my experience it helps people affected by MS take an active part in dealing with the illness and give them a measure of self-control and self-responsibility. The program was developed by Prof. George Jelinek and is based thorough, medical research. The OMS program was first published as a book Overcoming Multiple Sclerosis by Professor Jelinek. The OMS program has since grown into a charitable organisation with the aim to promote and make the recovery program available to the 2.5 million people with MS around the world. The link to their website is here. read more

Healthy Fish Recipe – Stew of Mussels, Cod and Spinach – this weeks Lotte Wild Cookbook featured recipe

Healthy Fish Recipe

Healthy food is food made from healthy, fresh ingredients and cooked in a manner that preserves the nutrients and healthy components of the food. You can have really healthy ingredients but if you let’s say fry them to a crisp, you will remove not only healthy components like vitamins etc. you might even turn them into something very unhealthy by altering the chemical composition or adding unhealthy trans-fats, too much salt, sugar or refined carbohydrates.

Healthy Fish

Fish and seafood is a wonderful ingredients for all kinds of simple as well as fancy dinners. Sourcing fresh fish and seafood can be a bit of a challenge if you don’t live near the sea. The best place to buy fish is from a fish monger. Other good place to find fresh fish is at your local market. You are most likely to find fish that is fresh and in season in those two places. Local means it hasn’t traveled for hundreds of miles and/or days to get to you. If you are lucky enough to be living at the sea you might be able to buy your fish directly off the fishing boats in your local harbour. If that isn’t available to you, you can also buy frozen fish. Fish is best defrosted at room temperature and cooked as soon as it has thawed. read more

Vegan Gluten Free Chickpea Burgers with Fat Free Fries Recipe

How do you make a burger a fully paid-up member of the healthy diet club?

A barbecue without a burger is hard to imagine. Once you’ve tasted this vegan gluten free chickpea burger you’ll will always include them in your barbecues in future.

I believe the origin on the burger was the German immigrant population to the U.S. They cooked what was basically a fried meatball (In Berlin they call them Bouletten, or Frikadellen in other parts of Germany) which gradually blossomed into the king of the barbecue as we know it today. In the traditional recipes a mix of pork and beef are mixed with an egg, spices, onions and a stale bread roll soaked in water. read more

Easy Gluten Free Focaccia Bread Recipe

High gluten and gluten free Focaccia Bread

Focaccia is a traditional flat oven-baked Italian bread. It is seasoned with olive oil and sometimes contains vegetables such as tomatoes, zucchinis, peppers,onions, aubergines or olives. Often it’s topped with salt and spices or fresh herbs. It is a very versatile and popular bread and can be served as a side dish to a meal, on its own or with a selection of dips and spreads and also makes a great bread for sandwiches. Because the dough of focaccia is very similar to pizza dough it is also used as a thick-base pizza dough in places. read more

Gluten Free Vegan Pizza Recipe

Are you looking for gluten free vegan pizza recipe?

This is the easiest gluten free vegan pizza recipe I know. I love pizza and I don’t mean just eating it. Making pizza is fun and making it from fresh good quality ingredients makes all the difference to it’s flavour. Making gluten free pizza without any dairy products or cheese substitutes seemed a bit of a challenge at first. It turned out to be the opposite! Making gluten free pizza its just as simple as making pizza with the traditional wheat based flour. The gluten free base is crispy but not hard like so many of the recipes out there. You can also make a deep dish pizza with the base. Simply place the dough into a deep silicone dish and proceed following the instructions below. read more