20 easy vegetable snacks
Vegetables are the perfect snack food. Including veges as snacks gets you closer...
In season mid-spring: Sage
The scientific name for this slightly bitter herb, Salvia officinalis, comes from the...
In season mid-spring: Broad beans
The hardy broad bean plant can grow through winter to emerge as one...
Don’t die of embarrassment: Bowel cancer screening
Think bowel cancer can’t happen to you – or just don’t want to...
Gardening diary: Early spring
What to do in your garden in early spring.
Planting
While the soil temperature should...
Your guide to chillies
What are chillies?
Chillies are part of the capsicum family. They are readily available...
How do they raise chickens?
HFG senior nutritionist Rose Carr looks at the production of New Zealanders’ most...
In season early spring: Tangelos
A tangelo is a hybrid of any mandarin orange (in the US also...
In season early spring: Parsnips
With their pale, carrot-like appearance, it’s not surprising parsnips are a relative of...
Can you have too much of a good thing?
We all know what’s good – but is more always better? HFG nutritionist...
Metabolic syndrome: Could you have it and not know it?
Nutritionist Bronwen King explains an increasingly common issue that many New Zealanders may...
Eating well at work
Different working situations present different healthy eating challenges. HFG nutritionist Claire Turnbull has...
Kids’ special: Snack attack
What you choose to eat between your main meals can make all the...
Kids’ special: Processed food
Before you eat food, do you ever think about how the food started...
Kids’ special: Dairy delicious
Eating and drinking dairy every day builds your bones. The food group milk...
Kids’ special: Fibre is full on!
When you need something to make you feel full, a food which has...