The holiday season is traditionally a time to get together with your family and friends and celebrate. Everyone has a slightly different routine over the Christmas period, but for most people it involves getting everyone around a table for an enormous meal at some point so you can fill yourself with food and drink. Across the world, Christmas meals vary wildly. You might eat goose, turkey, ham, fish or something completely different. However, they are almost always based around a meat-base...

When people talk about a healthy diet, they quite often mention getting your 'five-a-day'; five portions of different fruits and vegetables each day. This advice is intended to get you to consume a good variety of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients to help keep you in tip-top shape. However, we're here to tell you to ignore this advice. Not because it's wrong - you absolutely should be eating plenty of fruit and veg - but because it doesn't go far enough. If you want a really healthy d...

Lunch can be the most difficult meal of the day when you're working and trying to stay healthy. No matter where your workplace is, the options surrounding you to buy food are likely to be unhealthy. At best, you can get yourself a pre-packaged salad and hope that the dressing isn't loaded with sugar and fat. However, making a healthy meal you can bring from home is just as difficult. Nobody wants to eat the same salad day in, day out, but it can be hard to think of a good, healthy meal you...

When you've got an evening in by yourself, it can be difficult to know what to cook. Food is rarely sold in single portions, and cooking small quantities of some meals can be fiddly. There's no point measuring out a quarter of an onion or 100g of mince, so it can be tempting to overeat. Then there's the allure of ready meals. When you're eating on your own, sometimes going through the process of cooking doesn't seem worth it. It's tempting to either take something home that you can blast i...

We all know that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. A good, protein-led meal when you wake up is the best way of ensuring you have the energy to get through the morning without the urge to snack, and it's a cornerstone of a healthy lifestyle. Whether you're trying to lose weight, supplementing an exercise programme or simply aiming to live a healthier life, a good protein-rich breakfast is the way forwards. With winter drawing closer and the temperature dropping, we thought w...