The Italians don’t just do fast cars. Folding a spoonful of pesto through a bowl of fresh pasta can take your meal from 0 to 60 in under 5 seconds. — I don’t know when pesto first appeared in my world. I certainly don’t remember it as a child or even in my student days when it would surely have been an absolute staple. But since the kids were small there has always been a little green jar inside the fridge…

With elections every 4 or 5 years the governing party has no interest in passing any legislation which may inflict short-term pain on the electorate. — 1. The Power of the Food Industry Obesity is caused, in large part, by the over-consumption of cheap, nutritionally poor foodstuffs. The huge costs associated with this consumption are not borne by the producer and so are not represented in the price. …

With the price of groceries going through the roof, now is the time to invest in a tastier, more nutritious breakfast and save some cash while you’re at it. — My wife eats muesli every weekday morning and the kids eat it too if I hold a gun to their heads (or when the bread bin runs dry). …

At least we were only expected to eat Crunchie Bars on a Friday. It’s amusing to look back at advertising slogans from the 1990s but it would be so much funnier if we weren’t still buying the products. What do we believe in 2022? — In 1990 we might be forgiven for buying Mars Bars — we were being told they would provide benefits to so many areas of our lives — work, rest, play. It was easy to justify eating them. But times have changed — obesity in the UK has more than doubled…

Over the space of a few decades, traditional eating habits developed over thousands of years, have been largely obliterated. What we now consider to be cultural norms have, in historical terms, existed for about as long as a cosmic fart. — Surely only a cerealist dictator could have achieved the sweeping cultural transformation that General Secretary Kellogg has performed on our poor breakfast table.

A good slaw is so much more than shredded vegetables drenched in mayo and the fibre and vinegar in this super-tasty recipe make it excellent for controlling your blood sugar too. — After several weeks of using a continuous glucose monitor, I am hooked on the importance of controlling blood sugar for weight control and general health. Spikes in blood sugar often mean corresponding dips which cause food cravings and a rollercoaster effect leading to a lack of control over what you…

By increasing our consumption of fibre we can counteract some of the adverse effects the modern diet is having on blood glucose levels which are contributing to obesity and Type II diabetes. — Obesity is a puzzle, but the more I experiment with my diet the more I’m starting to realise what an important role fibre plays. “The good food we’ve stopped eating may be as important as the rubbish we’ve started eating.”