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Saturday, 18 October 2008

Organic Soya Beans are Helping to Maintain the Health and Vitality of Your Family.

Good health and well being are vital if we are to enjoy life to the full and normally, we can expect to maintain our vitality through a balanced lifestyle which includes healthy Organic food, plenty of exercise and lots of rest.

However, there are times when our reserves run low, because of the stresses and strains of daily life, through lack of sleep and regular exercise, or because sometimes we may not eat a balanced diet which contains the vitamins, minerals and nutrients we need.

That’s when Organic Soya products can be an ideal food, helping to maintain vitality and all-round well being without any side effects. Organic Soya products can be mixed with many delicious herbs and fruit juice concentrates and also contain iron (II) B vitamins B1, B2, B6, and B12 (important elements in blood formation) plus vitamin C.

If Organic Soya products are consumed in the daily diet they can help to protect the health of the whole family, from young children to expectant mothers and elderly people.

The gentle, tasty Organic Soya products makes cooking recipes ideal for the whole family, but in particular, the following groups of people will especially benefit.

Women and girls of childbearing age have great demands made on their bodies and iron reserves through hormonal changes, menstruation and sheer hard work! Often, there isn’t time to eat properly, which can result in a feeling of tiredness and being run-down. Organic Soya Milk can really help!

Expectant and recent mothers.

Pregnancy takes huge amounts of energy from a woman’s body, as does breast-feeding and motherhood, so demands on iron and vitamin reserves can be particularly high. Organic Soya products make an ideal iron and vitamin supplement.

Children and Adolescents

The physical and intellectual growth of children consumes the body’s iron rapidly and, given the unsuitable foods that young people often eat these days, an iron supplement can be a very sensible safeguard for good health. And what better choice than Organic Soya Products.

Slimmers and Vegetarians

Slimmers who follow a strict diet may not eat sufficient of the right foods to maintain their iron and vitamin levels, so Organic Soya Products can be very useful in making up the shortfall.

Elderly people can benefit from Organic Soya Products. As many as one in four elderly people suffer from a shorage of iron in the blood, as well as a declining interest in food, so it’s particularly important that older people should ensure a regular intake of iron and vitamins, particularly during convalescence from illness.

Sportsmen and Women.

Athletes make great demands on their bodies so they need extra iron and vitamins. Even those of us who take less demanding levels of exercise require more nutrients to maintain our high energy levels.

All Organic Soya Producers take pride in the cultivation and growing the very finest, purest Organic Soya gathering them from all over the world to create an outstanding range of Organic Soya Products designed to promote good health and good living the natural way.
Organic Soya Producers have a global policy of environmental consciousness, and co-operates with countries worldwide to promote sustainable farming which benefits local people and contributes to a healthier, safer environment.

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Trevor Dalley has been growing and preserving his own fruit for 40 year, most of the preserves are sold in his Organic Farm Shops in Herefordshire England. Did you find those tips on Organic Food a way of Life useful? You can find out more at NEW! Guide to Organic Cooking! - The Healthy Way of Living!

Saturday, 4 October 2008

Home Made Preserves.

With the ever-increasing upward spiral of house hold costs. The highest being utilities. The next not far behind is the food bill and like me with an ever increasing family there is the daily run to the food store for a top-up, which brings us to the question of why not buy fruit and vegetables in bulk at the peak of the season, and when they are at their cheapest.

Buying at this time makes good economical sense but I hear you say most fruit needs to be eaten or it will spoil that is where finding Some Reliable Recipescomes to the forefront.

Home made Preserves are a vital part of modern life, with the higher food and fuel bills it makes sense to put a few items away for that cold snap in January or February when fresh fruit and vegetables are very expensive, my old granny did it in the war time, she kept all her bottled preserves in the air raid shelter.

Here are a few tips and tricks of the trade as told to me by my old Gran many years ago.

Autumn and early winter is the busiest season for the careful home made preserver.
During the autumn the greater part of the preserves and pickles for the whole year are carefully “put up” and placed away on high shelves, until colder weather gives the longing family a good excuse to “put them down.”

There is really no reason for failure with preserves if a trustworthy recipe is carefully followed (recipes can be found at Some Reliable Recipes
Following a good recipe and taking care to use jars that are absolutely airtight.

Be sure that the rubber rings or thermo plastic seals placed under the tops of the jars, still retain their cohesion, for many a delicious can or bottle of fruit has become unfit for use because the sealing ring was so old and stiff that it allowed air to penetrate between the cover and the jar. New ring are very cheap, and if yours show even the least suspicion of outliving their use, by all means purchase a new supply.

Now I can hear you saying why should I go to all this bother when I can buy cheap tins of fruit from the food store, I say, yes you can do that, but, with your own preserves you know exactly what has gone into the tin or bottle. Most canning factories world wide work on a 5 year cycle which means that the can you buy today is probably 4 years old, plus to keep fruit that fresh for so many years the suspension the product is in is usually laced with every Enumber you can imagine.

Preserves should always be kept in a cool and shaded place, and the temperature should be maintained as even as possible.

Great care is taken in the preparation of recipes they are not collected from any available source and placed together helter-skelter, but are carefully tested and proven by use before being presented to you our readers.

The following rules for jelly and preserves are the contribution of experienced moms, grans and sometimes granddads, and if their directions are carefully noted and a good quality fruit used, the result is sure to be successful.

We will start with quite a simple home made preserve: -

Pickled Peaches, (very nice to serve with meats). Take about 10 peaches, brush them to remove the down, or pare and peal if preferred. (Nectarines are not recommended for this recipe) to every pound of peaches allow half a pound of brown sugar.

Make a syrup by adding one half-pink of water to one pound of sugar. Let it boil up once or twice and remove the scum, which rises to clarify it; then add one clove. Boil the peaches in the syrup until tender. Take them out with a skimmer, and put aside until cold place the peaches into the preserving containers, (never, under any circumstances use plastic containers for preserving, the plastic will react with the chemicals in the plastic making process and spoil the preserves).

Now add a pint of vinegar to the syrup, boil for two hours, and when cold pour over the peaches.

Trevor Dalley has been growing and preserving his own fruit for 40 year, most of the preserves are sold in his farm shops in Herefordshire England. Did you find those tips on How to Preserve, Bottle and Season any Food) useful? You can learn a lot more about how to find Some Reliable Recipes and more resources to help, can be located here at 100 Hot Books