Malt & Salt

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Tag replies

I clearly don't check this blog as frequently as I ought to.

Anywayyyyyyy

Angeline: Some vegetarians don't eat garlic and onion due to religious reasons (Buddhists, I think). Cos apparently they think the 2 veggies are strongly flavoured and tend to 'excite the senses' which is... not favoured. According to wikipedia.

Melvin: Find the answer here. Google's your best friend :D

Hafiz: You were almost right. It's OVOLACTO-vegetarian.

Vivian: The following peektures are real and entirely unphotoshopped.

Labels: Questions

by Ms Lim HM @ 5:12 AM - 0 comments

Sunday, July 19, 2009

New to cross-stitching?

Here's how!

http://www.wikihow.com/Cross-Stitch (complete with step-by-step guide and video tutorial)

Labels: Craft, Cross-stitching

by Ms Lim HM @ 4:27 PM - 0 comments

Monday, July 6, 2009

The Vegetarian Diet Pyramid

We have seen the SG Healthy diet pyramid as well as a similar version from the USA. Both versions have something in common, which is the inclusion of meat-related food products.

Just to add some variety to the food pyramid that we are so familiar with by now, here's an atypical one that has been tailored to suit the needs of vegetarians.

Notice the differences?

A typical vegetarian's diet is high in dietary fibre. Due to the low biological value of plant proteins (in comparison to animal proteins), vegetarians are advised to consume a larger amount of legumes which would have been classified under 'Meat & alternatives' in usual HDP. Therefore, you can see that portions for 'whole grains' and 'legumes' are about the same size as represented graphically in the vegetarian diet pyramid.

Eating too much foods rich in saturated fats and cholesterol (e.g. seafood, meat products) can increase the risk of heart diseases, stroke and some cancers. You may want to know that plant foods are essentially free of cholesterol, so there are indeed some incentives to adopting a rabbit's diet!

Labels: Healthy Diet Pyramid, Nutrition, Vegetarian

by Ms Lim HM @ 5:48 PM - 0 comments

Hello world

This blog is set up to facilitate the teaching of Home Ec lessons in the classroom. Occasionally, I may include information that are interesting for you to know as there is a lotttttt moreeeee to the world of food than you can ever imagine.

You may also post questions in the tagboard and I will find the answers to them :)

This space is kinda empty for now... check back for new info soon!

Labels: Random

by Ms Lim HM @ 7:20 AM - 0 comments