LiveLighter Blog
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Snack plate dinners for those days you don’t feel like cooking
- Feb 05, 2024
- by Gael Myers
Sometimes, life happens, and we don’t always have the energy or time to make a capital m ‘Meal’. While the dinner purists may turn up their nose at the idea of an odds and ends snack plate, I would like to sing its praises.
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Eat well for less: Tasty dinner recipes for less than $3 a plate
- Jun 02, 2023
- by Gael Myers
Help your food budget go further with these tasty meal ideas that come in at under $3 per person.
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Pass the salt: LiveLighter’s top tips to reduce your sodium intake
- Mar 29, 2023
- by LiveLighter
Found in salt, sodium is a mineral that our bodies need to regulate healthy blood circulation, muscle and nerve function, and to balance fluids. But we need to be careful about how much we consume.
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The best eggs you'll eat this Easter
- Mar 27, 2023
- by Anne Finch
As Easter chocolate starts to find its way into our homes and workplaces, LiveLighter dietitian Anne Finch recommends we embrace a different sort of egg – the chicken kind.
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Summertime is salad time!
- Jan 30, 2023
- by Jenny Atkins
It’s summer and it’s hot! So, now is the perfect time to eat all things cold including delicious summer salads packed full of fresh, seasonal fruit and vegies.
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A quick fix: Staple meals to get you through a busy week
- Apr 08, 2022
- by Alison McAleese
Creating a shopping and dinner plan is a great way to ensure you stick to your weekly food budget and eat a variety of healthy foods, but we all have times where schedules go out the window and meal planning gets forgotten. Here are 6 recipes to get you through the week, as well as some helpful tips to make these meals work for you.
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Making do for dinner
- Mar 01, 2022
- by Anne Finch
The current shortages in WA supermarkets is not only making it difficult to find many of our usual items, it can also mean less chance to shop the specials to keep our food budget down. With many of us feeling the pinch, we're sharing some tips to eat well during these tough times.
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Night shift nosh
- Jun 21, 2021
- by Anne Finch
Taking care of your health when you regularly work the graveyard shift can be a challenge. Night shift messes with your sleep, metabolism and digestion. Here are some practical tips to help you eat well and be active on shift.
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Fast not flash
- Apr 04, 2021
- by Gael Myers
Cooking healthy and tasty homemade meals doesn’t have to be difficult or time consuming. Here are some of our “real life” tested tips to make mid-week meals that are ready in a flash.
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Takeaway makeovers
- Mar 28, 2021
- by Gael Myers
Many takeaway favourites are packed full of cheap ingredients like added sugar, saturated fat and salt. These can leave us hungry and don’t provide the nutrients we need to keep our bodies running smoothly. Skip the junk and enjoy all your fast food faves by giving them a healthy home-cooked twist.