Cooking principles

Get to grips with the fundamental principles to make cooking well-balanced, tasty meals a fun, fast and intuitive process.

The 'eat like a bear’ healthy eating formula

Eating healthily has become vastly over complicated. We need to go back to basics. Based on robust evidence we’ve simplified it down to four main elements: pulses, whole grains, fruit and veg, seeds and nuts. That’s it. Meat, fish and dairy can be added in smaller quantities for flavour rather than being the main thing.

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