7 Sneaky Ways to Eat Your Vegetables and Lose Weight
- November 21, 2018
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- Khyra
“Eat your vegetables! Polish it off or else…” that’s me glaring at my son in senior primary and feeling rightly justified by my approach. Right?……hmmm wrong! Vegetables are not sweet (especially the leafy greens) look miserable and hang limp after a tango with heat. So getting anyone to eat it especially children is a herculean task. But we do need the vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, phytonutrients, water contained in vegetables.
So what better way to get these essentials than to get ingenious in the preparation and presentation of vegetables in our dining...
4 Ways to Look Stunning on a Budget
- November 16, 2018
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- Khyra
If you could go on a shopping spree all day without paying a dime or spending your hard-earned money, you may have a thing for fashion. To really validate this inner fashionista aura, you need to also have an eye for styling yourself up in such a way that makes people ask if you hire a stylist; that means, you have great taste. If all these describes you, you may just be a fashionista!
Most of these items are usually expensive; the designer labels seem to be for a selected few...
Preparing Your Veggies Right
- November 13, 2018
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- Khyra
Vegetables are one of the healthiest kinds of food in the world and the different kinds of vegetables give us a choice of options to pik from. The vegetables not only differ in appearance, texture, size, colour but also in how they are prepared.
Some vegetables are better plucked, washed and thrown in the mouth while others need to be steamed for a little while. Some other vegetables can survive the heat of the oil while some can be properly boiled. These different methods of preparing vegetables help retain...
6 Handbags Every Lady Should Own
- November 09, 2018
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- Khyra
In honour of the World Handbag’s Day celebrated in October, we have put together a list of the top 6 kinds of handbags every lady should have in their closets.
Before we get into the list, let’s take a quick moment to be grateful for whoever it is that invented handbags. If there were no handbags, ladies would probably have their dresses sewn with pockets all over. Handbags have seen us at our good, ugly, messy, clumsy, yet they have stayed with us. Diamonds might be girl’s best friends...
Dealing With Sugar Cravings
- November 07, 2018
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- Khyra
Who doesn’t have sugar cravings?
I think we all do, we just deal with them differently.
Sugar cravings are the one of the worst kind of cravings; they can be likened to little soldiers at war with each other in your stomach and they won’t retreat or surrender until you stock up on every sugary thing you can lay your hands on in the house, and if there’s none at home, they drive you to a trip to the nearest grocery store to stock up.
The old cliche...
Toss Bad Food Out
- November 01, 2018
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- Khyra
In the spirit of making plans ahead that fit your diet plan, you need to know when to toss food out.
I know how busy we get with life; we do a one-time grocery shopping – buy fresh produce to be used and stored for a long period of time, cook/order food for weeks ahead and store in refrigerators. The refrigerator is always filled with fresh and cooked food items in the bid to preserve them and make them safe for consumption at a later time, but not all these...
