I've been eating this since I was a small child, so I guess you could say that it's a comfort food for me, and I still make it regularly and love it every time. Last week I attended a seminar on Brain Health in Sydney. We had some terrific high level speakers, and clear theme across the seminar was the health benefits of the Mediterranean diet, especially from an inflammatory perspective. As the science was being explained I kept thinking of Mum's Ratatouille, or French Veget

Welcome to Part 2 in this series of posts on the different food groups and what is considered a healthy amount to eat. In the last post we covered off the ‘meat’ and ‘dairy’ groups (they are not called that anymore by the way!) and the grains group was discussed in an earlier post by Sally. So that leaves us with fruit and veggies. These are two food groups where you can take the brakes off when it comes to being vigilant about making sure what you are eating is gluten free a