Bernard Preston Blog

If Bernard Preston's inspirational books do not awaken in you the desire to live long in the land, then alas I have failed! Oh yes, and the desire to sit under those trees you once planted, to nurture those grandchildren you have borne.

Alas, sometimes it takes a fist banging on the skull, or a pick axe to break open the frozen sea within us. Is poor health trying to tell you something...? Just where are you planning to live, if you don't look after your bod, eh?

May 02, 2024

Let's talk about hunger concerns growing your own veggies and fruit.

Let's talk about hunger relates to ensuring your future food supplies from your garden. It also means you will have the kinds of meals that satiate.

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May 02, 2024

Lentil with lemon salad is rich in vegetable-protein and vitamin C.

Lentil with lemon salad gives these wonderful but largely flavourless legumes a piquant taste.

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May 02, 2024

Kefir salsa is a simple garnish that will add to any salad or pizza.

Kefir salsa makes for the richness of an avocado and tomatoes with the sourness of the probiotic; use one of your favourite chilis.

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May 01, 2024

Healthy breakfast menu need not necessarily mean boring.

Healthy breakfast menu will not be fattening with Bernard Preston's ideas about meals that do not leave you famished at 11am.

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May 01, 2024

Introduction to brewing mead as an apperitif for every home.

Introduction to brewing mead as a natural wine with a taste as old as that of cold spring water.

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Apr 30, 2024

How to test for prediabetes has value as it affects half the people.

How to test for prediabetes at home may help those who have great anxiety about consulting doctors; a sharp retort about their weight would be too painful.

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Apr 30, 2024

How to make homemade cornbread using minced green mealies.

How to make homemade cornbread in hot water using a pressure-cooker.

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Apr 29, 2024

Foods for a healthy pancreas because cancer is usually terminal.

Foods for a healthy pancreas focuses on prevention rather than a cure; mortality is frighteningly high at 35% of those hospitalised.

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Apr 28, 2024

Apple salad recipe is a simple way to increase your fibre.

Apple salad recipe makes a delicious nutritious lunch, full of soluble fibre for constipation. The pectin is a very resistant starch.

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Apr 28, 2024

How to make fish stock is to extract the wonderful rich flavour.

How to make fish stock is a very inexpensive way to get huge amounts of omega-3 which makes up forty percent of the fat in the brain.

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Apr 28, 2024

How to make a smoothy quickly and simply; one that is good for you.

How to make a smoothy with no fuss. What are the possible ingredients that we could use to help us lose weight?

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Apr 27, 2024

How to grow corn is as easy as falling off a log.

How to grow corn gives you the taste of really sweet whole grain fresh from the garden. It has the good fats, protein and gives protection against blindness.

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Apr 27, 2024

How to grow chilli is so easy for those who like it hot.

How to grow chilli as the pepper family is full of vitamin C and is unexpectedly one of the strongly anti-inflammatory foods; and lycopene too.

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Apr 27, 2024

How to get more fiber to support those friendly bugs in the intestine.

How to get more fiber from our food will probably have a greater effect and make a larger contribution to our wellness than almost any other factor.

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Apr 27, 2024

How to dry peppers is easy when you have a glut in the garden.

How to dry peppers enables you to control the heat and if you are neurotic about pesticides as I am you can be absolutely certain it is organic.

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Apr 27, 2024

Foods that lower cholesterol suggests oats, chickpeas and apples.

Foods that lower cholesterol questions whether you have been suffering from erectile dysfunction since taking statins. You are not alone; think fatty fish.

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Apr 27, 2024

Stunting story weighs hunger versus malnutrition in our children.

Stunting story weighs hunger versus malnutrition in relation to the general acceptance that refined grains like maizemeal and polished rice are good food.

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Apr 27, 2024

Fast healthy dinner recipes so you can enjoy your food without guilt.

Fast healthy dinner recipes can be made with a little aforethought, getting back to the wholesome meals of our great-grandmothers.

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Apr 26, 2024

Cherry-guava honey mead preserves the polyphenols in the fruit.

Cherry-guava honey mead can be made with either the raw berries or the boiled and then extracted juice.

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Apr 26, 2024

Nine bean rows and a hive for the honeybee if from a poem by Yeats.

Nine bean rows and a hive for the honeybee weighs some thoughts by various authors on the need for stillness in the quest for peace and finding our true selves.

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Apr 25, 2024

Cardboard in worm-farms is to increase the carbon to nitrogen ratio.

Cardboard in worm-farms, known as a bulking agent, should consist of about 20 percent of the feed; it also helps control the water content.

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Apr 25, 2024

Carbs in the life of a believer reminds us of the richness of seeds.

Carbs in the life of a believer shows how modern milling has taken natural grains and turned them into pseudo foods from the Devil's Pantry.

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Apr 24, 2024

Canned versus dried chickpeas asks if it is worth the schlep.

Canned versus dried chickpeas reveals that the convenience in making your quick hummus comes at a price.

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Apr 24, 2024

Are the cities of South Africa water scarce is a serious question.

Are the cities of South Africa water scarce is determined by the ratio of demand to supply. Is that which is available greatly underestimated?

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Apr 23, 2024

Easy sourdough bread recipe uses a starter of yeast and friendly bugs.

Easy sourdough bread recipe takes less about ten-minutes to make and allows you to choose how much salt and the kind of flour; there is less gluten intolerance.

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Apr 23, 2024

Calories in hummus asks what is the garbanzo bean and chickpea story?

Calories in hummus invites the question whether it is fattening and are these legumes friendly?

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Apr 23, 2024

Broccoli facts include tumour prevention; it is rich in folate too.

Broccoli facts help us to uncover some of the basic science behind the "queen of tumour-prevention."

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Apr 21, 2024

Best medicinal herbs gives you a guide to a few of our favourites.

Best medicinal herbs says include some of these on a regular basis before the day of serious illness arrives; simply the flavour makes it worthwhile.

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Apr 21, 2024

Best bread in South Africa for only five rand per loaf.

Best bread in South Africa but there is a catch; you need a mill and know a farmer who grows the wheat.

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Apr 21, 2024

Believers can enjoy green mealies completely without guilt.

Believers can enjoy green mealies but refined maize is straight from the Devil's Pantry; all of the bran and most of the nutrients have been extracted.

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