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Meat the needs: NZ meat at the push of a button
Consumers will soon be able to buy ready-to-eat meals, made with New Zealand beef and lamb, from Shanghai vending machines, 1News reports. In an attempt to put meals in the hands of time-poor consumers, major red meat exporters Beef + Lamb NZ, Alliance and Silver Fern Farms are piloting beef and lamb vending machines in busy business districts. Image: RNZ
Hitting your veggie target not so easy
We’ve grown up with the golden 5+ a day rule – eat three vege and two fruits a day, and you’ll be on the right track for a healthy lifestyle. The Ministry of Health’s (MoH) Eating and Activity Guidelines also makes recommendations for daily servings of fruit and veg plus grains, proteins, and milk products. But many Kiwis have a ‘beige diet’ – pasta and mince, bangers and mash, says nutritionist Lillian Morton.
Stuff lifestyle reporter Lyric Waiwiri-Smith set herself the goal of following the official guidelines for a week, hoping to transform her life. Read more here: I tried following New Zealand’s Healthy Eating Guidelines and failed miserably
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‘Health in every aisle’ to be tried
The Australian supermarket Coles is shrinking its health food aisle and adopting a ‘health in every aisle’ strategy, with nutritionists hoping the separation of health foods and regular shelf products will help Australians make more conscious decisions about what they are eating.
“This change may be a positive step towards providing Australians with more options and a move away from the concept of ‘healthy’ and ‘unhealthy’ foods. There are plenty of nutritious foods living in the regular aisles of the supermarket and moving all foods together can provide shoppers with greater choice to make the right choices for them and their families,” says Karen Stafford, accredited practising dietitian at Nutrition Australia.
