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According to nutritionist, Susie Burrell, there aren’t too many packaged foods that should be staples in your diet.

However, below is her top 10 list of trolley items she recommends including in your diet thanks to their superior nutritional properties.

1. Light Jarlsberg cheese – one of the lowest fat varieties of cheese, with the taste.
2. Rye Cruskits – 2 contain just 6g of total carbohydrate.
3. Go Natural Nut Delight Bars – the highest amount of polyunsaturated fat of all the nut bars.
4. All Bran – a serve of bran a day…
5. Burgen Weight Management Bread – just 21g of total carbs per 2 slices.
6. Wattle Valley Wholegrain Wraps – perfect for the kids lunches.
7. Partner Foods Roasted Broadbeans – a great protein rich snack choice.
8. Chobani Greek Style yoghurt – 12.5g of protein per serve!
9. Birds Eye Steam Fresh Veges in a Bowl – perfect with lunch or dinner.
10. John West Tuna and Beans – light lunch or protein rich snack ready to go.

SOURCE: Susie Burrell‘s Newsletter Week No. 3

Brad Carron-Arthur is a man on a mission.

Inspired by a beer ad, Brad is currently running from Canberra to Cape York to raise money for The Australian Foundation for Mental Health Research.

With no support crew – just his back pack – Brad stays in motels or pubs along the way, unless he stumbles across someone in his travels who offers him a bed.

In typical Aussie style, a whole host of families have so far put their hands up to help out.

Leaving Canberra on January 1, Brad has covered well over 1000k to date.

He’s currently raised almost $7000 for charity, but is still shy of his target $10k.

If you’d like to know more about Brad’s challenge, would like to donate to his cause or check out pictures from his adventures so far, CLICK HERE to visit his blog.

Thank you to everyone who participated in our cycling survey.

Here are the results:

74% of people rated the Brisbane cycle network as “good” or “average” – so at least we’re relatively happy with our infrastructure.

But 86% of people said safety factors influence the time of day they ride & almost 80% of people said they feel “a bit nervous” or “very nervous & unsure” about sharing the road with motorists. So we definitely don’t feel safe out there.

As could probably be expected, road safety, work & the heat were the three most influential factors that determined the time of day respondents said they choose to ride.

In rather unfortunate news, 50% of people said Brisbane motorists’ attidues to cyclists were either “below average” or “very poor”, & almost 40% said

Almost 40% of people said attitudes to cyclists had become worse in recent years… which we guess explains why “intolerant” & “ignorant” were the two most common words used to describe Brisbane motorists.

So all in all not the most positive results – but hopefully as cycling becomes more popular, safety & motorists’ tolerance levels will only improve.

Happy 2012!

Are you one of the many people across the globe who has just set a New Year’s resolution? What do you want to achieve this year & how are you tracking so far?

Check out TIME’s top 10 list of resolutions that most often fall by the wayside. If your resolution is on the list, we urge you to prove this article wrong!

LOSE WEIGHT & GET FIT

After a season of way too much pudding, candy canes & holiday parties, it’s only natural that a vow to lose weight and get fit would follow. Each January, fitness clubs offer deals and promotions to those who want to make good on their resolutions. To the gym junkies who have been slogging away for the previous 11 months of the year – never fear – treadmill lines & over-crowded classes should ease by mid-February.

QUIT SMOKING

So you want to quit smoking? Good luck. Only an estimated 15% of people who try to quit manage to stay cigarette-free six months later. True, there are a host of products to help wean you off your nicotine addiction — patches, chewing gum, “e-cigarettes”… Regardless – smokers, you have your work cut out for you.

LEARN SOMETHING NEW

You’ve been meaning to learn French. You’d love to play the piano. How great would it be to really know how to cook? Resolving to learn something new is exciting. At least, for a while. But there might be a reason you haven’t learned all this yet. French is too hard to pronounce. Piano takes too much practice. Ordering out is just so much easier than cooking. Isn’t it?

EAT HEALTHIER & DIET

2012 will be different. It’s time to eat healthily. We promise to swap a fried breakfast for cereal & fruit; eat lean, protein-rich salads (nonfat dressing on the side, please) for lunch; cook fish and salad for dinner. It all sounds so good and possible on Jan. 2. The problem is that most people take this resolution too far by forcing themselves onto restricting diets they can’t possibly keep. Eat healthier in moderation & allow yourself a treat now and then. Otherwise, it won’t be long before this resolution falls by the weight-side.

GET OUT OF DEBT & SAVE MONEY

The sad fact about this resolution is that many people will have difficulty accomplishing it, and not through any fault of their own, but rather the GFC. Financial planners advise making budget-friendly rules, rather than unattainable goals. For example – only allow yourself to eat one dinner out a week. Take a packed lunch to work. You get the drift.

SPEND MORE TIME WITH THE FAMILY

Everyone’s busy these days, it’s true. But blood is thicker than water, and the beginning of the year is an ideal time to reconnect with family that you haven’t seen in a while. Great idea, right? Then February arrives, reality sets in, and you realise that the reason you didn’t see cousin Jim more often is because he really isn’t that interesting at all. Or that plan to spend more time with the kids? Well, it turns out that work doesn’t magically disappear with the dawning of a new year, and you’re at the office more than ever. It’s a hard promise to keep — no matter how sincere the desire.

TRAVEL TO NEW PLACES

A new year and a new world of opportunities to explore — and places, too. Travel of some sort is on almost everyone’s agenda, and some of the first things we tend to think of in a new year are those exotic destinations we’d hope to seek out. But in the aftermath of the GFC, budgets are tight and stay-cations are in. Besides, not traveling spares all the headache of planning, getting someone to tend to your plants, collect your mail, look after your puppy….There’s a reason why travel and travail sound so similar.

BE LESS STRESSED

Less stress can make you healthier and happier, so in the coming year you’ll light soothing candles and take more bubble baths. Unfortunately, stressing less is likely to be the very first resolution you’ll break. On Jan. 1, your train of thought may very well have gone something like this: Wow, it’s 2012. Yikes, it’s 2012! How did it get to be 2012 already? Where did the past year ago? Where have the past 10 years gone? What am I doing with my life?!  Time to take a bubble bath…

VOLUNTEER

You could help build a house, care for an animal, distribute food to the hungry, tutor a student. Volunteering could be the resolution that keeps on giving — to yourself and to others. But finding the time all too often proves harder than finding money, and many would-be volunteers will probably end up writing cheques instead. You might want to broaden this resolution to “help others.”

DRINK LESS

After the morning of Jan. 1, it’s not surprising you probably wish you drank less. The question is whether that resolve will last for the other 364 days of the year. Drinking less is undoubtedly good for you: it’s better for your health, your wallet and probably your reputation. Then why do we keep on boozing? Folk more learned than we may point to modern science for definitive answers, but we prefer those Greco-Roman ancients who proclaimed “In vino veritas” — “In wine [and whiskey, vodka, gin and beer], there is truth.” They said it, not us.

And on that note – good luck with your New Year’s Resolution!

CLICK HERE to let us know your 2012 resolution & your top tip for keeping that goal.

SOURCE: www.time.com