Cheers and to your health

hello everyone and thank you for reading, commenting (this is always welcomed as i have never done this before and look for ideas) and, hopefully, enjoying this blog...i have started this blog for many reasons, but mainly to document my progress in the hope that i will get away from taking medication for high blood pressure and high cholesterol through diet and still maintain the flavorful that got me into this predicament (think smoked ribs on the bbq with that smoky sauce covering them - mmmmmmmmm; a new and improved recipe will definitely get posted here).

once i found out these two were high (the cholesterol i can understand as i have been trying, unsuccessfully, to deal with through diet; it's the high blood pressure that has me flummoxed as it was always within normal ranges, when i was younger; did i have to mention that), i have been researching products to lower them and food substitutes to maintain flavour - this being the biggest issue as some of the products available (you know the ones, low this; low that; reduced; non-whatever) are tasteless...so my cause is to make these tasteless recipes taste as if no flavour was lost.

so i will endeavour to give useful tips, information on items and ideas around the kitchen and, most importantly, helpful ways to cook, eat and maintain a healthy lifestyle without sounding preachy...if i do, and i can, please let me know...i will eventually have the full recipe with pictures of the final dish including the nutritional value of the recipe and comments from the people who will be my lab rats...thank you for all who have/will join in.

i also have to thank everyone who has been very supportive in my quest; but the biggest thanks goes to who i have spent a lifetime with...he has been supportive in everything i have done and even tried to give me suggestions as to what to do in life...i have not said so to him directly, but a big special thank you goes to him.