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New site update - it's been a while.
More than a complete overhaul! - When we ugraded our CPU and tried to reinstall Windows, it demanded we call Microsoft and go through an elaborate rigmarole to reclaim a product we had already paid for, then claimed we were using counterfeit software!That was the last straw. We're fed up with the second rate security, "help" that is never any help, "go slows" as it performs some mystery updates that we are not informed about and spyware that reports secret information back to unknown recipients. We decided to switch to Linux. Businesses told us this was madness but we began a changover to Ubuntu. The entire changeover went much smoother than anticipated, with each website offline for a maximun of 30 seconds.
The headache was replacing Dreamweaver with a linux equivalent web design package (although we were told that Dreamweaver can be tricked to run in a linux system, our trials revealed that it was limited and too unstable for our purposes). We now use Quanta Plus.
Coming Up
We are in the final stages of designing our own on-line store. The retail trade has so many middle men, then adds a huge markup, and the end price is at least 100% more than it should be. The end result is you, as the consumer, pay at least double the price.
In keeping with our policy of quality on a tight budget, we are currently negotiating with manufacturers of some of the best products for the best deals for our store. We will be providing goods for at least 40% less than the RRP. We expect to open in July.
Customer Service - You may have noticed our sponsored ads are no longer from Google?
When a problem occurred with our Google Adsense account and we could only get a FAQ page for help, not a human, we took our business elsewhere - all 10 websites! We figure if you are making millions in profit, you can afford a human or two to look after your customers, like our new advertising sponsors; Chitika.
It's the old story - it's called Customer Service; Customer + Service - they go together - take away the service and you lose the customer.
June 2011 - Another website
The website, When I Leave School ( www.whenileaveschool.com ) was launched for students and young people. Our work tutoring with High School students, revealed a need for a resource for students nearing the end of High School and for students thinking of studying in Australia.
Come on board and watch us grow.
In the Kitchen . . .
At Kitchen Headquarters we take a practical and holistic approach to cooking healthy natural foods in your kitchen, that won't break the bank. There are a lot of web sites that have recipes but very few that cover the basics and explain why we do thing that way. We do!
We also cover things like preparation and general kitchen techniques. Have a look at our new section - "Using herbs and spices" for a foolproof process to make perfect asian dishes and fat free stews that don't taste like diet food.
Today much of our foods are extensively processed with additives to enhance their shelf life, flavour, colour and reduce cooking time in today's bustling lifestyle. Many of the basic culinary skills have vanished.
How many Mums today know how to cook beetroot and pickle it, make jam, jello or icecream with real fruit?
We want our readers to not only prepare healthy food but to fully understand why it is healthy. Billions of dollars are invested by manufacturers every year to advertise their products, often overstating the health benefits and hiding the additives, toxins, carcinogens, excess salts, fats and sugars. We want our readers to be aware of the facts, supported by research, not urban myths, presented with the minimum of bias.
No this isn't just another food site. It is designed and run by the Mimenta Group. If you have visited our other site, Mimenta.com, you will know we don't run second rate sales sites. Our reputation for authority sites, free from hype, packed with easy to read information and high quality graphics is well established - 4.45 million unique viewers in 2009 prove it. Our writers and proof readers include teachers, doctors, lawyers and specialists in a variety of fields.
Indonesia's Lethal Food
Did you know that at least 1000 people die in Indonesia every year from falling coconuts? Worldwide, they are more lethal than sharks. A
coconut can weigh 5kg and a coconut palm can be up to 30 metres tall.
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Shopping tips - get more for your dollar
Discover the sales gimmicks and tricks they use to prize that last diollar out of your hand when you go shopping. The trip home and the
way you store your food can improve both the life and nutrition of your ingretients so we cover this as well.
Cut price quality ingredients
We show you how to preserve many of the gourmet ingredients you need when they are in season and at their cheapest. We look at sourcing
ingredients from places other than the supermarket and even cover growing some other ingredients at home.
Good food at home for less
Many young people today are not taught how to cook and suddenly find themselves dependent on takeaways and restaurants. Many of the recipes
here you might think are very basic, they are for this group of people. Few food sites cater for this group. We also look at other ways to cook
the cheap cuts. for variety on a low budget.
Knowledge Base
What started as a small venture has blown out of proportion. We have
physicians, dieticians and researchers coming forward with arguments
and ideas. We have kept to our promise and launched the web site but
many articles that should have been a couple of pages long, have
spawned many other articles. This site is a living and growing work and
we ask you to keep this in mind as you view our pages: you are viewing
a humble beginning that will grow each month. We'd love to see you
coming back and staying with us as we grow.
Driven by your feedback
We were receiving emails from members of the public before the site
opened!
As a result we will be shifting our priorities slightly. Most of the
questions have been based on working with a tight budget and diabetes
and safe weight loss (losing weight without losing nutrition).
Articles in these categories will have priority for completion first.
Kitchen Headquarters will
change the way you think about your food.
Written by a Grade 10 Chef, working in conjunction with nutritionists
and other medical professionals in the kitchen, you will not only get
recipes but along with Granny's Greatest recipes you will discover why
her food tasted so good and made us all so healthy as we look at
nutrition - yes- right down to the cellular level!
The Products Section -
Don't be fooled!
Our products section is not just about selling you
our products.
It's about getting the best deal you can, when it comes to purchasing
products - including the grocery shopping you currently do at your
local shops.. That
includes shopping tricks to help you keep your expenses to a sensible
minimum, examples of scams and tricks that retailers and
manufacturers use to give you less for more money and how they make use
of retail psychology to separate you from your money.
Practical meals on a tight budget
With the world credit squeeze and
declining employment, it's no use publishing recipes that require you
to buy in expensive exotic ingredients. Our meals are based on a tight
budget. The few extras you may need will be used repeatedly so they
won't go to waste. As we speak we are are negotiating with several
producers and importers for wholesale products in the spices range, to
drive down prices for you. Soon we will have a few exotic products on
sale here for our readers, allowing you to buy at wholesale rates.
Are you diabetic,
overweight or suffering from heart disease?
We have the recipes,
techniques and information that will help turn your condition
around. Yes you heard right - "turn your condition around". Your
condition is treatable and some of the damage can be
undone. This isn't snake oil or magic beans - it is backed by proper
scientific research, confirmed by double blind testing by academically
qualified doctors.
Our Committment
We are contributors to the Open Source Community and all our sites are made with open source software :
- We use Ubuntu and SuSe linux as operating systems.
- Web design is done using Quanta Plus.
- All graphics are done with The GIMP
- Text is processed with Libre Office prior to pasting into Quanta Plus.
- Accounting and data is processed with Libre Office Calc.
- Firefox and Chromium are our choice of web browsers.
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