What, another Kitchen site?

It is a practical and holistic approach to cooking healthy natural foods in your kitchen, where we look at preparing meals or whole menus for nutritional health, on a limited budget, for today's lifestyle.

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 - 2.8 million unique viewers in 2008 prove it. Our writers and proof readers include teachers, doctors, lawyers and specialists in a variety of fields.

There are many sites that offer meals for vega health, weight loss, various food intolerance's or to push a particular product. Here, if we recommend anything, it is because we personally have tested it against it's equivalents and found it to be the best. Here's where we take good food and make it great - not just in flavour but nutrition as well.

But it's not just another recipe site. Kitchen Headquarters is also about nutritional information, foods to avoid and why. It's also about, knowledge regarding foods - their history, preparation, serving methods, accompaniments, tales and nutritional qualities, even how to grow and preserve them!.

There's more . . .
"There are many diets that all claim to work wonders for weight loss. Can they all be true?"
"I'm diabetic, what can I eat to reduce my blood sugar?"
"Will I ever be free of diabetes?"
"They talk about healthy cholesterol - I thought it was all bad."
"What sort of tree do vanilla beans grow on?"
You will find the answers to these and many other food and health related questions as well as recipes for health, weight loss and optimal nutrition.

Eat Well on a Limited Budget

With Globalisation the days of lifelong employment are almost gone. Full time jobs are being replaced by part time jobs which ultimately means families receive less each week. At the moment the credit crisis had lowered interest rates, which in turn means lower mortgages and therefore lower rents. However times will improve and once again the basic costs will rise. Now is the time to get smart, learn to eat well for less and here's where you will find out how.

Cost saving advice
Kitchen Headquarters is not just recipes for gourmet food. It is full of advice, hints and recipes specifically chosen for their simplicity and low cost. How about an memorably exquisite dessert for under $1.00 a serve?

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 other ingredients at home.

Lower energy costs
A large part of the home energy bill comes from cooking, There are many ways we can make better use of energy by changing the way we cook and prepare a meal. We can microwave some dishes to warm them faster than the oven will and save energy. We can utilise the cooling of a hot oven with other dishes or even cook two meals at once in one oven, where we used to cook one.

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 begriming 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 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.

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