How To Use Your Kitchen To Lose Weight. The place where you make your favourite food mightn’t seem like the most obvious location to go to lose a few pounds, but your kitchen can actually help you lose weight. If you’re planning on getting into shape after the festive break, here’s how your kitchen can help you: Convenient food for weight loss How often have you’ve gone to the fridge for a quick healthy snack only to come back with a pastry, a cake or a bacon sandwich? If you want to eat healthier in between meals you have to make healthy snacks more accessible. The trick is to hide all the unhealthy options at the back of the fridge and fill tupperware containers with pre-prepared fruit, such as grapes, pineapple chunks, cubes of melon or slices of orange All you have to do then is add a couple

Getting A New Kitchen? Take The Opportunity To Declutter If you're getting a new kitchen, you will be taking out all of your dishes, cutlery, appliances and gadgets out of your old kitchen so that you can put them into your new one. At My Beautiful Kitchen, we think this is the perfect opportunity to take a look at the objects you have gathered in your kitchen and ask yourself if you can get rid of any unnecessary clutter. Clutter accumulates naturally over the years, we buy things or are given them and they are placed in a drawer or a cupboard. Many of these things are rarely and sometimes never used and begin to drift further back into the depths of the cupboards. It is only when you clear everything out years later that you find these forgotten objects and wonder “where did this come from?” Before moving into

You don't need to have the latest new kitchen gadgets or funky accessories, here are the top 10 tips from My Beautiful Kitchen for the alternative use of everyday kitchen items. Dryer sheets – Those clever little pieces of fabric you put into your tumbler dryer to make everything fresh and non-static are also brilliant for cleaning your TV or computer screen. Better still, try popping one into a gym bag, suitcase or even your trainers to keep them smelling fresh. Kitchen roll – Are you the sort of person that can never find a plastic bag when you really need one? Stuff them into the inner tube of a spent kitchen roll and keep it somewhere handy. They’re also good for storing electrical leads and cables. Simply wrap them round the roll to prevent tangles. Coffee filters – If you use paper filters to

The Heated Debate – Which Oven? Probably the most important appliance in your kitchen is your oven, so how do you go about choosing the best one? Of course, the most obvious limitation will be your power source. If you don’t have gas, then clearly you will have to go with an electric oven. That said if you do have the choice most chefs choose gas, as it’s thought to be more controllable. Like any purchase, when it comes to choosing an oven, you need to look at a number of factors Budget If you’ve spent a lot of money on your kitchen, then it’s not a good idea to skimp when it comes to your oven, especially if you do a lot of cooking or entertaining at home. Before you even fit a new kitchen, you should plan your oven into your overall scheme. After all, the oven

Integrate Your New Kitchen After you’ve spent all the hard work creating the perfect look for your new kitchen, the last thing you want is your appliances sticking out, ruining the feel of the entire space. Thankfully at My Beautiful Kitchen we’ve got the know-how and the expertise to make sure your appliances stay out of sight and your kitchen maintains that sleek, chic and seamless look. The answer, of course, is integrating your appliances. Some refer to them as built-in appliances, but built-in and integrated are one and the same thing. The idea is that you fit your choice of cupboard door to the front of your appliance, so you’d never know it was there when you’re not using it. It simply looks like any other kitchen unit. The most common appliances that tend to be hidden around the kitchen are your fridge freezer (if you’ve got

Recycling Kitchen Waste Many people make big changes to their lifestyle at this time of year and, while many resolutions fall by the wayside, giving your kitchen a makeover and changing the way you use it can make an impression for years to come. For example, with rising food and energy costs this could be the ideal time to give your kitchen a ‘green’ makeover. By developing good buying, cooking and storage habits, you can significantly cut household costs and perhaps even save enough for energy saving appliances, such as a induction hob. Stop food wastage The secret to improving your buying habits is to become more aware of your consumption. Look at your storage cupboards, see what’s at the front, what’s hidden at the back and what’s expired. Knowing what you use most frequently and what you don’t use can help you make better decisions when it

Choosing Your My Beautiful Kitchen Kitchen

If you’ve had a look through the My Beautiful Kitchen kitchen range, you might have noticed that we have huge selection to choose from (281 to be precise), so no one could blame you for being a bit undecided when it comes to making a choice. In order to help you, we’ve come up with a few guidelines to steer you in the right direction when it comes to choosing your dream kitchen from the My Beautiful Kitchen range.

My Beautiful Kitchen is very much a family run business supplying kitchens and we appreciate that kitchens aren’t the safest places in the world for children. There are sharp utensils, electrical appliances, hot surfaces, and, more than often, sharp edges on furniture and cupboards. So if you’re having a baby or your little one is at the age when they’re starting to explore their environment, then it’s essential that you take steps to make your kitchen as safe as possible. It’s also the ideal time to plan and install a new kitchen. Fortunately, our expert team have many many years of experience designing safe kitchens for families that not only look fantastic but are practical for the family home. Some of the things you need to think about when planning your new kitchen: Oven – An integrated oven that’s built into the structure of the kitchen offers fewer hot surfaces