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Fast food giants Burger King announced the US launch of the ‘healthier’ version of its Tendergrill Chicken Sandwich earlier this month, claiming it has less calories, fat and salt than its predecessor. But is it really that healthy?

Burger King marketing chiefs have proudly proclaimed that the chicken burger only has 470 calories, without fries or anything else on the side. Whilst this is lower than a lot of fast food products, it’s still quite a large chunk of daily calorie intake for a sole burger.

Looking on the brighter side, Burger King are making an effort to improve the quality of their food. The new chicken sandwich comes with a whole grain ciabatta bun, and has less fat and salt than other BK options.

This said, you could make your own at home or go to a local sandwich shop for a much healthier chicken sandwich, and it would probably be cheaper.

Food may not be the first thing that springs to mind during wedding planning, but for food lovers it is. Everyone’s been to a wedding where the food was awful – probably because it was catered and there were hundreds of freeloading wedding guests to feed – and it does spoil the day a bit.

Here are a few tips on getting your wedding food spot on:

• Prepare in advance – Plan a menu that can be prepared the day before, so you (or your friends or caterers) only need to reheat on the day.

• The cake – Break wedding cake convention by getting one you really like, the more indulgent the better (think big, gooey chocolate sponge cake).

• Use friends and family – What could be better than food made with love, or family recipes passed down through generations?

With Nigella Lawson’s banana bread, we aren’t unfortunately talking about the voluptuous domestic goddess’ personal loaf – we’re on about the amazing recipe she has concocted.

Banana bread is the only sort of cake-baking I actually do (apart from making flapjacks, but they don’t really count) and I’ve found this particular recipe surprisingly simple. All you need is the basics: flour, sugar, eggs, butter, baking powder, vanilla essence and of course, bananas. It’s always best if the bananas are a little over-ripe (they can be nearly completely black), making it a good use for otherwise-inedible ones.

Extras

There are a few variables with this recipe; feel free to try the following at your leisure:

• Currants/sultanas
• Dark rum (my favourite)
• Chocolate chips
• Walnuts

Whichever one you try, the end result is nearly always moist, sweet and just a little bit healthier than other cakes (except that darn carrot cake, of course).

Starting next month, Subway are planning to change the way they arrange the cheese on their sandwiches in stores worldwide. They hilariously describe this as a change in ‘cheese tessellation’, prompted by a campaign from die-hard sandwich fans in Australia and New Zealand.

For those not normal people familiar with this particular sandwich debate, the problem is that the cheese triangles in Subway sandwiches is currently overlapped instead of being (snigger) ‘appropriately tessellated’. This causes uneven cheesy distribution for the scoffer – a nightmare indeed.

Changes in cheese placement policy have now been implemented in Canada and Australia, possibly to be introduced throughout the rest of the world.

Note: this isn’t a joke, The Independent ran a story on it.