These days most of us are more interested in not only our own health and well-being, but also in trying to help those in developing countries. Here is a wee book that costs under a fiver, but manages to combine all of that and more, with the proceeds from the sale going to help the Ghana Education Project.

There is a lot of information in here, all imparted in easy-to-digest bites (pardon the pun) and therefore ideal for today’s busy person. Find out how to cook some tasty and healthy meals, prepare a perfect picnic, get your five a day in interesting ways, and locate a healthy snack. All the meals in here are quick to prepare and don’t involve those tiresome gourmet ingredients beloved by celebrity chefs that are unavailable to the majority of us. There is also information about what keeping food in plastic does to you (nothing good), healthy cooking tips and a good basis for weight loss and sensible eating.

Alongside all this, there are plenty of mentions about Ghana in general and Nkwanta in particular, which is a very poor area and where the money is going if you buy this book. I think what I liked best about it—apart from the good cause, tasty recipes and readability—are the sobering little asides that contrast our lives in the over-packaged, over-processed West with those of the Ghanaians. As the author says, it does indeed seem amazing that we need telling how to eat less when so many people are starving...