Earlier this year, I wrote a blog about new years resolutions and why I thought, based on research, Australians would struggle to keep them, especially when it came to food and health.

Three months later, new research has found that more than two-thirds of Australians who made resolutions to eat better food and reduce or completely cut out unhealthy snacks failed to keep their New Years promise.

Just a quarter of Australians are at a healthy weight, according to a study which also put the total cost of caring for the nation's overweight and obese people at more than $56 billion a year.

When I was at my friend's house over the weekend, I noticed her throwing away perfectly good food - leftovers from the night before, and cheese that h...

Imagine a place where women are the principal food gatherers and men hunt kangaroos, snakes, lizards and small birds, with boomerangs, sticks and spears.

A place where witchetty grubs, moths and roots were served as the main dish with a dessert of berries and people would travel from season to season, having to move to where the various food sources would be available. A place where the land, nature and roaming animals were your grocery shop.

Here's a trivia question for you: on January 27, 2010, Australia came third behind Hungary and Germany for:

a) rowing competition
b) baking competition
c) a beer drinking competition?

According Fruit Grower's Victoria Chairman, Andrew Plunkett, it’s pear time. While we may be inundated with stone fruit and the bounty of late summer, early varieties of pears are at their best now and in the next few weeks.

Once upon a time, coffee was believed by some Christians to be the devil's drink. When Pope Vincent III heard about this, he decided to taste it before banishing it. He enjoyed coffee so much that he decided to baptise it, saying, "Coffee is so delicious, it would be a pity to let the infidels have exclusive use of it."

It's not really a food story, but today we'll take a step away from the culinary to take our hats off to packaging.

A certain 'pop' culture icon has just turned 50, with Bubble Wrap celebrating its golden anniversary on January 26.

While Australians are very familiar with their world sporting heroes, not many know that we also have a world class baking team.

In fact, last year the Australian Baking Team came second only to the Italians at the Sigep Bread Cup, a world class event open to only 10 international teams which the Australian Baking Team's captain, Brett Noy, says is the toughest in the world.

As Australia Day approaches, many Australians will start to stock up their fridges with sausages, steaks, chicken and plenty of beer.

On January 26, friends and family gather in backyards across Australia,listen to Triple J's top 100 hits and drinking lots of beer, eyes hungrily on the centrepiece - the BBQ.