The first few weeks of spring are a funny old time for a cook. We’re ready to freshen up the menu but the produce in store and from the garden is still very much steering us toward hearty winter fare.

Do you like your job? Do you believe in what you do? Do you feel like you are making the world a teeny tiny bit better as you clock in for your eight hours?

Find all your favourite bits from today's Bite magazine, online. Follow the hyperlinks in Jo Elwin's editor's letter.

As i was travelling through beautiful Bali a while back, a taxi driver said something very interesting to me when we were doing the usual good natured haggle over rate.

Pushing through when you have little in the tank can be a fact of our busy lives. So much to do, so little time. Where can you find a little extra juice to get yourself engaged when you are in that 3pm low energy slump?

We regularly revisit our 5.30 theme (five ingredients in under 30 minutes) in Bite to help satisfy the constant demand for quick, easy recipes that help put good food on the table every day of the week.

Not a week goes by where I don't eat at least one fish meal - pan-fried with salad, crumbed with chips, stir-fried in to Asian dishes, raw in Japanese dishes, baked, grilled, barbecued, marinated, curried, steamed - fish is so incredibly versatile.

The other day I tackled a task I had been putting off for, oh, just about forever. I cleared out the garage, prompted by the inorganic rubbish collection notice in the letterbox.

It's all very well being able to serve a perfectly cooked piece of meat, chicken or fish but it is the sauces, dressings, salads and sides we serve with it that make a meal deliciously different. Our focus is on such things this week.

Life coaching is about building better relationships - primarily with ourselves, our work, our loved ones, our body.

There's a celebratory feel to this week's Bite magazine.

I see many clients who come to me as their last ditch attempt to stop dieting forever and to create habits of health that last a lifetime, rather than the latest fad.

I get lots of lovely emails from readers when these columns or my weekly blog resonate with an issue they are facing in their life.

It's school holidays so get the kids on to cooking dinner for the family this week.

When I asked Kathy Paterson if she could give us a few recipes for oven bakes her response was "no problem, that's how I eat".

The practical American philosopher Buckminster Fuller famously said "The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's a different kind of life".