Beef is one of the western world’s favored meat products, and it has every right to be so.

In recent days, we have listened to copious controversy on the question of whether beef is a safe food safe for everyone, or a cause of health problems to be shunned and eaten only in small quantities.

As if that wasn’t confusing enough, even amongst dieticians and nutritionalists, the issue is unclear, but during the course of this page we will deliver many appropriate facts on beef, destroy a few fabrications and ensure that you are given the true information you need to decide for yourself.

However, before that, here is a delicious recipe that you can cook for your kids.

This is a wonderful recipe for ‘macaroni beef chili’. It is not complicated and is a good meal for a growing family.

Ingredients:
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Macaroni – uncooked : 1 x cup
Quality Minced Beef : 1/2 lb
Garlic powder : 0.5 tsp
Hot cayenne or chili Powder : 1 x tsp
Salt : 1 x pinch (to taste)
Ground black pepper : 1 x pinch (to taste)
Good quality tomato soup : one Can
Cheddar cheese : 1 ounce (grated)

Preparation:
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Bring a good sized saucepan of water to the boil add the macaroni, bring back to the boil and cook for about 7 minutes.
Quuickly fry the meat until browned in another large saucepan and carefully drain any fat that has appeared.
Add the garlic, chili powder, salt and pepper and then stir with a wooden spoon until well mixed.
Reduce the heat and cook carefully for approx. 5 minutes.
Mix in the macaroni and tomato soup, and bring to a rolling boil.
Cook for a an additional few minutes until the dish is at a uniform temperature.

At the last minute add the cheese, and cook a little more till it has melted.

Ladle into bowls and serve with a strong fruity red wine.

This is a useful beef recipe to cook in bulk as left overs can be safely kept in the fridge and eaten the next day.
If you want to cook the recipe a long time in advance, you can leave the cheese out and freeze portions for later. Simply add the cheese just before you finally serve the recipe.

This recipe is one of those delicious recipes for beef that many people believe is better when prepared in advance. If you want to find some other tasty ways to cook beef, why not look for some recipes for a barbecue. If you are looking a wider variety of beef recipes, there are many web sites which provide a large recipe collection online that will surely satisfy your culinary needs.

As mentioned earlier here are some concrete nutritional facts:

1/. There are people who hold the view that you must stay away from beef because it possesses large amounts of fat. Even though this may have been true a few years ago, lean beef produced in modern times is much leaner than it was previously, and well over half of the fats present in today’s beef are monounsaturated fats which are thought by doctors to be more ‘heart friendly’ than other fats.

2/. The zinc that is in quality beef is imperative for human growth, improves the body’s immune system, is known to help remedy cuts and grazes, moderates appetite and can affect your ability to taste food.

3/. Just a 3 ounce offering of quality beef may contribute over 10% of the consumers required daily value of vitamin b6, protein, vitamin b12, zinc, iron and niacin.

4/. If you think about it objectively, quality beef is virtually as healthful as buying multivitamins as it is a top notch source of vitamin b6, protein, vitamin b12, zinc, iron and niacin.

5/. Quality beef contains Vitamin b6 and vitamin b12, which are thought by doctors to help to prevent heart attacks and strokes and also help the body to make haematids (red blood cells).

6/. Some people claim that dieters should avoid beef. A real dietician will tell you that this is not the case, in reality the 3 ounce serving of beef that many specialists prescribe as a sensible daily limit, is truly just 10% of the regular 2000 calories daily target.

7/. Measuring the uncooked weight, 100 grams of beef provides:

* approximately 200 calories
* zero grams of Vitamin C.
* 16mg of Calcium.
* 3.8mg of Zinc.
* 53mg of Sodium.

I trust this article has given you a better awareness of both the good and bad aspects of consuming beef, and hopefully given you a flavorful new recipe for your recipe book.