I’m constantly on the look out for quick, easy, healthy snacks. Life with a toddler and baby with 2 businesses to run means I’m constantly on the go running from the kids to a Pilates class to cooking dinner or to a clinic. So with some baking time on my hands the toddler and I […]
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Weight loss, that seems to often be the theme for January. Which is all good, but I find it slightly frustrating that the answer people turn to is often jumping onto the next diet craze. Here are my top reasons why not to diet. 1. A short term fix leads to short term weight loss. Most
Why you should say NO to diets. Read More »
Now New Years Day is usually a day of special food traditions for us. Many years ago, the man who later became my husband, decided on our first New Years Day together to take me out for lunch. We went to the White Lion in Niton and had the most amazing steak with peppercorn sauce.
Celebration Coconut Kiribath. Read More »
Lots of people are working on reducing their meat consumption at present, it sounds easy but if you are doing it you need to replace that meat protein with some other protein sources. Some examples would be soya, tofu, all forms of bean from kidney to cannellini to black beans, eggs, cheese, quinoa and pulses
Aubergine Dhal, the slow cooker way. Read More »
Christmas, often a time of rich food, sweet treats and excess. Now with a toddler around and my love of healthy eating I decided to revamp our usual flapjack recipe. My husband is a huge mince pie fan and this rather inspired me to use the mincemeat in a different way. What I love about
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Yesterday was an exciting day. I’ve been working on a secret project and yesterday was the special launch event. Operation Hospital Food is currently a TV series showing how James Martin’s journey improving hospital food. Now my latest trip to hospital proved to me how much this project is needed, so I’m definitely in favour.
Operation Hospital Food: Meeting James Martin Read More »
This is one glorious meal. Its one of those meals that I look forward to all day, and just knowing I have this yummy goodness to eat later on gives me a zing in my step. Thankfully it’s a superhealthy meal too 🙂
Sweet Paprika Chilli of Glory. Read More »
Portion control. It’s key if you want to lose weight or maintain a healthy weight and it’s usually carbohydrates that are the tricky customers. Now you could weigh foods out each time, but that can lead to obsessive tendencies in some and isn’t always that practical. I much prefer that people use household measure such
Perfect Portions for a Healthy Weight. Read More »
I love fish but I sometimes struggle to get it into our weekly menu as hubby isn’t that keen on it. Anything with bones, a head or tails is definitely not allowed on the table (prawns excepted) and anything too fishy is also a no go. So here is my latest fishy offering and this
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