The weather has turned distinctly chilly, so we’ve turned to soups for our lunches. I love soups as they really are easy to make, they can be an easy way to get vegetables and great nurtitious food into the family and they heat up the insides. This soup was a bit of an experiment, it […]
Sausage and Roasted Tomato Bake
This week my Archchi came to visit. This is my Sri-lankan grandmother, fondly known to the whole family as Archchi (granny in Singhala). She lives in London and has the greenest fingers of anyone I know. Years ago she had 2 allotments, now its just her garden that produces mainly vegetables, lots of vegetables. From […]
Low Fat, Slow Cooker Rice Pudding
I’ve become a bit of a rice pudding addict of late. There is something about that creamy goodness that just appeals to me, I love it cold, straight from the fridge, either on it’s own or with some fruit. I usually buy it, but a bit of a shopping failure meant the fridge was bare. […]
Baby Food: Why it’s better to make your own.
A Glasgow team have tested 479 shop bought baby foods and found that most of them had fewer nutrients than homemade versions. They also found that the majority of the foods (65%) were sweet in taste, sweetened with fruit sugar rather than sugar itself. Finger foods expecially were found to be sweet. A quote from […]
Gluten Free Ginger Biscuits Recipe, baking with the toddler.
Baking and cooking with my toddler is a very regular occurrence, it’s one activity that I find teaches her lots, keeps us both amused and we get to eat the results. So here is out latest recipe, in the final stages of pregnancy I had a bit of morning sickness creeping back in, so these […]
Plant Based Protein
Blog post written for Slimsticks.com Eating a more plant based diet is becoming increasingly popular and the current research is suggesting it’s the way to go. If you don’t want to go the whole “hog” then why not have a few meat free days in your week? A plant based diet is thought to reduce […]
Visualisation leads to better dietary change
An interesting piece of research caught my eye this week. A team of psychology researchers in Montreal looked into how using mental imagery techniques may increase the likelihood of people eating more fruit and vegetables. They asked 177 students to aim to eat more fruit over the next 7 days. Those who planned, wrote it […]