Christmas Survival Guide – Top 5 Tips to Reduce Stress With only 2 weeks to go until Christmas descends and with the frenzy of the season ever increasing, I want to share with you my top 5 tips to keeping those stress levels down. Come through the other side having enjoyed the festive experience and […]
Top 6 tips to choosing healthy snacks
I’m having a bit of a rant today as I’ve read a couple of articles about ‘healthy’ snacks. It appears that focusing on ‘healthy’ snacks will be a food industry trend in 2019 You may have seen the new ‘air-popped’ snacks, made using hot air technology to create a healthier alternative to fried foods? And […]
Should I Buy All Organic Veg? Find Out Here
Ever heard of EWG? It’s the Environmental Working Group in America and annually they release a list of fruit and vegetables they call ‘The Clean 15 and the Dirty Dozen’ It highlights fruits and vegetables they find to be contaminated in our food chain. However, do bear in mind that their USA farming practices are […]
Sugar Addiction…Oh why do I love you so?
Sugar Addiction…Oh why do I love you so? Do you find yourself reaching for chocolate, cake, biscuits when you’re not hungry and don’t even notice when you’ve finished eating them? And still want another? I just came in and devoured half a packet of chocolate covered rice cakes back to back without really thinking. I […]
3 Easy Ways to Get Antioxidants into Your Diet
3 Easy Ways to Get Antioxidants into Your Diet Today’s blog is a simple guide to how to get those often talked about antioxidants into your diet. Antioxidants are those things that kill the unwanted and sometimes dangerous free radicals in our bodies. Free radicals are a natural product of our metabolism, caused by […]
Are Berries a Superfood? – The Truth
Today I’m continuing my journey into what are termed to be ‘superfoods’. What are ‘Superfoods’? As I’ve said before in my previous blogs on superfoods, there is no real such thing as a ‘superfood’. It’s a marketing term to encourage us to buy into nutritious but often highly expensive products. In fact in 2007 […]
Is Spirulina Good for you? – Is it really a superfood?
Today I’m continuing the green theme following my last blog on the wondrous cruciferous green vegetables….with….. algae! Yum!? I’m looking at spirulina which is commonly sold as a ‘superfood’ in powdered form. It’s used as an addition to juices and smoothies or drunk as shots. It can even be added to soups and other […]
Are Green Vegetables Good For You? – A Superfood?
Do you eat your greens? My 1970’s childhood memories bring up over-boiled, soggy, grey cabbage, piles of even soggier, dark green, bitter ‘greens’ which I still don’t know what they were….I really hated greens vegetables… Broccoli wasn’t readily available, kale unheard of, and as for bok choy? Eh what?? But now green vegetables have […]
Perfect Granola! Easy Recipe- Honestly!
The perfect homemade granola! Easy Recipe…Even For Those That Hate To Cook! Recently, my in-laws proudly showed me the ‘healthy’ granola they were having for breakfast and I was blown away by the amount of sugar content! Plus they always added honey…no wonder they felt so tired and hungry mid morning as their blood sugar […]
Five Ways To Avoid Putting On Weight Over Christmas And Still Eat Chocolate!
Are you one of those people that looks forward to Christmas and indulging in divine dinners, decadent desserts and fine wines? But also dread the thought of putting on weight by overindulging, not being able to stop yourself from having that last itsy bitsy mine pie or Christmas cake? Well I’m going to share with […]