Last week on the blog, I shared my experience making all of the gluten free goodies at River Cottage Cookery School. Well, I was there for three whole days, and I made a lot more than that! In this blog post I'm sharing the rest of my cooking ...
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River Cottage Cookery School Part 1 – Gluten Free
In mid-March I was lucky enough to head down to River Cottage HQ in Axminster, UK for three days of cookery school. This foodie treat was my 30th birthday present from my husband – not something I tend to gift myself any old day!I wanted to try a ...
Eat With Intention – Book Review (and Interview)
Cassandra Bodzak is a meditation teacher and wellness mentor who’s also pretty nifty in the kitchen. Late in 2016, Cassandra released a beautiful book called Eat With Intention: Nourishing Food and Meditations for Mindful Eating, which combines food ...
How to Eat to Support Your Immune System
Quite a few people have been asking me lately what they can do to improve their immunity (it's a particularly frosty winter over here in the UK!). Some feel they experience it more so than others, but I'm sure many of us go through phases where we ...
Take Up 5 Healthy Habits instead of a Detox
January is always a popular “detox” month; when we apparently need to rid ourselves of our Christmas excesses by embarking on a regime of juices/no carbs/raw food/etc. I’m not mad keen on this idea of “detoxing”. Yes, I ate more indulgent foods over ...
Overcoming Orthorexia Part 3 – moving on
Overcoming Orthorexia - Moving On My last blog post on orthorexia focused on when and how I took steps to pursue recovery from restrictive eating (you can catch up on Part 1 here and Part 2 here).This last post in the series will tell you a little ...
Tips for Eating Seasonally – with Ceri Jones
Something I have become increasingly interested in is eating seasonally. Rather than committing myself to a shopping basket filled with the same produce all year round, I’m trying to build an understanding of how I can alter my meal planning to fit ...
10 Healthy Cookbooks for Christmas
Ten Healthy Cookbooks For Christmas Cookbooks make a beautiful gift. Even for someone like me, who spends ages online and loves delving into food blogs…there’s something just so nice about sitting down with a printed cookbook. It’s a little more of ...
Balanced Babe: Sarah Holloway, Matcha Maiden
I'm excited to share with you this little interview with one of the co-founders of Matcha Maiden, Sarah Holloway. Matcha Maiden is an up-and-coming Australian-based matcha green tea brand which is adored by fans worldwide. And the beautiful Sarah is ...
Tips for making a balanced healthy smoothie
How to make a balanced healthy smoothie If you're a busy person (especially in the mornings!) like me, whizzing together a big smoothie is an easy way to make a super speedy meal and get on with your day. Smoothies are also damn trendy these days, ...
Cookbook Review: Ferment, Pickle, Dry
Ferment, Pickle, Dry - Ancient Methods, Modern Meals is a cookbook that instructs and inspires you to use ancient preservation methods to create some beautiful food. If you've ever wanted to learn how to master these traditional cooking techniques, ...
Overcoming Orthorexia Part 2 – realisation and recovery
In my last post on overcoming orthorexia I shared how I became caught in a cycle of over-exercising and restrictive eating. This post is about when, and how, I faced the realisation my “healthy habits” were not really that healthy, after all. When I ...
