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, ...
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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 ...
Nourishing Noodles: A Cookbook Review
At the end of May this year the incredibly talented Christiana Anca, perhaps better known under her blog moniker Tales of a Kitchen, released her debut cookbook Nourishing Noodles. It's a beautiful, nutritious collection of plant-based recipes with a ...
Overcoming Orthorexia Part 1 – the beginning
I've been blogging about food and nutrition for a while now, and at times touched on my past experience with eating disorders. But as I embark on a new decade (having just recently turned 30!) I've decided it's time to open up a little and share with ...
Book Review – the Savage Salads debut cookbook
Last week I received a copy of a new cookbook to review; Savage Salads: Fierce Flavours, Filling Power-Ups by Davide Del Gatto & Kristina Gustafsson. I absolutely had to say yes to reviewing this one as salads are my favourite thing in the world ...
The basics of a Low FODMAP Diet
A dip into some of the basics of a low FODMAP diet including some simple food swap suggestions, and links to more detailed resources on managing FODMAP sensitivities. A nutritious diet is typically associated with improvements in physical ...
Link Love: Healthy grain free cake recipes
Making the transition to free-from baking can be a little tricky; let me tell you I have had my fair share of absolute fails when I've been recipe testing! (The best can be resurrected as some kind of granola or "crumble" topping...the worst must go ...
Delicious Healthy Eats in New York City
Over the Easter break I was lucky enough to escape for a 2.5 week holiday with my man; we flew across the Atlantic for an adventure in New York City and then on to Mexico. Needless to say, it was incredibly fun and I didn't want the holiday life to ...
Completing the I Quit Sugar 8 Week Program
On the 3rd April, I finished my very first round of the I Quit Sugar 8 Week Program (which, for the uninitiated, is a eating & lifestyle plan designed to help you kick the sweet stuff and get you eating real, low sugar food). Now that I can call ...
How to choose healthy & nutritious yoghurt
Yoghurt can be a nutritious food, though its potential is often exploited by companies who like to use yoghurt’s healthy halo as a marketing gimmick. There are so many options out there, when you look down the supermarket shelf you've actually ...
Link Love – a healthy egg recipe collection!
In case it’s not totally obvious from my recipes and my many Instagram posts, I am a huge fan of eggs; they are a staple in my kitchen and I am confident that they would rank in my top ten essential foods of ALL TIME. Simple, versatile and incredibly ...
