It is soup season. It's cold, often dark and miserable and it's January, the month where everyone wants to get fit, eat better and improve their life and soup is a cheap, easy way to cram in some vegetables, fill yourself up and stay on track for the new year. Potato gets a bad wrap, … Continue reading MEAL: Potato and leek soup
Tag: healthy
LIFESTYLE: My new morning routine
I've been thinking a lot about about how routines help create healthy habits and how that makes us feel better. I took a long hard look at my weekday routine and realised, something needs to change. Light alarm No longer do I use a phone alarm to wake myself up (it still goes off but … Continue reading LIFESTYLE: My new morning routine
DRINKS: Coconut oil coffee
That's right, my level of love for coconut oil has reached a new level... Currently I use it to cook with, I slather my hair in it for a mask, slop it on my face to moisturise and now it's going into my coffee! Now I know how this sounds, it sounds god awful. I'd read … Continue reading DRINKS: Coconut oil coffee
SNACKS: Peanut butter on apple
Hopefully by now you realise that I'm into no fuss food, there's nothing more off putting than healthy, wheat free recipes that have a list of ingredients longer than your arm and take two hours to prepare. There's just no need for it. Now, I fully admit that this is not a recipe, it is … Continue reading SNACKS: Peanut butter on apple
SWEET TREATS: Free from everything cookies
Last weeks failure of sugar and dairy free flapjacks (that have been eaten as crumbly granola all week) inspired me try some sugar, dairy, wheat and egg free cookies. Now I know that this sounds terrible but honestly, they surprised me too, they aren't conventional cookies but they are most certainly lovely little, sweet bites … Continue reading SWEET TREATS: Free from everything cookies