I love smoothies. Have you noticed? I barely mention it right? What about green smoothies? Yeh I ADORE them too. Smoothies are just so handy, I make one when I need a snack or just before I go to bed so that I can stick it in the fridge and grab it first this for breakfast. My … Continue reading SMOOTHIE: Vitamin boost, green smoothie
I love a documentary, generally I'm pretty nosey so anything from men living in the desert, marrying lots of women, having a ton of children to get closer to god (seriously Channel 4 where do you find these people) to food documentaries, and everything between. This morning I finally got round to watching What the Health, … Continue reading LISTS: 10 reasons to watch What the Health
I have a confession to make, I hate matcha. There, I've said it. I once had a matcha green tea from a teabag on a train and thought it was the best thing ever, me being me, I was then obsessed with matcha. It was going to be the next big thing in my life … Continue reading SMOOTHIE: Matcha, matcha, matcha
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
After writing my post with tips for Veganuary, I joined the Veganuary group on Facebook and I was so taken aback by the amount of people giving Veganuary a go this year. So I had an idea, I want to profile a few people from the group and follow their Veganuary journey. Meet my buddies. Emma Akehurst … Continue reading THE VEGAN DIARIES: 5 Veganuary buddies
I'm convinced that food is the best medicine, I can't be the only one right? I no longer treat a cold with the regular cold medicine, I simply rest more, drink more water, eat more and eat right! What does that mean? More vitamin C, more vitamin A and less cold medicines, they actually stop … Continue reading SMOOTHIE: The cold buster
*** Competition is now closed. Thanks to all who entered here, on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook*** Halloween is over and now it's full on winter time! Winter is my least favourite time of the year because it's dark, cold, windy and rainy - thank you Glasgow weather. But you have to take the rough with … Continue reading COMPETITION: Win a pair of tickets to VegFest Scotland
I adore tea. Green, peppermint, lemon and ginger, plain of builders tea, I love the lot of them! However sometimes I think that all of the fruit tea smell utterly wonderful then they all kind of taste the same and that taste is mostly bland! A few weeks ago I was reading Pinkiebag's review of Teapig's apple … Continue reading DRINKS: Homemade Apple and Cinnamon Tea
I stumbled across Baotic at Merchant Square Market a couple of months ago mostly because I can smell a health food from 50 feet! Baotic is a healthy drink made from the African fruit, baobab - apparently the baobab tree is one of the oldest in the world. Never heard of the baobab fruit? Sure you have! It's the fruit that … Continue reading DRINKS: Drink Baotic
Like I said in my cinnamon milk post I never look forward to summer turning into autumn because it means we need to say goodbye to bare legs, strawberries and golden skin! But October does mean two things Halloween and pumpkins! I bloody love pumpkins, I love to cook and bake with pumpkin throughout October, it's such a … Continue reading MEAL: Pumpkin soup
