recipe: mini green cakes

02 | Sep | 2015

cooking spinach improves its nutritional profile as the body cannot break down the all the nutrients in raw spinach. choose organic spinach because the leafs in conventional varieties tend to be sprayed heavily with pesticides. spirulina is an additional option for this recipe and is available to buy in health food shops. continue reading...

it’s OK, its gluten free?!

26 | Aug | 2015

Gluten free foods are becoming increasingly more main stream with ‘free from’ aisles popping up in shops nationwide. Considering there was a time when this food was only available to order on prescription, this is definitely a positive move continue reading...

screw it...

18 | Aug | 2015

For any of you who signed up to my newsletter and read it, you’ll know that my ‘ahead of the trend’ mum in law Teresa lent me her spiralizer earlier in the summer. It has taken my love of veggies to a new level so I thought I’d share it on the blog. continue reading...

protein for weight loss

10 | Aug | 2015

I am not a fan of restrictive diets or calorie counting for the purpose of weight loss however I do believe in the power of protein if you are trying to drop a few. Eating protein does this in a number of impressive ways; continue reading...

recipe: raw chocolate bark

27 | Jul | 2015

cacao regularly features in my recipes as I am forever dipping into it, but honestly a bag lasts for ages! with just three ingredients, this chocolate bark it couldn’t be easier. don’t be deterred by the coconut oil, it is a plant based saturated fat which is used as energy instead of being stored as fat in the body. continue reading...