Food Nutrition and Lifestyle Advice To Improve Your Mood
Energizing Turkey Black Bean Chilli Recipe This Turkey Black Bean Chilli recipe makes the perfect weekday meal, and an inexpensive meal if you are catering for a large group, such as having relatives coming over. You can cook this in advance and just heat it up and eat it later. If you have people that…
Easy Energy Bites I love these easy energy bites, because they are quick to make, nutritious and satisfy hungry children and hungry adults. They are great for preventing you from reaching from the chocolate bar, and a good staple to put in your kids lunchbox. They are great for energy because the oats are a…
Broccoli and Chicken Soup If there is one vegetable you should eat and get your kids to eat, it’s broccoli. It is so packed full of vitamins, minerals, and fibre, its health benefits are numerous. This broccoli and chicken soup is the perfect winter warming food to have for your lunch, to eat on the…
Healthier Katsu Chicken I bought some Katsu chicken off a food truck recently, which inspired me to make my own version. I particularly like this version because it is healthier than the more traditional recipe and suitable to eat as a family, my kids loved it. I haven’t eaten a lot of Japanese cuisine. The only…
Better Than a Cup of Coffee ‘Toasted Coconut Coffee Smoothie’ I love this silky creamy smoothie, it tastes a bit like rum and raisin ice cream to me, which is rather odd considering there is not an ounce of rum and raisin in it. But it has a lovely subtle light flavour, with only a…
Home Made Easy Peezy Pizza Okay, so pizzas don’t go on my list of healthy meals, but I do like to indulge in the odd pizza, especially as we are having our Italian weekend coming up here in Jersey. Hopefully, I will pick up some great cooking tips when I visit, especially since celebrity…
Brain Boosting Strawberry Banana Cheesecake. It’s hard to believe that something that can taste this good can actually be good for your brain? The main reason is because the essential fats that are in the cheesecake. There is none of the usual cream with loads of added sugar in this cheesecake, and it’s not…
Chocolate Banana Cake Most kids love cakes, and mine are no exception. Some people often think that because of what I do my kids don’t eat the things other kids eat. The truth is most of the time they eat really healthy, but they have occasional times when we go out and I let…
How To Strengthen The Immune System Summer is quickly turning into autumn, as many people have said to me, how quickly the summer has gone, and I agree. I think it’s when we wait for something for so long and then when it finally arrives it’s gone in a flash. It’s a bit like the…
Can Turmeric Help Arthritis? Turmeric has been used in both Chinese medicine and Ayurvedic medicine for many years as an effective anti- inflammatory. I hear more and more stories of people using it, particularly to help Arthritis. But ‘Can Turmeric Help Arthritis?’ ‘What does the science say?’ ‘What dosage should you take?’ ‘How can you incorporate…
Eating Rhubarb Could Help Alzheimer’s Disease Over recent years there has been more of a focus to look for natural foods, particularly phytochemicals to help with Alzheimers Disease, and it seems that eating Rhubarb could help with Alzheimer’s Disease. In one particular study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17113925 Rhaponticin which is a Rhubarb Rhizome found in the roots of…
Why Does The Weather Have Such An Effect On Our Mood? If only we could always be ‘as cool as a cucumber’, as the idiom suggests ‘being very calm, and in control of your emotions’. But in the hot weather being as cool as a cucumber can be hard. Small things that normally would not…
Home Made Easy Peezy Pizza Okay, so pizzas don’t go on my list of healthy meals, but I do like to indulge in the odd pizza, especially as we are having our Italian weekend coming up here in Jersey. Hopefully, I will pick up some great cooking tips when I visit, especially since celebrity…
Chocolate Banana Cake Most kids love cakes, and mine are no exception. Some people often think that because of what I do my kids don’t eat the things other kids eat. The truth is most of the time they eat really healthy, but they have occasional times when we go out and I let…
After School Snacks Are you struggling to know what to give your kids after school? Finding healthy after school snacks can sometimes be difficult. You pick your kids up from school and one of the first things they greet you with is, ‘I’m starving’. Quite often there is no ‘how was your day mum? We…