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COLLAGEN CONSIDERATIONS: WHAT IS IT & WHY WE MIGHT SUPPLEMENT WITH EXTRA

Supplemental collagen has been growing in popularity over the last couple of years with recipes adding it hither, thither & with great abandon. So of course I often get questions as to whether we really need the extra influx or not.

To start with the science bit.

Collagen is a structural protein made of amino acids (the beads that make the protein necklace) that comprise our connective tissues, anything from the corneas in your eyes to your nails, your intestinal wall, cell membranes, skin, muscles, bones & more. Gelatine is actually the same amino acids bonded together in a slightly different way which is why the 2 behave in different ways when we use them in food & drinks.

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THE VITAMIN D DOWNLOAD

Ah Vitamin D.

AKA the sunshine vitamin.

If I had to pick a favourite micronutrient maybe, just maybe, this would be my choice. And not just because the best way to top up your levels is to leap about on a summer’s day in a bikini…..

Although that doesn’t hurt of course.

No Vitamin D is truly integral for many elements of our health & wellbeing but working out how much we need, how we get this if we don’t live at the Equator, & which supplements are superior to others can get a little on the confusing side. But never fear I’ve broken all of this down for you in the following simple sections.

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RECIPE: Salmon Studded Potato Cakes

There was definitely a point somewhere along the way when food got REALLY complicated. As in, in order to produce a dish vaguely worth any appreciation you needed to invest in about 35 ingredients & 3 days of preparation time.

No wonder people think they can’t cook these days…..

Well I’m here today (& everyday) waving my little flag for honest, simple staples. The kind of meal my wonderful grandmothers would have whipped up & served (much to our delight) from the bits they had in their fridges.

No mess, no fuss, just honest, nourishing goodness.

OK well there may have been a little mess but that sounds less poetic doesn’t it.

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RECIPE: Billionaire Bites (Gluten Free & Vegan)

I recently had a conversation with someone & they asked me whether I ever do anything unhealthy.

I guess it depends on what your criteria for unhealthy is……

I am entirely aware that I live in a way that may appear unfamiliar & effort intensive to others, but to me the choice to have my daily 10 servings of vegetables at breakfast (& another at lunch & another a dinner…!) rather than over the course of the day is something I have learnt makes me feel wonderful. Progressively & incrementally over the last 10 years.

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Wholesale Whole Foods: Why I’ve Now Gone To Buy Whole Foods Online For All My Kitchen Staples

I have often come up against the barrier of ‘but everything healthy is SO expensive’.

And yes if you do choose to purchase Madagascan vanilla powder from a tiny independent health food store on a high street in a relatively affluent neighbourhood to make your grain free vegan muffins then you would be entirely correct.

As you can probably tell I don’t do this. Anymore.

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The Many Facets of Self Care

We have all been told we must love our neighbours as we love ourselves but I will hazard a guess that many of us afford others more attention & kindness than we gift to our own beings.

Now this is not a bad thing per se, being a wonderful human being, caring for our loved ones &/or those we may not necessarily even know that well in itself is a form of self love, as in turn we tend to see at least some of that being reciprocated. Paying it forward so to speak.

My thoughts today however turn to the numerous different ways we can look after ourselves, a few of which I summarise below.

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