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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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Is Your Eating Really Intuitive? My Thoughts On Positive Food Relationships, Cravings & Functional Issues

“I only eat what my body tells me it needs”

Sounds pretty simple doesn’t it?

And yes in principle I fully support the idea of eating intuitively, following your own unique hunger signals, being in tune with what you need as opposed to the generalised ‘normal’ way of feeding ourselves (whatever that actually is these days…..) should be.

But I do have one distinct stumbling block here – what if your body isn’t firing on all cylinders & so can’t give you the right messages? Well that’s when I pull the above face because I’ve had numerous discussions with individuals that indicate this is the case & so that’s where my attention is directed today.

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Getting The Glow Part II: Microneedling for Collagen Synthesis, Cell Turnover & Scar Removal

*A dermaroller boasts 540 millimetre fine needles!*

This time last week I shared my experiences of a cosmetic acupuncture session with the wonderful Athena Giralea, in addition to the reasoning behind it of course. Find that post here.

This week we progressed & dived into the world of microneedling to regenerate & replenish the skin surface (in combination with more cosmetic acupuncture because it’s amazing) & so of course I will now do exactly the same with this incredible therapy!

So buckle in chaps & let’s talk eternal youth! (or as close to it as we’re going to get….!)

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