Not-feta salad! 🙂 It’s vegan!!! 🙂 I’m so busy and don’t have time to write much but I just HAD to share this with you! This is just amazing! When I was on the plane to Istanbul last month the girl I sat next to shared this great tip with me 🙂 (I know! … how amazing that she had vegan…
Simple Shepherds Salad Who is having a productive week then?! I most certainly am! 😛 With the lighter longer days it’s sort out the junk week, spring cleaning time, clear the clutter days and then realise how wonderful your surroundings are! My garden is looking better day after day, several trees are blossoming for the first time ever (that’s so…
Tasty Tricolour Quinoa Salad (Dairy. Egg. Gluten. Free.) Quinoa! That grain (it is actually a seed!) that’s full of protein! 🙂 Standard quinoa (at least in the UK) is the white variety and more frequently available now from local sources. However, quinoa also comes in red and black varieties. I cooked some of the black as a side to my…
Spicy Bulgur salad Here is a very quick and easy healthy and filling lunch to prepare! Packed with brown bulgur wheat, avocado, lime and chilli. It is low in saturated fat, full of protein and fibre, contains calcium, iron, potassium, manganese and a load of vitamins such as A, B, C, E, K. This recipe is best if you have some left over bulgur in…
Successful weight management does not always depend on completely changing what you eat. For many people, a more realistic approach is to keep familiar meals while making small adjustments to the ingredients, portions and drinks that appear most often. That matters because losing weight and maintaining weight loss are slightly different challenges. A highly restrictive diet may produce short-term change,…
Plans We can plan as much as we like – but if those plans involve depending on other people, then sometimes, the plans go out the window! Deliveries Take today for example! One of my volunteers is waiting patiently for a delivery for our charity. They have taken at least three hours out of their day to wait from 9am-12pm…
Travelling offers a fantastic escape from daily routines, but it can often derail our commitment to healthy eating. The temptation of convenient but less nutritious options, combined with a packed itinerary, makes it easy to neglect wellness goals. However, with a bit of foresight and the right strategies, you can fuel your adventures with wholesome, delicious food. This keeps you…
Love it or hate it? If you are in the UK, you could be forgiven for thinking that I am talking about Marmite! Of course writing that has just given me a new food idea! Anyway, tofu is one of those foods that vegans tend to love, vegetarians eat when they need to, and everyone else gives it a wide…
A simple summer side with BBQ flavour Today, I picked my first corn from the allotment! This is a massive achievement this year! Locally, we have a hosepipe ban and we are officially in drought. Yes, we can use a watering can and we can still water our crops, but this has a much wider impact on the wildlife too.…
