Choc-tastic Chocolate Banana Muffins
These muffins are free from gluten, dairy, eggs and processed sugar. They are delicious hot out of the oven or eaten when completely cool. You need: 1 cup almond meal ½ cup rice flour ½ cup buckwheat flour ¼ cup natural sweetener (I use raw granulated sugar like this...
Bump Ahead
My step-mother can teach us all a thing or two about playfulness. She embodies playfulness making time spent with her a joy. She is the one, in the toy section of the store, playing with the toys or the person that gets a lively game of Spoons going. My dad would...
Pokémon Go – Something To Celebrate
It is fascinating to see how the world turns. A lament of many over the last decade or so has been that teenagers and children do not get outside to play and spend too much time on screens. This was initially TV and video games and more recently phones. So it is great...
Roast Tomatoes And Lycopene
The magic word you need to know is ‘Lycopene’ – an antioxidant that activates once tomatoes become cooked. Lycopene helps to mop up damaging free radicals in the body that harm our healthy cells…it’s also been reported to support your body to fight cancers of the...
The Top 10 Anti-Inflammatory Foods To Lose Weight And Create Optimal Health
On a daily basis, you are reminded either through the media or your own eyes, of the multitude of people who are ill with diseases such as cancer, alzheimer’s, arthritis, heart disease, diabetes, high blood pressure, asthma, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), obesity...
Back To Basics
A couple of weekends back it was raining so, instead of going for a run I used the exercise bike. One bonus (some may disagree) of this is that you can watch TV whilst exercising. Food shows are something that I find fun to watch and Rick Stein is one of my favourite...
Chimol (A Salvadoran Radish Salsa)
Serve with fish, chicken, steak or eggs. Makes a great fish taco topping. You need: 1 cup radish, chopped fine 1 cup tomato, chopped fine ½ cup red onion, chopped fine ½ cup cilantro, chopped fine Juice of 1 lemon Sea salt to taste To prepare: 1. In a bowl combine...
Goodbye To The Signs And Symptoms
It’s been almost two years now since I said goodbye to the symptoms of my Crohn’s Disease. I sometimes reflect on how I suffered day to day and cannot believe the changes in my life. I had constant day-to-day diarrhoea and suffered with extreme urgency. I could be...
No Non Stick Pans!
There are inflection points in history when things change. After this it can be hard to remember why there was a change and what were things like before. I was thinking about this when grappling with the non-stick fry pan, which seems to “stick”. Some refuse to use...
Plant Protein Stir Fry
The busier I get, the more I turn to meals that are fast and full of nutrients, vitamins, proteins and healthy fats. Nourish your insides and you’ll be able to work longer, harder and happier! These meals must be easy to throw together fast – no fancy chopping or...
7 Reasons To Practice Mindfulness In Nature
Never have humans been so dislocated from nature as we are today. For most of our existence, whether as hunter-gatherers or farmers, our lives have depended on the natural world. Understanding the subtle signals of other animals, the cycle of the seasons and the...
Being Sorry Rather Than Safe
It is winter in the southern hemisphere and with this comes the usual winter illnesses. The vast majority of these are caused by viruses and do not need antibiotics. Yet it seems that many people still want antibiotics for cold and flu like illnesses and many doctors...