Food for Thought: Top Tip 7
7. Eat a balanced diet Cindy recommends we use the Harvard Medical School Healthy Eating Plateas a model not so much for a meal, but as our diet in general. Just like life itself, the key to eating [Read More]
The Visitors are Coming
Beverley and Joan our friends from the mother country are arriving tomorrow and I can hardly contain my excitement. I try to rein myself in by engaging in some kitchen chaos. I'm in the mood for a [Read More]
Good Food, Good News
These days my inbox is inundated with updates and offers from those discount voucher outfits and random promotional material. I don't really care for all that stuff but I so hate to miss out on a [Read More]
The Search is Over
"Seek and ye shall find!" Guess what! David the IT wizard has added a search bar on the blog! What a hero! Can you see it over yonder on the right hand side of the page? Finding your favourite recipe [Read More]
Food for Thought: Top Tip 6
6. "That Meat Lovers Pizza ain't Loving Me Back" (Bolt) Limit the amount of processed and red meat in your diet. Try to eat no more than 500g red meat every week and eat at least 2 serves of fish. [Read More]
Run this Town
What can be better than running alone? Running with friends! Today, Kitty and I down tools on the dot and pop out for a run. It's a glorious afternoon for a run in the winter sun. It's not exactly a [Read More]
Food for Thought: Top Tip 5
5. Eat colours The more colourful your plate is with natural colour, the healthier it is likely to be. It's so easy to do this, add some tomatoes (canned or fresh) to your recipes, or why not bung [Read More]
No Regrets
Life is full of regrets. But the good thing about exercise, is that you never regret it! I really want to run after work but I'm just not feeling it. I know if I don't drag my lazy self outside, I'll [Read More]
Food for Thought: Top Tip 4
4. Choose Whole Grains Cindy explains that grains are just the seeds of cereal plants. The seeds have 3 parts; bran (the fibre rich outer layer,) endosperm (the middle starchy layer,) and [Read More]
hurried@home
The worst thing about weekends is that they are over way too quickly, especially long, lovely ones such as this! We check out of the hotel and head out of town. Orange, you've been awesome! We take [Read More]
