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Blessings Bonanza

Yesterday was a bit of a crapper if  the truth be told. I had one of those white noise headaches (not cripplingly bad, but bad enough) and as much energy as a dead battery. It reminded me of those not [Read More]

Thermomix Brown Rice and Bean Salad

Serves 6 This healthy, low GI brown rice salad is so easy and so delicious. It's a great way to use up left over veggies and feed a crowd. When I'm pushed for time, I use frozen veggies but this [Read More]

Thermomix Chickpea Soup

Serves 4 This tasted just as good as I remembered from my Varoma demo. You can view the original recipe here. Ingredients 2 medium onions, peeled and quartered 20g olive oil 170g-200g [Read More]

Time for Tea!

Tuesday is off to a great start. I'm up early enough  to throw some weights around in Kristy's early morning class and my homeless friend is up and about uber-early too, so I can give him some Pumpkin [Read More]

The Need to Feed

I took the left overs of the lovely Donna Hay's Lemon Yoghurt Cake to the Pub2Pub - I thought it would make a good post-run-pick-me-up or a nice teatime treat for later. The cake was a big hit with [Read More]

All Appliance Saturday

Today, I'm going to enjoy a little of what I fancy and I don't waste any time! I'm up bright and early and stretch my legs with a 5km rock around the block before hitting the scales hard with a [Read More]

Shower Power

Monika's baby may not have arrived but the day to have the baby shower certainly has! It's pretty exciting. Let's think pink - there's balloons, there's banners and there's baby baking ...and lots of [Read More]

Silent but Deadly

I'm up with the birds to train with Kathy. We stick to strength exercises today which appear deceptively simple and seem relatively painless. These type of workouts are what I call "silent but [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]

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]