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Eat well for life | Healthy living tips
Shop, grow, prepare and eat tasty, healthy food. Our nutrition, wellbeing and healthy living tips will teach you to heal from the inside out using everyday fresh foods. Know your own body and eat and live in a way that really works for you. Eat for health, eat for life.
Winter – keep healthy – drink herbal teas
When it comes to winter, it's often not till mid-winter when we start to wilt a little from the colder days and nights. Looking for something to warm you and aid any winter chills? These tea blends are perfect. Immunity tea: Contains herbs that have been specifically...
What have they done to our food?
Food modifications - additives - synthesis This piece of creativity (rant), emerged after a sleepless night of a racing mind, leg wriggles, sweats, and a growling bowel. I had made a mistake and bought a pack of soup. Ready to eat, organic, good food the label said. I...
How to live to be 100
DESS - what does this mean? Diet. Exercise. Sleep. Stress. These are the 4 pillars of good health, in my book anyway. If you take care of these 4 pillars you are on your way to achieving optimum health and yes, this may be how to live to be 100. We all hope to enjoy...
Artichokes – fresh and delicious
The beautiful globe of the artichoke Looking for a great prebiotic and antioxidant? Try a fresh artichoke. Seeing them on the farmers' market table encouraged me to buy half a dozen globe artichokes and see what I could do with them as a fresh vegetable. I trimmed and...
Turmeric powder and turmeric lattes
Turmeric day lovelies I'm amazed at how easy preparing turmeric powder was. How superb the final product has turned out. I started with a beautiful product: grown spray-free fresh turmeric. I just scraped it, sliced it, and put it in my dehydrator for most of the day....
GF bolognese
What to swap for a better GF bolognese Bolognese without the gluten or the meat Simply replace the spaghetti or pasta with wild rice organic edamame and the beef with lentils dhal Too easy and delicious!
How to Eat Out Without Feeling Like You Have “Diet Issues”?
How do you choose from a menu when eating out and avoid eating the foods you don't want? Here's the thing - I don't have diet issues, but when I worked out my list of choice foods for my body at the time and, a family dinner or social occasion comes up that means...
Getting started on the ‘get my body better’ journey
You know - when I started doing something to 'get my body better' and truly cooking for wellbeing, I had to find NEW ways of making food tasty. To make food from ingredients that were different, and some I'd never heard of was SCARY. I don't like WASTING food, so I...
AM I THERE YET? – nope still on the journey to wellness
If I share with you a piece of MY wellness journey, will YOU cut me some slack?I wondered how I would do this 'get my body better' thing all by myself. When on a social outing the pressure to 'have a drink' or 'go on, just try the pizza, it's great' felt HUGE. I FELT...
Gluten withdrawl
Gluten Withdrawal Symptoms: List of Possibilities Some people experience very subtle or no gluten withdrawal symptoms when they stop eating it, but others experience moderately debilitating symptoms that can last weeks before improving. Below is a list of possible...
Feeling hungry all the time?
Feeling hungry all the time? Try getting more leptin. Leptin is the hormone released from the brain that tells you that you have had enough to eat. But when this malfunctions, we just keep on eating. So, if you're constantly eating, try getting a little more leptin in...
Simple body system clean up
An overindulgence detox diet Need to get over your indulgences of Christmas, New Year parties or even a hard weekend? Want a simple system detox so you can feel refreshed, energetic and ready to go? This is what I do for my overindulgence detox diet: For 3-4 days eat...
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