Making Yoghurt at Home
Making your own yoghurt couldn’t be easier. You can even exchange the cow’s milk for goat’s or sheep’s milk and you will get goat’s or sheep’s yoghurt!
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Post Christmas Detoxifying Foods
Post Christmas Detoxifying Foods
Now that ‘Women’s Christmas’ has passed, the onslaught of partying, drinking, chocolates, late nights and general excess is probably in decline. Many of us feel sluggish, tired, headachy, overweight and generally low on these dull, grey, drizzly days. Why not spring clean your body and mind by changing your diet for even a week or so? This week let’s see what we can put in to help the liver cleanse (next week we’ll see what to cut out!).…
Fight Those Winter Blues With Food
Although February is technically spring, it is still very cold and frosty. The short hours of daylight contribute to many people suffering from SAD – seasonal affective disorder – commonly known as the winter blues. If the crocuses, snowdrops and longer days haven’t lifted your spirits out of the depressive, dark winter, you need to eat foods that are involved in making the ‘happiness’ hormone Serotonin.
Soppy about Sloppy Soup
Soup is amazing. It can be fancy or simple. It can be dressed up or dressed down depending on the occasion. You can drink it or you may have to eat it. It can be taken to work in a ‘soup-only-flask’ for a comforting lunch. And, best of all (for me!) you can secretly feed children all sorts of nutritious vegetables without them ever knowing about it. As long as the ingredients are fresh and not overcooked, your soup will be more nutritious than many a meal.
Lettuce on the Windowsil
Lettuce on the windowsil
There’s nothing more rewarding than growing your own food. And there’s very little that’s more nutritional to buy than to grow yourself. Nutrients in food are at their highest when the food was growing one minute and on your plate the next!
Are you addicted to stimulants?
Are you addicted to stimulants?
Do you need a cup of coffee, a cigarette or something sweet to get you going in the morning? Do you feel low in energy or drowsy during the day and rectify it with a bar of chocolate or a coffee? Do you suffer from frequent headaches or sweating? Are you rarely wide-awake within 20mins of rising? If you answer ‘yes’ to these questions you may be relying too much on stimulants for your energy. The result may be that you also suffer from fatigue, irritability, depression, crying or aggressive outbursts, forgetfulness or blurred vision.
Eat Whole-foods not Refined Foods!
Eat Whole-foods not Refined Foods!
Most people know that foods contain Vitamins and Minerals. But does the food we eat, after growing, refining, cooking and packaging still actually contain these compounds? Growing and processing food in the ‘modern’ way removes a lot of these essential constituents of food. Did you know that:
Jerusalem Artichokes and the bowel system!
Jerusalem Artichokes and the bowel system!
