Confused about which fermented food to choose? Read on for some ideas on which one to choose first. The popularity of fermented foods had...

It's that life stage that creeps up on you and just when you're in the thick of work stress and bringing up kids, symptoms appear with a...

Sauerkraut is one of the easiest and most nutritious foods you can make at home. Some of the benefits of sauerkraut include: It contains...

There is nothing like a nourishing and comforting soup on a cold winters day, and especially one that has the added benefit of supporting...

Oh me oh my, you make me cry, you're such a good looking lunch! I love a lunch that sings to my senses and ticks a number of boxes at...

I love a bit of easy foraging...in my Dad's back garden! That counts, right? When lovely crisp red apples are available to you, plus some...

Busier days call for a quicker dinner and this is one of ours. Usually served with pasta or buttered spaghetti, I thought potatoes would...

This recipe is a regular one in our house on Monday's when the oven is generally on for roast chicken or the like. It's super easy to...

Here's a recipe I hadn't made in a long time. Amidst all the shiny recipe books and scraps of paper, I find myself rediscovering old...

This recipe was written by Michelle Hunt of the Peachy Palate, devised for the Happy Pear, a whopping 5 years ago! Doesn't time fly. I'm...

An American friend of mine can't believe how many rainbows she gets to see living in Ireland. The advantage, I guess, of all that soft...

It's the meal that starts your child off on it's daily adventures, so the most important thing is that provides a solid platform for...

With its sprinkling of jewel like goji berries and tang of chocolate orange, these raw chocolate brownies always remind of...

As sure as Christmas, your child's birthday party comes around once a year and is a major big deal, especially when you're 6! While it's...

Ever feel hungry about an hour after eating? Or totally zonked out during the afternoon? It may be that you need to have a look at...

I am never using tinned chickpeas again for a hummus recipe. The holy grail of hummus is that really smooth, creamy texture that just...

At last, the recipe! I made this for my workshop on Nutrition for Children, just as a little treat. Something to have in the back pocket...

When 'protein' is mentioned, more often than not, we think of craving a nice big juicy steak, with creamy peppercorn sauce, buttered...

I've a pile of printed recipes in my kitchen, tear-offs from magazines and blotched scraps of paper mounting on a daily basis. They're...

This is it, the last word on healthy fats! While it is highly recommended to incorporate unsaturated fats into your diet, especially...

I often notice a very quick look of horror on faces when I mention about incorporating fats into our diets. The 'low-fat' message has...

The fat family has a bad reputation. They all seem a bit wayward, not good to be around and bad for our neighbourhood. This reputation is...

This granola is crunchy, a little bit sweet and full of gorgeous ingredients. It's from Maev Creaven, a nutritional therapist in Galway,...

It's everywhere. Sugar. And it's the master of disguise. Known by many names. This fact makes it a little bit tricky when trying to read...

In a world where one can easily buy Kellogg's Frosties, which are 37% pure sugar (coz, they're greeeeeaaat - NOT), it's really nice to...

I love these little buns. They're packed full of lovely ingredients - eggs, carrots, pineapple, cinnamon, wholewheat flour - and not a...

It's the curse of our time. Sugar, sugar everywhere and not a bite to eat! The human body has all the equipment to eat carbohydrates,...

It's one of the big worries for all parents; how to encourage children to eat a healthy range of foods. Especially when they don't seem...

Besides all the vitamins and minerals that we always hear about, there are over 4,000 different types of phytochemicals in plants in...

#2 of my Top 5 Healthy Eating Tips is all about Eating a Rainbow every day - a mix of colourful fruits and vegetables. This dish is a...

This is the most versatile salad dressing ever and it's so good for helping your digestion. Bitter leaves are seriously super at...

I'm going to write a series. Not a telenovela kinda thing. Not anything as remotely violent as Eastenders, or as glamorous as the Good...

Raw nuts and seeds are true superfoods readily available to us. They are literally packed with vitamins, such as E and Bs, minerals, such...

Valentines, valentines, what to do on valentines........ The first thing that popped into my head was how maligned cabbage is....no...

Do you have orange juice in the morning? Fancy adding one more step and making it a super healthy OJ? Simply pour it into a measuring jug...

This is totally made up recipe, put together by pure instinct. Feel free to play around with the flavours you add and the dried fruit you...

It's a particularly Irish thing to talk about the weather, but in this instance, it's 100% on topic. Spring has sprung and we're meant to...