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Feb 6, 20204 min read
Decide which fermented food is best for you, your family and your hormones!
Confused about which fermented food to choose? Read on for some ideas on which one to choose first. The popularity of fermented foods had...
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Jan 9, 20204 min read
Perimenopause; can diet and lifestyle help?
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...
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Nov 20, 20193 min read
Easy Sauerkraut
Sauerkraut is one of the easiest and most nutritious foods you can make at home. Some of the benefits of sauerkraut include: It contains...
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Nov 20, 20191 min read
Nourishing Miso Soup
There is nothing like a nourishing and comforting soup on a cold winters day, and especially one that has the added benefit of supporting...
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Oct 22, 20191 min read
Smoked Mackerel Pate
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...
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Oct 22, 20191 min read
Autumn Blackberry & Apple Crumble
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...
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Oct 22, 20191 min read
Quick Dinner; Tuna Pasta
Busier days call for a quicker dinner and this is one of ours. Usually served with pasta or buttered spaghetti, I thought potatoes would...
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Oct 9, 20191 min read
Easy Oat Bread
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...
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Nov 28, 20182 min read
Healthy Hazelnut Chocolate Spread....yum, yum
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...
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Nov 15, 20182 min read
Dairy Free Healthy Wellington Squares
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...
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Jun 10, 20141 min read
It's a Rainbow; smoothie that is.....tee, hee
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...
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Feb 12, 20141 min read
Healthy breakfast ideas for children...and adults...
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...
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Nov 4, 20132 min read
A twinkly, healthy snack: seedy, chocolate brownie
With its sprinkling of jewel like goji berries and tang of chocolate orange, these raw chocolate brownies always remind of...
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Sep 3, 20132 min read
Top 3 tips to a 'relatively' healthy eating kids birthday party!
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...
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Jul 3, 20132 min read
#5: Sources of protein - helping to balance blood sugars
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...
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Jun 10, 20132 min read
Ottolenghi's Hummus....oh me, oh my...
I am never using tinned chickpeas again for a hummus recipe. The holy grail of hummus is that really smooth, creamy texture that just...
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May 30, 20131 min read
Home-made Nutella......a chocolately treat
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...
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May 27, 20132 min read
Healthy Eating Tip #5: Sources of protein.......
When 'protein' is mentioned, more often than not, we think of craving a nice big juicy steak, with creamy peppercorn sauce, buttered...
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May 20, 20132 min read
Gluten Free Ginger, Almond and Cherry Biscuits
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...
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May 6, 20132 min read
Healthy Eating Tip #4: The last word on fats......cooking with fats
This is it, the last word on healthy fats! While it is highly recommended to incorporate unsaturated fats into your diet, especially...
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Apr 29, 20132 min read
Healthy Eating Tip #4: Even more on healthy fats.......
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...
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Apr 22, 20133 min read
Healthy Eating Tip #4: A daily dose of healthy fats...
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...
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Apr 22, 20131 min read
Grain Free Granola
This granola is crunchy, a little bit sweet and full of gorgeous ingredients. It's from Maev Creaven, a nutritional therapist in Galway,...
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Apr 16, 20131 min read
How shall I call thee, oh sweet one? Alternatives to sugar.
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...
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Apr 12, 20132 min read
Low Sugar Orange and Cinnamon Granola
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...
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Apr 3, 20132 min read
Sugar Free Carrot, Pineapple & Raisin Buns
I love these little buns. They're packed full of lovely ingredients - eggs, carrots, pineapple, cinnamon, wholewheat flour - and not a...
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Apr 3, 20133 min read
Healthy Eating Tip #3: Top 5 tips to keep blood sugars steady
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,...
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Mar 28, 20132 min read
Encouraging Children to choose Healthy Options
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...
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Mar 21, 20131 min read
Top 5 Healthy Eating Tips: #2 Eat a Rainbow
Besides all the vitamins and minerals that we always hear about, there are over 4,000 different types of phytochemicals in plants in...
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Mar 21, 20132 min read
Roast Cauliflower, Butternut Squash and Blue Cheese Salad
#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...
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Mar 7, 20131 min read
Zingy Green Salad Dressing.....
This is the most versatile salad dressing ever and it's so good for helping your digestion. Bitter leaves are seriously super at...
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Mar 4, 20132 min read
Top 5 Healthy Eating Tips: #1 Digestion
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...
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Feb 21, 20132 min read
A choco-hit........
Raw nuts and seeds are true superfoods readily available to us. They are literally packed with vitamins, such as E and Bs, minerals, such...
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Feb 15, 20131 min read
Oh my sweetheart.......cabbage
Valentines, valentines, what to do on valentines........ The first thing that popped into my head was how maligned cabbage is....no...
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Feb 12, 20131 min read
Green Smoothie or 'Hulk Juice'
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...
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Feb 10, 20132 min read
Fruity Stewed Apple
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...
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Feb 10, 20131 min read
Baby, it's cold outside
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...
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