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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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food hugs
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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food hugs
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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