Nutrition

Tips for Smoothly Transitioning to a Plant-Based Diet

Thanks to their proven health and environment benefits, plant-based diets are becoming more popular each year. Studies show that eating more plant-based meals can help with sustaining weight and even weight loss, reducing the risk of mortality, and lowering th...

Bright and Beautiful Eyes

Our eyes are often what people focus on first, whether it’s strangers we’ve met for the first time, a hot date or an old friend. Big, bright eyes are a universal sign of glowing vitality! We have all heard them described as ‘the windows to the soul’, but yo...

What You Need to Know About Vegan Diets

A vegan often prefers to follow a vegan lifestyle for financial, health, and ethical reasons or considerations. However, unlike vegetarians who want to maintain more flexibility in their diets, for many people going vegan, it also means giving up all animal pr...

Roast Garlic and Rosemary Bread

Whenever I make this Eat Yourself Fit Roast Garlic and Rosemary Bread, friends and family are usually amazed to find out that the special key ingredient for creating texture and flavour is.... sweet potato! Using it means that you can really reduce the...

Three Plant-Based Foods That May Improve the Health of Your Eyes

It can be challenging to motivate yourself to pick the foods you eat with a purpose that is based on more than just personal taste. However, those who are mindful of how the foods they consume affect their physical wellbeing know that there is too much at stak...

Does Gut Health = Good Health?

The past decade has witnessed an evolving body of scientific research investigating potential links between human gut health and mood, immunity and overall physical health. Indeed, the gut-brain axis has been the focus of extensive recent research, and various...

Back To School Brownie Bars

September is officially here...  the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness! It's actually hard to believe that summer is over, the kids are back to school and the days and nights are going to get darker, cooler and longer from now on.  ...

My Day on a Plate: Alva O’Loughlin Kennedy

Alva O’Loughlin Kennedy is the Creative Director of PERFORM, the performing arts festival returning to the RDS Dublin on February 29th 2020. Where do you shop?  It’s usually a mix between my local Tesco and Aldi for general family shop. There ar...

My Day on a Plate: Actor Aoibhéann McCann

Aoibhéann McCann is a theatre, film and television actor with roles in hit shows such as Vikings and Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope. @aoibheannmccann Where do you shop?  Local. Stoneybatter Fruit & Veg & Lilliput Stores offer plastic-free opt...

Spiced Almond Loaf

Sweet potato is the magic ingredient in this soft and satisfying, lightly-spiced loaf. As an incredibly versatile and nutritious source of filling fibre and complex carbs, and packed with beta-carotene to support health skin, it also makes a superb alternative...