Hunger Control: My 5 Top Tips
Do you ever have days or weeks when you feel hungry all the time and no amount of food can satiate you? Or other times, you don't seem to have much of an appetite at all and even forget to eat regular meals?
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Raw Courgetti with Sun-dried Tomato and Basil Pesto
Courgetti! This is raw courgette noodles made with a spiraliser, one of the niftiest kitchen gadgets around. I bought mine last year from Juicers.ie and use it at least four times a week.
A who...
The Beauty of Fibre
You will see the word fibre mentioned plenty of times on this site, in relation to recipes, diet and plant-based eating. Fibre is found in only plant-based foods, as animal foods are devoid of it.
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Chocolate Almond Butter-Cups
Happy Saturday!!
Hope you’ve all had a great week. It’s definitely been a busy one for me, but it’s also very exciting as my first book was released into bookshops across the country today!
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Cinnamon-Tahini Cookies
There's something so therapeutic about baking cookies. It just makes me happy! And course everybody loves a homemade offering when they pop over for tea and chats :)
I made this batch late last night...
Pineapple, Raspberry and Lime Sorbet
It was a dark, rainy morning in Dublin today, so a frozen tropical sorbet for breakfast for two naturally seemed like great idea to cheer us right up and bring a bit of summer back in!
I was up early tod...
Nuts, Seeds and Butters: The Right Kind of Fat
A wonderful source of plant protein, raw and unsalted nuts, seeds and the various butters made from them are a brilliant addition to your diet for their beauty-boosting monounsaturated fats too.
But please d...
Toasted Coconut Chocolate Bark
It's a dark, grey and rainy day in Dublin. And that calls for a cosy day with plentiful supplies of chocolate... right?!
The inspiration for this toasted coconut chocolate bark came yesterday, when m...
Anti-Inflammatory Carrot, Ginger and Turmeric Smoothie
This anti-inflammatory carrot, ginger and turmeric smoothie is a great example of what functional nutrition is all about. It's food found in its most natural form, with no funny additives or chemicals in si...
Do You Eat Too Much Salt? What It Really Does to Your Body
I'm often asked about healthy salt intake, and it crops up in media discourse quite frequently. How much is too much? And what does too much salt actually do to your body?
For starters, the recommended ...