Fitness Friday: Split Squats

As many of you may already know, the squat is the ultimate exercise for strengthening glutes and legs, encouraging muscle growth... and giving you a perky backside too! Squats can also help to improve posture a...

Raspberry Shortbread Smoothie

I know...this all looks very pink and girly, but this fresh raspberry smoothie has plenty of great health credentials too! For a start, raspberries are a low-sugar fruit packed with antioxidants for cellula...

How To Make Healthy Vanilla Caramel Sauce

Caramel sauce made from soaked and blended dates, plus a few extra nifty ingredients, is a godsend for anybody that loves their desserts and sweet treats, but wants to enjoy them without guilt. Cheat clean!...

Two Top Foods For Women

Hello hello! This post is for the ladies in particular, because it's about two really important foods that should feature in our diet as often as possible for their impressive health benefits and hormon...

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? ...

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. F...

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...