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Gazpacho: Raw Tomato Soup
24 August 2012
I always thought that Gazpacho, a cold tomato soup, or ‘liquid salad‘ from Southern Spain, was a weird concept. For some reason I just didn’t get it. Until I made a Gazpacho Smoothie. And loved it. It’s essentially the same thing, just whipped up in a blender. Shame really as I spent a year in more…
How To Prepare A Healthy Meal In 15 Minutes
13 May 2012
Having a few favourite quick ‘n easy go-to meals for when you’re short on time, inspiration and energy is an essential success building block to maintaining a healthy lifestyle. These take the same amount of time that it’d take you to choose, place and wait for your take-away order. Make it easier to stick to more…
Healthy Easter Chocolate Recipes
1 April 2012
Easter is next week and if you’re not thinking of Easter bunnies or painting eggs, I can guarantee you’re thinking about chocolate. Just because we do. Not matter what time of year. The majority of you reading this post are doing so for two reasons. 1. you are a health enthusiast who always has an more…
Wrap It Up: How To Make Easy Bread-Free Sandwiches
11 March 2012
Le Sandwich. Much loved by busy people all over the western world. However quick n’ easy it might be to whip up as a snack, for the kids’ lunch, for your lunch or even dinner, the bread which notably keeps the other ingredients neatly packaged in causes grief to many in the form of bloating, more…
Raw Vegan Chocolate Orange & Cashew ‘Cheese’ Cake
6 February 2012
You can have your cake and eat it too! There is no more pleasurable way to indulge than with scrumptious, rich yet highly nourishing desserts. ‘A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips’ – we’ve all heard that one before, right? With these cakes, rather than simply satisfying a moment of gustatory enjoyment, more…
Raw Mince Pies
18 December 2011
Whether you celebrate Christmas in style with the whole shebang or prefer a quiet, intimate meal without much a-do, we all have our favourite Christmas foods, those familiar flavours that we look forward to as the Christmas lights go up in the street, there’s a somewhat different seasonal hustle and bustle in the air and more…
The Benefits of Common Culinary Herbs: Homemade Herbes de Provence
28 November 2011
As well as adding flavour to our foods, herbs and spices contain potent healing properties and are an invaluable addition to any meal, or enjoyed in the form of herbal teas. Did you know that even just the delicious aromas given off by herbs and spices help to prepare our body for digestion even before you’ve eaten your first bite?
Fertility Friday: Fertility Smoothie
24 November 2011
Optimising your health to boost fertility and create the healthiest baby possible is not all about cutting out. What you put in is just as important. This delicious smoothie is one way of packing in a punch of nutritious goodness in just one glass. Fertility Smoothie Benefits Vitamins and Minerals – pack in your important more…
Raw Massaged Kale, Purple Cabbage & Mung Bean Sprout Salad
17 October 2011
Ever tried massaging a salad before? Neither had I, until this weekend. It’s very simple and kinda fun to get your hands dirty to swoosh around delicious ingredients in your favourite salad bowl. We made a massaged kale salad which seems to be the green leaf of choice for this method as the leaves are more…
Five Real Food Breakfast Recipes
12 July 2011
Breakfast was always my favourite meal of the day. Why? Because I had the same. thing. every. day. I knew exactly what it tasted like and so was never disappointed. No, I never got bored of it. And what did I eat? Well, cereal. If I could have woken up with a spoonful of cereal more…
