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Healthy BBQ Recipes
Oriental vegetable kebabs with peanut dressing (serves 4) Ingredients Preparation Ingredients 1 red pepper, de-seeded and cubed 1 yellow pepper, de-seeded and cubed 12 cherry tomatoes 4 salad onions topped, tailed and cut into 5cm/2in lengths 2 baby courgettes, cut into chunks groundnut oil or sunflower oil, for grilling 4 kebab skewers basmati rice, […]
Read articleHealthy Pizza Recipes
Here I am again, with some more tasty treats for you, and by that I mean healthy meals packed with great nutrients and vitamins not Haribo. Everyone is still obsessed with take away food, the problem is most takeaways in a bid to increase profit margins compensate on quality for profit. This means cheap oils, […]
Read articleHealthy Burger Recipes!
Recently there has been a lot of burger banter flying around the gym, burgers aren’t necessarily the worst meal in the world when cooked well and served with things other than chips, they can be great nutritional meals packed with protein, vitamins and minerals. I’m not talking about McDonalds or Burger King etc, their food […]
Read articleScrumptious & Healthy Low GI Recipes
Here are a series of recipes that are extremely low on the glycemic index scale. Low GI foods have a smaller effect of your blood sugar levels than most foods which means they are great for fighting cravings and keeping excess weight off. Tuck in!! Low GI meals Steak & chickpea salad with harissa yogurt […]
Read articleSlow Cooker Recipes
Braised Beef Recipe Serves 4 Ingredients 1kg of shin of beef diced Flour, for dusting Salt and pepper 2 tbsp olive oil 2 large white onions 4 carrots 2 beef stock cubes 6 juniper berries 1 bulb garlic 1 cinnamon stick 500g bottle of strong local beer 2 x 400g tins of tomatoes How […]
Read articleSelf Care Day – Top Tips for Self Care
Self care should be an essential part of everyone’s daily routine, but we’re often either putting other people first or too busy caught up with other elements of our lives that we forget about looking after ourselves. The 24th July is Self Care Day, so we thought it was important share some top tips for […]
Read articleEmily’s dad’s Bobotie Recipe
If you’ve ever been to South Africa you would likely have come across a dish called Bobotie (pronounced Ba-boor-tea). It’s a national dish of South Africa and in my opinion very yummy, but then I could be biased having been brought up in South Africa with a South African dad. Bobotie was always a good […]
Read articleCoconut Dahl with butternut squash
Thinking about what to eat for dinner for the week is a tedious task for most people I know, including me. During lockdown it became even more tedious when we had to think about what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner for 7 days and do the food shop accordingly. We let Gousto boxes […]
Read articleVeg Pledge
Throughout the north of November, Cancer Research UK have a fundraising event called “Veg Pledge”. The challenge is to go vegetarian or vegan for 1 month. You can sign up at cancer research if you would like to raise funds or alternatively you can just take a personal challenge. Government guidelines are to eat 5 […]
Read articleCollard Wraps
Have you ever used mushrooms instead of bread buns for a burger, or lettuce as a taco shell? If you haven’t, then you should give it a try – it’s tastier than you may think! And here is another bread alternative to add to your list….. collard greens as a sandwich wrap. If you’ve ever […]
Read articleGetting a balanced diet being vegetarian.
Its national vegetarian week so why not take this time to try out new recipes and enjoy the change! National Vegetarian Week is a campaign organised by the Vegetarian Society to encourage vegetarianism and to show the world just how tasty and amazing the recipes can be. In this blog we look at the benefits […]
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