Do you ever feel like you just can’t get the hang of meal planning? Like you’ve tried every trick in the book and it still takes you far too much time, comes to far too much money, or ends up getting thrown out halfway through the week or month when a curveball gets thrown at you?…
Money and time. Those are the arguments I hear over and over about why parents and families (and singles!) simply cannot eat more healthily. Why giving up sugar is just a pipe dream unless you have the luxury of a large salary. There is a tiny grain of truth in the idea that healthy eating can…
I am a big believer in the idea that kids can be pretty adventurous with food if we let them. If we model it and encourage it, it can be really surprising how many kids are willing to keep an open mind and try new foods or cuisines. So it was a little surprising to me…
This week is Sugar Awareness Week! Woop woop! Ok, so probably not something particularly big or exciting on many people’s radars, but still a very important event, especially as we all start to become more “sugar aware” these days. Still, I feel like “sugar awareness” is something that is really difficult and often not important…
I have always thought I had a pretty healthy diet. And, compared to many young people around me, I probably did. But when I quit sugar, I had some pretty serious withdrawal symptoms, and I started to realise just how much my supposedly “healthy” diet had been crammed full of sugar. I would start my…
I love this recipe, for 3 simple reasons: it requires zero energy (mostly just opening cans!) and takes about 2 mins to make, it is unbelievably cheap to make and can be adapted to use whatever you have on hand, and it is a delicious dish that gets a healthy helping of oily fish in you…
