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 [...]
Making homemade gifts helps you to ‘use, re-use, recycle’ by offering lovingly made, earth friendly gifts. This is also a great activity if you have children not only because it’s great fun, but also because it serves as an example that you can create special gifts which support sustainability through recycling, the environment by reducing the use of plastic and shipping and that the intention and motivation behind a gift are of greater value than actual monetary value.
According to the Chinese 5 elements, as we enter the Autumn season, we enter the Metal element in the cycle of the seasons. The Metal element gives us the capacity to let go, to see what lies beyond, giving us our sense of value
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 [...]
For those of you (including me) who don’t eat cheese whether it be due to a lactose intolerance, because you don’t like it (does anyone not like cheese?!) or for health reasons, nut cheeses – popular with raw foodists – are a great alternative. No, they don’t taste like regular cheese. Because they’re made of [...]
Evidence has been found that our ancestors, even as far back as 5000 BC in Babylon, preserved all kinds of vegetables and fruits through a process called lacto-fermentation both for preservation purposes and for their health benefits
Goal: 1000 kr (approx £117 / $190) Actual: 1040 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day, more or less (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual). The goal amount is based on local research that I carried out [...]
Goal: 1000 kr (approx £117 / $190) Actual: 681 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual). A pretty non-eventful week I’m afraid…the most exciting thing is that the health food shop [...]
Goal: 1000 kr (approx £117 / $190) Actual: 626 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual). This week we bought a couple of tins, which we don’t usually do: Coconut [...]
I love hummus. Seriously, I could eat bucket loads of it – as a dip, in salads, on gluten-free bread, in a half avocado, in our nori rolls…. Of course you can make it using a tin of chickpeas but I prefer to sprout my own dry chickpeas and make a Raw Hummus so that [...]
