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What's holding you back from creating a healthy lifestyle?

I talk a lot about mindset and health and how the two are intrinsically linked. I believe courage plays a major role in whether you’ll be successful in creating lifestyle change and in sticking to it long term. So how do courage, lifestyle change and weight loss come together? Firstly I believe you have to have the courage to adjust your priorities. So often we put all those around us first, eating poorly or missing out on exercise so we can fit things in for our families. How often have you downed a coffee in lieu of breakfast but made sure the kids eat before leaving for school, or skipped

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Healthy Homemade Hazelnut Spread - Vegan, gluten free

When I first posted the negative side of the kids favourite spread Nutella I had mums clamouring for me to devise an alternative recipe. Well months later,and tasting after tasting I can honestly say I have cracked it (excuse the pun!). My own daughter has been the guinea pig for my batch testing and when I gave her the jar with a spoonful of this on it she beamed and exclaimed – mummy you’ve cracked it! Now we all love the commercial Nutella but healthy it is not! The key ingredient in this version is… well nuts! Plus some cacao and maple syrup. No palm oil, no refined sugar. Just healthy

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2 favourite Red Cabbage Recipes

I’ve always loved red cabbage and fresh home-made coleslaw. I think it is a throw back to spending time with my Auntie Tede (my grandmother’s sister) who married a country man and lived in what I thought of as the depths of the country side when I was growing up. She had coal fires and a doll’s chest which I remember was as big as I was. We were allowed to explore upstairs and bring a perfectly preserved china doll, complete with glass eyes and beautiful home-made clothes, down to the parlour to play with. Her home-made lunches were always a real treat and she would spend what seemed to me to

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Spiced Roast Beetroot Hummus

You know how much hummus we go through in the Hutchinson household. So much in fact that I’m always looking for new ways to spice up a batch so when I saw Dr Rupy’s spiced beetroot side dish I felt the need to experiment with it and create hummus from it too. Here’s my take on it. You can eat the beetroot as a side dish once it’s cooked so if you have more than 300g beetroot and want to make hummus and a spicy beetroot dish just cook more beetroot, add more spices, and serve the roasted beetroot straight away as a side dish with a roast or curry. Ingredients 300g beetroot scrubbed and cut into

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Ali's Lemon and Poppy Seed Protein Biscuits

I was off to a business network yesterday and wanted to take a sweet treat which was almost sugar free to show just how delicious eating sugar free can be. I’ve been eating what I call ‘clean’ – mostly plant based and wholefoods - for almost 4 years and it has quite literally changed my life. I no longer have the debilitating headaches I used to suffer with, my brain fog and lethargy have lifted, I’m energised throughout the day and I sleep really well. My skin glows and my hair grows so fast my hairdresser can hardly keep up! These little zesty Lemon and Poppy Seed Protein Biscuits were what

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