Broccoli and Mint Soup

Here’s a fantastic way to get your greens in AND have a batch cooked soup for you. This recipe is a favourite with our Fat Loss Hub participants. It comes from our Fit School Kitchen cookbook.  The Fit Scho0l Kitchen has 30 breakfasts, 30 lunches and 30 dinners. For more…

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Easy Store Cupboard Tomato Soup

Here’s a super quick, non sandwich lunch. Tomato soup. Both children like it (well one tolerates it more than other soups). It saves the environment and your pennies and it originated from a children’s cooking book so I promise it’s easy! TOMATO SOUP 1 shallot/small onion 1 clove garlic 1…

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Sticky Slo Cooker Chicken and Gravy Pie

Chicken pie. There’s something so very right and very comforting about it. It’s a firm favourite in our family. My pie making even pre dates our marriage. Chicken and bacon pie has always been a favourite of Chris’. He’s been known to take an entire pie to training courses (Desperate…

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Caribbean(ish) Chicken Soup

Warm, slightly spiced (with a hint of chilli) and full of autumnal goodies like squash – this soup is ‘hygge’ in a bowl. In fact if regular chicken soup is Jewish Penicillin, this chicken soup is like penicillin with the sun on your back (hence the gratuitous picture of my hubby)! Inspired…

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Chocolate Polenta Cake

This cake evolved from a Nigella recipe and a rainy afternoon activity with Isaac, who is rather partial to chocolate cake and munching on walnuts while mummy mixes (many batches of banana cake from spotty bananas have meant walnut munching is now a baking staple). I didn’t intend for it…

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Why can’t I stop eating sugar?

I know. It’s hard. Without decisive action I can quickly slip into a sweet and sugary space. Going cold turkey seems like the hardest thing to do. We are programmed with a sweet tooth (mother’s milk is slightly sweet) it gives us energy. In fact studies consistently show that sugar…

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5 Good Health Habits

It’s that time of year when media bombards us with health crazes, detoxes, diets and food fads (and fallacies). So rather than confuse you further, I’m here to simplify life with some easy to adopt, good health habits which should perk up any sluggish system: 1. Start each day with…

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The Mince Pie Workout

Many of you will know that come Yule-tide, I love to share my home baked mince pies. My love of baking and love of fitness don’t always go together but since it’s Christmas, it’s time to marry the two and bring you my mince pie workout. Very Important Mince Pie…

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