Corporate Lunch Idea: Sweet Potato Cakes

Make some of these delicious sweet potato cakes and all you need to do is add some mixed salad and a simple dressing for lunch OR what about throwing them into a container with some greens ready to steam for lunch. Easy as. Ingredients ·      500g or 3-4 small sweet Potato ·      400g Tuna chunks […]

Swimming the English Channel

I’ve always been a swimmer. Growing up, spending time in the ocean was what we did.  Swimming came pretty easily to me, but it wasn’t until the wrong side of 40 that I really found a love for it. It was a love born of two things. Firstly, the threat of drastic surgery to correct […]

Christmas Recipe: Healthy Christmas Cake Muffins

Serves: 12 Ingredients 400g mixed fruit 2 eggs 130g almond meal 50g walnuts 2 tablespoons olive or macadamia oil 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp allspice 1/4 tsp ground ginger 1/4 tsp nutmeg 1 tablespoon lemon zest grated  1 tablespoon lemon juice 1 teaspoon vanilla extract/essence Method Preheat oven to 150 degrees Celsius Spray a […]

Salmon Sushi Balls

These innovative sushi balls are high in protein, fibre and omega-3. Add some nori and you’ve got some iodine helping your thyroid to work even more efficiently! This meal is a perfectly balanced dinner, which would go very well with a delicious side salad. Enjoy 🙂 Ingredients: ·      1x250g packet of microwaveable brown rice ·      […]

Stress and busy lifestyles: How is it affecting your health?

Your mind is racing, with a long list of things to still do. The calendar is full of social events and commitments. Work is hounding and you can’t remember the last time you had your lunch break. You are sleep deprived exhausted, grumpy and defeated.  Does it ever stop? This blog comes inspired by another […]

Quinoa & Kale Salad

It was time. Rumours had been flying, and I had to see for myself. Off I wandered to the renown Sydney Flemington markets last Saturday. The atmosphere was a lot different to the markets that I was used to for sure, was I in Sydney? Lots of hustle and bustle with sellers shouting loudly over […]

Nutrition to get you to your Nineties!

© 2011 Garry Knight, Flickr | CC-BY | via Wylio Do you want to live a long life? Do you want to live a comfortable life? (Minimised stressful life events like heart attacks, falls and injuries or even bothering stomach upsets or sickness) If you like me, I’d like to think I was still skydiving […]

For The Love of Chocolate

CHOCOLATE: A necessary evil, an addiction, a daily ritual? I will confess. If I have any vice it is for chocolate. Hot chips – don’t care. Natural confectionary – the little dinosaurs don’t do it for me. MacDonald’s – you would probably have to pay me. But chocolate… One of the things I LOVE about […]

Dry July – How to regenerate a healthy liver

You might be familiar with one of the following scenarios below: 1)   You’ve woken up for work with a ringing headache and are feeling about as average as Spain did in the World Cup soccer. How did the end of financial year work drinks cascade into a shower of champagne or a steady flowing abundance […]

Chili Con Carne

Winter is upon us and suddenly we are craving warming and filling foods. Better make them healthy! I made this one the other weekend in my slow cooker. But you can do it just as easily on the stove. If you are vegetarian this one can also be for you! Why not add some extra […]