Everywhere we turn, there’s an allergy. As a kid, I feel like it was rare for people to have allergies. But now they’re popping up everywhere – my 88 year old grandmother has just been diagnosed with an allergy to peanuts (which she’s been eating forever). Consequently, I’ve starting making some staples to try to…
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How I Lost Weight
So, here I am, telling you my secret. Not from a scientific study, not from research, not from observation. This is simply my life. AND ITS SCRUMPTIOUS! When I was diagnosed with gestation diabetes, I was smashing the food. I’d put on so much weight during the first half of my pregnancy – I mean,…
Mushrooms Revisited
With both my pregnancies I was iron deficient. My doctor told me “mushrooms, eggs and green leafy vegetables”. My doctor was brilliant, so what she said was gospel, and that was how I started to eat. My husband was still playing football during my pregnancies(and still is), which left me to my own devices two…
Broccoli Harvest
As a lover of fine food coupled with everyday living, about two years ago I started a kitchen garden. My thumbs are a very dry and dull shade of brown – everything I plant tends to die. My grandparents on the other hand are not only phenomenal gardeners, they’re entirely self-sufficient, as in, they actually…