Beans, beans, good for the heart….
We’ve all heard the rhyme, but I always thought ‘heart’ was in there due to its capacity for rhyming. Turns out I was wrong and beans really are excellent for the health of your heart, Black Beans in particular have become a staple food in our house, a legume that I had previously disregarded as being tasteless and unnecessary is now a major feature in many of our dishes including taco night, a nutritional favourite in our house!
The kids had my homemade baked beans again last night and I was delighted to see that the novelty hasn’t worn off and they are still loving them. It gave me a bit of the courage I needed to try something a bit different for the adult meal.
A friend of mine recently sent me a picture of the inside of her bathroom cabinet. She had read that I was working with Neal’s Yard and wanted to show me all the products that she currently used.
I’ve been doing green smoothies in the morning for a while now and I can happily recommend it to everyone. In fact it was probably the first step we took as a family towards achieving a healthier gut, getting more energy and for some, weight loss!
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So, I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again, this is all about sharing experiences with a common goal towards better health and wonderful skin. However, I do make a small profit from the Neal’s Yard range that I sell, this is because when I was eradicating harmful toxins and chemicals from all the products that myself and my family use I ended up using mainly Neal’s Yard which I loved and trusted and eventually this evolved into a business relationship. However, I will never recommend a product that I haven’t loved and used myself and I welcome all feedback from others who use these products. Continue reading 7 things this simple ‘balm’ fixes…
Just a quick one today, my husbands car is out of action so I had to drive him to the airport with sleepy kids in the back at 5.00am! Dark and cold, not a wonderful combination! I feel like the rest of the day has been spent in catch up mode.
I absolutely refuse to buy any dairy that hasn’t been grass fed. I’d rather drive for 20 minutes to buy my milk grass fed than grab a pint at the bottom of the road. This wasn’t always the case, in fact it was something I never even thought about. Sometimes I would pick up an organic milk, because I thought it might be healthier but I didn’t really know what made it healthier or why. However this all changed after a school trip where I volunteered as a parent helper.
Natural Organic Health is important to me, because I’m determined to get the most out of life, and feel and look the best that I can while I’m doing it. However, not being smelly is equally important to me so one of the only products that I still buy from the supermarket is my deodorant. I use Dove, it does the trick and the smell takes me straight back to a holiday I had in South Africa with two friends a few years back.
So my dog got diagnosed with an allergy to house mite this week. I mean of all the things…she’s allergic to our period house with over a hundred years worth of house mite accumulated in every beam, nook and cranny. My husband merely raised an eyebrow like it was about time something got done about the general dustiness of the place! Continue reading My hands look like a builders..
Ever heard about someone being so nervous that they throw up? What about stomach butterflies when you are excited about something, or falling in love, or even when you are feeling anxious? A hot area of research is the connection between your gut and your brain.
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