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5 powerful herbs to nurture your gut (and support your hormones too)
Struggling with bloating, sluggish digestion or that constant feeling of being ‘off’? Your gut might be crying out for a bit of extra TLC. A happy gut doesn’t just mean smoother digestion. For midlife women, your gut health is closely linked to how your hormones...
What you need to know about your medication
If you’ve ever left the doctor’s surgery with a prescription and more questions than answers, you’re not alone. This article explores four of the most commonly prescribed medications in midlife - statins, metformin, PPIs and antibiotics - and offers simple, practical...
Empowered Midlife: A Guide to Perimenopause & Menopause
October is Menopause Awareness Month, and in honour of this, we are diving deep into all things hormones, midlife, and menopause. Whether you're approaching perimenopause, in the thick of it, or supporting someone who is, this series is for you. Understanding how our...
Detox Deep Dive
Your body has an amazing ability to cleanse and detoxify. However, our modern world is filled with toxins from the food we eat to the air we breathe. Learn how you can help your body detoxify efficiently, and recognise the signs if it’s not working properly. Toxic...

Week 15

This week started with the amazing Lichfield Food Festival, over 60,000 people visited our little city over the bank holiday weekend. We had a fab time on the Monday and came home with a bag full of goodies, although that did mean we ended up eating scotch eggs for...

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Week 14

So far it’s been a beautiful bank holiday weekend, I hope you are all enjoying it as much as me. it’s been a busy weekend which started on Friday with a lovely sunny brunch at Faro to celebrate my friends birthday earlier in the week. We then travelled up to friends...

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Week 13

I finally managed to make it to an Indian supermarket this week, I ended up in Walsall at Johal Supermarket, the main reason was that they had parking!! But I was impressed by the range of products on sale and will definitely be there again soon. I managed to buy...

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Green Soup, delicious hot or cold

Green soup This was a bit of an experiment that actually turned out really well the first time.  I was cooking a roast chicken last Sunday and I hate only having one thing in the oven so I was mooching in the fridge to see what I had and there was loads of green...

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Day 90 – the end of the challenge?

Although I don’t think I would have admitted it even to myself three months ago, when I set myself this challenge, I  needed to find something to distract me and give my mind something else to focus on other than the fact that I was in the middle of selling my...

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Day 87

Wow, over 13 weeks into my shop local challenge, time has really flown, and I’ll post a blog on day 90 to summarise, but first what have I been up to this week?  I attempted a lentil roast for lunch on Sunday, I checked a few recipes online but didn’t have all...

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Day 80

Is it really, only 10 days to go until the end of my challenge? Not long till I can go back to the supermarket? Not likely! The highlight of my week was Terre à Terre in Brighton, I had the most amazing meal there with my niece and sister-in-law, the food and service...

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Day 73

I started this week off really well, lots of batch cooking for our lunches and loads of pots of overnight oats for our breakfasts.  I knew it was likely to be a busy week for me, I had lots of appointments in the diary which meant if I wasn't organised I'd end up...

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