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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...

Day 34

I had a wonderful break in Greece at the beautiful Neilson Sivota Retreat the food was amazing, lots of local fresh salads and so it was easy to eat fairly healthily  (I was on holiday after all!). We were delayed on the way home so we had no other option than to buy...

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Day 24 and the new commitment to 90 days

When this posts I will be on the way to a week's holiday in Greece.  I'm delighted to say that the company we booked with, Neilson, are an independent. However, as I didn't actually plan my 30 day challenge very well in advance and just started it on a bit of a whim,...

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Day 17

I still havn't found a local veg box scheme, and I've not yet needed an emergency shop so still not done the local corners shop. Apart from it taking a bit of additional time, it's been good.  I had a lovely chat with the butchers at a new farm shop in Walsall, who...

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How to cook efficiently

I really love to cook, that was the reason I set up this blog.  But I am also really busy and so I have to be clever when I cook, making multiple meals at the same time.  This is really economical and ideal for anyone who is busy or doesn’t really love cooking. It’s...

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Day 11

It's the end of my second weekend, today is a bank holiday so I'm writing this from bed whilst my spicy pork sausages cook slowly in the oven (they would have gone on the barbie but, in the tradition of all British bank holidays, it's decided to rain). And I'm looking...

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Day 4

So far it has been remarkably easy, I've done a shop at the greengrocers, had breakfast and shopped at the farm shop and I have a fridge full of food. My biggest challenge at the minute is lunches - tomorrow we have layered salad. My second challenge is how little I'm...

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Feed you brain

It never ceases to amaze me when I speak to hard working friends and colleagues and they tell me, almost with a touch of bravado that they either don't eat breakfast, or lunch, or both. It astounds me how people expect to make decisions or use machinery when their...

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Love your leftovers

Just the word 'leftovers' gives the suggestion of something unwanted, the remains.  To some it symbolises a lack of wealth and prosperity, a need rather than a desire, and therefore something that's undesired. I have the total opposite feeling about leftovers, I...

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