Category: healthy food

  • This week’s recipe – a healthy Christmas cake

    This week’s recipe – a healthy Christmas cake

    Healthy Christmas Fruit Cake A healthy Christmas fruit cake recipe that’s gluten free, dairy free and grain free using almond flour and coconut flour. Easy to make! Prep Time: 40 minutes Cook Time: 1 hour Total Time: 1 hour 40 minutes   Ingredients 500 grams mixed dried fruits          75 grams walnuts 1 orange 125 grams almond flour/meal  67 grams coconut flour  1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 2 tsp salt 3 tsp mixed spice  1…

  • 10 ways to reduce stress over Christmas

    10 ways to reduce stress over Christmas

    We’ve reached December! Festive greetings to you all at this wonderful, though at times stressful, season of goodwill. I’m struggling this week, there is so much to do and we place such high expectations on ourselves. I would like this Christmas to be about spending quality time together with family and friends, and not about…

  • This week’s healthy recipe – Oriental salmon and broccoli traybake

    This week’s healthy recipe – Oriental salmon and broccoli traybake

    You only need 5 ingredients to make this delicious and healthy mid-week supper. INGREDIENTS (serves 4) 4 skin-on salmon fillets 1 head broccoli, broken into florets juice ½ lemon, ½ lemon quartered small bunch spring onions, sliced 2 tbsp soy sauce METHOD Heat oven to 180C/160C fan/gas 4. Put the salmon in a large roasting tin, leaving space between…

  • Strong Saturday recipe – Ottolenghi’s ratatouille

    Strong Saturday recipe – Ottolenghi’s ratatouille

    This is taken from Yotam Ottolenghi’s Ratatouille book Plenty: Vibrant Vegetable Recipes from London’s Ottolenghi Note: Follow the instructions closely, over-cooking the vegetables “is the point,” according to Ottolenghi. Ingredients: 7 tbsp sunflower oil 4 garlic cloves, sliced 2 small onions, cut into 1 1/4-inch dice 1/2 fresh green chilli, thinly sliced 2 small red peppers,…

  • Recipe of the week for strong bones – Mushroom Risotto

    Recipe of the week for strong  bones – Mushroom Risotto

    Try this recipe to improve your bones. RECIPE OF THE WEEK – Mushroom risotto INGREDIENTS Mushroom preparation 1 8-ounce package Crimini or baby Bella mushrooms, cleaned and quartered1 tablespoon unsalted butter1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oilPinch of salt Rice preparation 2 tablespoons unsalted butter2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil1 cup onion, diced1 cup dry Arborio rice1/3 cup dry white wine2 ½ cups…

  • Best Foods for strong Bones from Farnham Pilates

    Best Foods for strong Bones from Farnham Pilates

    Farnham Pilates Weekly Blog –Get Stronger Saturday Best foods for strong bones Here is your weekly post on Bone health. A few Osteoporosis/Bone Health Facts and FiguresBone remodelling is a lifelong process, but unfortunately bone loss starts to outpace bone gain as we age.  This starts to happen around aged 34 when peak bone mass…

  • Weekly recipe – Warming Butternut squash or Pumpkin with Cauliflower soup with ginger and chillies

    RECIPE OF THE WEEK My favourite soup – Butternut Squash or pumpkin & Cauliflower Soup with Ginger and Chillies Now the weather is getting colder this is my staple soup recipe. It is always slightly different each time depending on what is left over in the fridge but it’s packed full of brain boosting and bone…