Starting over in Spring: Dietary ‘big rocks’
This is the second part of our post-lockdown health reset. We’re focusing on simple mindset, diet and lifestyle shifts that will get you back on track this Spring. Last week…
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Re-write your story: I’m a bad cook
This is the fourth part in our six-week series on the counterproductive stories we tell ourselves in the kitchen – those hurdles that mess with our mojo and prevent us…
How’s your kitchen mojo?
What thoughts come to mind when you think about cooking? Does it bring up feelings of overwhelm? Pressure? Joy? Creativity? Sustenance? Duty? When you think about eating, do your thoughts…
Soul food and a recipe for chocolate mud cream
We’re midway through a six-part guide to feeling good. Thus far, we’ve explored the importance of breathing, sleep, rest, pleasure, human connection and this week we’re focusing on ‘soul’ food….
Beetroot: the humble mood booster
We’re midway through a six-part guide to feeling good. Thus far, we’ve explored the importance of breathing, sleep, rest, pleasure, human connection and the nutritionist in me feels compelled to…
A Guide To Feeling Good
Why your nervous system is key This is the first in a six-part guide to feeling good. Greetings Coasties. I do hope you’ve enjoyed a relaxing break at some point…
Free online healthy lifestyle program
A free online healthy lifestyle program for older adults living on the Central Coast will return in 2021. Healthy and Active for Life is available for people aged 60 and…
Lemon Myrtle Caramels
Lemon Myrtle Caramels Well this is it folks, my last column for the year and I thought we’d go out with a bang. Just in case you can get your…
Nourishing, wholefood Tiramisu – part 2
This is the perfect dessert for entertaining over the Summer as it can be made several days in advance or enjoyed over a few days if, per chance, you have…
Nourishing, wholefood Tiramisu – part 1
Tiramisu has become one of my favourite desserts for this time of year and is the perfect treat for entertaining. I spent one long Summer experimenting and now have a…
The forgotten principles of traditional diets
Last week we introduced the findings of Dr Weston A Price, who studied the diets of indigenous peoples. This showed very clearly that any deviation away from their nutrient dense…
Down in the Garden: Home with Hibiscus
As summer returns to the Coast, so do the hibiscus! We have a bit of a love affair with this tropical looking blossom as any balmy evening walk through our…
Bitter: the abandoned flavour
Bitter: the abandoned flavour It’s a flavour that is regularly associated with harshness and the downright intolerable, yet bitter foods (and especially greens like radicchio, endive and dandelion) are an…
We live here for a different way of life
So, the Central Coast Council has decided to rip up the timber wharf at Pretty Beach and install a new plastic replacement. This follows a similar desecration to the wharf…