Healthy Recipes
my skin does not know what season it is
Honestly this time of year does my head in. It's still cold enough for the heating to be on half the day but then you get that one bright afternoon an…
asparagus on toast but make it actually filling
British asparagus is properly here now and I refuse to let the season go by without eating it basically every other day until it disappears again in J…
berry pancakes that took 12 minutes — spoiler: the kids didn't notice
Right so it's been one of those weeks where I've had zero time in the morning and the bairns still need feeding like the small demanding humans they a…
my skin has been weird lately
Honestly I think I've been overcomplicating it. I had about six products going at once and my face was just... not happy. Bit red, bit dry, bit oily i…
tips please
hey everyone 👋 i’ve been trying to make matcha at home but it always ends up super watery and too liquidy. how do you guys get it thicker and…
genuinely didn't rate warm-ups until this happened
Right so I pulled something in my hip flexor like three weeks ago and my physio friend basically told me it was 100% because I skip warm-ups. I'm that…
pre-workout food is honestly more personal than people think
Right so I've been asked about this a fair bit lately — what to eat before training — and I keep giving the same answer: it depends, which I know is t…
pea and mint thing, honestly took 10 minutes
Had a bag of fresh peas in the fridge that were on their way out and basically threw this together before they went fully sad. Cooked some pasta — wh…
spring salad thing that's been on rotation
Right so I've been doing this for about two weeks and it's officially replaced the chickpea autopilot situation. Basically: shaved asparagus, frozen…
think I've finally cracked the spring skin thing
Honestly my skin in March is just... a lot. Still flaky from winter but then one warm day and it goes full oily chaos. I've stopped adding new product…
watermelon feta thing — stupid simple
Right so it's warm enough now that I genuinely cannot face eating anything hot at my desk. Which means salad season whether I like it or not. This on…
chickpea salad I've been making on autopilot
Honestly this isn't even a recipe really, it's just a thing I throw together when it's gone 6 and Archie's finally down and I cannot be bothered to ac…
miso butter beans — did not expect this
Made this last night basically by accident. Had a tin of butter beans and a tub of miso that's been sitting in the fridge for ages and just... went fo…
20 minute noodle thing that actually slaps
Made this on Tuesday because I got home at 7:30 and genuinely could not face cooking anything that involved more than two pans. Soba noodles, right —…
courgette fritters with whatever herbs you've got
Had two courgettes that were going a bit soft and honestly I nearly just chucked them in the caddy but thought I'd give this a go first. Basically gr…
snacks I actually keep making
Right so I've been in a bit of a deadline spiral this week — client revisions, back-to-back calls, the usual — and I realised I've basically been livi…
right so I've been making the same wrap for 3 weeks
and I'm not even sick of it yet which says a lot tbh Basically I had zero time on Monday — placement all day, lecture at 6, got in at half 8 and coul…
leftover roast veg soup — dead simple
Had a load of roast parsnips and carrots from Sunday sitting in the fridge and I cannae stand waste so basically just chucked everything in a pot. Bo…
spring salad that actually fills me up
Made this on a whim yesterday and it's genuinely decent so thought I'd write it up. big handful of rocket and spinach mix, half a tin of chickpeas dr…
my go-to quick breakfast before work
Right so I've been trying to sort out what I eat in the mornings because honestly before all this I was just grabbing a sausage roll from the garage o…