I have a frame that sits on my windowsill. It greets me when I wake each morning. In this frame is a postcard my Mum gave me. She gave me this postcard when I moved to London when I was 19 years old. I’d got a place on a part time foundation acting course at…
Tag: breakfast
Macacha Magic Energy Oats
I have a confession to make….. I am a witch. Well….. a porridge witch. Most mornings, you can see me stirring my potion (*cough* porridge) in my shiny metal cauldron (*cough* saucepan) I can prove to you that PORRIDGE is… MAGIC! That is has healing properties and can boost your MOOD and ENERGY. Porridge used…
(Low Sugar) Carrot Cake Oatmeal : How to stop ABUSING YOURSELF with FOOD.
When your mental health is BAD or your MOOD is LOW, do you A) Deprive yourself of FOOD, STARVING YOURSELF and PUNISHING yourself? B) Lose your appetite completely and FORGET to eat? C) Binge eat turning to all the DELICIOUS and ‘TRASHY’ comfort foods, eating so much that your body HURTS and you HATE yourself?…
Back to Basics Banana and PB Porridge- You are NOT your mental illness.
Today I am bringing it back to BASICS. After introducing you to a few ‘whacky’, ‘different’ or CRAZY oatmeals, I want to STRIP everything back to the very basics and teach you how to make porridge/oatmeal delicious simply. After yesterday’s day of appointment after appointment (all very helpful but emotionally draining) I was stripped of…
Matcha Peace Zoats – Calming your ANXIETY
I am scared. I can feel my heart racing and my breathing start to quicken. I am covered in cold sweat. The world starts closing in and becoming smaller. It feels like I am wearing a box of bees on my head, or, a cardboard box trapping me inside my self. But I am lying…
Happy GALENTINES day – ‘Nutella’ Oatmeal
Happy GALENTINES day! After years of bullying, it took me a really LONG time to trust girls and be friends with them. I was lucky enough to have one constant best friend that I’ve known since I was 11, but she was the exception as a teenager. When I moved to London, I met this…
How to make your porridge SEXY.
(A precursor: I’m not planning to do exclusively porridge/oatmeal recipes. I am going to do recipes for non porridge things, I promise you. And reviews as well. Keep your eyes open.) I’ve been obsessed with porridge for years and it has been an almost daily staple of mine. I’ve followed porridge recipe websites, visited porridge…
Joyfull Joy 