Turmeric is yellow. Groundbreaking stuff, I know. Does it apologize for being yellow? Does it beat it self up for staining your fingers and clothes? NO! It stands brightly in your spice cupboard saluting you with it’s brazen, sunshine colour ready to PERK up your curries and stews. I would like to introduce to you…….
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(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?…
Pumpkin Pie Oatmeal – How to HUG yourself.
Hands up who loves desserts! I can never understand someone who would choose having a starter over dessert. I would eat dessert EVERY DAY if I could. Which is why I put so much time and effort into making such a delicious porridge in the morning. Because it’s that dessert feeling in a nutritious bowl…
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…
Lemon Blueberry Cheesecake Oats (And Gut Health)
Let’s talk about gut health. It is mind boggling how interconnected your nervous system, your gut and mind are. I was diagnosed with IBS and lactose intollerance at the age of 12 after relentless years of bullying. Since then as soon as my anxiety levels are high, I’m stressed and my mental health is suffering,…
Valentines day special – Chocolate Turkish Delight Porridge.
This is a perfect breakfast for Valentines day. or PALENTINES day (a day for showering your friends with love.) It’s a porridge not necessarily for a significant other. But for you. Reminding yourself to practise self love and self compassion. And I’m going to be honest, I’m not good at this. I have never loved…
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…
Rhubarb and Ginger Crumble Oatmeal – Sunday’s are HARD
Today it is raining. Outside my window. And in my brain. Not to sound like some teenage Sylvia Plath. Although that is me using humour to deflect the point… Sunday’s are a hard day. They seem to stretch on forever. I won’t go into detail but having spoken to other people who suffer with mental…
Joyfull Joy 