In April I decided to go refined sugar free. Thirty days of no chocolate, no alcohol, no sweets, no cake. I’ve done stints of no alcohol (usually Dry January after the Christmas indulgence) but never everything all at once. I wasn’t sure how I’d find it, as snacking on chocolate had become an almost daily… Continue reading What happened when I went Sugar Free for a month
Healthy eating (whether that’s clean, paleo, IIFYM, whatever floats your boat…) really doesn’t have to be that difficult. Eating right (especially if you’re trying to lose a few extra pounds) isn’t just having plain salads and dry chicken. As I’ve taught myself the clean way of eating (mantra: “It’s a lifestyle, not a diet”) it’s just been a case… Continue reading Keeping it clean – 8 rules of healthy eating
It’s April at the end of the week and I cannot believe where the year is going. 2020 (a.k.a The far and distant future where we’ll all have hoverboards) seems not so far away, and that is terrifying. I’ve found since Christmas that I’ve just not quite been on the ‘no sugar’ lifestyle as I was… Continue reading Going Sugar Free
January. If you’re like me you indulged over Christmas. Hell, it’s Christmas after all. And for me, it was my thirtieth birthday so by gum I wasn’t going to worry about eating that extra bag of chocolates. But now it’s the new year, and time to get back on the straight and narrow. Maybe it’s… Continue reading Lean, Clean and Mean January
I just started working in Soho, so suddenly I have no idea where to get a week day lunch. I’ve started exploring… Vital Ingredients is a great alternative to Chopped, Eat or Pure if you’re in the Golden Square area of London. The salad bar is really nicely stocked, with a few more ‘unusual’ ingredients; artichoke,… Continue reading Vital Indredients, Golden Square
As I’ve grown more confident in my clean cooking skills I’m finding the ‘first attempt’ at new recipes is working. Hooray! It’s a special kind of joy when you find you’re getting good at your hobby – I feel like I’m quite a good cook now! 🙂 Turn the clock back even two years ago… Continue reading Experimenting in the kitchen
It’s nearly impossible to avoid sugar now-a-days. It’s in nearly everything. One of the hardest things to do when you’re really trying to eat clean is to cut out processed sugar – mainly because if you eat anything “out” it probably contains it. You can drive yourself mad trying to avoid sugar, or, you can… Continue reading Sugar sugar everywhere
I love snacking, I’m a grazer. Cutting out snacking has been a really hard shift for me, and I must admit that I’m not always successful… Over the past six months of serious clean eating I’ve found a number of ways to make sure that when I do snack (hell, you can’t always be strict, and… Continue reading What I snack on…
Holidays. Fantastic, relaxing, amazing things. But if you’re mid-way through a clean eating plan, or don’t want to fall into old un-healthy eating patterns, what to do you do? I was a bit concerned when I went to Italy a few weeks ago – how easy would it be to eat clean and healthy, while in… Continue reading So you’re going on holiday, how can you keep eating clean?
The Clean Menu 