Healthy Kitchen

This time of year tends to be when we find it hardest to eat raw food, because we’re mostly thinking about how cold and lacking in comfort-factor raw fruit and veg can be.  This tip is here to help you easily up your raw intake, from today, and love doing it! On my own raw journey, … Read More

  I love cheese, but cheese does not love me. I was thrilled when I first discovered the raw vegan alternative to dairy cheese. It gave me access to that cheesy flavour without the nausea and spots that plagued my previously dairy-fuelled life. If only I’d known I just needed to cut out dairy when I … Read More

Today’s recipe looks like serious comfort food, and if you didn’t know me better you might think it was full of cheese and cream 🙂  Actually, this is my totally delicious dairy-free, plant-based take on on cauliflower cheese – an old favourite of mine.  This healthy version graces my table frequently in cold weather because it hits … Read More

It’s common for people to think that preparing raw food takes a long time and if you went by the majority of raw recipe books you’d be right!  Most raw recipe books are created by raw food chefs.  The recipes are delicious and exciting but also tend to be quite complex and time consuming to make.  … Read More

So, after a crazy year of not quite knowing which way was up, as I started my journey of attempting to become a solo mum, I have finally found my feet again. Phew!  My yurt is now all set up for winter and feeling toasty and dry 🙂 I’m taking a break from the riggers of IVF … Read More

I can’t tell you how excited I am that my recipe book is arriving next week from the printers.  Boxes of them will be turning up on my doorstep and I can’t wait to get a copy of the real deal in my hands!  The culmination of 6 months of work. And then the very next … Read More

There are many reasons why it is so important to eat organic food. Firstly, it simply tastes so much better than non-organic food. One of the reasons for this is that the production of organic food is strictly regulated and must meet certain standards before it can be sold. This means that organic food is of … Read More

There are a lot of myths around what equipment you need to get started with raw food.  Thinking that you need a high tech blender or dehydrator often stops people from eating more raw, even when it makes complete sense to them, their health and their body confidence. When I first started eating raw food I … Read More

We all know that some foods are better for us than others, but some are particularly bad for our long term wellbeing. These foods acidify our bodies, making them ripe for disease, suppressing our immune systems, depleting our energy and often causing mild to major allergic reactions that compromise our health. When we talk of immunosuppression … Read More

A lot of people are concerned that a varied and balanced raw food diet is hard and expensive to shop for.  These kind of thoughts can be enough to stop you at ‘salad and fruit’ and before you know it you’re bored and eating a lot of cooked food again.  Raw food shopping isn’t hard, it’s … Read More