November 22, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Food & Drink

Because You Can’t Be Good All the Time

The other week I was contacted by Waitrose. In January they want to encourage people to enjoy life a bit more and find something to celebrate, so they’re giving away a free bottle of Champagne with all orders over £50. They sent me over a Waitrose voucher and some champagne so I could put together

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Cocktails with Bettie Page

Last night I took my new dress out for cocktails. Ever since I came back from Las Vegas it’s been hung on the back of my bedroom door eyeing me reproachfully. “I don’t care about your coughing and spluttering” it seemed to say, “I’m a lovely dress, you owe me glamour and cocktails”. So last

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Food & Drink Recipes

Flora Pro Activ Healthy Christmas Recipe

About a week ago I got home from a trip away to find a note saying a parcel had been left with my neighbour. I popped round to pick it up, only to find the HUGEST box (sorry neighbour!) I dragged it home, pretty excited to see what was in it! It turned out to

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(Antibiotic) Resistance is Futile

I got an interesting press release appear in my email inbox yesterday. It was about a survey, sponsored by Danone, of 120 UK GPs about antibiotic use and it’s impact on gut microbiota. According to the survey over 60%  of people prescribed Antibiotics abandon the course half way through and just 5 out of 100

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Top 10 2013 Advent Calendars

Looking for 2014 Advent Calendars? Click Here! [hr] Yes, it’s advent calendar time again! Regular readers might know I do one of these every year in the hope that someone will buy me one of them (often containing huge hints as to which particular one) and every year I don’t get one as they are

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Proper Snacking

One of the things I am doing as an attempt to eat better and less erratically is to make sure I have eaten properly before exercise. There’s a tendency to think of “snacking” as a bad thing, especially if you’re looking to lose some weight. I think that snacking has it’s place though, it keeps

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A Week in Food

Well, I promised to keep a record of what I ate for a week, and come back and share. So here I am! In some ways this was a very atypical week for me. It featured no travel, and a couple of events so my diet was correspondingly a little random. I can spot things

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Food & Drink Recipes

Recipe: Grilled Nectarines with Cinnamon Yoghurt

I have loads of things I want to write up for this blog at the moment, including some reviews, but time just keeps getting away from me. I’m away for most of next week, so probably won’t have time for much in the way of posting, but I thought I’d leave you with a quick

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Recipe: Lemon & Chicken Risotto

Risotto is a dish I love to make. It feels luxuriously creamy, but depending on what you put in it and how you cook it it doesn’t have to be ridiculously fattening. This version comes in at under 550 calories (524 according to My FitnessPal) and 14g fat, so can easily be fitted into a

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