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Recipe: Lemon Raspberry No Fail Individual Cheesecakes

May 9, 2013 in Anecdotes, Food & Recipes, Lifestyle, Stories

Those who know my family and me are aware of my mother’s culinary skill. Mum is a full time nurse who spends large parts of her time off cooking. Mum is passionate about food. She loves trying new recipes and puts an incredible amount of effort and care into cooking, especially when we have guests. Having said that, mum also cooks for her family with the same attitude- attention to detail, taste, and presentation: she’s not afraid to experiment, and we are only too happy to be her test subjects. She is a dessert queen. Fluffy soufflés, moist cakes, creamy [...]

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Recipe: Rolled & Poached Chicken Breast

April 23, 2013 in Food & Recipes, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

This afternoon I’d like to share a recipe with you for a heart-friendly rolled and poached chicken breast that was not only very easy but also healthy and fancy looking! That ticks all my boxes when it comes to food. As you would know, I recently attended a cooking class hosted by Brand Meets Blog for the Heart Foundation. The class was held to educate bloggers about healthy food and the health message of the Heart Foundation, and also to build some ongoing relationships between the Heart Foundation and bloggers. After posting a photo of the dish we made, I [...]

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This Week: Heart Health, Anniversary & New Jeans

April 20, 2013 in Anecdotes, Comedy, Fashion, Food & Recipes, Health, Humour, Marriage, Nutrition, Stories, Style, Wedding

This week has been, and will continue to be, a busy one. After pulling on my jeans last Thursday morning only to discover they were ripped right in the crotch (stylish, no?) I began my search for the ‘right’ jeans. I had pretty specific ideas of what I wanted in this pair of jeans. They had to be tight, stretchy enough that I could move comfortably, long enough to scrunch a little at the ankle, dark blue in colour, super skinny and high waisted. Not a long list of requirements at all! It took 3 different shopping trips with the [...]

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This Week: How Animals Eat Their Food

April 13, 2013 in Fashion, Health, Home, Lifestyle, Meta, Style, Work

As you know, last week I was sick. I’m still on a restricted diet but I’m allowed solid food again (yay!) so Monday saw me attending work dizzy and weak, then Monday night I ate the best meal in the world and have felt heaps better since. I’m still not 100% and my stomach is probably only at about 70% alright, but I’m getting there! Here’s my week in pics: First meal after fasting for 3 days. Best meal ever.  My childhood dressing table (pictured in my childhood bedroom). My parents want it out of their house so they can make [...]

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When It Becomes Normal To Feel Sick

April 4, 2013 in Fitness, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, People, Self

There are some people who go through life never feeling sick, and never taking a day off work. I am not one of those people. I would say I average a day off every second month, which doesn’t sound like a lot but it does add up. And it does encourage the observation “You’re sick a lot!” The thing is, I live with someone who has chronic health problems and auto immune problems, this means if anyone is sick even remotely near us he’s going to get sick. And then I’m going to get sick. We have had our diet [...]

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Confessions of a (Failed) Shoplifter

March 28, 2013 in Anecdotes, Humour, Stories

Growing up in a smallish town with little to do except wander around the shops on a Saturday, with a group of BFFs, boredom levels ran high. These Saturday afternoons were the highlight of my week. Armed with a small amount of pocket money, we’d try on clothes we couldn’t afford, giggle at boys over milkshakes and plaster each other in cheap tester perfumes and garish make up. Ah, the make-up. Rimmel was our friend. Or not. It was the 80s (electric blue mascara anyone?). My hands would be tattooed with smears of lipstick colours which I proudly wore like [...]

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Beauty: Best Natural Face Scrub

March 21, 2013 in Face, Food & Recipes, Lifestyle, Style

Today I’d like to share with you a face scrub I made up. The best one I’ve found – it’s natural, it’s cheap and it can actually be made from things you already have in your pantry. My skin is really sensitive. Like, touch it with mint body wash and be covered in red lumps and bumps for 2 weeks sensitive. So when I wanted a facial scrub I had to be careful about what I put on my face. In my time I’ve tried a few different face scrubs, everything from St Ives Apricot Scrub to Chanel Gommage Microperle [...]

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Why I’m Vegetarian (and I don’t need meat)

February 18, 2013 in Food & Recipes, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

I’ve been vegetarian for a long time. Not because it’s ‘hip’ or trendy. I was born and raised one, I didn’t eat meat until I succumbed at Maccas while wagging school: that chicken burger was SO good. When I moved out of home at 18, I started to incorporate more meat into my diet, but not red meat. It grossed me out, unless it was a cheeseburger (which I figured probably wasn’t really a whole lot of genuine meat) or mince in a bolognaise sauce. I never ate steak.  Due to religious constraints, (I am Seventh-Day Adventist) I still haven’t [...]

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Where Do Fat Individuals Fit into a Healthy Society?

December 12, 2012 in Body Image, Film & TV, Fitness, Food & Recipes, Health, Lifestyle, Mental Health, Nutrition, People, Self, Society

I’m a little bit torn. Every other day I see the Ashy Bines Bikini Body Challenge or the Michelle Bridges 12-Week Body Transformation lurking in my Facebook newsfeed. Twitter brings me nutrition advice about activated almonds and I stumble over the Michelle Bridges column every weekend upon opening Sunday Life. That woman is seriously everywhere. I start to feel bombarded. I start to feel like I’m living in a society in which my body is everybody’s business. Like the excess kilos that push me to the wrong side of the ‘overweight’ mark are a burden I’m placing on Australia; like [...]

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Vice Control: What’s Your Poison?

November 26, 2012 in Food & Recipes, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Today I have been thinking about controlling my vices. The Little tricks I do to make sure that all things are done in moderation. Rest assured, I don’t have any particularly nasty vices. I spend more on raffles than I do on the Melbourne Cup. I am a strictly one woman man and my love of British sit-coms and sci-fi is hardly likely to send me broke. I am lucky that my two biggest addictions are perfectly legal. Caffeine and Chocolate. I love tea and coffee, and chocolate. Not mixed together, but all in their own time and place. When [...]

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