The resurrection of breakfast

It had always bBreakfast Smoothieeen drilled into me that “Breakfast was the most important meal of the day” but I had always ignored it in favour for that one last snooze or two in bed, and quite frankly I’m never that hungry in the morning.

After my diagnosis with CFS, I went to a nutritionist who helped me figure out the best foods to eat to try to relieve some of my fatigue, it was during this process I found out I had a gluten intolerance.

I worked with my nutritionist to come up with something that worked for me, as breakfast became even more important with my diagnosis. Continue reading

Starting down the Gluten free (GF) path

Starting down the Gluten free (GF) path

When my nutritionist told me I had to go gluten free, I genuinely wanted to cry.

I thought that my baking and days of eating out were over, I love all things full of gluten goodness from pizza, pasta, bread as well as cakey things and I felt like it would have to cut out everything I loved out of my diet.

Luckily this was not the case, three things really helped me get on the right path. Continue reading

Review: Waitrose LOVE life gluten free millionaire blondies

Waitrose BlondieI brought this product assuming it was just millionaire shortbread, which at a glance it looks like.

Turns out these actually have a blondie base (white chocolate brownie), these are pretty sickly one is defiantly enough to satisfy any sweet craving you might be having. Continue reading