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 →