Tips for Chronic Illness…
Tips for Chronic Illness… There are many people saying how to get well from CFS (& similar illnesses), but what about how to deal with each day of having a chronic illness? So, I thought I’d write a list of helps hints for day in the life of someone with a...
Ways to preserve your harvest
Ways to preserve your harvest... It’s easy to get carried away sowing all the seeds and planting all the trees and plants, but what happens if it all actually works? If you end up with hundreds of courgettes (which is so easily done) or you have a bumper crop of...
Tips for Planting in Portugal
Tips for planting in Portugal... I've been sharing a number of posts on Instagram recently about how, what and why plant a certain way, particularly in Portugal and I thought's I'd put them all in one place for you all in this blog (where I can also add to them as I...
How to cook with & look after your cast iron pans
How to use & look after your cast iron pans… I recently a story on my Instagram account about using cast iron and I got a flood of questions in my private messages about this, so I decided to answer them all and more in this blog. Why buy cast iron? They won’t...
Foods I ate that destroyed my health…
The things I ate that destroyed my health… My almost my whole life I have been fascinated with, in fear of and fixated on food. I became pescatarian at 9 years of age and then vegetarian, vegan, raw vegan and even considered breatharian at one point. I’d eating...
The benefits of having sheep
I recently got two new black baby lambs, just 2 months old. Last year we have a friends flock of 30 sheep here for several months and that has inspired me to have a few myself since then. They were quite scared to start with but are now getting us to me and the...
Grow Your Own Scoby
Grow your own scoby... Many people believe you need a scoby (mushroom looking thingy) to make Kombucha and search high and low for someone (like me) with some to spare. When, in fact you can so easily grow your own, because the scoby is in fact a bi-product of the...
Why we struggle to make dietary changes…
Why we struggle with dietary changes… When we change our diet, we are always thinking we are ‘missing out’. But what we forget to focus on is how much we could be gaining. For many of us that could quite literally be getting our lives back. We always think we need...
How to know what to eat…
How to know what to eat… The first thing to consider is to do nervous system regulating techniques before each meal. When the nervous system is more regulated you uptake the nutrients from your food more easily. Sitting down to eat feeling stressed/anxious and/or...
What not to do if you have a dysregulated nervous system
What not to do if your nervous system is dysregulated… Spend lots of time away from nature (lack of earth and sun, community and connection) Spend lots of time Infront of screens (especially without blue blockers and grounding mats of sheets). Not switching screens...
My Oxalate Journey
My Low Oxalate Journey… Many years ago, when I was still veggie/vegan/raw-vegan I came across this odd thing called oxalates. Some people were claiming that chemicals (oxalates) in plants were killing us. Being very narrow-minded with my diet/health journey at the...
Pemmican Recipe
Pemmican Recipe I'm a big fan of making my own foodie produce (as you can see from all the recipes for raw-vegan & veggie foods, cakes and such like over the years here on this blog). So, when I moved over to eating mostly animals proteins and a small amount of...
Why I failed at being Vegetarian, Vegan & Raw-Vegan
Why I failed at being Vegetarian, Vegan & Raw-Vegan I was 9yrs old when I became a vegetarian (when I realised where meat came from). My Mum thought it was a faze, so just let it happen, that faze ended up lasting over 33 yrs (I was always a bit stubborn ha)....
Fermented Foods Reduces Oxalates (& more)
Fermentation Reduces Oxalates As you know if you have been hanging around here for a while, fermented foods and drinks are so good for sooo many things (I will link my benefits list in my stories). But recently even though I have been a total fermenting freak for...
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