Read more about the article Healthy Eating & Family Snacks During Lockdown

Healthy Eating & Family Snacks During Lockdown

Greetings family!!!

Whenever school holidays roll around, one of the biggest worries I hear from parents is “they’re going to eat me out of house and home”!!!! For those who don’t get this statement immediately, parents are worried that now their children will be at home for a few weeks, they’ll be eating their way through all the food in the house.

At the time of writing and recording, we’ve just entered into the COVID 19 lockdown, where most children’s schools have been closed and many people are being asked to work from home.

As a home educating mum for the past 12yrs and a nutritionist for a similar time, in today’s video, i’ll be sharing how you can eating healthy snacks, plan your days and meals and make family eating and snacking workable during this time.

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Will The Sugar Tax Work?

The sugar tax was introduced on 6th April 2018 in the UK. The tax has been created to encouraged manufacturers to reduce the sugar content of their beverages and make high sugar drink less affordable to the consumer.

This seems like a smart move by the government, as part of their anti-obesity campaign to tackle the rising levels of obesity which is beginning to over burden the NHS.

 

But my question is, will making sugary drinks more expensive encourage us to make healthier food choices?

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Without Assessing You’re Guessing

Greetings lovelies,

When I first started my career as a nutritionist, I had a very ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach to advising clients, which didn’t give the great results I get with clients now. This is because now, I know that ‘without assessing you’re guessing’.

So how does this effect your life?

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Is A Weight Loss Diet Always A Healthy Diet?

It’s not unreasonable to think that if we’re following a weight loss diet it’s probably healthy isn’t it? And with the fanaticism of the press and the wellness industry over the problems of obesity, it’s not surprising that we tend to think that a healthy diet and a weight loss diet are one and the same thing. Surely anything that will save us from the evils of being overweight must be good for us, surely?

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How To Make Irish Moss Gel

Irish moss smoothies have become a daily treat for us (as long as I blend it properly and we’re not faced with lumps of it in our cups :-). There are some many uses and health benefits from this superfood of the sea, which I’ll go into more in a future post, but for now, this is a quick video to show you how to actually make Irish moss gel at home, that you can then easily use in your smoothies, puddings, ice creams and more.

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