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Periods, Poo & A Glorious You: My First Book Baby

Holy Heck she is finally here.

Isn’t she a beauty. I know, I know. She has my cervix.

I was reluctant to become a book Mamma. To spread my legs and let the literary gods impregnate me with the drive to create a unique and non-cliched publication.

Thankfully I felt the fear and got pregnant (with paper) anyway.

My baby knows what she likes and told me what she needed to be. She refused to be free of typos. No matter how many times I lovingly combed her pages, she’d sneakily play hide and seek with minor corrections. “Mamma” she whispered to me last night before I put her down “now our glorious audience have a game to play when they read – where’s whoopsies?”. Isn’t she a delight? She is challenging my deep-seated perfectionist tendencies and I love her for it.

She insisted on being playful, lively, honest, candid, and, well;

G-L-O-R-I-O-U-S.

Hence her title.

Despite her front cover sporting a delightful Va-J-J, she is a uni-sex read for all ages and stages. If you have a body and sense of humour she was made for you. Periods was such an ace pairing for Poo that we rolled with it. Again, we emphasise as a mother-daughter duo; SHE IS NOT ALL ABOUT PERIODS. Lads gather ’round. What she’s on about is health … but not in a way that you are likely familiar.

She is a collection of my personal anecdotes (mostly surrounding my path from borderline-dead to robust health), orgasmic recipes (start salivating now), jokes and cheek (so much cheek) and health information imparted through cartoons, analogies and a whole lot of heart-felt humour. My baby is ready to play.

She loves;

  • Making others laugh – for a long, long time. And then when they think back to what they were laughing about, they start laughing all over again. She’s already doing this.
  • Sharing recipes that are simple, taste orgasmically delicious and ‘just happen to be’ stupendously nourishing
  • Airing my dirty laundry and poking fun at me wherever she can. I thought this didn’t start happening until the teenage years. Sighs.
  • Dropping cheeky F-bombs where no other phrase will do. The apple of me eye, I’m telling you.

She refuses to;

  • Tell you what to do
  • Make your mind up for you
  • Preach
  • Lure people into bandwagon carriages. She’d rather dance alongside you whilst YOU beat the drum that she’s gently supported you in building.

She’s already a social media tart.

Check her out below – she cannot wait to meet you.

Profound Plantain Bread Muffins

These wheat-free, dairy-free, sugar-free and fat-free muffins are overflowing with gut-loving resistant starch.

Heck to ALL the yeahs!

Your gut bugs are going to love you for this!

These muffins are:

  • Light and fluffy
  • Soft (and foodgasm-inducing comforting)
  • Spongy (food-porn at it’s finest)
  • Vegan (hells to the yeah)
  • Full of colon-cell fuelling Resistant Starch (happy poo, happy you)
  • Dense in dietary fibre (did I mention happy poo, happy you?)
  • De-bloody-licious
  • The perfect vehicle for your fave nut butter (because ‘nut butter on life’ is my motto … so much so that I wrote a book about it!)
  • Easy to Make – and rises without sinking (Yasss!!!!)

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Break The Fast on YOUR Terms

Holy Moly! How random is it that I feel this intense drive to write a post about breakfast of all things? Someone out there must really be in need of some clarity, and the universe has called upon me to rectify the supposed ‘rules’ and idealisms that accompany breaking the overnight fast.

I’ll keep things brief because this matter is stupendously simple; 

“You can break the fast whenever you feel called to, and when you do, your body appreciates it to be done with REAL FOOD!”

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Life After An Eating Disorder

A friend and I were chatting the other week and it dawned on us that there is very little written on the topic of life after an eating disorder.  There’s plenty of advice given for what to do when someone has an eating disorder ranging from – in my personal experience and opinion; borderline cruelty, to practical, common-sense suggestions, but nothing much after that.

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A Few of My Fave Anti-inflammatory Recipes

Most of my recipes are, at least to some extent, “anti-inflammatory.”

All whole foods are anti-inflammatory in one way or another.

  • Some are potent anti-inflammatories, containing compounds that actively reduce inflammation in the body, such as turmeric and it’s active compound curcumin
  • Others, such as berries and sweet spuds, contain antioxidants which fight pro-inflammatory free-radical damage
  • Then there are those that aren’t anti-inflammatory themselves, but are a great replacement for food-like substances that are. 

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Famous ‘Fat Bomb’ Muffins

These were previously called ‘My Favourite GAPS Muffins’ and if you search for them on this site, their original post will still come up.

Earlier this year, my mates Jo and Foo released their beautiful cookbook ‘Life Changing Food’, which contains a slight adaptation of said GAPS muffins that Jo dubbed ‘Rachel’s Fat Bomb Muffins’. This recipe has been very well received and I keep getting tagged all over social media alongside photos of these darling cakes being made by their readership. It’s very humbling and super-duper exciting.

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A Day on my Plate – All The VEG!!!

It’s been a while since my last “a day on my plate” post and I figured, I’ve actually got time to do a blog post (this chicken is up-to-date with her uni assignments). Let’s take a peek at my veg-a-licious eats.

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Fifty Shades of Vegan

Okay, so I’m actually only going to be talking about 3 or so shades of vegan today, but I wanted a captivating, snazzy title and “two-to-three shades of vegan” doesn’t sound anywhere near as thrilling.

Those of you that have been loyal readers since this blog’s very beginning – way back in late 2014, will know that I’ve had quite a rollercoaster ride with my health. I’m a firm believer that diet and lifestyle play a huge role in health outcomes and so this is always the area I come back to when thing’s aren’t right. I’m not against medications in all instances, but was on so many for so long, that if I can avoid them, I will – simply so that my liver and kidneys have less to deal with. I’ll also avoid surgery wherever possible, especially after the gallstone dilemma of 2016! Which brings me to today’s topic of discussion – where am I up to now?

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Rice Pudding Brekkie

Cooked and cooled rice is a source of resistant starch. Resistant starch (as the name suggests) resists digestion in the small intestine, instead acting as more of a fibre. It’s an incredible fuel source for our gut bugs to keep them thriving and healthy (super important for digestion, amazing skin, immunity and mental health).

The coconut milk is a brill source of fatty acids for nourishment and energy and the warming spices help to balance blood glucose levels. Pair this with the fibre- rich dates and the zinc-loaded pumpkin seeds and you’ve got yourself a pretty snazzy make-ahead brekkie.

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