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Health and well-being, beauty and even make up! Trade secrets on how to look and feel good from our PT and nutritional guru (Rosie) and our TV insider (Georgie). We also aim to put methods, new products and crazy claims to the test for you here too.

Zar – recipe – Spicy chickpea and vegetable casserole

June 10, 2013

So this is really delicious. It’s a hybrid of Mum’s ratatouille, Michelle Bridges vegetable and chickpea casserole with a twist from me. It could be great as a side dish or a lunch to take to work or not. It is a really satisfying dish and the spices make it extra tasty. 1 eggplant, diced [...]

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Zar – recipe – Cauliflower and quinoa salad

May 26, 2013

This is a recipe from Michelle Bridges new book, but with a few changes made due to some ingredients I did and didn’t have. It has been a saviour for my lunches this week and yet again because I was well prepared, I mainly managed to eat healthy. I cooked some salmon on the BBQ [...]

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Zar – Recipe – Braised chicken with chillies

April 30, 2013

WARNING!! This is not for the faint hearted!! If you are not keen on hot, then I recommend you reduce the amount of chillies to one. Or use a fresh chilli and remove the seeds. It is a really delicious, simple dish. I have been eating it all week on a bed of spinach. That’s [...]

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Zar – recipe – Moroccan Fish Skewers

April 16, 2013

Firstly, apologies for not posting a recipe for a couple of weeks but I have been totally obsessed with my super salad that I last posted. However, I recently bought a book called “Aussie Body Diet and Detox Plan” by Saimaa Miller. I’m not into detox’s believing that, for me, I won’t get into a [...]

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Zar – Recipe – Super! Super! Super! Salad

March 26, 2013

I have put up a couple of recipes similar to this but I don’t apologise for it. I know that part of any success I have eating healthily is having food prepared for lunch and dinner. What could be better than a salad full of goodies, a salad, which will make you, feel great and [...]

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Zar – recipe – Zucchini and pecan loaf

March 19, 2013

Alright, alright……I’m one of those people. This is a cake with a vegetable in it. BUT it is very delicious. It’s baked in a loaf tin and the slices are quite firm so could be put in a lunchbox for work. It is still a cake though, so try not to eat 3 slices like [...]

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Zar – Recipe – Lamb, eggplant and caramelised tomato salad

March 3, 2013

When I post recipes for the blog I try to give ideas to help us all cook something different, use different ingredients, get out of a rut…… Day to day, I like to eat (without sounding wankey) good, honest food. Fresh ingredients, prepared simply. Generally it will be a protein (meat, fish etc) with salad [...]

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Zar – A good start

February 19, 2013

I’ve had a bit of an epiphany recently. Actually, make that two. The first was regarding my approach to food, weight, health and fitness in 2013. I’m sure each year we’ve had this blog, I’ve written some blurb in January about how I will have control this year – blah, blah, blah. This year I [...]

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Valentine’s thoughts from Bingham Girls!

February 14, 2013

I’m a massive non fan of Valentine’s day.  We should tell the person we love that we love them EVERY day – not on a day when flowers, chocolates and meals cost 3 times what they normally do.   I am all for lavishing love and affection but feel most men have a 3 line whip [...]

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Zar- recipe – Pancake Day!!

February 10, 2013

I am so excited!! This Tuesday is Pancake Day. There was a time a few years ago when I was on the ball and remembered every year but that was before life as we know it. I heard it was this week on the radio; texted Clare and we’re on. It used to be a [...]

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