September 2010

ZAR – ZAR – Recipe – Blood oranges in Spicy syrup with Cinnamon Yoghurt

September 30, 2010

I made this for some friends who came over for dinner the other night. I love pudding but it was at the beginning of the time that I was avoiding sugar. The recipe originally asks for 1 cup of sugar but I added only 1/4 cup and it was so delicious. Yes, there is sugar [...]

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GEORGIE – TAKING ALL THE HELP YOU CAN GET!

September 29, 2010

At the moment, Spanx are in the news like never before. Spanx, for the men out there who aren’t aware (or the ladies who are yet to be enlightened) are a body shaping, butt lifting, cellulite masking, curve creating piece of underwear genius and I live in them. I wear then under dresses 4 days [...]

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ZAR – Buyer Beware!

September 28, 2010

I was chatting to one of my customers the other morning, she is a reader of the blog, works in a local gym and is interested in diet and fitness. She showed me the printout of the nutritional information for a new product in a well known chain of bakeries over here. It is a [...]

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GEORGIE – RANT number 2 (It’s my last I promise!)

September 27, 2010

Occasionally we get the odd peice of research that gets interpreted by a journalist in a way that if you just read the headline, you will never get the correct picture. It makes me REALLY mad. Take this article http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1312455/How-diet-exercise-key-losing-weight.html it talks about how scientists have found we don’t actually do less exercise then we [...]

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ROSIE – Beware your insecurities

September 26, 2010

I read this article the other day and it made me oh so sad…. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1310361/Ive-Twiglet-year-old-think-shes-fat-I-going-MY-wobbly-bits.html This relates a lot to what I wrote a month or so ago about body dismorphia and really made me think about my attitude to my body now that I’m a mother. I really related to what this woman was [...]

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ZAR -Recipe! Salmon Fishcakes

September 24, 2010

WITH HUGE APOLOGIES FROM GEORGIE IT WAS POSTED LATE!! X Mummy Bingham, hands down, makes the best salmon fishcakes. It is well worth getting an invite for any meal at the Bingham’s house, but if you get served fishcakes, you must be pretty special!! This version is the lazy version, easier and slightly healthier as [...]

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ROSIE – Slash that Supermarket Bill!

September 22, 2010

So, we may think we’re sassy women of the world (is that stereotypical, do men do the weekly shop? Criticise me if I’m wrong!), I certainly do but I read an interesting article in a nameless magazine about supermarket shopping the other day and it REALLY got me thinking. Our weekly bill is probably our [...]

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GEORGIE – RANT WEEK – Studies that make me mad PART I

September 21, 2010

I recently read of a study from the Monash University in Australia that made me v. mad indeed…it says that fat people don’t lack willpower, their brain cells are to blame for their predicament. Researchers found that in some people who ate a high fat diet, their brain cells became insulated from the body, preventing [...]

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ZAR – Goal setting

September 20, 2010

OK, OK, I promise not to get all Anthony Robbins on you but I’ve been thinking this last week about 2 events I have coming up and how glad I was for them. I’m doing the Sydney to the ‘Gong ride, a 90km bike ride in November and then in December I’m doing the swim [...]

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ZAR – Recipe! Red Curry Paste

September 16, 2010

I will warn you that making this is NOT for the faint-hearted. You’ll need a liquidiser with guts too. If you are at all funny about turning your equipment yellow with the fresh turmeric then again give this a miss. Also just to warn you that when you get turmeric on anything it is hard [...]

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