Food is your medicine. Absolutely, I couldn’t agree more. Healthy diet, healthy lifestyle, healthy attitude is a fabulous recipe for being a generally ‘Healthy person”. I’m a pretty well educated sort of person, I’d like to think of myself as a “Healthy person”, and as the ‘personal shopper’, ‘head chef’ and ‘nutritionist’ of our family I would like to think that I provide fairly healthy meals and snacks for our growing children. I’d say I’m pretty good… maybe the 80/20 principle applies, but still pretty good I think! Possibly even a bit more ‘health’ conscious than the average… but generally I’m aware of trying to maintain some sort of balance physically, spiritually, mentally and emotionally.

Very recently, I have been COMPLETELY re educated!

Mum always provided ‘good’ food with lots of fruit and veg and basic meat dishes… they weren’t usually that exciting, but we had to learn to get over that, unless I wanted to sort my own meals… I almost as quickly realised that I certainly had NO interest in putting time and effort into slaving away to produce special/exciting/varied dishes that would be devoured just as quickly, if not quicker than a basic, healthy, no additive serve of meat and veg! (Even WITH a $2000 Thermomix!) SIMPLE… I thought. read more....