Pop it in your lunchbox

Working in the city? In an office? At your desk from 7am? No time for a lunch break? 

This is the reality for so many people now a days and it can mean meals become a chore.

Let’s be honest, finding ready-to-eat food out on the streets that ticks all the nutrition boxes is near impossible (if you have any recommendations, I’d LOVE to hear them!), whilst getting home in the evening to do a massive cook up for dinner AND the next day isn’t always the most appealing either. 

Here are a couple of tips:

1) Look to make your plate ½ different coloured vegetables, ¼ protein and the rest made up with grains and healthy fats (plants, nuts, seeds and fish are our best sources).

2) Tinned lentils, beans, chickpeas & fish can be great cupboard essentials as they vastly decrease preparation time. (Add in some fresh leaves/herbs, some veg from dinner, ¼ avocado, a squeeze of lemon and you’ll have a pretty wholesome gig to look forward to come lunchtime!)

The clean 15 and dirty dozen

Eating ‘clean’ if you’re not lucky enough to grow your own food, can be quite a minefield and it can be very disheartening when your hard-earned wages are being thrown back into the ether as you try your best to buy chemical free food supplies. 

I recommend this to a lot of my clients, as I think it gives a comprehensive approach to what “is” and “is not” necessary to buy organic. 

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Musings on the importance of personalised nutrition

I’m sure I’m not the only one, who’s spent hours self diagnosing symptoms online or has been caught up in the online fad-dieting ‘one size fits all’ approach?

The truth is, that this is totally non-sensical. We are all exposed throughout our unique life experiences, to a cocktail of contaminants, microbiome altering medications and stressful situations which have left our health in someway compromised. Often these situations are necessary and unavoidable, so please try and leave the self-criticism out!

The point is, is that optimal health comes weaving our way through this quilt of potential influences and repairing any damage that may have been made. 

This will vary hugely from person to person, thus throwing one diet at 6 billion people worldwide, in the hope that we will all live a little longer, just won’t work. 

We need to appreciate our individuality and what makes us unique and promote the importance of personalised nutrition.