I was flying back to Australia last night and the menu on the flight stated ‘corn fed chicken breast’.
I find it amazing that so many restaurants promote ‘corn fed’ chicken and ‘grain fed’ beef as a hugely desirable factor on their menus! (see my blog page regarding the impact of Grass Fed vs Grain Fed Animal Diet).
The soy marketing campaign will have truly done its job when in place of that, the restaurants proudly state ‘soy fed’ chicken or beef and people believe that’s a good thing…
We did it! It’s been an exciting couple of months with the launch of The Retreat at Split Farthing Hall. We’ve held our first few retreats including Claire guiding an ‘Adventure for the Soul’ program and encouraging women to ‘Evoke Your Senses’ on another weekend. Plus we just had a fabulous double page article published…
You may or may not know… that I am passionate about the breath. Which in some ways can seem a strange thing for we breathe all the time. But this is the very reason I do get excited about the breath… we all breathe and it doesn’t involve anything fancy other than taking a moment…
How many hours of sleep did you get last night? Was it fewer than the number you would normally get prior to the pandemic? If it was, you are certainly not alone. Just as Covid-19 has severely impacted mental health around the world, it has also negatively affected our sleep patterns, prompting sleep experts to…
What is Christmas dinner without a decadent dessert? You’ve had your roast potatoes and you’ve earned your brownie points by filling up on vegetables (of course…), so now it’s time to indulge your sweet tooth whilst trying to ignore the washing up and bickering over which board game is up next. Seeing as it’s the…
It’s simple and healthy plus it’s ‘free from’ (gluten, wheat, dairy and sugar free). Butternut Squash Spaghetti with Lemon and Tarragon Dressing Serves 2 30g cashews 50g macadamia nuts 30g tarragon 1 lemon 1 tbsp olive oil 100ml water salt and pepper 450g butternut squash Directions Add the cashew and macadamia nuts to a food…
I guess we’re all inherently trusting and that’s why marketing works! There’s an article in Which magazine this month (March 2012 – Food & Health/Food labelling) exposing how we’re being duped by food marketing campaigns on numerous fronts. Supermarkets such as Marks & Spencer’s have Lochmuir salmon – but no such place actually exists –…
