Recently I've had more sad days then I've had happy and if you've read the news recently its all full of UKIP and other awful things.
Saying that it can be very easy to let all the bad stuff get you down but amongst it every day there are great things happening you just have allow yourself to see them.
One trick I've found that works is doing a 100 jumping jacks, obviously you don't have to do a 100 but even ten will turn that frown upside down as exercise = endorphins and they immediately make you feel better.
Also this song which (up until five seconds ago) I didn't know was an REM cover, still one of my fave songs ever though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL6Gsm1AOmY
xoxo
Thursday 15 May 2014
Sunday 11 May 2014
Healthy comfort food
The other day I had a real craving for broccoli and when I say craving I mean the vegetable had begun appearing in my dreams and haunting my thoughts.
I generally like it either one of three ways, roasted, raw or in the midst of some creamy sauce (the kind so heavy it makes all the other sauces blush), this time how ever I fancied having it a different way.
You see I'd also been craving tomato soup, but when it comes to soup I'd rather make it myself than buy it from a shop (see chemicals and calories I don't need).
I wanted something healthy and hearty so I googled tomato and broccoli soup and found this http://gb.pinterest.com/source/divaliciousrecipesinthecity.com/ .
To be honest the recipes so simple it doesn't take a genius to figure it out, all you need is an onion, tin of tomatoes and a head of broccoli, chop up the broccoli finely and add it to the already chopped onion with abit of coconut oil, tin of tomatoes and leave it to simmer for about 10 minutes so that the broccoli softens. Once its done blend and there you have it, simple soup that healthy and vaguely filling (I also added a veg stock cube and chilli).
The next day I made it again but used frozen spinach instead and it was just as delieious. I have a tendency to want to use every vegetable in my cupboard but with a soup such as this using two or three things is way more effective. 
I generally like it either one of three ways, roasted, raw or in the midst of some creamy sauce (the kind so heavy it makes all the other sauces blush), this time how ever I fancied having it a different way.
You see I'd also been craving tomato soup, but when it comes to soup I'd rather make it myself than buy it from a shop (see chemicals and calories I don't need).
I wanted something healthy and hearty so I googled tomato and broccoli soup and found this http://gb.pinterest.com/source/divaliciousrecipesinthecity.com/ .
To be honest the recipes so simple it doesn't take a genius to figure it out, all you need is an onion, tin of tomatoes and a head of broccoli, chop up the broccoli finely and add it to the already chopped onion with abit of coconut oil, tin of tomatoes and leave it to simmer for about 10 minutes so that the broccoli softens. Once its done blend and there you have it, simple soup that healthy and vaguely filling (I also added a veg stock cube and chilli).
The next day I made it again but used frozen spinach instead and it was just as delieious. I have a tendency to want to use every vegetable in my cupboard but with a soup such as this using two or three things is way more effective.
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