Thursday 28 April 2011

minty choc chia!

This decadently-sublime and yet healthy concoction reminds of the not-so-good for you processed mint choc chip ice cream of childhood, it's soo good!

*chia seed gel made up from previous night!
*ripe frozen banana chunks(ice cream)
* raw and organic cacao powder
* 1-2 drops pure peppermint essential oil!

Wednesday 27 April 2011

good resources!

The Broken Mirror: Understanding and Treating Body Dysmorphic Disorder. By Katharine A. Phillips (Paperback - Jan 2005)

The BDD Workbook: Overcome Body Dysmorphic Disorder and End Body Image Obsessions. By James Claiborn and Cherry Pedrick (Paperback)

Mind Over Mood: Change How You Feel By Changing the Way You Think. By Christine A Padesky and Dennis Greenberger (Paperback - 10 May 1995)

Overcoming Depression: A self-help guide using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques. By Paul Gilbert (Paperback - 25 May 2000)

Tuesday 26 April 2011

treasured memories of Diana the loving mother!

You know you're getting OLD when you can recall quite clearly:

* Lady Diana Spencer's engagement to Charlie looking resplendent in royal blue!

* The 'shy Di' newspaper tabloid headings that followed her prior to her wedding in July 1981!

* The pending birth of Princess Diana's first child(William) on the longest day in 1982(one was especia

lly excited as there was a possibility that her first-born son might be born on my birthday, he came a day before:)

* the oh-so-cute photos of the young Prince William and the incident with the golf ball!

Diana simply adored 'her boys' and would be so, so proud of her first-born son's nuptials(what a catch:)and thus lives on in her sons.

As a fellow early crab I'm soo proud of her for being a very decent human being(she secretly took a very young Prince William to 'Centrepoint' homeless shelter in London to show him how the other half lived:)!

Congratulations Wills and Catherine(let's raise a glass to Wills and Catherine and Princess Diana for her fine maternal skills on April 29th:)!

Friday 22 April 2011

favourite zucchini spaghetti with a raw tomato salsa

pomodoro salsa:fresh garlic, fresh and ripe vine tomatoes(6),1TBS unfiltered Biona cider vinegar, 2 TBS olive oil, cayenne mixes to a smooth and velvety salsa. Pour over a bed of raw zucchini spaghetti, enjoy!

traditional N.African ie Moroccan product AKA barley cous cous find!

Thursday 14 April 2011

being real being human!

Praise and cheers goes out to the lovely Welsh actress, Catherine Zeta Jones for seeking professional help for bipolar and depression. Hopefully this endorsement will help to dispel and destigmatise mental illness as a taboo subject(I hope so)and thus save and improve lives!