The Irony of Healthy Eating

Your body doesn’t make any iron, you need to consume it. So, steak, stout and plenty of greens, right? This is not only going to be easy, it’s going to be delicious!!!!
This is where the eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh comes in. Because iron deficiency isn’t just about eating enough iron, it is about ensuring that iron gets out of your stomach and into the rest of you.

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Summer Stuff

Greetings. As the days get lighter and the weeds start springing I find myself in an early mid-year review, wondering what the hell has happened to the last six (twelve?) months. Whilst I could certainly regale you with endless fascinating and inspirational tales of what I’ve been up to, it feels time to look to […]

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Review- You Can’t Screw This Up

You Can’t Screw This Up is the kind of work that the world needs, especially in January when so many people feel a need to hit the self mutilation plans.

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Baked Oatmeal- But Make It Sexy

Everyone keeps banging on about baked oats at the moment. Like ooh they are so healthy and low GI and I say screw that, it’s still January and I want filth and substance on a cold Sunday morning. So I made baked oats around the crowd pleasing flavour combos already present in the kitchen- namely […]

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Smoothie #11

It’s been some time since I was in the smoothie world, details of which I may or may not bore everyone with at a later date but this morning sees me at home for work and feeling somewhat world weary. World weary and too lazy to cook. World weary and too bored for cereal. So […]

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The Boomboom CV19 Survival Guide

A couple of folk have asked if I am going to publish some virus happy recipes in this trying time of Covid Bastard 19 and my response to that is although I am at least five types of idiot, I’m not that type of idiot. Unless you’re one of those shelf stripping scumbags hoarding all […]

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Grow Your Own- Tips for The Unsuccessful

Ah Spring is springing, the birds are singing and the daffs are up despite the fact that it is still blowing an icy gale every other day. Responsible and organised grow-your-own types are already well along with their heated propagators and other such clever cold weather jobs. Me, well, not so much. I spent […]

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Here’s to a Flexi Twenty

I’m too old for new years resolutions, what a load of guff. I’m not, however, falsely confident enough to say I’m 100% happy remaining forever the exact same lump of middling to average human being that will shuffle off to bed some time in the first hours of the new year. I need to up […]

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The Ultimate Summer Crumble

Too many people say they have the ‘ultimate’ formula for basically everything so I feel like I should perhaps qualify my Ultimate Summer Crumble with a little background. I love a crumble, because fruit, like most things in life, can only be improved by covering it in sweet carbohydrates. It’s also one of the few […]

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Review- Joe Allen

Where: Burleigh St, London. What: American style brasserie. How much: Set menu from £20, a la carté three courses with drinks £50+ per head. To quote their own website, Joe Allen is ‘the classic theatreland American brasserie’, tucked away in the West End round the corner from Covent Garden. I start this tale on a Lunch-Drinks-Show day […]