Category: Food

I think most of us want to start the new year as a better version of ourselves by trying to be healthier after the festive period of overindulging in food, drink, and so on. We make resolutions to lose weight, work out more, eat more healthy and we have seen how this does not always work, as 80% of resolutions fail. All this got me thinking about the ways we look at food and exercise to make us feel and look physically better. But what about how food impacts our mental health and wellbeing? I feel we should maybe look at this and consider changing foods for this purpose to enable us to feel and still look better.

It is my most favourite thing to do in the whole world. Picture the smell of home-cooked food in your kitchen and the happiness you get when you share it with others. What is there not to love! I remember years ago, when I was living at home with my mother, I was working two stressful jobs at the time and baking cakes for people on the side. I was in the kitchen, exhausted, baking my second cake of the week, huffing and puffing because the icing wasn’t doing what I wanted it to do. She turned to me and started questioning me that if it was worth it if it made me so annoyed and frustrated. My response straight away was, yes.