Favourite email this week

I love that my friends are as bonkers as I am
"Was just in the loo at work and I had read that you should wash your hands as long as it takes you to sing happy birthday. Twice if you have a poo. I started singing it out loud whilst washing my hands and then realised someone was in one of the cubicles. They then came out and said "happy birthday" and I said "thanks" because I didn't want to sound mad. Now I am worried that he'll tell people it's my birthday!!!"

Find out which foods to buy organic as they are not all smothered in pesticides

Are you needlessly buying organic. Here is some useful guidance on which fruit and vegetables you should buy as organic and which it really does not make a big difference so you can save those pennies.

Slimmer healthier husband is looking amazing - fitness and food hospital benefits

My husband just walked in to my office in his pants, ipod in hand, ready to get on the exercise bike and I was really taken by how he looks so so good these days. He looks amazing and not saying that just because he's my bit of stuff.

The belly and love handles are reduced. In his face he looks so much healthier, more relaxed and happier - almost glowing like a pregnant woman. It's lovely to see after his suffering the past year and he has not suffered gastro problems since he did his cleansing diet.

Amazing what difference it makes when you decide to concentrate on yourself by exercising and eating healthily. To be fair as a celiac vegetarian he was eating healthily but is now adding some 'super foods' to the mix, not eating refined sugar, juicing and not having loads of gluten free products as they are in fact heavily processed.

If you have health issues I urge you to exercise (30 mins a day if you want to lose weight - even walking as fast as you can comfortably manage is fantastic) and switch to a mega healthy diet. The fitness and food hospital is very very powerful! Has really helped me too.

We are now regularly moving our bodies and putting healthy things that are easy to digest into our bodies. In short we are living the life our bodies are designed to. No wonder it's much more harmonious.

Banana Cake recipe suitable for Specific Carbohydrate Diet - sugar free cake

Dry ingredients
2.5 cups of ground almonds/almond flour
3 ripe bananas mashed
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda

0.5 cup chopped hazlenuts
0.5 cup raisins
Wet ingredients
1 egg
Squirt of pure honey (or maple syrup)
1 tsp Vanilla essence

Mix the dry ingredients together first then mix in the egg and mashed bananas. Then add the honey and vanilla essence. Divide into two bread tins using grease-proof liners (bread tin ones can be bought as Asda stores) which means you get more crispy edges and it works better being thinner we believe. Cook for 50 minutes in an oven at 190 C.

More tweaks soon as we are perfecting this one and had a power cut in the middle so got confused with how long it had been in for.

Result nonetheless is delicious and quickly became an addiction. A healthier cake that is satisfying with good texture.

In case you are wondering the Specific Carbohydrate Diet removes most grains and even potatoes. It can help those with Autism, Crohn's Disease, Ulcerative Colitis, Diverticulitis, Celiac Disease, Cystic Fibrosis and Chronic Diarrhea. Some celiacs for example find that they continue to have issues after eliminating gluten from their diet and following this for a while and gradually re-introducing illegal foods can really turn things around. For more information I recommend reading this book - Breaking the Vicious Cycle: Intestinal Health Through Diet.

How to make a Cafe Leche Leche

When Kevin told me he also liked holidaying in Lanzarote I told him to try Cafe Leche Leche which my hubby very much enjoys. After coming home and discovering you can buy squeezy tubes of condensed milk (the magic ingredient) Kevin has perfected his own version:
- 1 shot Fortissio Lungo coffee if you have a Nespresso or otherwise a double espresso
- 1 shot hot milk
- 2 dessert spoons condensed milk (a squeezy tube of it lasts 3 weeks in the fridge so you need not worry about opening up a tin you won't finish)

Thanks for sharing the love KC!