Annabel Karmel’s chicken satay recipe

Unless you are allergic to peanuts you can eat peanuts and indeed any nuts when you are pregnant.

Peanut butter is a nutrient dense and energy giving food, providing an excellent source of protein, folic acid, calcium and zinc. Zinc plays an important role in building up a strong immune system.… Read the rest

“There was nothing else to do but ask for help” – my PND story

We were ready for our baby. Just a few last things to arrange: a white dress, a jam of wedding house guests, a goldenly lit dinner and elated tears I can still taste. The honeymoon nights we had waited for.

Then a child, right? For everyone but us.

Fertility treatment seemed mostly needles and schedules. I left my magazine’s Christmas party early to shoot up the crazy-making hormones on the dot; a year later I left my job altogether. I accepted that my body would not make any miracles. … Read the rest

Top 10 Cyber Safety Tips

This week is cyber security awareness week! In this day and age, cyber safety should be on the top of everyone’s list. You can never be too careful with what you do on the internet – and seeing as you’re currently online reading this, we thought this information would be particularly useful to you. Here are 10 top tips to keep you and your family cyber safe.… Read the rest

Eating in the raw

Tall dark and handsome, sometimes smooth and sweet or strong and nasty!

You’ve been there every morning, every afternoon,and even a sneaky one after dinner on occasion! But now you have become bitter and twisted, you don’t give me the buzz you once did (oh, who am I kidding, I crave that buzz right now!).

So long black delicious coffee!… Read the rest