Wednesday, 28 April 2010
Aloe Vera Juice
I was at a craft fair the other weekend and ther was a lady selling Forever Living Products and I got chatting and said I had not really tried ALOE VERA juice and yet I knew it was very good I said I knew a lady who sold it local to me so I got in touch and she got some me the next day and I started on it about a week ago now and I did notice I had a bit more energy so let's hope it helps. I use the berry one as that contains cranberry which I hope might help with my urinary problems I get often and I don't ike drinking the cranberry juice you buy in the shops as it contains sugar or sugar substitutes which is not good for my candida.
Gluten Free Rhubarb and Cream Cheese Cake
Time to make some lovely orange and rhubarb crumble.
This juicy and pink but slightly sour vegetable is so wonderfully versatile.
You can use it in creamy deserts, dairy-free cakes, smoothies, with porridge or fish or even raw.
Like a stick of natural sherbet lemon, rhubarb is beautifully refreshing and adds such zest to a meal that a little culinary imagination will go a long long way.
Here’s another rhubarb suggestion: a delicious recipe for a very easy Gluten Free Rhubarb and Cream Cheese Cake
Fresh organic rhubarb
1 box of gluten free vanilla sponge cake mix
4 oz melted butter
2 eggs
8 oz mascarpone or full-fat cream cheese
5 stalks chopped rhubarb
3 tbs caster sugar
2 tbs water
icing sugar for dusting
(all ingredients are available from us at goodness direct)
1. Pre-heat oven to 180°C
2. Stir the butter, eggs and cake mix into a stiff paste. Press the mixture into the bottom of a spring-form cake tin.
3. Blend the icing sugar and cream cheese with a fork. Apply onto the top of the cake mix. Use a spatula spread out from the centre, making the sweet mixture a little thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges.
4. Place in oven a for 40 minutes or until the top is turning golden. Test that the cake does not wobble when you shake it. There should be a shallow dip in the centre of the top of the cake. Leave to cool.
5. When the cake has cooled you can add the rhubarb. Simmer the rhubarb, caster sugar and water together (for best results avoid using an aluminium pan) so that the rhubarb is soft and coming apart. Spoon the rhubarb into the shallow area on top of the cake and sprinkle with icing sugar.
6. Serve immediately.
Source: Goodness Direct
This juicy and pink but slightly sour vegetable is so wonderfully versatile.
You can use it in creamy deserts, dairy-free cakes, smoothies, with porridge or fish or even raw.
Like a stick of natural sherbet lemon, rhubarb is beautifully refreshing and adds such zest to a meal that a little culinary imagination will go a long long way.
Here’s another rhubarb suggestion: a delicious recipe for a very easy Gluten Free Rhubarb and Cream Cheese Cake
Fresh organic rhubarb
1 box of gluten free vanilla sponge cake mix
4 oz melted butter
2 eggs
8 oz mascarpone or full-fat cream cheese
5 stalks chopped rhubarb
3 tbs caster sugar
2 tbs water
icing sugar for dusting
(all ingredients are available from us at goodness direct)
1. Pre-heat oven to 180°C
2. Stir the butter, eggs and cake mix into a stiff paste. Press the mixture into the bottom of a spring-form cake tin.
3. Blend the icing sugar and cream cheese with a fork. Apply onto the top of the cake mix. Use a spatula spread out from the centre, making the sweet mixture a little thicker in the middle and thinner at the edges.
4. Place in oven a for 40 minutes or until the top is turning golden. Test that the cake does not wobble when you shake it. There should be a shallow dip in the centre of the top of the cake. Leave to cool.
5. When the cake has cooled you can add the rhubarb. Simmer the rhubarb, caster sugar and water together (for best results avoid using an aluminium pan) so that the rhubarb is soft and coming apart. Spoon the rhubarb into the shallow area on top of the cake and sprinkle with icing sugar.
6. Serve immediately.
Source: Goodness Direct
Tuesday, 23 February 2010
After a While Poem
This poem is in a book I am currently reading I found it very relevant to my current situation
A beautiful poem by Veronica Shoffstall written in 1971, at a time when so much was changing for women, but its words are as relevant today. This writer feels strong, self assured and contented.
After a while you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t always mean security
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises
And you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of a women, not the grief of a child
And you learn to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns
if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring your flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
that you really are strong
And you really do have worth
And you learn and you learn
With every goodbye you learn……
A beautiful poem by Veronica Shoffstall written in 1971, at a time when so much was changing for women, but its words are as relevant today. This writer feels strong, self assured and contented.
After a while you learn the subtle difference
between holding a hand and chaining a soul
And you learn that love doesn’t mean leaning
And company doesn’t always mean security
And you begin to learn that kisses aren’t contracts
And presents aren’t promises
And you begin to accept your defeats
with your head up and your eyes ahead
with the grace of a women, not the grief of a child
And you learn to build all your roads on today
because tomorrow’s ground is too uncertain for plans
and futures have way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn that even sunshine burns
if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul
instead of waiting for someone to bring your flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure
that you really are strong
And you really do have worth
And you learn and you learn
With every goodbye you learn……
Sunday, 7 February 2010
Time to move on.....
I am fed up of allowing my ME to control me I have got back into that awful trap again, with the SAD and also the weather I have been stuck in most of the time and that only makes me dwell on negativity.
The hormones don't help either! I have a lot of anger and resentment about the past and I am trying to blame others for why I am ill when in reality it is my view of it all that is making me ill. I can either carry on in this thought pattern and stay ill or can get me out of it and get well. That is the harsh reality.
When I think more positive I can actually feel my body heaving a huge sigh of relief almost as if it saying at last you get me!!! How empowering that is, and my body says give me more give me more.
I must give it more by doing more, getting out more even if that might be on my own which I hate but at least I am not stuck inside rotting away! Keep you posted.......
The hormones don't help either! I have a lot of anger and resentment about the past and I am trying to blame others for why I am ill when in reality it is my view of it all that is making me ill. I can either carry on in this thought pattern and stay ill or can get me out of it and get well. That is the harsh reality.
When I think more positive I can actually feel my body heaving a huge sigh of relief almost as if it saying at last you get me!!! How empowering that is, and my body says give me more give me more.
I must give it more by doing more, getting out more even if that might be on my own which I hate but at least I am not stuck inside rotting away! Keep you posted.......
Friday, 22 January 2010
The curse of candida
I have had candida for the whole time I have been ill and I thought I had got over it but just lately it has come back with a vengeance. So I started back on candigest+ a supplement which seems to cut back the candida but at present anything I eat seems to flare up the candida, I seem to be ok for so long but then if I go mad like eating mushrooms, bread or chocolate then I have to pay for it. I also find that taking apple cider vinegar helps there is so info on this Earth Clinic on how to take this. It also works well for throat infections or colds so worth a try as of course it's natural.
Not doing well......
I am not doing well at moment hence been quiet on my blog, I have not much of positive to tell you just that I am in a relapse and not sure how to get myself back to where I was so I am giving myself a break till I find a solution.
I am not doing Reverse therapy anymore and I do feel that I need to get back to it as I know it helped a lot but I suffer with SAD and it has been really bad this time of year and I have no motivation at present.
I am not doing Reverse therapy anymore and I do feel that I need to get back to it as I know it helped a lot but I suffer with SAD and it has been really bad this time of year and I have no motivation at present.
Saturday, 6 June 2009
Gym
I went back to the gym today after a couple of weeks not getting there, I decided to try the sat am pilates class as I was up early for once lol it went well, got talking to an elderly lady and told her I was recovering from ME and explained how I find the gym helps me, though I struggle with the classes other than pilates. I decided to try pilates on the ball, I actually managed to stay on the ball today, but made sure I stayed at level 1 as though I could have probably done level 2 I thought it was pushing it a bit and I want to feel boosted by the session not worn out.
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