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Mayver’s Peanut & Cacao Spread

It was CHOCOLATE week in the UK last week – and chocolate week is always a good thing! 😋🍫⠀ So to celebrate, we’re sharing our latest gooey chocolatey find.⠀ But before we share the love, did you know that there is a difference between Cocoa and Cacao powder – and one is better than the other?⠀ According to iquitsugar.com, raw cacao powder is made by cold-pressing unroasted cocoa beans. The process keeps the living enzymes in the cocoa and removes…

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Conscious living

For quite a while now, I have been trying to live consciously. With intention and positivity. It’s not easy, and sometimes I fail miserably, but when I succeed, I feel in flow and centred. So I keep trying … everyday. So what does it mean to live consciously? Well for me, it means making active, self aware, positive and confident decisions for everything in my life. All the time. With purpose-filled intention. That includes my purchases (especially food and healthcare),…

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Kick start your day with lemon water.

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After a few failed detox attempts, I finally kicked my caffeine addiction, and started to enjoy having lemon water as part of my morning routine. I love lemon, so I use a whole wedge and plonk it into a mug of boiling water and allow it to cool a bit before sipping it. The documented benefits of drinking lemon water are far and wide, but the greatest benefit comes from drinking the water itself – which flushes the body’s digestive…

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What’s in your wraps? 

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I happened to buy different wrap brands over the last week and had them both out for lunch as I finished off one pack. They were sitting there staring at me, and I decided to read the ingredient listings. I was shocked – I thought wraps were like bread so they should have things like bread, flour, water, seeds, yeast etc. The brand on the left has over 16 different ingredients including preservatives which I try to avoid wherever possible…

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The beginning.

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This is where it all began. December 2nd 2015, Melbourne Australia. Oprah was in Melbourne for a flying visit for two nights only – the first was sold out. My bestie called the day before the final show, to say the last tickets were going on sale right now and did I want to go. Did I want to see Oprah? Of course I did. So on a whim and toiling with mother’s guilt of leaving my 4 month old…

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