Recently I was invited behind the scenes at Chop’d’s new Manchester store where they told me all about their concept and how they started out. I got to sample some of their awesome ingredients and they even let me loose in their kitchen. If you don't know about Chop’d, they started out as a stall on Leadenhall Market in 2004 and now have 12 stores across London. They've just ...
The Food
The best places to eat healthy in Manchester
Over the last few months I've been on a mission to find more healthy places to eat out or grab something on the go across Manchester - to try to balance out all the epic burgers and award winning donuts that it's well known for. It took some digging but there's actually a whole lot on offer across the city centre if you're eating out but feel a bit burger-ed out. Viet ...
Chocolate peanut nut butter cups
So, on Sunday I did a bit of spontaneous non-baking and thought I'd experiment with some dark chocolate and peanut butter - two of my absolute favourite things. I'm usually fairly restrained with my portion sizes but at least with these bad boys I don't risk chowing down half a jar of peanut butter and can also stick them in the freezer to ration them. You'll need: - 200g ...
Quick fry steak with sweet chilli sauce, rice and edamame beans.
This was seriously one of the quickest dinners I've ever made but it was also a big winner on the taste front - you have to try this one guys! Ingredients: Steak bashed really thin (I sandwich it between some cling wrap and bash it to about 0.5cm thick with a rolling pin so it cooks really quickly). I thought I'd ordered a bigger pack of steak on my online shop but ended up ...
What is carb cycling?
If you’ve been following my Facebook and Instagram feeds you’ll know that I’ve just started experimenting with carb cycling as part of my mission to get some abs for summer. Ha! Questions have been flooding in about what it is and how it works so I thought I’d do a mini blog to explain a bit about it. As I’m just starting out with my studies in nutrition I’ve been planning ...