• In the last couple of weeks I decided fulfill a lifelong ambition: LEARNING TO DIVE! It has brought me so so much joy 🥳 The minute I started learning, before I even put the kit on, I was smiling. The theory classes reminded me how much I love being in a classroom. The water is teaching me patience and beauty. And now there’s a whole new world for me to conquer, with depths I can still not even fathom 🤩 #girlswhoscuba #girlsthatscuba #exploreeverything #scubadivinggirls #bopo #bodypositive
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    In the last couple of weeks I decided fulfill a lifelong ambition: LEARNING TO DIVE! It has brought me so so much joy 🥳 The minute I started learning, before I even put the kit on, I was smiling. The theory classes reminded me how much I love being in a classroom. The water is teaching me patience and beauty. And now there’s a whole new world for me to conquer, with depths I can still not even fathom 🤩 #girlswhoscuba #girlsthatscuba #exploreeverything #scubadivinggirls #bopo #bodypositive
  • Simple dinner parties with friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures 🥰 Yesterday’s menu was: a salad to start with basil mustard dressing; spicy mango avocado salsa; panko chicken (with herbs and spices); honey roasted carrots and hot paprika potatoes. For dessert it was a berry crumble with cream 🙌🏼 #foodblogger #dinnerparty #dinnerpartyideas #foodielife #bodypositive #bopo
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    Simple dinner parties with friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures 🥰 Yesterday’s menu was: a salad to start with basil mustard dressing; spicy mango avocado salsa; panko chicken (with herbs and spices); honey roasted carrots and hot paprika potatoes. For dessert it was a berry crumble with cream 🙌🏼 #foodblogger #dinnerparty #dinnerpartyideas #foodielife #bodypositive #bopo
  • Eggs and crêpes 🙌🏼 On Thursday, I talked about how my priorities at the moment have been almost entirely just work, and how I haven’t been cooking. Yesterday I worked all day, and crashed at about 10pm completely knackered. I set no alarm for this morning, and woke up feeling more refreshed than I had in weeks. I decided to honour that, and wanted to make myself a good breakfast that would be easy for me to do. Crêpes are impressive in theory but easy when you’ve got the hang of them, and so I made three crêpes this morning, two with eggs, and one with just some maple syrup. Big brunch, because after it I was heading off to learn how to do something exciting that I’ve always wanted to do! More on that soon 🥰 #foodblogger #breakfastideas #foodlife #selfcare #pancakerecipe #crepeslovers #eggfast #اكل_صحي #healthyeats
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    Eggs and crêpes 🙌🏼 On Thursday, I talked about how my priorities at the moment have been almost entirely just work, and how I haven’t been cooking. Yesterday I worked all day, and crashed at about 10pm completely knackered. I set no alarm for this morning, and woke up feeling more refreshed than I had in weeks. I decided to honour that, and wanted to make myself a good breakfast that would be easy for me to do. Crêpes are impressive in theory but easy when you’ve got the hang of them, and so I made three crêpes this morning, two with eggs, and one with just some maple syrup. Big brunch, because after it I was heading off to learn how to do something exciting that I’ve always wanted to do! More on that soon 🥰 #foodblogger #breakfastideas #foodlife #selfcare #pancakerecipe #crepeslovers #eggfast #اكل_صحي #healthyeats
  • When you pride yourself on being someone who “tries her best”, sometimes when you feel like you’re not giving 💯 in all aspects of life you feel disappointed. It’s funny, because I could tell you that I’ve worked 12-15 hour days for the last two weeks (which is true) after just having had surgery (a small benign tumour was removed from my mouth), but I also remember working 12-15 hour days when I was a journalist and how much more often it happened (almost all the time) so I don’t feel like complaining is ‘right’. ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ But is it complaining? Is accepting that I want to relax and read a book or watch a bit of YouTube at the end of the day for an hour or two instead of cook for myself a failure of willpower? It’s weighing up what’s better for my self-care: good, healthy meals cooked by me that make me feel satiated and happy; or time to unwind when I’ve been stressed and really want to be able to breathe. For last few weeks, both is not an option. I love to cook, I don’t usually find it stressful, but at the moment, I do. I guess all I’m saying is I’m trying to give myself a break even if my mind struggles with accepting my own limits. Maybe you do, too? Let’s have a conversation. What have you NOT done this week because you had another priority? #selfcare #foodblogger #foodielife #bodypos #bodypositivity #plusandproud
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    When you pride yourself on being someone who “tries her best”, sometimes when you feel like you’re not giving 💯 in all aspects of life you feel disappointed. It’s funny, because I could tell you that I’ve worked 12-15 hour days for the last two weeks (which is true) after just having had surgery (a small benign tumour was removed from my mouth), but I also remember working 12-15 hour days when I was a journalist and how much more often it happened (almost all the time) so I don’t feel like complaining is ‘right’. ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ But is it complaining? Is accepting that I want to relax and read a book or watch a bit of YouTube at the end of the day for an hour or two instead of cook for myself a failure of willpower? It’s weighing up what’s better for my self-care: good, healthy meals cooked by me that make me feel satiated and happy; or time to unwind when I’ve been stressed and really want to be able to breathe. For last few weeks, both is not an option. I love to cook, I don’t usually find it stressful, but at the moment, I do. I guess all I’m saying is I’m trying to give myself a break even if my mind struggles with accepting my own limits. Maybe you do, too? Let’s have a conversation. What have you NOT done this week because you had another priority? #selfcare #foodblogger #foodielife #bodypos #bodypositivity #plusandproud
  • I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I think sometimes you’ve got to honour that your life is busier than you can keep up with, and that despite what you want to spend your time on, priorities for the short-term are elsewhere. That’s okay, and that’s self-care too — prioritising sleep, prioritising work (that pays, lol), prioritising time spent reading when I know reading heals me. Once again I’m on the other side of a surgery, much smaller this time, and while I’m feeling much better I’m under an avalanche at work and haven’t been able to do what I want to do for Sand Kitchen. But I will, soon. I’m excited for more recipes and more travel and more adventure of all sorts. This photo was taken in Iceland, two and a half years ago, and man oh man I want to go back 🏃🏻‍♀️
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    I know it’s been a while since I’ve posted, but I think sometimes you’ve got to honour that your life is busier than you can keep up with, and that despite what you want to spend your time on, priorities for the short-term are elsewhere. That’s okay, and that’s self-care too — prioritising sleep, prioritising work (that pays, lol), prioritising time spent reading when I know reading heals me. Once again I’m on the other side of a surgery, much smaller this time, and while I’m feeling much better I’m under an avalanche at work and haven’t been able to do what I want to do for Sand Kitchen. But I will, soon. I’m excited for more recipes and more travel and more adventure of all sorts. This photo was taken in Iceland, two and a half years ago, and man oh man I want to go back 🏃🏻‍♀️
  • It’s PANCAKE DAY! 🥳 If you’d like a super fluffy, delicious, sugar-free pancake, give mine a try. Recipe is in the bio 👆🏼 These are GF as well but if you’re not sensitive to gluten, you can use regular flour ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🥞 Pancake Day is also Shrove Tuesday, the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday 😍 I’m someone who doesn’t have pancakes often (I just don’t crave them) but when I do these are honestly my favourites 💁🏻‍♀️ The fact that these are sugar-free DOES NOT mean sugar is bad, or that you can’t have “regular” pancakes. You do you! I personally love the sweetness from the banana and it’s enough for me 🌱 If you’d like to make this vegan, just swap the egg for a chia or flax egg and add an extra half a tsp baking soda ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ #pancakeday #foodielife #اكل_بيت #اكل_صحي #pancakerecipe #healthyeats #breakfastideas #breakfasttime
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    It’s PANCAKE DAY! 🥳 If you’d like a super fluffy, delicious, sugar-free pancake, give mine a try. Recipe is in the bio 👆🏼 These are GF as well but if you’re not sensitive to gluten, you can use regular flour ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🥞 Pancake Day is also Shrove Tuesday, the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday 😍 I’m someone who doesn’t have pancakes often (I just don’t crave them) but when I do these are honestly my favourites 💁🏻‍♀️ The fact that these are sugar-free DOES NOT mean sugar is bad, or that you can’t have “regular” pancakes. You do you! I personally love the sweetness from the banana and it’s enough for me 🌱 If you’d like to make this vegan, just swap the egg for a chia or flax egg and add an extra half a tsp baking soda ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ #pancakeday #foodielife #اكل_بيت #اكل_صحي #pancakerecipe #healthyeats #breakfastideas #breakfasttime
  • 29 Things I’ve Learnt in 29 Years 🥳 ⠀ 1. Putting in hard work will pay off, but you can’t predict how soon or in what way 2. Even when we think we’re not taking our health for granted, we ARE taking our health for granted 3. Laser eye surgery personally helped a lot in decreasing frequency of migraines 4. Sleeping well, eating well, and moving often is the only “magic” pill 5. The people who will be there for you are not always the ones you’d expect 6. Family does not trump kindness, love, and generosity 7. Love is weird, all forms of it 8. Failing doesn’t scare me as much as the fear of starting 9. I am capable of a hell of a lot 10. You can change your mindset at ANY TIME 11. A collection of habits make up a large portion of our lives. Changing 1, 2, or 3 things could have a massive impact 12. Having food intolerances sucks 13. A sense of self gives more to you than almost anything else 14. Distance can make or break friendships, but those that survive it are like cockroaches: indestructible 15. People will put you down more than they lift you up — that doesn’t mean you have to follow suit 16. Gossip is shit, don’t do it, ever 17. Reading is one of the most therapeutic things I can do for myself 18. I can officially say I’m too lazy for makeup 95% of the time but also, 19. I love my face the way it is naturally, and have no desire to alter it 20. I am incredible, and have achieved a lot, but I can achieve so much more 21. Peace is worth fighting for 22. Sometimes material things make me happy, and that’s okay, so long as it’s not the predominant thing that makes me happy 23. Cherish the people who fight for you 24. Love is not love if it hurts, guilt-trips, makes you feel bad, drains, or attacks you — and it doesn’t matter who it comes from 25. Surviving major surgery, when it comes on as an emergency, is shocking even months afterwards 26. There are so many ways to be in pain, and physically pain does not necessary hurt more than mental 27. Do not judge people, even if you disagree with them 28. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to be an asshole 29. Misogyny and patriarchy exist in everything and you must question it constantly, especially in partners
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    29 Things I’ve Learnt in 29 Years 🥳 ⠀ 1. Putting in hard work will pay off, but you can’t predict how soon or in what way 2. Even when we think we’re not taking our health for granted, we ARE taking our health for granted 3. Laser eye surgery personally helped a lot in decreasing frequency of migraines 4. Sleeping well, eating well, and moving often is the only “magic” pill 5. The people who will be there for you are not always the ones you’d expect 6. Family does not trump kindness, love, and generosity 7. Love is weird, all forms of it 8. Failing doesn’t scare me as much as the fear of starting 9. I am capable of a hell of a lot 10. You can change your mindset at ANY TIME 11. A collection of habits make up a large portion of our lives. Changing 1, 2, or 3 things could have a massive impact 12. Having food intolerances sucks 13. A sense of self gives more to you than almost anything else 14. Distance can make or break friendships, but those that survive it are like cockroaches: indestructible 15. People will put you down more than they lift you up — that doesn’t mean you have to follow suit 16. Gossip is shit, don’t do it, ever 17. Reading is one of the most therapeutic things I can do for myself 18. I can officially say I’m too lazy for makeup 95% of the time but also, 19. I love my face the way it is naturally, and have no desire to alter it 20. I am incredible, and have achieved a lot, but I can achieve so much more 21. Peace is worth fighting for 22. Sometimes material things make me happy, and that’s okay, so long as it’s not the predominant thing that makes me happy 23. Cherish the people who fight for you 24. Love is not love if it hurts, guilt-trips, makes you feel bad, drains, or attacks you — and it doesn’t matter who it comes from 25. Surviving major surgery, when it comes on as an emergency, is shocking even months afterwards 26. There are so many ways to be in pain, and physically pain does not necessary hurt more than mental 27. Do not judge people, even if you disagree with them 28. Freedom of speech does not mean freedom to be an asshole 29. Misogyny and patriarchy exist in everything and you must question it constantly, especially in partners
  • When you’re not feeling colourful, be colourful 👟💁🏻‍♀️ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ #ootdfashion #kicksoftheday #nikes #yellowaesthetic #ootddetails
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    When you’re not feeling colourful, be colourful 👟💁🏻‍♀️ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ ⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀ #ootdfashion #kicksoftheday #nikes #yellowaesthetic #ootddetails