About Me:
My journey to
Happy Inside
Join me and Get Happy Inside
My Recipes Aim To:
Transform your diet effortlessly with recipes designed to make you feel great inside and out. Whether you’re a seasoned cook or just starting, my recipes aim to inspire you to love food and eat healthily, and have a happy gut.
Overall Health: Learn to create meals that stabilise blood sugar levels and provide sustained energy without compromising taste.
Versatile Recipes: Enjoy plant-based dishes, vegetarian recipes with alternatives for different dietary needs, including vegan, gluten-free, dairy free, and nut-free options. Many work well with added meat or fish.
Family-Friendly Meals: Perfect for individuals, families, and special events, with both savoury and sweet options.
Tested by Real People: All recipes have been tested and tasted and approved by a dedicated group of 100 home cooks from my Facebook Group: Love Food, Eat Healthy.
Customisable: Each recipe serves as a guide that you can adapt based on your budget, pantry, diet and taste preferences, with unique swaps to keep things exciting.
My Story
I am a home cook passionate about eating healthy, enjoying, sharing and loving food. I have been cooking since a child and learnt a lot from my mother. She learnt to be a creative and resourceful cook bringing up a family during the war years and beyond. She gave me a grounding in creating nourishing meals using real food.
On a whim in November 2022 I created a FaceBook page Love Food, Eat Healthy, to share my recipes with friends and family. Since then the page has more than 14000 members at the time of writing and growing. You will find PDF's to download and a community of like minded people there. I will continue to post here as well as on the Love Food, Eat Healthy FB page.
In January 2023, with my husband, we completed the Zoe Nutrition tests and learnt so much that has changed the way I cook. In particular taking account of our poor blood sugar control; improving our microbiome health and only using healthy oils. We didn't eat much Ultra Processed Food but it is amazing how it creeps in to the cupboard, we have pretty much eliminated it all now.
I realised I had got into a bit of a cooking rut, using the same ingredients over and over. Zoe really helped me to expand the variety and range of ingredients I used. My interest in exploring different ingredients and experimenting was ignited. I then began to share the results of this on my FB page. I learnt how to use ingredients creatively and in different ways to produce nutritious and healthy meals. Very popular with my FB followers are my sweet and savoury cakes, muffins, waffles, pancakes as well as family friendly savoury dishes and those suitable for people living alone.
Our experience resulted in many health improvements. For example, reduced inflammation; reduced arthritic and joint pain and swelling; more energy; less brain fog and for my husband he no longer takes medication for a lifetime of gut issues.
We already felt we ate a healthy diet, of 30 plus plants a week, but our Zoe experience improved it significantly. I have known for many years that refined foods caused me blood sugar spikes and huge crashes of energy where I would often struggle to keep awake. I managed to minimise these over the years, but they still happened. Zoe taught me how to combine ingredients to eliminate these altogether.
For the first time in 40 plus years, I feel I no longer fear food and how it will affect me mentally and physically. I have learnt to love food again, and enjoy creating and sharing food and recipes.The recipes you will find here and on my FB page are as a result of this learning and my experimenting.
Happy Inside! Cookbook
A collection of 80+ Recipes
In 2023 many members of the site asked me to turn these into a book to make access easier. I self produced a book of 40 recipes in time for Christmas that year. The proceeds from this has enabled me to professionally produce the book together with an additional 40 plus recipes. This has been an exciting journey and my first book Happy Inside! will be published end of September 2024.
The book is available from all online sellers, as hard copy or ebook. For more information go to Book
