Food For Thought Cookery School

Are you looking for easy, quick and nutritious food to make that the whole family will enjoy? Whilst improving your gut health and eating tasty food, then why not grab your copy of Gut Health Nourish to Flourish as it's currently on offer www.fftcookeryschool.co.uk/nourish

With over 85 gut loving, easy to make delicious recipes, along with top tips and ways to 'pimp my dish' so the whole family can enjoy the same meal.

Through flavoursome dishes both sweet and savoury, containing an abundance of goodness and ideas, I aim to empower, educate and inspire you to take the first steps to improving your gut microbes.

It encompasses everything I have learnt about gut health, all the nourishing foods that I love to make and share, with a big sprinkle of my passion and enthusiasm for helping you lead your healthiest, happiest life.

A beautiful collection of predominantly plant-based, easy to make, gut friendly, scrummy recipes to make at home without having to shop in 5 different shops for the ingredients. Easy to follow, the recipes have been created to use again and again, including weeknight meals, easy salads, delicious guilt free puddings and tasty treats.

The recipes are suitable for vegetarians, gluten free diets, dairy free and vegan options to each recipe and refined sugar free. Something for everyone! Mainly plant-based recipes with options to add fish, meat, cheese etc.

When you see that one of the Zoe promotions has your Gut Health cookbook in their video

If you want to improve your gut health whilst eating tasty food that's quick to make then why not grab your copy of Gut Health Nourish to Flourish as its currently on offer www.fftcookeryschool.co.uk/nourish

With over 85 gut loving, easy to make delicious recipes, along with top tips and ways to 'pimp my dish' so the whole family can enjoy the same meal.

Through flavoursome dishes both sweet and savoury, containing an abundance of goodness and ideas, I aim to empower, educate and inspire you to take the first steps to improving your gut microbes.

It encompasses everything I have learnt about gut health, all the nourishing foods that I love to make and share, with a big sprinkle of my passion and enthusiasm for helping you lead your healthiest, happiest life.

A beautiful collection of predominantly plant-based, easy to make, gut friendly, scrummy recipes to make at home without having to shop in 5 different shops for the ingredients. Easy to follow, the recipes have been created to use again and again, including weeknight meals, easy salads, delicious guilt free puddings and tasty treats.
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The recipes are suitable for vegetarians, gluten free diets, dairy free and vegan options to each recipe and refined sugar free. Something for everyone! Mainly plant-based recipes with options to add fish, meat, cheese etc.

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** Special offer ** my darling daughter Isabella is 7 months old! Where has that time gone? Sorry for the radio silence, but I wanted to enjoy this precious time with her without distractions. I am so loving being her mummy 😍

We've recently started baby led weaning, which is fun but messy, and she's definitely my daughter - her favourite foods so far are pureed black beans 🫘 and aubergine! It's so lovely seeing her enjoy her food 😁

So to mark her 7 month birthday, I'm offering £7 off my cookbook Gut Health Nourish to Flourish for a limited time, making it £12.99 instead of £19.99. It would make a lovely Christmas gift 🎁

I can even sign it if you'd like, just let me know at time of ordering. Visit www.fftcookeryschool.co.uk/nourish to order or email me [email protected] to arrange collection from me in Parkstone, Poole to save postage

Ian and I are delighted to announce the safe arrival of our precious daughter, Isabella Joella Jemison, born on 9th April weighing 7lb 7oz 💖

She's already stolen our hearts, we're all in love and couldn't be happier now our little family is complete 💕 plus she's a true foodie already, like her mum!! 🥰

New and final recipe incoming and this is a cracker! 💡 Chocolate, date and peanut butter bark 🍫🥜

I'm sharing with you the ultimate treat as a last gift before signing off for a while to have baby Jemison (I'll let you know when baby arrives, but otherwise I'm going to be spending precious connective time with baby rather than social media!)

So, I wanted to end on a high. I created this for my last month of pregnancy as they say dates can help with labour, but these are for anyone at any time and have gone down a storm with all my friends and family who have tried it.

You can make a big batch and freeze some too 👍😋 🍫

150g dark chocolate
Smooth peanut butter
Hulled h**p seeds or pumpkin seeds
10 medjool dates (destoned)
Mixed chopped nuts or whatever nuts you have chopped up

Boil the kettle. Break the chocolate into pieces into a glass bowl. Fill a small saucepan with the boiling water and place the bowl on top (make sure the bowl just sits on the saucepan and isn't bobbing around) let the chocolate melt.

Line a loaf tin or small tray with baking paper. Destone and chop the dates with scissors into 6 pieces each.

To assemble, place a small layer of melted chocolate on the baking paper and smooth out with a spoon to cover the base. Then add most of the chopped dates. Add a layer of peanut butter and smooth out over the dates, sprinkle with h**p seeds or pumpkin seeds.

Then add the remaining melted chocolate, smooth out with a spoon and sprinkle with the rest of the dates and the chopped nuts. Leave to set in the fridge for at least an hour.

Chop into small pieces and either freeze some for later or place in an airtight container in the fridge. Yummy 😋 enjoy!

That's me signing off for now, it's been an absolute joy sharing recipes, top tips, fab finds and wellbeing snippets over the last 8 years! Plus teaching classes, hosting events and workshops, meeting so many of you and of course making my dream come true of publishing my cookbook Gut Health Nourish to Flourish 😍 (still available to purchase 😉)

Thank you to each and every one of you for all your support over the years, now onto the next exciting chapter, making another dream come true of becoming parents, but don't worry I will be back in the future, just taking a little break! ✨️🥰

Fab Find Friday: Multi Strain Biotic is a liquid probiotics by Hanna Sillitoe. I take this daily to help support my gut health and love it.

Being a liquid probiotic, it gets to the gut in a more useable form and can help restore and improve your gut microbes. I buy it online directly from www.hannasillitoe.com

Delicious mushroom stroganoff 🍄‍🟫🧄🍚 I've created a yummy, quick and easy dish with fibre and protein that happens to be vegan, for you to try 😋

Serves 2

400g box of chestnut mushrooms or use mixed mushrooms for extra flavour
1 medium white onion
2 small garlic cloves
Pinch of pink himalayan salt and pepper

Chop and sauté all of these in extra virgin olive oil in a large flaying pan until soft

For the sauce
1/2 block silken tofu (use the rest in a smoothie or make double the recipe and have leftovers the next day)
2 tsp wholegrain mustard
Pinch of salt
1 tsp mixed herbs
100ml water
100ml plant based milk

Blend all together until smooth in a blender, then heat through with your cooked mushroom mix. Add a teaspoon of cornflour if it needs thickening up. Serve with fresh parsley chopped on top and rice, quinoa or pasta

If you eat meat, you can also turn it into a pie filling by adding cooked shredded chicken and topping with some puff pastry and cook. It's so good 👍

Wellbeing Wednesday: digital detox. The average person checks their phone over 100 a day! How crazy is that? Think what we could be doing instead of all that time scrolling 🤯

I'm certainly going to be trying to use my phone less and be more present especially with baby arriving soon. It's not only good for our mental health but for our wellbeing too to have more screen free time 📱

Top Tip Tuesday: zero waste crispy sweet potato skins. If you're using the middle of sweet potatoes for mash, brownies or another recipe then don't throw the skins away! 🥔🍠

Place on a baking tray add a drizzle of extra virgin olive oil a good pinch of pink himalayan salt and paprika on both sides.

Cook on 180oc pr in airfryer for about 7 - 9 minutes until crispy, but keep an eye on them as they burn easily! 🤦🏻‍♀️ Full of fibre, great for gut health and taste yummy. Eat as they are or top with hummus and salad😋

Mindset Monday: beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity 🧡🌼

Move over avocado on toast, there's a new kid in town! 🥑 my scrummy smashed peas on toast.

Full of fibre and protein which will keep your gut happy, I've topped with tomatoes, crumbled feta and sunflower seeds but you can pimp as you like, you could add egg etc. Simple, delicious and nutritious 😋

Per person

➡️100g frozen peas
➡️1/4 lemon zest and juice
➡️Small handful of fresh herbs such as chives, mint or parsley or a mixture
➡️1 small garlic
➡️Pink himalayan salt and pepper
➡️Spinkle of feta or vegan alternative
➡️Spinkle of sunflower seeds (toasted if you can)
➡️Couple of cherry tomatoes chopped up / feta for sprinkling on top
➡️Splash of extra virgin olive oil
➡️Sourdough, granary or gluten free bread

Boil the kettle.

Place the peas in a bowl and top with boiling water, leave to defrost.

Chop the tomatoes into pieces and peel the garlic. Chop the fresh herbs up too.

Toast your bread and drain the peas.

To a nutribullet or bowl to use a stick blender add the chopped herbs, garlic, peas, lemon zest and juice. Blitz together until chunky but all incorporated. Add a pinch of salt and pepper and stir.

Top your toast with the smashed peas, add crumbled feta, chopped tomatoes, sunflower seeds and finish with a splash of extra virgin olive oil. Delish👌😋

Fab Find Friday: vegan protein powders by Marvellous Superfood, who are a small independent company based in Wales. Their powders are 100% organic and natural ingredients, and there are no added nasties.

I ordered the pea protein, superfood protein, 4 blend of maca, and a small nutrient pure protein to try them all out. These are all vegan and gluten free. Great to add extra goodness and protein to your smoothies or hot drinks.