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Pancake Day Recipe Ideas
Fancy doing something a bit different this Pancake Day? Read on to discover how to make pancakes you friends and family will be inspired by: toppings, sweet, savoury, canapés, mains, healthy and even pancakes made using different types of flour!
Veganuary Tips
On the face of it going vegan is an easy decision – and it can be if you want it to be. It’s simply giving up meat, fish, eggs and dairy products right? Well, yes it can be that if you want it to be. But there’s a lot to think about. There is no right or wrong answer. Just what feels right for you!
What’s your motivations for going vegan? Is it to save the planet or is it for health reasons? Do you want to eat more “clean” foods? Do you want to focus on upping your cooking skills? Do you want to loose weight? Or are you just trying to prove to yourself that you can do it?
Read on to find out how to get prepared and eat a balanced diet.
Bread Sauce Recipe Easy
Quick Bread Sauce RecipeSave money and eat healthy by making your own bread sauce this Christmas. It's so quick too!Servings 2Ready In: 10minCalories: 146Good For: ChristmasInroduction Easy Bread Sauce Recipe By: Virtuelicious This is the easiest ever bread recipe!Do...
Quick Christmas Cake That You Actually Want To Eat (Even if You Don’t Like Christmas Cake)
How to Make Christmas Cake to Your Tastes and WIth Just a Few Minutes in the Kitchen Do you dream of making your own Christmas cake but never get round to it? Why is that? Could it be because it takes so long and it's a bit of a faff? Well if that's you then don't...
26. Diwali Dinner without the Drama!
Today’s episode is about how to make a quick and simple Diwali dinner. If you’d like to have an Indian themed lunch or dinner to celebrate but can’t face spending all day in the kitchen then fear not, I’ve got your back. I’ver got some amazingly quick tips to help you...
25. It’s BBQ season! Tips and tricks for an easy, tasty BBQ that won’t leave you frazzled
The sun has got his hat on and he's coming out to play. So get the coals on the bbq and let's celebrate. In this episode I share with you my tips and tricks for an easy but tasty bbq. I'm still writing up the full article but I'll send it to my email subscribers when...
24. How to Cook When You Have a Chronic Illness or long COVID
With the rise of long COVID, I have become more aware of the difficulties that chronic illness present. I spoke to a friend who suffers from a chronic illness and off the back of that decided that I would share some things that she found helpful. "Food is the very...
23. 3 Hour Cooking Week – How to Spend Less Time in the Kitchen
FREE meal planning checklist: click here Link to three hour cooking week: https://virtuelicious.co.uk/product/3-hour-cooking-week-e-book/ In this episode I chat about how I managed to cook three meals a day for seven days in just three hours!! I had no idea that I...
22. Following a Recipe vs Cooking without a Recipe
FREEBIE!!! meal planning checklist: https://mailchi.mp/7ba3e8b8584f/fjki0gt351 In this episode of the podcast we are talking about when I thought I recipe compared to when I don't follow a recipe and also when I'll take the middleground and take inspiration from a...
21. Pancake Recipes for Shrove Tuesday
I love pancakes!!!! Love love love!!! I get so excited about pancake day. But given that they are so easy to make I have no idea why I don't eat them more often. In this episode I'll share a recipe to make it super easy to make pancakes without a measuring jug...
20. Meal Planning Part 1: Shopping List Tips To Save You Time
FREE meal planning checklist here: meal planning checklist More freebies, fb, Insta, website etc: https://linktr.ee/virtuelicious So you want to meal plan? If you're anything like me it goes well for a couple of days and then it goes to pot! Following my framework...
19. Healthy Eating Habits
It's that time of year...let's make some healthy eating resolutions. In this episode I share my resolutions...ones I have achieved in past years, ones I have failed to achieve and my new ones for this year. Click the link below for your FREE habit tracker. Get the...
[18] Christmas Dinner for Cheats!!
Wow, what a year! It's being doing my nut... I'm hoping to spread a little Christmas cheer Gyms are shut We can't flex our muscles But we can still have a small Christmas Not forgetting the Brussels Wow, what a year! Usually tonight I'd be sipping on...
[17] Eco-Friendly Christmas Market
As I’ve been operating in the eco space for a while now I’ve met quite a few ecopreneurs and I’m always inspired by their commitment to doing the right thing which is one of my brand values. And as this is the season of the Virtual Christmas Market I thought it would...
[16] My Dad got Coronavirus
This is a personal one - I share my experience of my Dad getting Coronavirus. In this episode I talk about how it affected me emotionally and physically as well as the practical steps that we took to deal with it and the support that we got. I know this podcast is...
Eco-Friendly Christmas Market
Eco-Friendly Christmas Market, 10 December via Facebook Live About the Event It’s Christmas time! This year, more than ever, we want to show our loved ones how much we care. But having seen the positive impact that lockdown had on the environment, wouldn’t it be nice...
[15] Stir Up Sunday Special: Christmas Cake-Off
We are having a cake-off! #nervous! Before we start...here are the important links: You can find Paul's recipe, along with Paul’s pudding making course here. You can get your hands on my Christmas cake kit here. And here’s the video of me making my Christmas Cake kit....
[14] Coaching Cami to Calm Cooking
Hey Hey Hey! In today's episode I speak with the wonderful Cami Layne...fellow podcaster whose voice I am just a little envious of 😉 Cami is a busy mumpreneur of two - to be honest I don't know how she does it! But she did confide in me that she could do with a hand...
Trailer: Welcome to the Virtuelicious Podcast
Hey, and welcome to the Virtuelicious podcast: all about cooking fresh food...fast. After years of working long hours and not having time to cook, I felt unhealthy, lethargic and fed up. I needed to make a change. Over the years I learnt how to cut corners without...
[13] Easy Bread Recipes with Rhiannon
Bread making can be quick. And I have a special guest who knows all about baking to share her top tips to make the quickest of breads - flatbread. As usual, we have a good old chinwag and I randomly share my top tip for calming the fire in your mouth when you eat too...
[12] Slow Cooker Cooking with Pinky Ghadiali
Pinky is a busy entrepreneur and single mother who just doesn’t have time to cook….until she fell in love with her slow cooker. Slow cooking isn’t something that I have done a lot before so I couldn’t wait to get her on my show…not just because I knew that she would...
[11] Washing Up Sucks!
Hey hey hey! Can washing up every be a joy? I think not! BUT there are things that I have learnt along the way that makes it easier. And that’s how I managed to talk about washing up for nearly half an hour! Here’s some of the stuff I talk about: pros and cons of...
Kitchen Organisation Hacks
Love cooking but find you can never find that knife, saucepan or lid you need? Is cooking becoming a chore? I hear you...I've been there. And I've picked up a few nuggets along the way that may help you if you feel that your kitchen cupboards are in need of some...
Food and Fashion: a conversation with Lisa Gillbe
The fabulous Lisa Gillbe joins me to chat food and fashion…and believe me, this episode has had a hugely positive impact on me. We thought it would be nice to kick back and have a chat about how food and fashion are important in making us feel good, something that’s...
This busy mumpreneur has mealtimes under control
Busy mum and entrepreneur Wendy joins me to chat food hacks! And who better to share hacks than Wendy - she’s helps busy mums create positive lifestyle habits so they can feel more energised and fulfilled…how cool is that?! We both love food and, as you will find out,...
Student Cooking Hacks: Batch cooking and transforming leftovers
So many people I have spoken to love the idea of batch cooking but in practice it rarely works out. After all, who wants to spend half a day slaving over a hot stove only to eat the same meals over and over? Well, here's a different approach to batch cooking....
Student Cooking Hacks: How to make a balanced, but not boring, meal
Hey hey hey! So today I'm talking about how to keep your meals interesting...how to add that va-va-voom to your dinners, how to switch up the same ingredients so you don't get bored and how to make balanced meals. And don't worry, you don't have to spend ages in...
Student Cooking Hacks: breakfast and lunch
It’s that time of year…students about to embark on adulting…which means cooking for themselves. So I thought I’d do a mini series on cooking hacks aimed at students…except that as I was editing the series I realised that these hacks are good for anyone 🙂 Today I’m...
Student Cooking Hacks
[siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Button_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget] It's that time of year: send your kids off in style It's that time of year again....term time - a time that is filled with anxiety and a mad rush to get everything ready...
Mum Cooking Hacks
I take my hat off to Nicola...mum of three with another one on the way but she makes it look sooooo easy! Here are her tips to staying sane when it comes to feeding her family. And a few giggles along the way. Oh, and I'm stealing her freezer hack! Happy cooking 🙂 x...
Banana Curry with Banana Skin
Banana Curry with Banana Skin This is a super fast recipe with using the banana skins too so there is no food waste. ripe bananas - so ripe that the skin is softsalt, chilli powder, turmeric, amchoor powder, ground coriander, ground cumin, ground cloves, ground...
Small Microwaves
SMALL MICROWAVES: NARROWER THAN 43.5CM Small microwaves are hard to find...I've been searching for a while and eventually found a few. As my search has been so hard I thought I'd share my shortlist with you. I haven't tested these so I'm not advocating any of...
Unpacking your supermarket shop: meal prep
[siteorigin_widget class="SiteOrigin_Widget_Headline_Widget"][/siteorigin_widget] Preparing food when you're unpacking your supermarket shop is a game changer. Normally when we get our food shop home we unpack it, make space in the fridge and put it away. But what if...
Food prep hack: roasting veg
Hey hey hey, today we're roasting veg....when we talk about meal prep quite often we think about batch cooking a main meal like a roast or lasagne...but what about the sides? Building on the last episode about food prep, in this episode we deep dive into prepping veg....
Food prep hack: straight after shopping
Hey hey hey, this hack is a game changer! This is all about the food prep you can do when you get your shopping home from the supermarket to make your life super easy later on. This is not about batch cooking....that's for another episode 🙂 I'm sharing ways to make...
Introduction
Hey, and welcome to the first episode of the brand spanking new Virtuelicious podcast: all about cooking fresh food...fast. After years of working long hours and not having time to cook, I felt unhealthy, lethargic and fed up. I needed to make a change. Over the years...
Foodie Gifts
25 GIFT IDEAS FOR FOODIE FATHERS Stumped for gift ideas for foodie fathers? Well, worry not because we have the ultimate gifts for dads that live to eat and drink...in style. So relax, sit back and browse. You've got this 🙂 [siteorigin_widget...
How I Formed the Habit of Home Cooking
I wasn’t always in the habit of home cooking. Working long hours meant that for years I would get home from work and settle for a ready meal or “treat myself” to a take away. It was only when I took the time to analyse my cooking style and come up with a plan that worked with me, instead of trying to change my ways, that I managed to overcome the obstacles to eating delicious homemade food without having to spend precious time in the kitchen. In this post I go in-depth into how I went about getting into the habit of cooking and important lessons I learned along the way.
How to Make Hummus Without Tahini
Here’s how to make hummus without tahini. It’s super quick, healthy and tasty.
5 Quick Cook Tips to Cook Quickly During the Lockdown
5 Tips that will help you be a domestic god(dess) during the lockdown even though it's hard to get everything you need right now Do you remember life before lockdown - just a few weeks ago when we yearned to have time to cook homemade delicious food? Lockdown...
12 Tips for Cooking through the Coronavirus Lockdown
12 Tips for Cooking through the Coronavirus Lockdown And just like that, we are in lockdown. Now what? Worry not, use our tips for cooking through the coronavirus lockdown. As we busy ourselves with cleaning and organising (has your oven ever sparkled so much?),...
How to cook for unexpected guests
Help!! Unexpected guests for dinner! So some friends have popped over, the wine is flowing, you're having a good time, you're relaxed...then those words that should never be uttered...."I'm hungry"....GASP! What do you do now? Don't they know that the days of a fridge...
How to get your kids to love cooking
Five keys to getting your kids to enjoy cooking Wouldn't it be great if your kids loved cooking? They'd be less fussy eaters, probably more healthy and spend less time on those dreaded devices! Also think about when they're a bit older and you can kick off your shoes...
#NOISE
We sponsored Quarter Club's NOISE event in trendy Lower Marsh near Waterloo in London yesterday - 125 strong women came together to discuss the issues that really matter...and in their goody bags were our tagine kits 🙂 I'd never heard of the Quarter Club before. My...
Circular economy and the sharing economy: are they worth the effort?
There's been a lot of buzz around the circular economy and the sharing economy of late, but what are they? Are they just buzz words that will be forgotten in a couple of years. Probably! But the ethos on which they are based will remain and here's why: because they...
Waste not want not
Waste not want not One man’s trash is another man’s treasure, so the saying goes. That is certainly proving true for the growing economy of producing perfectly new goods using surplus, the more tasteful term for waste. This economy is born from a waste not want not...
Why we waste more food now…
Food waste: in the good old days... ...things took a long time My mum and I love a toastie for a quick lunch and on this particular occasion we pondered the subject of food waste. She was telling me how much easier it is in the modern toastie machines compared to when...
Crying over split milk? How to stop wasting milk
Wasted milk is a sad thing, here are things you can do to make it a thing of the past. Fed up of food waste? Today we are focussing on wasted milk and right now, more than ever, we want to get as much as we can get out of our grocery shopping. Follow our tips to make...
Zero Waste Heroines are coming to Town
There are two highlights of my year, other than my birthday which happens every year 🙂 The first is that I'm going to see Guns N' Roses on tour....yep, hard to beat. After that, I will be schmoozing with my two ultimate zero waste idols...Bea Johnson and Catherine...
Mince beef curry with pilau rice
This is a fabulously easy recipe that tastes and looks as though you've lavished hours of love and attention into making it. Serves: 4; Prep time: 20 minutes; cooking time: 30 minutes Ingredients: 2 tablespoons oil 1 curry kit for four 1/4 tsp tumeric 200g tinned...
Zero waste beauty regime that will save you time and money!
I was the original hoarder of premium beauty products, I must have spent a fortune over the years. A couple of years ago I decided to go back to basics, but I had so many products that I am still using some of them up!! However, the bulk of my routine has been...
Debunking the myths about waste free packaging
Packaging is important...sometimes. Other times it's a complete waste: a waste of effort spent on making the packaging, transporting it to where it is used, packing things in it and then transporting it again to where it is to eventually be discarded...at which point...
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