by Verite Reily Collins | Dec 12, 2020 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise, Tips & Tricks
The Cheating Chef When I was eight, I decided it was time I learnt to cook, I made meringues, and had an early lesson in how to disgust people with my cooking. Thinking that bright green coloured meringues were fun to make, it was disappointing that none of...
by Verite Reily Collins | Nov 2, 2020 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Boris isn’t helping improve hospital food During lockdown, the NHS decided it needed to commission a report by a Celebrity Chef into hospital food. This is the umpteenth one – after Loyd Grossman first came on the scene. One hopes...
by Verite Reily Collins | Oct 26, 2020 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Foods That Are Good for Your Skin Winter is always a bad time for our skin, both on the face and body. However much you wrap up, winter cold still penetrates the layers and can cause itching, red patches, etc. Don’t stop using the best moisturiser you can...
by Verite Reily Collins | Jul 27, 2020 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Gran was a wise old bird If you want to live healthily and lose weight, ask yourself “would Gran have eaten this? Her generation were usually leaner, slimmer and healthier. In her day, food was sold unpackaged. But, modern eating habits have seen us adopt...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 27, 2020 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
It makes sense to eat these foods now I am not medically qualified, but just now Livestrong, the US charity, sends me some sensible and useful info re eating and immunity, so I am repeating what they and others more qualified than me are advising If you have gone...
by Verite Reily Collins | Mar 18, 2020 | Nutrition, Food & Exercise
Enjoying life whilst self-isolating Self-isolating during the Coronavirus outbreak might provide just the incentive to make us exercise. And so improve our health. Going to the Gym is no longer possible; it might even have been a no-no for many, but we don’t...
