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So What’s your excuse?

So what’s your excuse? Mine is I don’t have time, which is probably not true, but that, along with ‘I can’t afford a gym contract’ are just that, excuses! I follow a group on Facebook that is all about health, fitness and support.  Their Facebook credo, ‘Our goal is to inspire 100,000 South Africans to […]

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Recycle or trash?

Recycling is not something we, as South Africans, do very well and our waste management companies don’t appear to be very open to it. What we do have, however, are the street guys with their trolley’s making a noise and a mess on garbage collection day. These men and women go through our bins looking […]

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Johannesburg my City

Today is day 24 of my 30 day blogging challenge, and the task is to write a post with my location in the search criteria. http://www.sarkemedia.com/blogging-challenges-traffic/ Today’s post is edited by myself and not my usual editor, so apologies for any errors in advance. I am sitting in front of the computer, with children out at various […]

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3 Steps to Mastering Your Grocery Bill

We all think of a million ways our lives would be better, if only ……, but what are you doing to change this? We all dream of winning the lottery and changing our lives for the better but buying a Lotto ticket only helps a very few. Why not start with changing the way you […]

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Meal and Menu Planning Made Easy 2

Just in time for Pesach! I am hosting another 3 hour workshop, to help you learn to make meal and menu planning of your weekly and monthly menus easier. Join us in this interactive and fun workshop. You will be amazed how your life can change. Tools, tips and tricks on how to create a workable […]

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1st Infographic | Piktochart Infographic Editor Source: 1st Infographic

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Was He the Father of the Low Carb diet?

The Atkins Diet has been around for ages, so I thought I should look into it. This is also a diet that requires high protein, high fat and very restricted carbs. Dr Atkins, a cardiologist, who introduced this eating program to his patients in 1972, was way ahead of his colleagues and today almost every […]

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Are the bills collecting

Last week you made space in your home, or office, to store and file all your bills and statements as well as other important documents. This week I am looking at a separate place for unpaid bills and other important, actionable paperwork. I store my documents for the month in the concertina file but this […]

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The Devil’s Advocate and the Paleo Diet

In this post I am playing devil’s advocate. I am looking at The Paleo diet, most of us have heard about it, but what exactly is it? According to the internet and others that know, it is a diet based on the types of foods presumed to have been eaten by early humans, consisting mainly […]

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A taste of menu planning

Today I decided to give you an example of how I do my menu planning for an entire month. This is my first video blog, so I apologise for the unsteady hand, but after the 5th take I decided that you would forgive me. See the video below. I have a basic template and am showing […]

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