Banana cake

Cake is awesome, everyone loves cake. But it’s not always at the top the list when trying to eat within a calorie deficit. I believe adherence to a calories deficit or macro balance is all about making it work for you long term. Denying yourself a slice of cake will just eventually lead to you…

Pickled Chillis and Harissa

Down the road from us is a fabulous charity who collect food from all the local supermarkets which is ‘out of date’ and make it available for purchase to us local residents for a donation. This food would otherwise end up in landfill and so whenever we can we get down there and see what…

Warm Potato Salad

As spring is around the corner, it’s time to bust out some warm and delicious salad ideas. Warm new potatos, feta and tahini dressing, enjoy!

Awesome Sauce

Here’s a great recipe for this fresh, quick easy sauce which you can use on a million different things – tonight its going with some steak a veggies in the Doodledub house, but its ace with chicken, fish, anything really! If you get Chimichurri sauce when you’re in a restaurant you’ll often find that its…

Pimp Your Eggs and Avo on Toast

There are soooo many ingredients which you can add to your meals which will make a huge difference to how they tastes, but little to no difference in calorie content – these bits and pieces can be the difference to eating the same boring meals over and over to creating some really great tasting meals…

Food on the road

How I hit my protein and calories goals when I’m away with work. Every week I’m in a different city working on a different live TV event, lots of travelling, lots of hotel rooms, service station stops and catering provided. It’s taken me about a year to really work out how I’m going to maintain…

Hi, I’m Sophie.

Thanks for getting this far and coming to read my blog, I’ve always loved food, eating it, cooking it, finding out about other cultures and discovering new ingredients. I’ve also fallen foul of eating too much, not understanding how what I eat affects my mood, how I feel and my health, trying to stick to…