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- Simple Chocolate Banana Smoothie
  
  Posted at 1:00 pm by JP
  
  Nov 29th
  
  Ah ha chocolate I hear you shout – yes indeed it is chocolate but it is real chocolate in the form of cacao powder.
  
  So this Sunday morning, I really wanted to get the kids off to a good start. Smoothies are my secret back door into my kid’s nutrition so whenever I feel they may be lacking in something, smoothies are my go-to as they are kid friendly and they all think the NutriBullet is the coolest thing we own. They are nearly right, the juicer is number one 🙂
  
  You can use any blender or mixer to whizz this together so don’t let the lack of a fancy machine stop you making this.
  
  Add the below to your blender and whizz until smooth.
  
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- Paring Down Your Life
  
  Posted at 1:00 pm by JP
  
  Nov 22nd
  Our lives are overfull.
  
  There’s not a single one of us who is free of that trap, in my experience. We say yes to invitations and commitments, we answer as many emails and messages as we can, we join courses and groups, buy books and take on new hobbies, get involved in new relationships and buy more stuff.
  
  The result of this tendency to overfill is predictable:
  - We spend too much money and get into too much debt, and then have too much clutter.
  - We are always busy and always feel like we’re behind on everything.
  - We don’t have time for what’s really important — relationships, meaningful work, solitude and silence, taking care of ourselves.
  - We can’t really fulfill all of our commitments because we have too much going on.
  - We use full lives to distract ourselves from being fully present.
  It’s understandable that we overfill our lives — we are usually acting on desires, and not giving full contemplation to what we want in our lives and what we don’t want.
  
  ‘You can’t act on your desires alone. You have to contemplate the details of what needs to be removed and what needs to be cultivated.’ ~Chogyam Trungpa
  
  So how do we change that? I’d like to propose paring down your life.
  
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- Vegetarian Mushroom Carbonara
  
  Posted at 1:00 pm by JP
  
  Nov 15th
  
  This is a really cool, quick and tasty healthy veggie based version of the creamy bacon carbonara classic. If you are watching the weight or the calories then try this one without the oil for even better health benefits. Get a decent pan on a high heat. If you are not using oil, keeping the pan super hot is key to releasing the flavour of the onions and mushrooms. There is about 120 calories in a tablespoon of oil so pause before you mindlessly add it to the pan, you don’t need it to cook this.
  
  So let’s get cooking!
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- It’s Just One Bite of Food
  
  Posted at 1:00 pm by JP
  
  Nov 8th
  
  There are so many things going on in these miracle bodies of ours even just to process one bite of food, that it amazes me how we are still alive at all! As well as so many processes going on in parallel, there are so many things that can and do go wrong in this digestion process, it’s no wonder the pharma companies are making a fortune from all our foodborne diseases. Taking a pill for every ill is far easier for most people than doing the hard yards of working out what it is that you are doing or eating that is not serving you well. Well, that’s where Nutritional Therapy comes in.
  
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  Posted in Nutritional Therapy
- My Experience of: Dublin Marathon 2018
  
  Posted at 1:00 pm by JP
  
  Nov 1st
  
  3 years. 3 marathons.
  
  As someone who was never that sporty as a kid and who never ever thought he could do even one of these, I’m super proud of these medals.
  
  I decided to run a marathon in 2016 after getting a redundancy from a company and deciding that, for the first time in 17 years of working, I would take the opportunity afforded to me and take an extended break from the corporate world. I soon discovered that without some kind of structure to your day, life can become pretty unproductive very quickly. Running and training for a marathon gave me the structure that I needed. It gave me a personal purpose to get up in the morning which is vital to a fulfilled life.
  
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