Today I decided to check in with my Tesco Boost vouchers, we were keeping them to boost for a ferry to UK but seeing as we're not doing that this year they can be spent.
Inspired by all of you I've chosen National Geographic for Kids for €18.25 vs it's normal cost of €55.10, just waiting on dh to text me back to see if he agrees.
Kids took delivery of their Yes Bebe order yesterday and are thrilled with their toys, we allowed them to spend their Christmas money this year and there was 20% off £100 spend. Yes Bebe are a uk based ethical & fairtrade and wooden toys, organic clothes, cloth nappy company www.yesbebe.co.uk you can also join their facebook group and avail of 10% off that way too. I've been happy with their service so far bought a little green radicals dress for dd for christmas and a hape wooden cement lorry for ds and now this order. My friend bought most of Santa from there using Christmas club which gained her an extra £10 discount per £100 spent.
People talking about photo storage, google photos is a free service that I use.
need an explanation of those pics from nutritional therapist - all the underlined foods are those that convert to sugar in your body and the foods were examples that we gave of what we eat.
She mentioned that when doing overnight oats it's important to actually do them for 10 hours or so as there's something released -can't remember what- by raw oats which isn't good for us and it's not a danger after this timeframe. This was interesting to me as I often made them at 6.30am and ate them at 10am.
Add protein to all meals to provide satiety and reduce sugar cravings
Half plate veg/salad, quarter plate protein, quarter plate carbs - this is actually what Unislim recommend also.
Tannin in teas/coffees prevent us absorbing lots of nutrients so try to keep to a minimum and definitely not have with your healthy main meal
The diagrams are the liver and the intestinal system.
CalMg supplied by company Mag365 is something all of us women should take, a tsp mixed with water before bed aids restful sleep, in northern hemisphere we're short on magnesium in our diet and it helps our health no end to include it. It is also important to help liver function.
Avoid bile duct being removed in case of gallstones at all cost as it is the dumping ground for the body and if it's not there, waste and toxins have to go somewhere else
Tumeric is a good spice to include daily either as a drink or in your food, she says it's tasteless, I completely disagree with this 
Our liver has 6 ducts which it's important to keep working well. Bitter leaves such as spinach, kale, watercress, rocket, dandelion are especially good as well as spices such as tumeric, ginseng and minerals such as magnesium.
When our liver isn't working well it affects our whole system so tiredness, illness and disease. It is possible to get a liver function test done which might be interesting for you cathode
Things that our liver struggles with include - virus/fungii/bacteria (we have no control really over them entering our system, they're in the air) medications, alcohol, tea and coffee, sugar, synthetic chemicals and plastic.
Xylitol & stevia were the sugar substitutes from plant sources she recommended as they have no effect on blood sugar levels.
I must have missed one page of notes because she spoke about SunWarrier protein powder as being good for children who refuse breakfast or indeed adults to get something into their system and for those who would normally be recommended Complan as a meal replacement such as the elderly.
What I took away from it is that I need to purchase Mag365 CalMag for sure, and that most of what I'm doing with my diet currently is spot on anyhow thanks to my 5 years as a Unislim leader.
trying might be worth showing your ds & ddil comparisons where people have changed to led's and saved money, or the estimated cost of appliances. You're a good dm & mil to do this for them. My mil is deceased since early in our relationship and my dm, lovely as she is, is inherently lazy in regard to domestic chores, actually worse than I am
Although in her defence, she's obsessed with finding a way to keep my toilets limescale free, but we have now achieved this feat in 2 of the 3 toilets and the remaining one is our ensuite and doesn't bother me so much as it's not in public view
cag I'm another one recommending slow cooker, you or dh can prep it the evening before/in the morning and make use of prechopped veg where you can and get butcher to slice/dice meat. Today I browned a lb of mince, and added frozen chopped onion, quarter of a green pepper that was left in drawer, grated a carrot and added a tin of tomato and herb pasta sauce to frying pan and then dumped the lot in the slow cooker to cook for the day, this will feed us all tonight with possibly some leftovers for tomorrow. Some websites advocate batch prepping, this could be done with assistance of your dh and dc, and use freeze bags to portion off raw ingredients, they're called dump bags and all you need to do is take them out day before and dump into slow cooker in the morning.
Our slow cooker enables us to eat much healthier in my opinion, I bought it when pregnant with dd in 2009 and have invested in a bigger one for doing christmas ham or when we've a crowd to feed, but the 2009 one is still going strong.
Not fully caught up with you guys but as good as I can do for now!