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TAHINI COLLAGEN COOKIE DOUGH BITES 🍪 . These h

TAHINI COLLAGEN COOKIE DOUGH BITES 🍪
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These have been our go to lunch box treat recently and I took the recipe on the blog and threw in @bebambu marine collagen* and tahini (not nut butter so it’s still lunch box safe + it has so much goodness in it 😋) so it looked something like:
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🍪 1-2 cup oat flour 🍪 1 tbsp coconut oil 🍪 1 tablespoon raw honey 🍪 1/4 tsp vanilla extract 🍪 good pinch of good salt 🍪 1 tbsp tahini 🍪 2 tbsp collagen 🍪 2 tbsp chocolate chips or chopped chunks.
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You can add anything in really, you just need enough oat flour till you get a pliable dough consistency, then pop it in the freezer.
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*I started taking collagen for my hair after lots of anecdotal evidence from people that it had helped. I said, there’s no harm and it’s at least protein but couldn’t find a good one, out if plastic, heavy metal tested and all the things I wanted! My hair definitely got thicker but a lot of other factors changed too so I can’t pin it on the collagen and now pregnancy hormones obviously help hair thickness too! The two brands I liked though are @bebambu and @hunterandgatheruk - my daily choice is the #womenowned #blackowned @bebambu’s “strong” blend and also their collagen coconut milk latte which I put in coffee. Speaking of anecdotal evidence... I’m thinking of encapsulating my placenta this time 🙈 any stories out there?!

Second hand maternity clothes + my family for a lo

Second hand maternity clothes + my family for a long weekend off 🙌 With no screens 🚫, no work🚫, no early mornings🚫, just us taking time to be a family before we welcome this babe in a few months that I know will fly by.
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We’ve been notoriously bad at time off. Since being married we’ve always been juggling university, side jobs, and fitting things in around the edges so bank holidays translated to “extra time for someone to work.”
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Last year I had no idea how many hours I was working a week (aside from simultaneously ‘not enough’ and ‘too many’) and I hit breaking point. I kept saying “I’m going to throw my phone in a pond.” 💦 I meant it. I was completely unattached to social media, my phone, I was (nearly) done with work... not that I get to be 😆 but it was a breaking point and I knew my relationship with work and screens had to change. So it did. Honestly, I found it easy to have phone and social media boundaries after that because I’d gone past the point of “I have no self control with social media” ... I’d seen how imbalance could send me to rock bottom. And somehow after that boundaries felt easy. Instead of throwing my phone in a pond I decided to push through to what I knew could be wonderful if I managed me right in it. And also email a therapist.
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My starting thoughts to anyone would be: 1️⃣ Know why you post 2️⃣ Know why you scroll 3️⃣ Do a heart + mind check before you open the app 4️⃣ Constantly reassess who you follow and why 5️⃣ Go into social media intentionally for each moment you choose to spend on it. Do you need joy? Learning? Connection? Go in for what you came for, then leave. It’s built to be addictive but it can also be beautiful.
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And after a much more balanced 2021 in home life, we’re a bit more sensitive to what we need rather than just “grab all extra time as work time” and so we took a full weekend off together and I feel very lucky to be able to do that, and grateful we learned to choose it! I hope it was a good one for all of you ❤️

Do you know this? Tell me ⬇️ . Do you ACTUALLY

Do you know this? Tell me ⬇️
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Do you ACTUALLY know how much you’re spending on food? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Do you know where your April food budget is at?! (Do you even have one?!)
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So many people... it was me for YEARS... think they spend “too much” on food. They feel guilty about spending, or they feel stressed... I was all of those, but if you’re like the old me, you don’t actually know HOW MUCH you are spending! I didn’t know. 😆 My advice years later: dive in to the numbers. 🧮
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It can be really hard to actually look at your spending and bring so many emotions but I promise you it’s the most empowering thing that alone can change the game on your spending! Food is for most of us the most regular thing we buy, so it’s a great place to be powerful with our choices but that’s really hard without spending. If we don’t know how much we have to spend every spend can feel “bad” or “guilty.”
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This is about what we’ll buy for the week - about £85 with a £400 monthly budget and we’ll add another milk, plus there’s eggs and bulk @dovesfarm flour for bread! I didn’t feel scared picking up a £6 fairtrade glass jar of raw honey because I know how it fits in my budget and when it doesn’t I know and can easily leave it!
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TIP ✨ If you have no idea - just start today keeping all your receipts for anything food related and come back to it in a month! It will change your life in so many ways. Promise!

I’m a more minimal parent. 😉🙋🏻‍♀️

I’m a more minimal parent. 😉🙋🏻‍♀️ Most things we have are second hand, or we opt out... but when I do bring something new into our world for the kids (or us) I have very strict parameters it has to pass through: 1️⃣ good for my kids, 2️⃣ good for the planet, and 3️⃣ good for other people. Or we don’t buy it. ❌
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Jared wanted our kids to have teddy bears 🐻 ... I “gently asked him to hold off”, we might remember it differently 😉 (same story as when I wouldn’t let him buy the kids socks for MONTHS!) Then I found a few companies I was happy with much to his relief including @bearsforhumanity... they’re GOTS certified organic cotton ✔️, ethically made - world fair trade certified ✔️, when you buy one they give one ✔️, and NO chemical flame retardants which I’m big on ✔️ and newly a not for profit ✔️ So we went for their bears and we’ve all loved them for years. And there’s a new one 👆🏼here waiting for baby! Highly recommend! 🥰
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They have a spring sale on for the next 10 days 🙌 and we all love a sale when it comes to anything more pricey because I don’t want to spend less by compromising, so I wait for sales instead to shop the companies I believe in. Head to bearsforhumanity.com and use the discount code “25%OFF$75” for just that, and 30% off $100 aaaand they ship internationally 🌎 - the Sherpa bears are my faves and Roey’s and she’s already said she’s giving her precious one to the baby 😭 , and Clayton loves his “Sharkie” the shark. 🦈
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If you’re stuck on what to put on a baby shower list, or what to ask family for that fits your values too, this is a great one and we’ve used them for exactly that!! Share away!
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#sponsored post 1 or 2 in collab with the wonderful @bearsforhumanity! #bearsforhumanity #bears4humanity

Solo breakfast in Texas and a few answers on trave

Solo breakfast in Texas and a few answers on travel! 🍞🍌🥜 My pregnancy hunger is REAL! Mostly I don’t feel extra hungry but I ate this same thing at 2am, and now again for breakfast 🤤
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Ok travel questions: 😅 I’m in Austin, TX staying + isolating with my parents in law! I’ll be here just a few days. I’m filling my time with extra sleep and lots of work hours while I’m on US time and making it count while I’m away from the kids.
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Travelling now is a bigger deal and to me honestly getting on a plane is always a big wrestle in terms of 🌎 impact. I don’t have all the answers I’ll be honest and I struggle there. In being married to an American I’m fortunate to have US residency but as I’m not a citizen, to keep that status I have to come to the US periodically. I’ve thought deeply about that trade off and if I should let it go. Currently working with US based companies is how we earn money and I’m the sole provider so I’m doing what I need to to keep that so I can keep supporting our family. But I don’t want to be victim to “having” to travel, I know it’s our choice for that trade off through these uni years in the U.K. and I do wonder and keep assessing! There’s more to it but that’s a bit - for me it’s taking that reality, being grateful and then doing every thing we can to take steps forward in our impact as in everything. And offsetting flights via @mindfulflights which I don’t see as a complete undoing but a great step and thing to do if you can. ✈️
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International travel feels very different from domestic flight travel within the US, you can pretty much only travel U.K. ➡️US if you’re a permanent resident with a -ive covid test so that limits people on planes and they’re very empty with everyone especially on the international leg being very careful and considerate. I did an antigen test with Collinson Group at Heathrow before travel and they were amazing and efficient. I’ll then take one here to get back to the U.K. then 3 more plus 5 days quarantine! I hope that answers the most FAQs! ❤️😅 #twfdgoestoaustin #26weekspregnant

6 SIMPLE MOVES THAT SAVE MONEY AND WASTE 🗑 💰

6 SIMPLE MOVES THAT SAVE MONEY AND WASTE 🗑 💰

New on the blog: When you think “zero waste life” do you think more 1️⃣ reusing a stained plastic Tupperware or yogurt carton or jar for years, or 2️⃣ a flatlay of new wood, metal, and cotton products?
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When we had a snow storm 3 years ago and lost power in our house in freezing temps for 2 weeks, we moved to a hotel after a week. I forgot my bar shampoo and stood in the shower looking at the plastic disposable bottles. I said to myself “you win some you loose some.” And then stopped myself. Yes, you win some you lose some BUT I was more winning some and … being fortunate enough to make choices that create waste in some other areas. For so many of us, our ability to create waste comes from our ability to choose things not everyone can: to fly ✈️ , to get takeout 🥡 , to buy more than we need 📦 , to choose very seasonal fast fashion 👖, to throw things out 🗑 , to buy more + not reuse… and then we create a message that says that’s the route to environment change which excludes people, a message that says lowering waste takes money, or that it can be bought, or that it’s about people with more options nobly saving the world. We’re all responsible to take responsibility to the extent we’re able to and we need to own the amount we’re able to make a difference in whatever ways we are. BUT: having more doesn’t make you more able to lower your impact at ALL, and you do NOT need to increase your spending to lower your footprint. We need to get back to simple.
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The first in a series of ways to lower cost and waste at the same time. I hope it helps. 👩‍💻: thewholefooddiary.com/blog/savemoneyandwaste

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