Blog

After years of struggle with my health I found what worked for me and I want to share my experiences, recipes, helpful tips and even snippets from my day-to-day life in this blog.
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My guide to clean eating

So you’re interested in eating clean. It seems to be a new buzz word and about time too. When we see food as medicine, rather than simply fuel for our bodies, then our whole attitude to eating changes and with it our health, our sleep patterns, our energy levels and our weight! How do I know all this? Because I’ve been on quite a transformational journey to better health myself over the last few years. To be honest when one of my friends from Arbonne, (the Health and Wellness business I ran alongside my design business for 3 years and now run alone), asked me if I’d join her on a family Detox

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Finding the Northern Lights – our visit to Norway

Ah… I just love winter. The cold, bright days and a hoar frost spreading its silvery hands across the lawn and hedgerows. I was so excited last week when we had our first frost. While others were bemoaning how cold it had got (believe me, after returning from our Arbonne trip to the Bahamas at the end of October we’re feeling the cold too), I was celebrating the fact that a frost means that I can now plant my tulips! And I went slightly crazy on the tulips this year! The frost reminded me of this time two years ago when we were finalising our winter trip to see the Northern Lights. It was one

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Christmas tree shopping – the Ali Hutchinson way

It’s that weekend already – “what weekend?” I hear you say. The Christmas tree buying weekend, of course! Is it only me? Surely I’m not the only who has a Christmas Tree Buying ritual? I know, you have one too right? For us it’s a family affair. We choose the weekend and irrespective of weather, it’s the weekend we go to choose our tree. I go with a 6ft tree in mind and the idea of a short pair of steps to affix the topper (angel, star, mushroom (don’t ask I was being creative!). Mr H, on the other hand wants the biggest tree they have, even if that means affixing it to the top of the car and

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