A healthy happy start

To coincide with #100happydays, I have also been looking into what I eat, hoping that if I feel good on the inside it will only boost my feelings on the outside! 

As a self-confessed chocoholic, eating a healthy clean and lean lifestyle will never be easy, that is unless you live near a Whole Foods Market (luckily for me there is one by my uni), where useful guilt free and natural ingredients are their speciality, my favourites are coconut oil (actually now available at most health stores and large supermarkets), raw coco powder and cacao nibs. There is also lots of yummy naturally gluten and diary free alternatives too. 

It was at Whole Foods where I was able to buy all the ingredients for this totally natural guilt free treat:

Cocoa nib cookies

130g almond-mil (or ground almonds)

2.5 tbs of melted coconut oil

2.5 tbs of rice syrup(or maple)

0.25 tsp of baking powder

0.25 tsp of sea salt (not too fine)

1 tsp high quality vanilla extract

30g cacao nibs

Sprinkling of raw coco powder (optional) 

After setting the oven to 170c, combine all the ingredients in a mixing bowl. 

Take a little less than a tablespoon amount for each cookie and place on a lined baking tray.

Place in the oven for 20 minutes and then enjoy! 

Please note: you may not need the total amount of coconut oil, it's best to add it last and stop pouring if the mixture starts to turn greasy. 

#100happydays

With the start of the year as dull as ever, I have decided to take part in 100 happy days, by uploading an image everyday of something that has beought a smile to my face, I've found that it's helped me to appreciate the little things and conquer the January blues! 

I've been doing it for a couple of weeks now, for full sized images visit my Instagram @jadelydia 

Let's start this again. 2014, I'm ready.

NEW YEAR.

It's here and with it the annual flow of promises on how we can all better ourselves over the next 365 days.

It's no surprise that this post is written as I embrace the first of my resolutions list. Restart the Blog. I want to blame third year for the lack of posts and unsuccessful start up, but I know that if I really want to I can find the time to share my opinions, images and hauls!

Other resolutions include: act my age (I often worry that my grandmother and I lead far too similar lifestyles) and preen myself to a higher standard (I am not saying that I have let myself go, it's just that there is a fine line between natural beauty and looking like a yeti - eyebrows, I'm looking at you)

I also decided that my new year would start today, otherwise known as BLUE MONDAY. The most depressing day of the year. I was hoping that my fresh outlook and kickstart would make today more hopeful than blue.

2014 is going to hopefully be a landmark year in my life, as it brings the end of my studies at LCF and the year I am to be launched into the "real" world. Eeek!