Инстаграм @joyfuelfood Charlotte Street

🎈🎂🎈August is the month that my youngest officially becomes a year older. It’s a long wait for him, as many in his year have been that age for some time 😊 He is a Leo though, which I think is a huge plus 🦁😁🦁 . 🎂 This cake was a very special one. Baked by my beautiful dad, using my Great Uncle Jay’s special yoghurt cake recipe, and decorated by my eldest. It felt full to the brim with love 💕 . . 🎂 He also had another family-affair cake. The cake was made by my incredible sister @freefromfairy and it was decorated by me (with some help from my eldest and my niece.) But that was a few months ago when he had a little party with some friends before school broke up 😃 . . #birthday #birthdaycake #cake #icing #cakeinspiration #icing #happiness #madewithlove #family #familylife #celebration #joy #mum #mumlife #son #love #sweets #candy #lego #sugar #sugarhigh #sweettooth

🌸 We decided to brave a trip to Ikea recently. We needed a new desk for @instapearson’s new business, and as we were almost passing the front door, decided it was JUST worth the agony. It seems that 4pm on a Tuesday afternoon is perfect Ikea timing, and more by luck than judgment found that it was almost empty. Hoorah! 😃 . . As I was still in a perfectly good mood by the time we left the checkouts (not sure that’s ever happened before 🤣) I had a quick look in the fridges near the exit, and discovered some delicious seaweed pearls. I guess like a kind of vegan caviar. I tried topping cucumber rounds with them, and it made a perfect light sunny day lunch, served with a little salad topped with some crunchy saffron sauerkraut from @fermentedbylab . . I’m not going to test my luck, so I’m now wondering how to get more without making another trip to the shop 🤣 . . #ikea #seaweed #caviar #vegan #plantbased #vegetarian #meatavoider #salad #freshfood #edibleflowers #saffron #sauerkraut #ferment #fermented #guthealth #ecofriendly #healthyeating #carbonfootprint #homemade #handmade #madebyme #foodismedicine #healthygut

It is SCORCHIO in London Town ☀️🥵☀️ . We went to @boroughmarket a few days ago, and fought the crowds to pick up ‘two for a paaand’ punnets of strawberries. Sadly a few were past their best, but I made some strawberry cordial with them, and then today mixed it with freshly squeezed lemon juice, mint from the garden, and sparkling water. And LOTS of ice. Just what we needed 🥵 . #hot #summer #london #boroughmarket #londonsummer #uk #uksummer #scorchio #bithot #strawberries #cooling #cordial #freshlymade #homemade #homegrown #ice #mint #water #sparkling #sparklingwater #drinks #thirsty #outside #sunny #weather

🌸 Adaptogenic raw chocolate and pecan brownie balls. These delicious treats are full of goodness and completely raw. I’m going to try freezing them for treat-emergencies. Like...every day 🤣 . • 100g ground almonds • 250g dates • tbsp raw honey • 75g raw cacao powder • 2 tbsp ashwagandha powder • pinch salt • chopped pecans • dried rose petals to roll in . 🌸 Whizz all the ingredients, except the pecans and rose petals, in a food processor. When the mixture starts to come together pour into a bowl, and add the pecans. Then roll into balls (it makes around 18). You can then roll the balls in rose petals (or maybe cacao nibs) for decoration 😊 (@hollyactive I was thinking of Olive’s ‘squishel squishel’ at this point!) 💕💕💕 . #chocolate #cacao #cocoa #chocaholic #pickmeup

Delicious beer battered sage leaves, picked from the enormous sage bush in our garden 😊🍃 . Sage is well known for its many medicinal uses, particularly alleviating digestive issues. These are so good 😊 . Picking them from our garden, mixing batter with a gluten-free flour blend made by my sister @freefromfairy, eating from a bowl made by me...such simple pleasures 😁💕 . #sage #medicinal #medicinalherbs #herbalmedicine #plantmedicine #foodismedicine #plantbased #plant #plants #plantbaseddiet #herbs #herbal #health #homegrown #homemade #madebyme #ceramics #glaze #pottery #pot #handmade #handthrown #gratitude #simplepleasures #batter #beer #italy #organic

For lunch today, myself and the youngest made Sushi Cones with avocado and cucumber 😋 . The eldest declared that she didn’t like seaweed. @instapearson is away. So it looks as though we have a lot of eating to do between the two of us 🤣 . Delicious mind you 💕 . Inspired by the @donna.hay Basics to Brilliance Kids cookery book, which the youngest received for his birthday last week 🎈 . #sushi #cookingwithkids #kidsfood #cookingforkids #avocado #cucumber #sushirice #edibleflowers #seaweed #nori #lunch #lunchtime #donnahay #cookery #cookerybook #easyfood #organic #freshfood #madebyhand #homemade #vegetarian #plantbased #vegan #vegetablelove #soysauce #japanese #japan #birthday #birthdayboy

🎣 Went mackerel fishing. Came home. Went to the fishmonger. Had BBQ mackerel for lunch 🤣 . #fishingfail #devon #family

Just the MOST inspirational exhibition @tate modern yesterday. . . @studioolafureliasson got inside my head and I struggled to get back out again... . Inspiring, thought provoking, beautiful, exquisite, interactive, humbling...perfection. . . We had the most wonderful lunch I’ve eaten for ages afterwards. The Terrace Bar has been taken over and is serving seasonal, organic, DELICIOUS vegetarian food, based on his studio kitchen in Berlin. . . If you’re in London and have time...just go. It’s on until January and I intend to go every month until it ends 😁 . #boughtallhisbooks #oops

🥛 I love yoghurt. In fact, I REALLY love yoghurt. But I’ve recently reduced my dairy consumption to pretty much zero on ethical, environmental and health grounds. . . I’ve also been looking carefully at our consumption of anything that is not grown locally. We buy 95% of our groceries from @abelandcole which massively reduces packaging, and is a more sustainable and healthy way to buy and eat food. I highly recommend them. . . I came across @nushfoods almond yoghurt recently in a rare trip to a supermarket. I usually try and avoid almond milk, as the amount of water used to grow almonds is most definitely not sustainable nor ecological. I usually plump for oat milk which - at the moment at least - seems to be the most sustainable way to consume ‘milk’. Although I should say that all plant based alternatives to milk are currently considered less environmentally damaging than consuming dairy 🌲 . Despite my reservations about almonds, I gave a small pot of strawberry almond yoghurt a go as I really miss yoghurt. It was delicious as well as low in fructose. And looked beautiful with some @primroseskitchen beetroot and ginger muesli and some blueberries 💕 . In one of my hand thrown bowls 😊 . #dairyfree #sustainable #sustainableeating #environment #environmentallyfriendly #vegan #plantbased #organic #mindfulness #mylk #oatmilk #almondmilk #almond #oat #yoghurt #muesli #blueberry #consciouseating #plantearth #buddhism #makeadifference #bethechange

☀️🔥Sunny day salad🔥☀️ . Pea shoots and leaves (which always always makes me think of Eats Shoots and Leaves...😁) with tarragon, dill and coriander. Topped with cubes of beef tomato, big plump Spanish chickpeas, blueberries, sauerkraut and sea vegetable tempeh. Drizzled with some dulse and finished with edible flowers 🌸 . Yum. Never jealous of the rest of the family who tuck into sandwiches 😄 . #lunch #salad #heatwave #plantbased #vegan #vegetarian #plants #edibleflowers #healingplants #plantmedicine #highvibration #highvibrationfood #guthealth #microbiome #gutbacteria #fermented #herbs #healingfood #eatwithyoureyes #eatingtherainbow #🌈 #glutenfree #freefrom #dairyfree #tempeh #protein #seavegetables #seaweed #iodine #blueberry

🌸Some of my smaller pots with flowers🌸 . #ceramics #handmade #handthrown #glaze #clay #maker #craft #pots #pottery #earth #madebyhand #madebyme #art #creativity

🙏🏼 Legs up the wall pose (Viparita Karani or ‘inverted in action’). A brilliantly regenerating and restorative practice at any time of the day - and practiced anywhere...😆 But particularly good to help an after lunch slump as it helps to boost energy in the body 👌 It also has the benefit of being WAY easier than a headstand but still a fantastic way to invert the body. And is a wonderful way of decompressing hot feet in this weather ☀️🔥☀️ . #legsupthewall #yoga #yogateacher #yogainspiration #yogaposes #yogapractice #yogalife #yogaeveryday #yogaeverywhere #viparitakarani #inversion #yogabenefits #postlunch #tired

🌱 Huge bowl of leaves with masses of chervil, dill, coriander, tarragon and basil. . Topped with chilli and coriander kraut @fermentedbylab ; smoked hummus @abelandcole; smoked tofu @tofooco; tomato; radish; black olives; fennel; nutritional yeast; dulse flakes; and olive oil. . . . Tastes SO good in the sun in one of my favourite handmade bowls ☀️ . . . #simplepleasures 😊 . #leaves #salad #herbs #lunch #lunchtime #easylunch #healthylunch #healthyeating #delicious #fermented #guthealth #gut #microbiome #healing #foodismedicine #organic #freshfood #vegan #plantbased #foodinspiration #lunchinspiration

💕 His and hers salad bowls for supper tonight 😊 Super quick and easy to make - the only cooking needed was cooking the mushrooms and sautéing the tempeh... . Grilled field mushrooms, tempeh marinated in teriyaki sauce and liquid aminos, and smoked paprika chickpeas. . . . With smoked hummus; chilli and coriander sauerkraut (thank you @fermentedbylab 😊); radish; tomato; blueberries; homemade chilli jam; and nutritional yeast. . . . All atop a salad of leaves, dill, tarragon, coriander and chervil. . . . Drizzled with olive oil and sprinkled with wakame . SO GOOD! 😊 . . . Now I just need to start throwing bowls of the same size...#lifegoals 😁 . #supper #salad #saladbowl #ceramics #handmade #homemade #glaze #handthrown #glaze #natural #nature #naturalhealth #feast #health #healthyeating #healthy #protein #guthealth #fermentation #sauerkraut #microbiome #happytummy #happygut #homecooking #naturalchef

🏃‍♀️🐕 Post run-with-dog breakfast. . Super charged smoothie, alongside cacao and ginger granola with peach and yoghurt 💕 . Smoothie ingredients (with tags 😊) 🌱Banana 🌱Dates 🌱Goji berries @nutriseeduk . 🌱Flax seed @nutriseeduk . 🌱Hemp protein powder @naturya . 🌱Superfood Powder @kikihealth . 🌱Cacao nibs @nutriseeduk . 🌱Ashwagandha @nutriseeduk . 🌱Chia seeds @nutriseeduk . 🌱Collagen powder @kikihealth . 🌱Jumbo oats @pimhillfarm . 🌱Peppermint oil @steenbergsltd . . . 🌱Blended with oat milk @oatly . . . 🌱Topped with dried rose petals @baldwinsuk . . #breakfast #postrun #postexercise #protein #adaptogens #collagen #musclerepair #musclebuilding #superfood #smoothie #greensmoothie

💕SIMPLE PLEASURES💕 Eating from homemade bowls Old shoes Fresh food Beautiful cloth Jangly anklets Quiet Old leather Meaningful jewellery Neural pathways Presence . Thank you @charlieyogauk for recommending the @bbcradio4 programme yesterday about Simple Pleasures. . . So quietly beautiful and thought provoking. I can see a Simple Pleasures Practice becoming the new gratitude practice 💕 . . If you have 30 minutes spare, I recommend finding it on the Radio 4 website and giving it a listen. Starting to become aware of what simple things bring you pleasure is deeply contentment-building 😊 . . #simplepleasures #gratitude #presence #contentment #happiness #joy #pleasure #radio4 #documentary #bertoldbrecht #poem #thoughtprovoking #quiet #listen #beauty #radio #listening #stillness #german #brecht #yoga #simplethings #apoemaday #yogateacher #yogainspiration #yogaisnotjustasana #practice #gratitudepractice #ceramics #handmade

New brew of Fire Water 🔥 . A delicious, medicinal mix of raw apple cider vinegar, garlic, onion, ginger, turmeric, horseradish root, chilli, black pepper, rosemary, thyme, apple, lemon and raw honey. . I used the last batch to add a bit of 🔥 to salad dressings, or drank it diluted in water. It’s delicious. . #firewater #firebrew #brewing #acv #applecidervinegar #folkremedy #herbalmedicine #plantmedicine #empowerment #health #healthyeating #raw #rawhoney #onion #garlic #horseradish #chilli #turmeric #ginger #blackpepper #curcumin #rosemary #thyme #medicinal #medicinalherbs #medicinalplants #healthygut #guthealth

🍲 Buddha bowl. Aka grab the contents of the fridge and throw them in a bowl... . Tempeh in aminos, tomato, cucumber, leaves, sauerkraut, yeast flakes, and a delicious carrot and ginger dressing. . In one of my handthrown bowls 😊 . #tempeh #aminos #liquidaminos #sauerkraut #salad #tomato #cucumber #carrot #ginger #dressing #leaves #yeastflakes