Laura Livesey, Author at The Confidence Kitchen

The best healthy salad dressing plus taking on the fear of good fats
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The best healthy salad dressing plus taking on the fear of good fats

This creamy healthy salad dressing adds a luscious mouthfeel while providing the necessary healthy fats that allows your body to better absorb the nutrients from your salad ingredients. The dressing is so versatile. It makes eating salad easy by binding together dry salad ingredients including greens, avocado, tomatoes, shredded carrots or beets, small tinned fishes (sardines, mackerel, anchovies), nuts etc. Another great way to use this is to spoon this beauty onto baked sweet potatoes or other baked root vegetables for an instantly gorgeous healthy lunch. It’s a staple in my house.

Healthy tomato bruschetta makes great gluten free snacks
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Healthy tomato bruschetta makes great gluten free snacks

This awesome rosemary chili cornbread is a dense, savoury and moreish gluten free snack. The bread holds it’s structure and the tomato garlic & basil soak in well. GF/SF/DF

Orange Sesame Baked Oatmeal Recipe with Cacao Nibs
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Orange Sesame Baked Oatmeal Recipe with Cacao Nibs

This baked oatmeal recipe with oranges, sesame seeds and raw cacao nibs is full of amazing nutrients great for lowering cholesterol plus beautifying skin and hair. GF/DF/SF/V

Thank you! Exciting update from The Confidence Kitchen
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Thank you! Exciting update from The Confidence Kitchen

Hey there! Thanks to your support I am so excited to say that The Confidence Kitchen has outgrown it's old home and has moved to a new website! Because of the move, there's one small thing for you to do. Please click the link below and enter your email address: Yes! I'd like to keep receiving updates from The Confidence Kitchen Thanks for your interest in building a healthy and more confident life in small weekly steps! [click to keep getting updates] Lots of Love, Laura xx

Kiwi fruit muffin recipe with dark chocolate and orange zest (gluten free)
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Healthy Recipes, How to Reduce Cholesterol

Kiwi fruit muffin recipe with dark chocolate and orange zest (gluten free)

This kiwi fruit muffin recipe is a great source of vitamin C, vitamin E and manganese. Each muffin has long burning energy with kiwis, almonds, oats, cinnamon and healthy fats. GF/SF/DF/V

Sleep and pleasure your way to success
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Natural Beauty, Pleasure, Powerful Habits

Sleep and pleasure your way to success

Sleep and pleasure your way to success A few weeks ago on Instagram I wrote about how slowing down was exactly what I needed. I think it's a common problem in our busy lives. We just go and go and go, until we break. We miss the warning signals, and in my case, they were pretty obvious. It got so silly that at one point I was using my good left arm to move my bad right arm around on the mouse mat, so I could send emails out and finish some work projects. It sounds so obvious now as I'm [...]

Beetroot baked oatmeal with raw cacao powder (gluten free)
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Beetroot baked oatmeal with raw cacao powder (gluten free)

Beetroot baked oatmeal with raw cacao powder (gluten free) This week's habit is all about eating more chocolate. Oh yes! But not the typical chocolate from the store. We're going to check out how amazing it is to eat raw cacao powder so we can take advantage of a wondrous superfood that is one of the most nutritionally complex foods on the planet. Cacao contains over 300 important compounds, including protein, fat, certain B-vitamins and minerals such as calcium, sulfur, magnesium, phosphorus, iron, zinc and copper. (Another reason why this week is quite special for me - I can't believe this is my 100th post on [...]

On fire with desire! Getting clear on how you want to feel
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On fire with desire! Getting clear on how you want to feel

On fire with desire! Getting clear on how you want to feel Earlier this week as Valentine's day approached I had a discussion with a small group of women about our collective definition of love. We circled around a lot of commonly heard things including the mutual exchange of caring, affection and growth, but I found the conversation really getting interesting when we opened up our ideas about love beyond the confines of just 2 people. Things got expansive and we started talking about how love is a conscious choice to feel a certain way. Things like freedom, openness, giving, fearlessness, growth, courage, gratefulness [...]

Healthy snacks: lemon coconut goji berry bliss balls
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Healthy Recipes, How to Reduce Cholesterol, Powerful Habits

Healthy snacks: lemon coconut goji berry bliss balls

Healthy snacks: lemon coconut goji berry bliss balls Something I'm always asked about are ideas for healthy snacks. One of the first things I did when faced with the scary prospect of changing my eating habits, was figure out in advance what foods I could snack on with abandon. Personally I feel very comforted when I know I have food waiting in the wings that I can eat whenever I like. It's a psychological tool I find useful that invites feelings of abundance and plenty into the day. It also can help ward off uneasy feelings, like scarcity or denial, that commonly will arrive when [...]

Hello sexy! Embrace vanity to get healthier
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Confidence, Natural Beauty

Hello sexy! Embrace vanity to get healthier

Hello sexy! Embrace vanity to get healthier I want to dispense with the myth that willpower and self-control are the main drivers behind good health. We know that willpower is finite and easily used up on any given day. While there are some people for whom the "just suck it up" type mentality is motivating, for the rest of us mere mortals that type of thinking is bullying and has a predictable tendency to mire us in self-loathing and inaction. The stick doesn't work for most people. Ah, but what about the carrot? How about vanity? Now there's something I think we can work with. Who [...]

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