Healthy food (tayib - pure- food) doesn’t have to be boring.

Sometimes, a few tweaks can turn an unhealthy fast food into a meal that is wholesome and nutritionally dense (or at the very least, healthier than the original).

Let’s take the elements of a burger and see how we can make a hea...

A few months ago, in Ramadan, my Nani (maternal grandmother) passed away. 

Alhamdulillah. 

My children have always been close to my Nani because she lived nearby and we saw her at least once a week. Even though she was 85, she always made time for them - chatting to them, joking with them, teasing...

"Hold on, get your chest on the ground, your bum in the air and try to wait for me!" said my midwife as she rushed to get off our call and into her car to drive to our house. 

It was 12:30am in the morning. September 2023. I had just called her (from the bath, where I was relaxing through contracti...

We give our children dolls to play with that are so sexualised (breast/waist/hip ratio) that if those proportions were on a real woman she’d be anorexic and unable to walk on two legs.

Then we wonder why our kids grow up with unrealistic body expectations and low self esteem.

As I write this, t...

As we head into Spring/Summer over here, the warmer weather has my body intuitively craving salads and fresh raw food. I quickly threw this crunchy, sweet and tangy salad together with what I had in the fridge and proceeded to eat over half it myself, lol. (This is perfect for you if you have a swee...

(originally published in 2018)

[If this blog post interests you, you might want to look at my pregnancy course where I go much deeper into these topics]

This aspect of birth prep is, for me, very connected to emotional preparations for birth. French obstetrician Michele Odent talks about how women i...

(Originally posted in 2018)

[ If these posts interests you and you want to know more - I go more deeply into the topic of preparing for birth in my pregnancy course which will be released soon.] 

Previously I wrote about how I'm preparing my body physically for birth and recovery. Another aspect of ...

Have you heard of gameschooling?

It's one of the most fun things I have learnt about as a homeschooler.

As humans, we learn exponentially more by DOING something rather than hearing or reading about something. This is what makes hands on learning so successful.

Gameschooling adds an extra element of fu...

I think I owe most of my creativity in the kitchen to the fact that I'm often trying to repurpose leftovers to make them more appealing to my kids 😂

This dish was born out of having leftover rice that no one was eating. Until I tossed it into a pot and converted it into dessert-for-breakfast 😎

I used ...

This is your reminder that you don't NEED a pinterest or instagram worthy mud-kitchen (play area, garden, sand pit - insert what applies to you) for your kids to enjoy themselves.

Spring is here and we're spending so much more time outdoors, alhamdulillah (praise God). 🌸

My kids "made" this mud-kitche...