My Living With Psoriasis Blog

After reading about how good turmeric is for you – I decided to give marking a tea a go. I looked up some recipes on line and made my own up from what I had read. A lot of the recipes included ginger and I really don’t like ginger – they included some other ingredients that I also don’t like. So; below is my concoction of turmeric tea… Ingredients: 2 teaspoons of turmeric 1teaspoon cinnamon Pinch of salt Peppercorns 1 lemon Agave (instead of honey – but honey would work) Method: Started off filling up two mugs with water (to know the right amount) and put it into a saucepan – brought the water to a boil Added in the turmeric, cinnamon, peppercorns and salt Stirred it all in and let it boil (for 10-15mins) Put the juice from 1 lemon into a mixing jug and added in 1 tablespoon of agave Once the tea had boiled for the 10-15mins I added it into the mixing jug and gave it a good stir. Put the tea into a mug and tried my fi...

“SEARED GOLDEN CHICKEN, MINT SAUCE (KIND OF) & SPRING VEG FEAST” INGREDIENTS (serves 4) Olive oil White wine vinegar Dried red chilli flakes Skinless chicken breasts (x4) 150g broad beans 150g sweetcorn 100g green beans 40g venus rice 20g feta cheese Fresh mint For my first attempt at a psoriasis-friendly meal, I have used a meal idea from Jamie Oliver’s “EVERYDAY SUPERFOOD” cookbook. I personally think this book is great, it’s full of healthy meals and all of his recipes give you the calorie content and  macro-nutrient  breakdowns, plus there’s loads of really great nutritional information at the back.  So, whilst I am easing myself into cooking (I am actually a terrible chef!) I have used one of his recipes as a guideline. The original recipe used asparagus and peas, however after starting to cook I realised that we had run out of both – it was the day before the weekly food shop – so had to improvis...

Okay, so I’m Lauren, Kara’s sister (and best friend!) and I’m not great when it comes to writing about myself but I will just give you guys a very quick introduction so you know who’s writing! I have been in the background with my sister since she started this blog and I am very excited to say that she has invited me to post with her! I am studying personal training and nutrition and in the process Kara suggested that I use what I know - and am learning everyday - about nutrition to write posts for ideas for psoriasis-friendly meals. So, I have been doing extra research into what a psoriasis friendly diet is in the hopes of helping heal psoriasis from the inside out. I personally believe that everything we put into our bodies directly affects our skin and makes a big difference to what we see on the outside, in many ways. I used to have a terrible diet, smoke and drink way too much and role my eyes at people that said words like “yoga” and “kale”, however, since finding the gym and...

A small note prior to this post; I have created an Instagram account to post products that I am trying and food that my sister and I are creating to help with my psoriasis, if you would like to follow me @lwpsoriasis is where you'll find me :) Turmeric: So recently I have been told by a few people that turmeric is great for your skin and especially for skin conditions. I wasn’t sure what to think at the start as turmeric isn’t something that I would have thought could help improve my pso. So, I have looked into a few of the benefits of turmeric and skin and wanted to share this with you… The benefits: I took a look at a few websites to get a feel for what was great about turmeric. After reading around a little bit I noticed that most places were saying the same benefits: ·         Nourishing to skin ·         Anti-inflammatory ·         Reduce pigmentation ...