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Vegan hot cross buns An Easter favorite, indulge yourself with some lovely, sticky vegan hot cross buns. A hot cross bun is a spiced sweet bun made with raisins that are marked with a cross on the top. Traditionally, they are eaten on Good Friday. Serve these fresh from the oven with some butter and jam. Simplicity at its best.

A Vegan Hot Cross Buns Recipe (Video) That’s So Darn Good

Any reason to have a big ole' serving of carbs is fine by me and though I've learned that with bread it's all about moderation, I am certainly not exercising restraint come tomorrow when these fragrant, fruit flecked, sticky hot cross buns slathered in vegan butter and citrus glaze come out the oven. This recipe...

A Safari Can Be Highly Exploitative And Unethical. Here’s What You Need To Know

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Who doesn’t get excited about an African safari? With more than 40 national parks and nature reserves scattered between Lake Victoria and the Indian Ocean, the African continent is possibly the wildest place on earth with the world’s largest intact ecosystem. Sarfarians come here to experience outdoor wild life adventure at its finest and most...

Get ready with me for a evening out on the town in style.

Get Ready And Style Up With Me For A Night Out

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Girls just want to have fun, right? Grown women do too it turns out, so when my team challenged me to style myself for an evening out and record it for Forward FortyTV, I was all for it. Here’s the challenge. I would have to do it without the assistance of a makeup artist or...

Kenya is said to be a schoolroom for anyone who wants to learn about nature, beauty and the rhythm of life. As beautiful and wild as this land is, it is also harsh and untamed.

When You Travel To Kenya Be Prepared For Its Beauty, Creativity And Yes, Its Poverty

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Visiting Africa is probably on your travel wish list, am I right? Yet, many travellers don’t ever actually make it there. The truth is, travelling to Africa can be daunting and for valid reasons. The continent comprises 54 countries, with over 1,500 estimated different languages. Its landscape and geography are widely divergent, just like its...

Mindfulness is the singular most important practice you can cultivate because it has the power to change the way you live and work.

Mindfulness Is All The Secret Sauce You Need To Work Smarter.

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Recently, I was asked to speak about Mindfulness At Work In A Digital Age and the first thing that popped into my mind, as I prepared my notes, was this dead zone that I have in my living room. It is right next to my blue sideboard and it's a spot from where I can...

You can enjoy salads every day to the week. We have 7 recipes

Meat Mouth Who?! Here Are 7 Delicious Salads For Every Day Of The Week.

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Who doesn’t love watermelon? The ways we have grown up enjoying them may be pedestrian, at least to us, but whenever I have overseas guests I’m amazed how they find stopping the car at the side of the road and selecting a big, juicy melon not just quaint but also a bit luxurious too. I...

A New Home Can Remind You Of Who You Are, The Places You Still Have Yet To Go

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Anybody else can’t reconcile their love for an all-white minimalist Scandinavian design with the need for bold, maximalist colour in their homes? I’ll be the first to raise my hand because I have a fierce woman crush on both styles. When I moved into my newly renovated home about 5 weeks ago, I had a...

Get Over Yourself. Use Your Image. Tell Your Brand Story

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This week I sat makeup free on my green velvet couch working on a client proposal when the idea pooped into my head to have our production assistant take a quick photograph of the moment. She whipped out her phone, I looked up smiling and that simple three-minute act turned into a brand story about entrepreneurship...

The perfect oils do two things: they are transdermal and absorbs easily through the skin and they are olfactory; they should provide the right aromatherapeutic scent for you and connect that feeling of goodness not just to the body but also the brain.

The Essential Oils To Supercharge Your Health And Wellbeing

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Who doesn’t love a massage? Whether you’re doing it as part of a self-care routine or you're getting one while lying on a spa table, that feel good human contact is made infinitely better with the right oil. The perfect essential does two things: it’s transdermal and absorbs easily through the skin; its also olfactory and...

How Natalie and I Began The Forward Forty Travel Blog

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I remember when my dear friend Natalie Suite and I chatted about her writing the travel stories for our blog about 3-and-a- half-years ago. At the time, she was living in Peru about to head to Paris with her toddler and partner, Mikele. Both of us did not know much about travel blogging but what I did...

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