Ella Woodward Quotes

When life gives you Monday, dip it in glitter and sparkle all day.

I love knowing exactly what you’re putting onto your skin and about the ingredient benefits of those products.

Eating well isn’t about dieting or deprivation, so you shouldn’t feel that you’re bound to certain rules.

I think if you don’t enjoy something, it’s not sustainable.

I don’t really have a 9-5, which I love, as every day is so different.

The things I cook and eat on a regular basis are really inexpensive.

What I hear a lot is that fresh, healthy eating isn’t accessible. That it’s full of bizarre ingredients people have never heard of that are really expensive. There’s also a perception that it’s time consuming and not very filling.

I finished my dissertation six weeks early. Who does that? As soon as something comes in, I like it to go out.

If you’re struggling with that sweet tooth, try making healthy sugar swaps using things like honey, maple syrup, and medjool dates. These are all completely natural and will satisfy any sweet cravings.

Food was a big part of our family gatherings, but it was usually pasta. We didn’t eat that well. Everything was home-made but not much veg or fruit.

You’ve got to introduce people to things in a way they’re going to enjoy.

I was a real sugar junkie. I don’t think I realised I was actually fully addicted to it.

I literally couldn’t walk down the street; I slept for 16 hours a day, was in chronic pain, had blackouts, never-ending heart palpitations, unbearable stomach issues, constant headaches – the list goes on.

If you only buy one kitchen gadget at uni, make it a NutriBullet.They’re relatively small and inexpensive, and they make it so incredibly easy to get all of your portions of fruit and vegetables every day.

I still have a sweet tooth, so I bake a lot, but I’d much rather have one of my sweet potato brownies than a processed chocolate bar.

I’m not at yoga all the time, but equally, I’m not being sick after a night out.

My whole thing isn’t about being vegan, to be honest. It’s more about a more natural diet.

I began researching natural healing, which is how I came to change my diet. Overnight, I gave up refined sugar, gluten, dairy, anything processed or refined, and meat.

I can smell bacon sizzling or chicken roasting and appreciate the aroma, but I don’t want to eat it.

I really focus on natural products, so I love using unrefined products instead of refined ones. I swap white rice for brown rice or quinoa. I use brown rice pasta instead of regular pasta, nut milk or oat milk instead of dairy milk, and coconut yogurt instead of cows‘ yoghurt, etc.

If you have a large family like ours, you have to fight to get your point across, and I think I learned that from my dad.

There are a million different things that I want to do.

I love cooking and having friends over for dinner, so a beautiful table to sit around is a must.

I eat the way I do because I really enjoy it but also because it’s the only thing I’ve found that helps me manage the illness I had, and that plays a big part in it.

I love really simple colours at home – lots of cream, beige, and grey with rustic wooden tables.

A delicious smoothie is a really easy way of taking on lots of amazing skin boosting ingredients and was my first port of call every morning in the run-up to my wedding – I’ll throw in frozen berries, banana, spinach, almond butter, almond milk, and oats for a quick breakfast quite often.

I’m on my phone 24/7 replying to every Instagram comment and message to try and understand how people are seeing us, and their questions and concerns.

It was back in 2011 that everything changed. I was not a healthy eater at all. Up until that point, I was a student and a complete sugar addict.

Just because you want to eat vegetables and eat well doesn’t mean you can’t share food and have fun with it. It should still be an exciting thing. It shouldn’t be just eating kale on your own in the corner.

Social media is incredible: it creates a community that I’m really proud to be a part of, but it also creates illusions and a false reality, and it’s difficult to grow up with that.

I spent ages learning to take photos, which was a lot of fun, and I think it really helped readers get excited about the recipes.

I want to give you a way to eat your broccoli in a way that you actually want to eat it.

It’s so cool, the number of emails I get from people saying I changed their life. It’s pretty crazy.

Healthy eating isn’t supposed to be about self-denial; it’s not a punishment.

When I first started blogging, I kept it a secret from my friends and then started to show a few people, and it snowballed from there.

Making small changes every week over a few months will result in huge changes.

Before I changed my diet, every time I ate, my torso would feel burning hot, and the areas around my lymph nodes would really ache.

People criticised me for using too many exclamation marks and the word ‘awesome‘ too much, but that’s just me.

I’ve always loved the scent of rose; it’s just the most beautiful scent. If you open my bathroom cupboard, everything is rose scented.

Just because I like being healthy doesn’t mean I can’t have fun – I don’t drink excessively, but I’ll have a couple of vodka-and-sodas.

My main aim is to change our perception of how we look at vegetables because I think vegetables have always been put on the side – it’s always been your steamed broccoli or boiled broccoli with your meat.

I’ve always been such a loser with my organisation skills. That has always been one of my sad stand-out points.

On a weekday, I’ll go for a big bowl of creamy porridge with almond butter and berries if I’m at home, or a super quick chia seed breakfast if I’m running out the door first thing.

If I could go back in time to Freshers’ Week, I’d tell myself to make the most of university. Enjoy the fact you have all this time to do things you love. People always say that to you when you’re about to start, but you never listen, do you?