Located in the beautiful Hunter Valley, Elysia Wellness Retreat is a sanctuary from day-to-day life. From activities such as early morning yoga sessions to serene walks around the retreat, you decide how you want to kick-start your day. Explore the facilities, have a hit of tennis, or a personal training session in the fully equipped gymnasium.

Level up your scrambled eggs with this tasty recipe. Sunny Queen eggs are high quality and full of flavour, upgrading any old dish!

This is a creamy spaghetti carbonara that you can cook in just minutes, the perfect dinner for any occasion, its simply delicious!

Your whole family will love this delicious pumpkin dahl, perfect for those wintery, cool nights. If you like your dahl extra creamy, use coconut cream instead of coconut milk.

Lamb is one of the loveliest meats when slow-cooked, its fibres and fats breaking down into buttery tenderness. Pasture-raised lamb contains valuable amounts of conjugated linoleic acid, a health-supportive fatty acid that has been shown to promote fat loss — so it’s worth buying organically raised, 100 per cent grass-fed lamb wherever possible. Enjoy its benefits in this super-comforting casserole.

This simple plant-powered vegetarian risotto is a delicious budget-friendly meal. If you happen to have any leftovers, roll them into little balls and fry them to make arancini.

Rich, hearty and full of protein, this delicious dish feeds a crowd for less than $2.50 per serve. This chilli is so filling and tasty that nobody will guess it costs almost nothing to make.

Take all the childhood favourite flavours of a classic cheeseburger but make it under $4.50 per serve. Even better, you don’t need to leave the house to get it and it cooks itself! Slow fast food, anyone?

If you chastise yourself for not working out enough, maybe your exercise isn’t joyful enough. Make it something you look forward to and keep doing by setting up virtual sessions with friends and family.

Once a pastime of yore, knitting made a resurgence during the peak of the pandemic, and research shows this inexpensive hobby could be the key to mastering mindfulness and better mental health.

What gets you out of bed each morning and propels you forward? Do you want to find more meaning in what you do? Discovering and living in alignment with your personal ikigai is a way to harness the Japanese secret to a meaningful, long and joy-filled life.

Lee Holmes shares with us how she aligns herself with nature! taking rest periods and disconnecting when she needs to (I know, shock horror!)