Kombucha
The omnipresent cauliflower will be replaced by all things chickpea, particularly gram flour and aquafaba (chickpea soaking water) being used in place of egg or gelatine. More grown up and savoury desserts seem to be on the horizon too.
We are still in the throes of our love affair with ‘gourmet garbage’ (spicy-cheesy chicken, wings, dogs and burgers), alongside the ongoing trend towards health and wellness foods.
In that category, look out for alternative cooking oils such as walnut and pumpkin, and more CBD-infused foods and drinks which will be just the thing to help us recover from the strain of 2020.
So far, so straight-forward really. I started on the IVF journey in 2003, Elaine says. Everything looked beautiful at first. I had loads of eggs, they fertilised great, everything was going really well. But for some reason, I was just not getting pregnant.
After the first bout of IVF, Elaine had something called hyper stimulation; meaning, I produced so many eggs that my immune system went into overdrive. All sorts of things can happen then. At one point I was in hospital for weeks with a bowel blockage and a suspected infection. I recovered. Certainly for some people, that would have been the end of trying IVF. But not for me. Elaine and Brian continued to try, and try. The subsequent IVF treatments were unsuccessful but uneventful .