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🌴 HOLA from Tenerife! This week’s Ladybug Recipe Drop is a little different… 👨🏻‍🍳Chef Laz has just added 18 new recipes to the app in one go! 😅

🥗 6 lunch recipes
🍽️ 6 starters
🍲 6 main courses

Together, they make up the full menu for our 5th annual Yoga with Natalie Women’s Retreat, beginning here in Tenerife on Sunday.

Over the years, many of the ladies have asked for the recipes for the food they enjoyed on retreat. So this year, every guest can find the full menu inside Ladybug, add each meal to their daily intake and save their favourites to My Cookbook.

And of course, Premium Members get access too! 🐞🌟

The retreat is also part of the reason Ladybug exists. For five years, Laz has been cooking nourishing food for women 35+, while I’ve been teaching yoga and chatting with the ladies about nutrition, hormones, energy and strength.

So this isn’t just a large recipe drop…

It’s four weeks’ worth of recipes, released together as a complete retreat menu — and a little piece of Ladybug’s story.

🐞🌟 Premium Members: all 18 recipes are now waiting in the Chef Tab.

Enjoy!

Mrs Ladybug 🌸

These are the sort of savoury muffins I want waiting in the fridge before a busy day — easy to pick up, easy to pack, and substantial enough to count as proper food. Chef Laz’s Tuna, Broccoli & Cheddar Quinoa Muffins are this week’s Recipe of the Week. 🐟

They’re fridge and freezer friendly, work brilliantly in lunchboxes, and are ideal for garden parties, barbecues or long journeys when you want something more useful than another packet of snacks.

Each serving gives us:

🔴 **54% protein**
🟣 **23% magnesium**
🟢 **15% fibre**
🟡 **26% vitamin D**
🔵 **30% calcium**
🌀 **27% omega-3**

The protein helps support muscle maintenance and makes these properly satisfying, while the broccoli, quinoa, tuna and cheddar bring a much broader mix of nutrients than we would normally expect from something called a muffin.

I’m planning to make these for our two-hour drive to Budapest before we fly to Tenerife for our fifth Women’s Yoga Retreat. Whether mine taste as good as Chef Laz’s remains to be seen 😅

🐞🌟 **Premium Members:** find the full recipe in the Chef Tab, tap **Add to My Daily Intake** to see exactly what it contributes to your day, and save it to **My Cookbook** for later.

Chef Laz 👨🏻‍🍳

🐞📮 **Mrs Ladybug Postbag** **“What can I make for a garden party or barbecue that the children can pick up, but the adults will actually want to eat too?”**

This is such a real one, because “family-friendly” can so easily become a separate beige plate for the children while the adults get the proper food.

But it doesn’t have to work like that.

The best garden-party food is something everyone can reach for, eat easily and enjoy without you spending the whole afternoon making different versions for different people.

Two out of the four recipes Chef Laz dropped in-app on Friday work especially well for this:

🐟 Tuna, Broccoli & Cheddar Quinoa Muffins
🐟 Baked Tuna Rice Bites with Carrot, Cucumber & Quark Dip

They can be prepared ahead, picked up by little hands, served as barbecue starters or added to a sharing table — and they still give us proper food with protein, flavour and substance.

One tray on the table. Everyone helps themselves. You get to sit down too.

And on Tuesday, I’ll be showing you the tuna quinoa muffins in more detail.

Mrs. Ladybug 🐞🌸

Tuna doesn’t have to mean a sandwich, a sad salad or a baked potato. This week Chef Laz has taken this supermarket staple and turned it into four very different Ladybug recipes.

👨🏻‍🍳 **Ladybug Recipe Drop: Tuna 🐟**

When I think of tuna, I usually think of tuan and sweetcorn rolls from the shop, or tuna stuffed into a baked potato — which I practically lived on in college 😂

Useful? Yes.
Exciting? Not always.

But this week Chef Laz has gone well beyond the usual and dropped four new tuna recipes into the app for Premium Members:

🐟 **Sashimi-Style Red Tuna Steak with Avocado, Orange, Broccoli & Sesame Lime Dressing**

🐟 **Tuna, Butter Bean & Spinach Skillet with Herby Wholegrain Crumbs**

🐟 **Tuna, Broccoli & Cheddar Quinoa Muffins with Roasted Pepper Yoghurt**

🐟 **Baked Tuna Rice Bites with Carrot, Cucumber & Quark Dip**

Tuna earns its place in the Ladybug Larder because it brings proper nutritional value to the table:

🔴 protein
🌀 omega-3
🟡 vitamin D

And this week’s recipes show just how flexible it can be — from a restaurant-worthy dinner to prepare-ahead bites for garden tables, barbecues and little hands.

Not diet food.
Not a sad desk lunch.
Just real food with a lot more potential than we sometimes give it credit for.

🐞🌟 **Premium Members:** all four recipes are now live in your Chef Tab.

Mrs. Ladybug 🐞🌸

🚪 **Ladybug Larder: Tuna 🐟**

When we think of tuna, most of us probably picture a sandwich, a salad or a baked potato. But this dependable supermarket staple can do far more than that — and Chef Laz is about to prove it.

Tuna earns its place in the Ladybug Larder because it gives us:

🔴 **Protein** to support muscle strength, repair and satisfaction
🌀 **Omega-3 fats** to support heart and brain health
🟡 **Vitamin D**, which helps us absorb calcium and support our bones and muscles

The exact amounts vary between fresh tuna and different tinned varieties, but both can be genuinely useful ways to bring fish and protein into everyday meals.

🐞🌟 **Premium Members:** keep an eye on your Chef Tab tomorrow. Chef Laz is dropping four brand-new tuna recipes — and there isn’t a standard tuna sandwich among them.

Not diet food. Not a sad desk lunch. Just a reliable ingredient with far more potential than we sometimes give it credit for.

🍫 Black beans in brownies? If I served these at a dinner party, I'd be very tempted not to tell anyone the main ingredient until after dessert 😂

This week's Recipe of the Week is Chef Laz's Pistachio, Black Bean & Dark Chocolate Brownie Slices.

Rich. Chocolatey.

Most people would never guess what's hiding inside. While your guests are trying to work it out, these brownie slices are delivering:

🔴 22% protein*
🟢 47% fibre
🟣 35% magnesium
🔵 9% calcium

Not bad for something that feels far more like a dinner-party dessert than a "healthy snack."

That's what I love about some of Chef Laz's recipes. They're not trying to disguise healthy food as dessert. They're proper desserts made with ingredients that bring nutrition to the table.

🐞🌟 Premium Members

This week's Recipe of the Week is waiting in your Chef Tab now.

The only question is...

Do you tell your guests about the black beans before or after they've asked for a second slice? 😂

Mrs. Ladybug 🐞🌸

*Based on a 60kg woman’s daily protein needs.

Anyone else seeing loads of “healthy snacks” online and wondering how healthy they actually are? Same 😂

Protein this.
Gut-friendly that.
No added whatever.
High fibre something.

And sometimes they might be great.

But sometimes I just want to know what the food is actually doing for me.

That’s one of the things I love about Ladybug.

You can add foods into the app and see how they contribute to:

🔴 protein
🟢 fibre
🔵 calcium
🟣 magnesium
🌀 omega-3
🟡 and sometimes vitamin D too

And confession… I am probably one of the laziest women alive in the kitchen because my husband is a chef who specialises in women 40+ nutrition 😂

So I love that this week’s Premium pistachio recipes are not only quick to prepare, but once I add them to my daily intake with just one tap, I can see exactly what they’re doing on my nutrient charts.

No guessing.
No wellness theatre.
Just real food, with the nutritional thinking already done.

Mrs. Ladybug 🐞🌸

🐞✨Premium Members 💚 check your Ladybug App Chef Tab!

Chef Laz has just dropped 4 new pistachio recipes, and this week is all about practical, delicious ways to use pistachios in real life.

Because if you’re anything like me, you buy a bag of pistachios with great intentions… and then realise the only way you ever eat them is standing in the kitchen peeling shells and licking your fingers 😂

This week’s new recipes include:

💚 Pistachio Crunch Bars
💚 Pistachio Freezer Squares
💚 Pistachio Brownie Slices
💚 Pistachio Couscous Salad

Not “health food.”

Just clever, satisfying recipes that bring protein, fibre and magnesium into snacks, treats and meals you’ll actually want to eat.

🐞🌟 Your new recipes are waiting in the Chef Tab now.

Mrs. Ladybug 🐞🌸

🚪 This week in Ladybug Larder: Pistachios 💚 Yes... that nut that suddenly seems to be everywhere lately.

Dubai chocolate. Pistachio lattes.
Pistachio desserts.

But do you know what pistachios actually do nutritionally — and why they've earned a place in the Ladybug Larder?

Pistachios aren't just a pretty face.

A 28g handful gives us:

🔴 7% protein
🟢 11% fibre
🟣 7% magnesium
🔵 3% calcium
🌀 3% omega-3

All from one simple handful.

That's one of the things I love about real food. We don't just get one nutrient. We get lots of them working together.

And unlike some of the things social media tries to sell us, pistachios have been doing their job for centuries.

They're brilliant scattered over yoghurt, added to porridge, tucked into lunchboxes, eaten straight from the cupboard (we've all done it 😂), or used to add crunch and flavour to meals.

🐞✨Premium Members

Chef Laz will be dropping **4 new pistachio recipes tomorrow**, including sweet and savoury ideas to help you use pistachios in ways you might never have considered.

Keep an eye on your Ladybug notifications 👀

Mrs. Ladybug 🐞🌸