I have a confession to make. I haven’t always been a vege-lover. My love of veges developed when I was well into my twenties! Even today, I like to eat vegetables that have been jazzed up and made more interesting with other flavours. One of my favourite ways to eat vegetables is roasted. It intensifies the…
Fruity Flavoured Water
We all know how important drinking water is, right? If you are not properly hydrated, it will cause all sorts of problems from headaches to fatigue! Our water intake can sometimes slow down in winter, because we don’t feel as thirsty. But, this is really a time to make sure you are drinking enough. The heating…
Chicken and Vege Bombs – Healthy Chicken Nuggets
Just say NO to nuggets! I am back with another recipe to make your own chicken nuggets and ditch those nasty processed chicken nuggets. This one was inspired by a recipe I saw at Taste.com.au. What I am loving about this recipe: * It’s so quick and easy! Get the cherubs to help you. *It’s perfect finger food for…
Really Healthy Chocolate Crackles!
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but ‘regular’ chocolate crackles are bad news! The sugar, the hydrogenated copha, the rice bubbles. One of our natural new age mums, Kat was telling me how she made chocolate crackles with coconut oil (genius!) I thought I would give it a crack (oh yes, that…
Very good vegetable soup with wheat free damper
This is our family’s very favourite vegetable soup to have at winter time. The flavours are so yummy and the addition of a little barley helps fill us up. The secret ingredient is the tamari and the seaweed! Serve it with this super easy wheat-free damper, and you have an easy, nutritious meal for the whole family….
Rhubarb, Rhubarb! Roasted with greek yoghurt
Rhubarb, Rhubarb !! Does anyone remember why we used to say that as kids? I remember I did, but I don’t know why! Now I can’t say RHUBARB without it being in duplicate! Anyway, onto the food! My brain has been getting a work out lately as my diet has become very specific. What can I…
Berry Coconuty Cheesecake – so healthy!
I have had a life-long love affair with cheesecake. My mum used to make an awesome mango cheesecake, sweet and rich! Unfortunately, all that sugar, dairy and wheat just doesn’t love me anymore. Recently, I started hearing about all these healthy people making ‘raw’ cheesecakes. Now to be honest, when someone said ‘raw food’, I wasn’t…
Polenta Chicken Bites – healthy chicken nuggets!
Just say no to nuggets! I am back with another easy recipe in our ‘just so no to nuggets’ campaign! There are so many ways to make a healthy chicken ‘nugget’ very quickly and easily. I am going to keep giving you recipes until I run out of ideas. I’m pretty sure I don’t have to tell you…
Healthy Lunchbox Ideas
Does the whole school lunch thing drive you mad? It’s a complicated business – we have to make sure it’s healthy, doesn’t go soggy and won’t give anyone salmonella! Then throw into the mix a fussy kid or two and a school policy on nuts and it’s the mums who are going nuts!! My kids are a 14 and 11 and usually…
some very pinteresting things…
Wordless Wednesday: the coolest stuff on my Pinterest boards right now! Grapesicles. Genius from The Accidental Hostess. Apple Sandwich. Genius from The Peaceful Mom. Sandwich on a stick. Genius from Super Healthy Kids. Capsicum dip holders. No washing up genius from The Daily Dish. Frozen pikelet mix. Genius from 20 going on 80. “Prepare pikelet mix, then pour…