How did it get to be October already?
I hope it’s warming up where you are and you are getting ready for summer and the festive season!
Here are some of my favourite things this month, plus some amazing deals for you and some ideas for Christmas!
♥ Love from Lovage. The lovely Heidi at online natural beauty store Lovage is kindly offering all of you FREE SHIPPING from now until the end of November. Just enter NNAMFREE at the checkout!
Lovage stocks all the top brands in natural beauty like La Mav, Weleda, Ere Perez and Vanessa Megan. A great one stop shop for all your hair, body, skincare and make up. Heidi also offers a 30-day money back guarantee and a $5 voucher when you sign up for the free newsletter! There are some cute little gift packs over there too that would make perfect Christmas gifts.
You can keep up to date with the current specials and info at the Lovage Facebook page.
♥ Halloween Popcorn. There is so much controversy about Halloween – you either love it or you hate it! Personally, I don’t mind kids having a bit of fun, but I don’t like the obscene amount of fake food that normally is associated with it. Here is a great idea to make for Halloween without all the nasties. It’s my Salted Caramel Popcorn. My friend Rachel pops it into individual cupcake papers to hand out to the kids. I think it’s a great idea!
♥ Wormly Organics – new kids on the block. Ricky and his team at Wormly Organics started their new family owned online health food store late last year after seeing a growing need for quality health products that were hard to source.
Their goal is to be a household name in Australia for the 1# online health food store – ‘we are the new kids on the block and we plan to be different’! As well as stocking a large variety of organic, gluten free and health food products, you will also find some interesting information on their website about health & wellness, industry news, recipes and featured guest bloggers.
Ricky is kindly offering all of you a 10% discount and a sample of Banjo the Carob Chocolate Bear with every order from now until the end of November. Just enter the code: newagemum at the checkout!! You can also keep in touch with Wormly Organics and what they are up to at their Facebook page.
♥ The Nourished Psychologist. I am such a huge fan of Monique Phipps! She is clinical psychologist, specializing in nutrition. The missing link! Her blog post about gluten and mental health is a must read. We have been getting some really good holistic advice from Monique and it’s really helping. You can get a consult with Monique via Skype, read her blog posts and keep in the loop with her on Facebook. I highly recommend this lovely lady – she has a big heart and her holistic approach to mental health is truly wonderful and effective.
♥ Milk and Masuki. Laura at fabulous online eco store, Sustainababy has a new range of gorgeous kid’s clothes – Milk and Masuki. This range is an Australian design label specialising in stylish eco-friendly baby and kids clothing. Their trademark geometric designs are modern and clean (and a lot funky) and made from organic cotton. For the first time, their spring/summer collection features an Aussie possum. There are a few cute items on sale too, so check them out over at the website.
Laura is kindly offering FREE SHIPPING for you guys! Woohoo! Just use the code: secretshipper at the checkout. But hurry, it’s only until the 14th of November.
♥ Lunch Box Solutions from Cut out the Crap. Squeeee! I am so excited about Collette’s new cook book! The recipes are perfect for school lunches as they are all gluten free, dairy free, nut free, additive free and refined sugar free. Oh and totally yum in tried and tested Cut out the Crap style. They are now available at Collette’s online store and ready to be shipped out to you. I know a few people on my Christmas list that will be happy with this!
This giveaway has closed! The lucky winner is Lauren!
Giveaway: Collette is kindly offering one of you a copy of Lunchbox Solutions! All you need to do is make sure you are a liker of the Cut out the Crap Facebook page and leave us a comment on this blog post telling us why you simply must have this book!
[box] Terms: Australian residents only. Winner will be chosen using random.org from those meeting the entry criteria. Closes 8th of November at 9am AEST. Winner will be notified by email and announced on this blog post. [/box]
♥ Easy Homemade Gluten Free Pasta. The always amazing and innovative Tania Hubbard from Grain Free Gluten Free Co has come up with this three ingredient recipe to make your own own pasta! She truly is Australia’s gluten free goddess!!! I am in awe at her quick and easy recipes. It makes eating real, whole foods that are also gluten and grain free, really achievable.
Subscribe to Tania’s food tube channel for her latest videos – she also has a scone and pastry recipe over there. Tania’s recipes can also be found at her website and Facebook page.
♥ Everyman Jack. Yeah, I know the blokes get a bit neglected here at NNAM, so this one is for them. I am absolutely loving this range of men’s natural body products from Simone at Nourishing Hub. There is deodorant, face wash, moisturizer with an spf, shaving cream and hair products. The prices are very reasonable as well, so I am thinking a little hamper for my teenage boy is the way to go for Christmas!
Check out the range online at Nourishing Hub.
♥ This quote. I saw this quote on Facebook and I keep coming back to it as it’s resonating with me so strongly at the moment. Do you like it?
Okay, that’s what’s happening this month! What have you found lately that you are loving? Share with us!
I really struggle for nut free ideas for school so some fresh ideas would be fantastic!
Wanna spice up my lil mans lunch before he starts kindy nexy year…
My oldest is about to start kindergarten next year and anything that can help me stay away from packaged processed foods would be great 🙂
Thanks Sonia! x
so welcome!
5 lunchboxs everyday! Healthy, quick and variety – tough gig!
I gluten-freed it for a few months but fell off the wagon during school hols. Have decided I must take the whole family on my next GF venture. Desperately need this book!
I’d love this book, kids are the difficult to cater for ones I find, especially lunch boxes!
I totally need this book! My daughter has to eliminate wheat and dairy and I would love some more creative ideas other than the one or two recipes I currently have. My nephew also has nut allergies and visits us weekly so some added ideas to bake for afternoon tea for him would be great too!
My kids are just starting to understand the benefits of healthier foods and I would love some new recipes to keep them interested!
With one daughter dairy free and the other temporarily (hopefully) dairy, nut, and refined sugar free (and a mum who avoids giving them preservatives) this book looks like it ticks all the boxes!!! Would love a copy – thank you 🙂
Have recently made a more conscious effort to reduce packaged/processed food. Would love some lunchbox ideas for my family
I have Collette’s other cookbooks and I know that this one will be a favourite too – especially with my daughter starting prep next year.
I simply MUST have this book because I have no idea what to feed my daughter at the moment. She needs to have a trial period off gluten and dairy(her fave foods), we are already trying to cut out refined sugar and additives, but I’m so lost when it comes to thinking of nice lunchbox ideas!
Love to win Colette’s book! In constant need of lunchbox ideas!
I have all three of Collette’s other cookbooks and they are my saving grace trying to cook healthy dinners for my three kids. I would love a copy of her new cookbook to help me make delicious treats for my childrens lunchboxes.
I always get a little excited to see what you have in store for us with your monthly lover list 🙂
Fresh lunch box ideas are sorely welcome in our house. I get a bit ‘same ole same ole’ – Colette’s book looks amazing.
I love Collette, not only for the work she does, but for the person she is – which comes through with her honest, beautiful blog posts. I would LOVE to win her new book, which I know will be as fabulous as her other 3!
I would love a copy of the cut the crap book I have a 4tr old and am forever searching for healthy lunchbox options! Thanku 🙂
COTC lunchbox solutions would be amazing to have in my hot little hands, to be honest I’m struggling with variety for my little one…my 15 month old a girl is about to start daycare – some more awesome healthy food ideas to go along with what we have from her other books would be a blessing x
I would love love love to win this book. we have well try our hardest to cut rubbish out o our diet and this book sounds like something i need 🙂 for some fresh new ideas
I need this book and would love a free copy. My daughter starts school next year and it’s a ‘nude food’ policy. Would love to be able to make some delicious nutritious snacks for her and my 2 year old 🙂
I would desperately love a copy of your new book. I have a 5 year old in kindy with intolerances to gluten, dairy, cashew and egg and a 2 year old with gluten and dairy intolerances who I struggle with getting her to eat anything!
the gluten, sugar and dairy free I can do, but the nut free I find really difficult. So some easy but free ideas would be amazing!
#nut not but!
Our gorgeous little 4 year old has struggled most of his life with eczema and asthma 🙁 He is currently on a dairy and gluten free diet which is working wonders! He starts prep next year and to tell you the truth I am beyond overwhelmed as to what I am going to put in his lunch box! This book would be an absolute godsend and help so much with some yummy and healthy food options to suit our dietary requirements 🙂
I decided to bite the bullet and try going gluten free. I think it’s day three and so far so good. I actually felt great this morning, had an awsome yoga class and after that did 2 hours work on the swimming pool while my husband is away and the workers just finished paving around it. That’s all before lunch and I wasn’t even starving.
So now that I made the effort I need some new ideas to keep going. I have Hashimoto’s disease and the link between autoimmune disease and gluten keeps poping up in what I read. I also jave chronic insomnia since my first pregnancy over 7 years ago. I have tried everything and now it’s to diet, which already was pretty healthy I thought but I haven’t tried gluten free. So the book really would be a great start. Thank you
Have really tried to make a good lunchbox, free of crap – but the canteen doesn’t help. I would love this book to make lunchboxes so appealing, there would be no need for the canteen!
My daughter starts kindy next year and we need some healthy lunchbox inspiration! It’s our families first kind experience and we have no idea where to start.
I’m so exhausted from being in the kitchen all day trying to fill my little monkeys up whilst keeping everything dairy, gluten, nut, colour and preservative free! I really think this can help me simplify and be able to spend that time with my family instead.
Please, I need this!! My 3 and a half yr old (the half is very important lol) is an allergy kid so this would be amazing as I don’t want her to feel like she is missing out especially with lunches for kindy etc
I have been desperately trying to ‘cut out the crap’ in my kids lunch boxes. I have always baked from home, but that doesn’t mean it’s not crap free 🙁 I feel like I’ve failed for years by giving the kids sugar laden home baked goodies, thinking “hey they’re home made, you’re doing good mama!” but really I was just turning them into small sugar addicts and I’d like to put a stop to that RIGHT NOW, so they can take the good food into their adult hood with ease…at least, with a lot more ease than I’ve had trying to make the change :/ I’d love to have some recipes to get me going and knowing Collette’s recipes it wont take me 10 hours in a supermarket, another 6 in a health food store and a few online just to find the ingredients listed lol!
I have followed both your page and Collette’s for ages, and with my daughter (only child) start Prep in January, would be great to get a copy of her new book – thanks!
I simply MUST have this book, because I have the other three and now my set is incomplete!!! With three little men, these books are a blessing in disguise. Nasty free cooking at it’s best! Love Collette’s work, just brilliant xo
I must have this book because I have run out of ideas for lunch box food for my son who is special needs.
I’d love the cut out the crap lunchbox solutions cookbook! I have one child with anaphylaxis allergies, one who reacts to additives and preservatives and another with food intolerances so I would absolutely LOVE some new ideas of what to cook
This book sounds perfect for my family. I have a 9 year old daughter with a nut allergy (she carries an epi pen), a hubby who can’t have dairy and 2 boys, aged 6 and 2 who seem to show sensitivity to too much gluten in their diet. It’s difficult trying to pack lunches suitable for everyone. This book would really help with the lunch box packing everday.
I would love this book as my daughter starts school next year and she is a fussy eater
Collett is a genius. You can’t tell me that anyone out there with kids wouldn’t love a copy of this book!
I would love to win a copy of Collette’s new book!
My 4yo is starting kindy next year and it will be my first time making up lunchboxes.
I will have my 2yo at home and a newborn, so taking the guesswork out and having solutions handy will be so much help!! 🙂
My son has been diagnosed with ADHD, and he will be going to school next year. I am making an effort to go preservative free, but am struggling to find things he likes. I need all the help I can get!
Collette’s book has been on my wishlist for an age. I need to learn how to cook using these, to me, new products so I can balance my diet.
I have a fussy 6yo and for the past 2years of owning a Thermomix, I have tried every alternate whole food recipe and he still comes home with only a half eaten lunch. It’s killing me and sometimes I just give up and give him tuckshop. Then my better judgement kicks in and I try again. Could this book be my saviour? I hope so.
Would love to try some recipes from this book!
This cookbook would be so handy! I have two kids in need of lunchbox snacks and I’m not ever going to turn into one of those mums who put packets of chips or other rubbish in their kids’ lunchboxes!
Yes please, my little miss is starting preschool
And I need lunch ideas
I am always on the lookout for easy healthy snacks for my two kids. This book would be a great help.
I’m new to all this and have the motivation to learn but I’d like to give this book to the grandparents so they feel like they can do their bit as they just want to give treats! Argh!
The book is great for new, healthy lunch box ideas while also being excellent for catering to kids with dairy/nut/gluten allergies. Be also handy to use for healthier kids birthday parties.
There is enough crap all around us especially in kids snacks. Life would be so much better if we just went back to basics back to no crap
I would love more healthy ideas! I think my kids are a little sick of the same lunch box items everyday!
I just love that video of grain free pastry.. Errr pasta!! LOL!!
I would totally love to get my hands on Collettes new book! I have a fussy Mr 8 who can’t eat gluten and most grains are limited as well, recess for him is apple and cheese everyday with the occasional apricot and coconut square, which is all good but I’m in desperate need of some nut free recipes, so that he can have something yummy and something different from the boring apple and cheese! (All my recipes contain nuts!)
I “simply have to have Collette’s Cut out the Crap Lunchbox book” because through following this and other pages I have managed to remove many additives from Mr 9’s diet which in turn has made his behaviour much more managable. However…I need help with lunch box ideas that are enticing. Our canteen is no help (full of additives and preservatives) and I may just have the chance to have some input into changing that too next year! This book might not only help me, but our whole school community 🙂
I am new to the healthy lifestyle of refined sugar free, additive free and gluten free. I am always looking for new fantastic recipes for myself and my family. Cut out the cap band Wagon here we come! 🙂
Hi there, I would love love a copy of the Lunchbox solutions as my daughter is starting prep next year I want to make sure that I start the schooling experience armed with good healthy nutritious food. Thanks, Michelle
Got Cut Out The Crap for kids and love the book and recipes. Could really do with some help for making lunches.
I am struggling for lunch box ideas at the moment so this book would be a great help! Thanks for the opportunity to win one 🙂
With prep looming and baby heading to daycare and me returning to work next year I need some good, no nonsense, guilt free goodies for us to pack in our lunches. All our family recipes are stacked with so much sugar!
I have been playing with GF for a few years, but recently have been confirmed as having coeliac, so am now 100% GF. Even though I cook everything from scratch, husband isn’t keen to give up his beloved bread, pasta or sugar. I’d love to show him how easy it is to cook treats for him, and to get him to cook them himself (he needs recipes to follow) so that when we start our family I am confident he’ll be feeding them good stuff. He wants to do it, but needs a little shove 🙂 So even though I don’t have little kids, I’d like this book for my big kid, because I love him so much and I want him with me forever 🙂
I’d love some inspiration for lunch boxes, and it would be great to be able to reccommend this book to friends, family and customers!
Thanks
I don’t know about the kiddies but I’d be excited to have this book. I’ve recently gone onto a gluten free diet and I would relish in some more recipe and cooking ideas. I hate cooking so the simpler and quicker the better.
what a lovely group of things you have listed!
I would absolutely LOVE to have the Cut Out The Crap cookbook because I have just CUT OUT THE CRAP in my whole house .. .decluttered every room, threw out all the food in the pantry that was not going to nurture us and even culled so many of my much loved recipe books.
No more crap in this house! I would love to win this book to help me replace the crap .. with things that will nurture us …
I would absolutely LOVE Collette’s books. I have her others and think they are awesome. Lunch box ideas are the bane of my existance anything to help with healthy ineteresting ideas would be great!!!!
Lauren, you are the lucky winner! Please check your emails 🙂
Hi, I would love to win a copy of this book. I have two boys with autism. One of my boys has major gut issues which has resulted in severe constipation for the past 4yrs. It would be so good to help him along with his diet. Collette is such an inspiration to many, such a generous offer to one lucky winner. Good luck everyone.
I must have this book because it’s so hard to find simple solutions that are gluten free, dairy free, nut free, additive free and refined sugar free.
Having a child with ADHD and now ASD, lunch box items are really important to get right. This book will be immensely helpful.
I would love this prize because we are a family of four and want to cut the crap from our diets.
Lunch box solutions will help me with making my daughters lunches next year for kindergarten that will make her HAPPY and me HAPPY knowing she is eating well
Always looking for healthy, allergy free meal options for my son and I 😀
The lucky winner is Lauren!!