Many moons ago when I first started this blog and had my first toddler, we baked quite a lot and made cute videos. You can still see them way back on my youtube/blog and they bring me joy everytime I stumble over them. Now, almost 10 years on and with families needing easy recipe for […]
Satsuma Polenta Cake
Lockdown cooking for us is not that different to normal life, but it does mean I’m even more focused on making the food go further and am having to be more flexible with ingredients when I don’t have my usual options available. This cake came about as there were some satsumas looking sad, on route […]
Fruit Crumble Bars
Sunday = an excellent time to be meal planning and making snacks for the week – try out these gems.
Carrot Cake Energy Balls
I’m on a personal mission to reduce my biscuit intake. Now there is totally nothing wrong with a biscuit or 2, but these carrot cake energy balls add in variety and nutrition. I find they really hit the spot by giving me something to munch quickly when I’m running from job to job and they […]
Banana and pumpkin seed pancakes
Sundays for us are the one chilled breakfast day of the week. No school run. I don’t teach any Pilates classes so it’s a day to take time over brekkie and have something different. This is one of my favs. So here is a my super simple recipe for you. These pancakes are easy, quick […]
Eat Well for Less: Healthier cheesecakes.
Cheesecake. It’s tasty, but it can be pretty high in calories. Now whilst I totally do not advocate calorie counting regularly, I do like having healthier alternatives to foods like this that mean I can make them without it being an extravagance. So here is the much asked for recipe for those cheesecakes we made […]
Peanut Butter Cookies and Smart Snacking.
Snacking sensibly for me is a must. I need bucket loads of reliable energy to get me through my day. An average day for me involves 3 kids, much pilates and 1-2-1 dietetic clients. I don’t sit still for long, so crashing mid afternoon is not an option, especially as that’s the school run and […]
Nutty Granola – a lower sugar version.
My children love granola as a topping for their yoghurt, but often the shop bought versions are super sweet and the lower sugar options are pricey. In my mind making my own sounded like a faff, hence it’s not something I’ve investigated… until I started making a new flapjack recipe and didn’t get the consistency […]
A healthier cake – Courgette and sultana (wheat and lactose free).
Each year my love of growing vegetables, well grows. I had a dad who had very green fingers and grew a lot of the vegetables for the small hotel my parents ran. In the summer months our bath water was often emptied by buckets into the vegetable patch! My Sri-lankan grandmother has the greenest fingers […]
Chocolate Granola Baked Apples
Granola is one of those foods that I could easily eat quite a lot of, though I tend to not eat it as a cereal but add it to dishes. I love the crunchiness and the variety it gives to transform your simple fruit and yoghurt into something more exciting. However granola is usually high in […]