Family Meals

Carrot, Lentil and Coconut Soup

This is one of those soups you can knock up in a hurry from store cupboard ingredients, plus a few carrots. We nearly always have a few carrots floating around in the veggie rack that need using up. Lentil are low glycaemic index which means they can help to keep your blood sugars stable, your

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Spiced Vegetable Moroccan Soup

The weather has turned distinctly chilly, so we’ve turned to soups for our lunches. I love soups as they really are easy to make, they can be an easy way to get vegetables and great nurtitious food into the family and they heat up the insides. This soup was a bit of an experiment, it

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Sausage and Roasted Tomato Bake

This week my Archchi came to visit. This is my  Sri-lankan grandmother, fondly known to the whole family as Archchi (granny in Singhala). She lives in London and has the greenest fingers of anyone I know. Years ago she had 2 allotments, now its just her garden that produces mainly vegetables, lots of vegetables. From

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Turkey Meatballs fit for Lady and the Tramp.

We knocked these up recently as I felt we needed a little comfort food. I asked my little one what she wanted for dinner and she asked for Moussaka. We settled on meatballs, mainly as they were easier for a tired mummy to make and also as I thought she may enjoy helping me, turns

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Rattatouille Recipe, my type of comfort food.

Rattatouille. There is something about it that just tickles my taste buds and makes me feel all warm inside. We usually grow a glut of courgettes in our garden so this becomes one of our courgette loving dishes and because it freezes well I always make a large batch. I know there are hundreds of

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Dietitian UK: Healthy, Gluten Free, Banana and Yoghurt Muffins.

Healthy, Gluten Free, Wheat Free Banana, Yoghurt Muffins.

I’ll admit it, we bake with bananas a lot. They help reduce the amount of fat and sugar needed in baking and we often end up with a few over-ripe ones. Now no-one in our house eats over-ripe bananas, baking with them makes sure they aren’t wasted. If I don’t have time to bake then

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