I’m a skinflint when it comes to buying certain wheat free foods. I refuse to buy specialist muesli and cereals for example and live off oats in the mornings. When it gets to the summer months I tend to find porridge just doesn’t hit the spot so I either turn to Overnight Oats or make
Homemade wheat free muesli. Read More »
I have one of those toddlers who is always hungry and asks for snacks a lot. Often I set the expectation early on in the day and at lunchtime I will explain that in the afternoon the only snacks available are fruit and breadsticks with a dip for example. As my toddler takes after mummy
Chewy Oaty Cookies: great baby/toddler snacks. Read More »
Warning…. you may find it hard to stop at just one cookie! I’ve slightly fallen back in love with peanut butter recently. It’s more nutritious than butter due to it’s protein content and gives a great taste to baking. So today inspired by my recent oaty ball success I decided to venture a little further
Protein Packed Peanut Butter Trail Mix Cookies Read More »
Bananas and Baking, one of my favourite combinations. We often have a couple of bananas hanging around earmarked for mummy to bake with as no-one like over-ripe bananas in our house. This weekend I decided to move away from our beloved flapjacks and try out some muffins. I’d seen a recipe somewhere that used yoghurt
Banana yoghurt muffins, perfect for healthy snacking Read More »
We all love pizza, but there are healthy and covered in pepperoni, dripping in cheese, not so healthy pizza’s. As part of this month Recipe Redux challenge (Healthy Pizza) I decided to experiment using courgette in my pizza base. You may remember the cauliflower pizza base craze? Well here is another variation. Why courgette I
Courgette Pizza Base – gluten free and healthy. Read More »
I’ve been meaning to play around with making these for absolutely ages. It’s been on of those things on my very long list of things to make. However babies and toddlers seem to take over slightly 😉 Today has been a fairly relaxed day and suddenly in the middle of te toddler finishing her tea
Mango and Apricot Raw Nut bars. Read More »
Christmas has come and gone but I’ve still got cranberries to use up. I’ll be honest, I’m a flapjack-a-holic, so even after making the cranberry muffins I had to play around and make up some flapjacks too. Life with out flapjack is not worth thinking about. However my flapjack has to be a healthier version,
Healthy Cranberry and Orange Flapjack for a Flapjack-a-holic. Read More »
I’m constantly on the look out for quick, easy, healthy snacks. Life with a toddler and baby with 2 businesses to run means I’m constantly on the go running from the kids to a Pilates class to cooking dinner or to a clinic. So with some baking time on my hands the toddler and I
Great Balls of….Goodness Read More »
Now New Years Day is usually a day of special food traditions for us. Many years ago, the man who later became my husband, decided on our first New Years Day together to take me out for lunch. We went to the White Lion in Niton and had the most amazing steak with peppercorn sauce.
Celebration Coconut Kiribath. Read More »
Lots of people are working on reducing their meat consumption at present, it sounds easy but if you are doing it you need to replace that meat protein with some other protein sources. Some examples would be soya, tofu, all forms of bean from kidney to cannellini to black beans, eggs, cheese, quinoa and pulses
Aubergine Dhal, the slow cooker way. Read More »
