The Green Smoothie Formula
We all know that fresh really is best, by applying the food as medicine approach to the food that we can all prepare at home, then we can experiment with smoothies to create drinks that nourish and have a specific purpose within our diets, whether…
My Apricot Bliss Bombs
3 simple ingredients was all it took to create these delicious, no bake, morsels. Ingredients: * 350g of dried apricots, * 150g of dessicated/shredded coconut, & * 20g of coconut oil. Method: Place all ingredients into your food processor/thermomix and blend for 1-2mins. Roll out…
Why We Love Chia Seed Puddings
While we’ve posted before the many amazing health benefits of chia we couldn’t help but praise these nutritious little morsels a little more. While these beautiful little seeds aren’t quite the magic seed many report that they are, they come very close. Not only are they regarded…
Why GREEN juice??
Basically – green juices are power-packed with nutrition. The ‘green’ in the green vegetables derive the amazing ability to transform sunshine into the food that all creatures consume, greens produce chlorophyll, which oxygenates your body. This enables us to release stored toxins in the body….
Healthy, healthy Hummus!
Chickpeas (also known as garbanzo beans) are one of the world’s oldest cultivated foods, dating back to the Neolithic period in what is now known as Sicily, according to The Food Encyclopedia. During the Roman Empire, chickpeas were shipped in jars from Sicily to the…
My love for Quinoa
Do you love Quinoa too?? In this busy home, all 5 of us can’t get enough… Quinoa (pronounced keen-wah and not the common pronounciation of queen-o-a) is a perhaps one of my favourite superfoods. More interestingly, my favourite point to share is always that it…
Super Smoothies (and why they’re so super)!
Super Smoothies I know better than most, just how easy it is to make the wrong food choices! It’s how I got to 100kg, it was far easier to grab a packet of chips or chocolate than to get excited about eating my daily servings…
Megyn’s Fruit Fizz
The Teddy Bears Picnic for little A’s 1st birthday was a huge success! All the children held on tight to their Fruit Fizz and there was an ongoing battle at home as to who got the last bottle the day after. It was so simple…
Skinny Fettuccini Alfredo
“Ahh! I thought this was a healthy blog?!” I know, I know….that’s what you’re thinking, but YES this is actually low in fat and calories and YES it does taste really good! I came up with this recipe by looking up all sorts of different…