I love a bowl of good food – sometimes called an abundance bowl or bountiful bowl, or what I like to call a balance bowl. Filled with natural goodness, for a nicely balanced lifestyle!! I try to make everything as seasonal as possible, but there are a few staples I will always have in the…
Category: Diabetic Friendly
Mixed Seeds & Lupin Crackers
Everywhere we turn, there’s an allergy. As a kid, I feel like it was rare for people to have allergies. But now they’re popping up everywhere – my 88 year old grandmother has just been diagnosed with an allergy to peanuts (which she’s been eating forever). Consequently, I’ve starting making some staples to try to…
How I Lost Weight
So, here I am, telling you my secret. Not from a scientific study, not from research, not from observation. This is simply my life. AND ITS SCRUMPTIOUS! When I was diagnosed with gestation diabetes, I was smashing the food. I’d put on so much weight during the first half of my pregnancy – I mean,…
Seafood, Seafood, Seeeaaaa-food!
I’ve always maintained my daughter has a SEE-food diet, to the extent that she begs for food from strangers – literally! But I’d much rather talk about the amazing SEA-food my parents brought home from their holiday!!! Yummmm! Green prawns, flathead, whiting, baby octopus, cuttlefish, just to name a few! All of which, I am…
Friday Night Tradition
When friends of ours got us a pasta maker for our wedding, little did they know what they were starting. I immediately fell in love with it and it became a weekly habit in our household – homemade pasta on Friday nights. Now, supposedly, pasta is not good for you. But the Mediterranean diet (vegetables,…
Good-For-You Bread
Humans have been eating bread for thousands of years, but all of a sudden, the professionals are telling us it is bad for you. Why? So many people are being diagnosed with celiac or a gluten intolerance. Why? There are so many theories out there to answer these questions. But the historian and researcher in…
Quick Lunch
I wish I could say I was a fabulous wife and cooked my husband this beautiful hot breakfast for Father’s Day. I didn’t. Instead, a few days earlier, my mum came over (as she often does), and she looked after the kids (as she ALWAYS does) while I cooked us lunch (as I sometimes do)….
Crunchy Lupin Granola
I CANNOT express how grateful I am for this little goodies box! Two sick kids, 40 minutes sleep since midnight and I am (literally right now) living on caffeine and my crunchy lupin granola! My eyes are hanging out of my head but (I think) I’m still functioning. I’m always on the look out for…
Mushrooms Revisited
With both my pregnancies I was iron deficient. My doctor told me “mushrooms, eggs and green leafy vegetables”. My doctor was brilliant, so what she said was gospel, and that was how I started to eat. My husband was still playing football during my pregnancies(and still is), which left me to my own devices two…
The Extra Steak
Have you purchased a packet of steak, and there’s one steak too many? What do you do with that one extra steak? Saturday night, my husband ditched footy awards so I prepared a lovely, romantic dinner with the expectation our eldest would crash after footy and the little one never plays up. Epic failure! This…