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: Gluten Free
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…
Baby Steps
My mother’s biggest advice to me has always been, “don’t marry a man expecting him to change”. Although I ultimately agree, geez my husband’s eating habits have changed! Yes, we have been living together for a little while, and no, it did not happen overnight. He has gone from eating 3 pieces of toast with…
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,…
Healthy Sweets
My beautiful in-laws don’t bake. They’re very good cooks, but they don’t bake. I’m not sure if it’s a genuine dislike of baking or not. Anyhow, this saw me bringing dessert for each family function. With a few allergies in the family, I realised I needed to be inclusive and provide something other than fruit…
Wholefood Protein Hit
I understand the appeal of protein powder, but I struggle to stomach it – literally (I don’t like drinking it). I know you can now purchase protein powders that are “natural” and don’t have anything artificial in them, but I’m one of those people that will call a spade a spade when I see one….
Lupin Berry Icy-Poles
An enormous thank you is in order to my darling cousin, who has since coined the term “just like hundreds and thousands”. I received a video of him eating ice-cream with passionfruit, and as he generously sprinkled lupin crumbs on his ice-cream, he gave a cheeky smile and said the phrase. And thus, “just like…
Competition!
The more experience I get cooking with lupins, the better my cooking of lupins becomes – no surprise there! (For those of you who don’t cook, it is ALL trial and error! And there will ALWAYS be errors!) Plus, being a stay-at-home mum allows me to spend the time in the kitchen that I will…
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)….
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…