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: Healthy Eating
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…
Lactation Balls
Lactation balls? Huh? Yes! That’s right – who knew? Unless you need them! Now, some people swear by them, some people don’t. But hey, let’s face it, some people can feed their babies, others can’t. It’s a mystery, who knows? I fell into the latter group – dried up after four weeks. After starving my first…
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,…
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….
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…
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…
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…