Granola is a great breakfast – usually packed with lots of nuts, seeds and oats… which provide slow releasing energy and goodness. But many of the ones you buy in the shops are full of sugar (including too much honey). This home-made version is easy to do, and also much cheaper than the artisan granolas […]
Breakfast
Sweet potato toast recipe… the perfect comfort food!
Can you really make sweet potato toast in the toaster I hear you say? Yes you can! Fancy a snack that has that excellent combination of warm, cold, crispy, soft, creamy and crunchy? Step forward the sweet potato toast topped with your favourite flavours. Why Sweet Potato is so good for you How I love […]
No Bake Apple Crumble
No bake apple crumble: This is the perfect topping to go onto any type of stewed fruit – and best of all it doesn’t even need to go into the oven. You can eat it raw – even better just 5 mins in a pan to gently toast it. (It’s easy to stew apples or […]
Three Easy Ways to Cook with Eggs
Ahhhh, eggs! Small but mighty parcels of protein, not to mention selenium, vitamin D, vitamins B2, B6 and B12 plus essential minerals such as zinc, iron and copper. Some brands of egg even contain omega-3 fatty acids, depending on what diet the chickens have been fed. Eggs are considered a ‘complete’ source of protein as […]
Recipe: Constipation Pudding
Have you or your family ever been constipated? You feel really uncomfortable, full and bloated and try as you might, you just can’t do a poo! Being able to pass stools regularly – and by that I mean at least once a day – is pretty essential for good health. Our gut and bowel plays […]
The Ultimate Guide to Good and Bad Breakfasts
With all the talk in the press over the last few weeks about how bad so many cereals are for our children’s health, I thought it would be great time to really focus on what we’re feeding our kids first thing in the morning and what effect this all-important first meal of the day has […]