Healthy Lifestyle, Our Wholefoods Kitchen
6 Ways to Eat Healthy on a Budget
If you’re anything like us here at the Affordable Wholefoods family, you are probably drawn to eating healthy foods and want only the best health for yourself and your family. This can be challenging at the best of times and when you’re on a budget it also means you need to be super onto it in the planning, cooking…
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Breads & Pastries
Traditional Mexican Corn Tortillas (Gluten Free)
Here is our foolproof recipe for making delicious homemade tortillas. Using our specialty masa lista flour, these will have you thinking you are in dining in the heart of Mexico. Masa lista flour is made from 100% corn flour and treated with lime to make it more alkaline and easier to digest. It is high in fibre and protein…
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Healthy Lifestyle, Our Wholefoods Kitchen
Kitchen Essentials Part 2 – Apple Cider Vinegar
A lovely old apple press. Photograph by Bill Owen 2012. Apple Cider Vinegar is made from fermenting apple juice using bacteria and yeast, producing a fresh and sour tasting amber coloured liquid. Often you will notice floaty particles in the vinegar and this indicates the presence of the culture used to produce the vinegar and is only present in…
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Sensational Salads & Sides
Quinoa & White Bean Salad
We made this quinoa salad recently after exploring Rena Patten’s book ‘Cooking with Quinoa’. The recipe is delicious, the only difference, we added some lightly roasted pepitas and sunflower seeds (of course). A gorgeous looking salad with the colourful vibrancy of beetroot, red capsicum, carrot and fresh parsley, and the richness of quinoa and white beans. This one is…
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Kitchen Essentials Part 1 – Vanilla
The Vanilla bean is the source of all natural vanilla products and is harvested from the Vanilla Planifolia plant native to Mexico. The plant is now grown in other areas around the globe with the majority of vanilla beans today coming from Madagascar or Indonesia. The vanilla plant is actually a vine growing orchid. It is in fact the…
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Breads & Pastries, Healthy Lifestyle
Spelt Soft Dough Pretzels
This weeks recipe has been contributed by Vitamin Specialist Robyn-Anne Rose. When she is not working in the pharmacy Robyn loves to be in her kitchen preparing healthy, delicious, plant-based meals for her family. Robyn also has her own blog ‘Vitamins & Sprouts’ and has recently written her first book set for publish in early 2017 titled ‘Vitamin ME:…
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Gluten Free Living
How to Choose your Rice?
Rice is a type of cereal grain that is produced from either an Asian or African grass species. It is one of the most versatile foods and has been a staple for many cultures around the world for centuries. In the west, rice is not commonly a part of the average daily diet, and is often avoided by those…
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Sensational Salads & Sides
Healthy Yoghurt Slaw
Teaming up again with the ‘Nude Nutritionist’ Lyndi Cohen to share another healthy salad option for the holiday season. This time a healthy coleslaw recipe using fresh herbs, pomegranate and crushed walnuts with a yoghurt dressing to replace the more commonly used mayonnaise. Preparation time: 20 minutes Serving: Serves 4-6 Ingredients: Salad: 1/2 red cabbage, thinly sliced 1/4 red…
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Raw & Delicious, Vegan Sweet
Raw Lemon & Coconut Slice (GF/DF)
AFFORDABLE WHOLEFOODS – RECIPE OF THE WEEK A delicious lemony raw slice inspired by Loving Earth. This one was made in house by Kym who said it reminded her of her grandmothers lemon slice as a child….only without the refined sugar. The raw lemon and coconut slice is sweetened with dates and maple syrup. Preparation time: 10 minutes …
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Healthy Lifestyle, Our Wholefoods Kitchen
Why Carob is a ‘Super’ food
The carob tree, known also by its beautiful botanical name Ceratonia siliqua, is native to the Mediterranean as well as Western Asia where it has been cultivated for over 4 thousand years. This large evergreen tree produces sweet carob pods that are actually classified as legumes. The pods or seeds can be eaten as they are but are most…
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