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Making Your Own Nut Milk
Image: Ripe almonds with shells on Whether you are looking for alternatives to dairy milk due to ethical or health reasons or perhaps you want to avoid the additives often present in packaged milks, there is no substitute for fresh and delicious nut milks that can be made at home. They are not only highly nutritious with no additives…
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Almond Nut Milk
Making your own nut milk can be a lot of fun and is extremely nutritious, not to mention without the added preservatives that some store bought varieties put in for better shelf life. You can make nut milk out of just about any nut but there are a few varieties that are more popular owing to their flavour. It…
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Peanut Butter Granola
This month we worked on a recipe collaboration with Janessa from @glutenfree_sugarfree. Janessa specialises in gluten & sugar free baking and made for us this tasty homemade granola with the star ingredient being peanut butter – one of this years (decades) biggest trending foods. Peanut butter has made a real come back of late, especially in foodie circles being…
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Nigella : The missing spice in your kitchen
Image: The delicate Nigella flower comes is many shades of blue and purple Nigella sativa is a plant native to Southern Asia that produces tiny and richly flavoursome jet black seeds. Nigella seeds are known by many other names including black cumin, black caraway, black coriander and Kalongi or Kalonji. These seeds are a popular spice in many cultures…
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Roasted Garlic, Sage & Pumpkin Pie
We baked this delicious pie on the weekend to share with you all (ok so it was also for us to eat and enjoy). As we are all garlic lovers, we made this one super garlicky and the combination of sage with pumpkin was perfect. Enjoyed by all, we had it for dinner two nights in a row. Here’s…
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Activated Seed & Zucchini Loaf
This weeks recipe comes to us from Sarah Follent of Baked Livingness. A delicious activated seed and zucchini loaf. Enjoy. Activated Seed & Zucchini Loaf Ingredients: 1 cup linseeds freshly grounded ½ cup activated almond meal 1/3 cup arrowroot (tapioca) flour ½ cup activated sunflower seeds + more for toppings ½ cup activated pumpkin seeds + more for toppings…
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The Benefits of Activating Nuts & Seeds
You may have heard that eating nuts and seeds are better for you when they are activated and it turns out to be true. This latest health tool can greatly increase the nutrient quality of your favourite nuts and seeds as well as improve their digestibility. To activate nuts and seeds means to soak them in water overnight. This…
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Luscious Lemon Coconut Cake
One of the ladies in store loves lemon cake and so when it came time recently to celebrate her birthday our dedicated resident chef got in and made this for her. Combining the flavours of fresh lemon rind with sweet coconut, lets just say that the staff room was very quiet that day (cake in mouth). So here it…
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French Puy Lentil & Roast Pumpkin Salad
Affordable Wholefoods Recipe of the Week Coming into spring we are looking forward to sharing with you some of our favourite salad recipes, and seeing as the weather is still a little cool, we thought to kick things off with a warm salad (can be served cold) featuring green lentils, roasted pumpkin, walnuts and pepitas – we do love…
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Top 5 Tips to Save Time on Dinner
Often it is the evenings when we have less energy to cook and would rather be relaxing. This might mean that spending time making a healthy dinner may not always be a top priority. Whether its because you don’t have much spare time to spend in the kitchen or maybe you just simply want to short-cut your way to…
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