Breads & Pastries
Gluten Free Banana & Walnut Bread
RECIPE OF THE WEEK – Affordable Wholefoods This weeks recipe is from Casey-Lee of Live Love Nourish. A super easy, super healthy, sugar free banana bread recipe with no added sugars, just the natural sweetness of fresh bananas’. Ingredients: 3 large free range eggs 1 ¼ cup (330g) ripe banana, mashed (approx 2 -3 medium bananas) 1 3/4 cups (180g) almond meal…
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Vitamin C: More Than Just for Colds
Vitamin C is most popularly known as the go-to anti-oxidant for the flu and common cold. However, it has many other lesser known but powerful roles in the body than just boosting the immune system. Our happy brain chemicals, the neurotransmitters dopamine and serotonin depend on Vitamin C for their synthesis. Not only do these two provide us with…
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Spiced Dahl Buddha Bowl with Teff Flat Bread
This weeks recipe of the week comes from food blogger Natalie Zee… a spiced lentil dahl combined with a wholemeal teff flat bread – it’s packed full of nutrients and cold-fighting herbs and spices, plus it’s perfect for school or work lunches and you can mix it up with whatever vegetables you like to put together your own…
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Macadamia, Turmeric & Passionfruit Smoothie
Introducing Food blogger Amy Barrett. Amy is a passionate florist/foodie with a love for nutrition, family and photography. With that winning combination, we approached Amy to share one of her favourite recipes on our blog. Here’s what she served up….. I grew up in the country riding BMX bikes, swimming in Whian Whian falls and helping on my mum and…
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Sugar and Anxiety: Forever Friends
Anxiety is a very common health condition that can be either supported or exacerbated by the food we eat. In recent times, avoiding sugar and choosing a diet rich in wholefoods has become a leading recommendation by health professionals as part of the treatment for anxiety. It is important to understand that whilst our cells need sugar to make…
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Just Green Lentil Soup
There is something very appealing about a good hearty lentil soup in the colder months. It has for a long time now been one of our favourite legumes and especially in winter for making warming soups & casseroles. We named this soup ‘just’ green lentil soup because that’s exactly what it is. A super simple lentil soup recipe, that…
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Gluten Free Millet Falafels
Light & fluffy and super delicious, we so enjoyed making and eating these millet falafels. A different take on a gluten free vegetarian pattie that uses millet grain, vegetables and our yummy Italian mixed herbs. This is a recipe that even the fussiest eater will love…and bonus – super simple to make as well. Serving size: Makes 18 falafels…
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Green Matcha & Pistachio Bites
We were looking around for inspiration to share a fantastic matcha recipe on the blog and found this one by Real Food Healthy Body. Adjusting the recipe slightly by using Organic Maca powder in place of protein powder, this is the bomb of raw food balls. Absolutely delicious with the subtlety of green tea flavouring and delicious pistachios crumbles…
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Matcha Tea: The Japanese Wonder
Matcha Green Tea, or simply Matcha Powder is a one of the latest superfoods on the market, a traditional Japanese tea now becoming popular across the globe. This super fine and nutrient packed green powder is made from specially processed green tea plants. The fresh young bunches of leaves are plucked from the Camellia sinensis tea plant and then…
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Nourishing Green Soup
For all our green lovers, here is a simple and wholesome nourishing soup recipe that can be enjoyed all year round. Made up of our favourite greens, this one is so versatile and the beauty is that you can use it as a starter and blueprint for making your own. Experimenting with your own favourite combination of green vegetables,…
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