Healthy Snacks & Smoothies, Vegan Sweet
Choc-Banana Smoothie Bowl
A few weeks ago we teamed up with Grace from Grace Cecilia Nutrition. Grace is a nutrition student & food blogger from Brisbane who is passionate about healthy eating and living an active lifestyle. Grace shared with us one of her favourite smoothie recipes using organic raw cacao, maca powder and our very own gourmet paleo muesli. Enjoy! From Grace;…
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Smoothie Nutrition
Over the past 2 decades smoothies have become very popular in the western diet and with good reason. They accommodate for nearly every situation whether you’re in a hurry and want something quick but healthy, or perhaps you have fussy eaters who need to eat better. Maybe you want a mouth-watering way to boost your daily fruit and veggie intake…
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Banana Nice-Cream
Nude Nutritionist Lyndi Cohen shares with us one of her favourite wholefoods recipes and just in time for the warmer weather (well, crossing our fingers). This is a great alternative homemade ice cream that is dairy free so great for those with allergies or intolerance and an added bonus, it uses only the natural sweetness of banana so no added…
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Affordable Wholefoods meets Nude Nutritionist Lyndi Cohen
When we first stumbled upon Lyndi Cohen; Nude Nutritionist and Chanel 9 TV Dietition, we fell in love with her playful and relaxed approach to dieting. Lyndi doesn’t hide the fact that she has struggled with her weight in the past and shares openly in her blogs and with her clients how she discovered a way of eating that naturally…
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Protein: Building a Strong and Healthful Body
Image: The word protein is derived from the Greek word ‘protieos’ meaning first. Hercules (pictured above) was a Greek divine hero famous for his strength and his numerous far-ranging adventures. Our bodies are made up of around a hundred thousand different types of protein. After water, it is the most abundant molecule in the body. This precious nutrient is…
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Sweet Potato Wedges with Homemade Dukkah
Teaming up again with the lovely Amy Barrett from @chocdaisy and this time we asked Amy for a savoury favourite. We loved that she came back with something so simple and perfect for the season also. Plus, a great change to the usual white potato chip, sweet potato is rich in Vitamin A and a good source of fibre and…
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Teff Pancakes with Coconut Yoghurt & Raspberries
One of our store managers suffers from coeliacs disease and is always looking for inspiration in trying new recipes that fit into her gluten free lifestyle. When we recently started to stock Teff flour and grain she was very excited to try these two products out and made these very delicious Teff pancakes adding coyo (coconut yoghurt), raspberries and honey….
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Dulse: The Treasure of the Sea
Dulse is a type of edible red algae that grows wild, attached to rocks on the northern coasts of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Dulse contains a huge range of valuable vitamins and minerals and has traditionally been used fresh or dried as food and medicine in Scotland and Ireland for many hundreds of years. Perhaps one of the most important…
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Water: Life’s Precious Ingredient
We all know we must drink water to survive, but what does it actually do for us and what happens when we don’t drink enough? Water plays many roles in the body from energy production to maintaining cellular health and when we are dehydrated our body can suffer in a multitude of ways. Dehydration is a state of water deficiency…
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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 2…
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