Healthy Lifestyle
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 good…
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Wholesome Dinners
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 Buddha Bowl…
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Healthy Snacks & Smoothies
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 dad’s…
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Healthy Lifestyle
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 energy,…
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Healthy Snacks & Smoothies
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 to…
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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 steamed,…
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Soups, Casseroles & Curries
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, herbs…
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Healthy Lifestyle, Our Wholefoods Kitchen
Getting the Most out of Your Grains & Legumes
Grains and legumes are excellent sources of protein, however they do need some preparation in order for you to get the most out of them nutritionally. This is because they contain anti-nutrients; substances that inhibit the absorption of nutrients along the digestive tract. Phytic acid, also known as phytate is one type of anti-nutrient that is a powerful inhibitor of…
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Healthy Snacks & Smoothies
Apple Winter Spiced Smoothie Bowl
This weeks Recipe comes to us from Emma Hindmarsh, one of our Coffs Harbour store regulars who also happens to enjoy making and photographing foods. Here she has made a delicious Apple Winter Spiced Smoothie Bowl featuring oats, mixed spice and red apples. Enjoy. Ingredients: 1/4 cup uncontaminated oats 1 red apple cooked in mixed spice 1 cup of your favourite…
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Our Wholefoods Kitchen
Cooking with Gluten Free Flours: Part 2
Following on from my article Cooking with Gluten Free Flours: Part 1, here are another three popular flours that are excellent for your health, have tasty unique flavours and are very flexible to cook with. Soybean, buckwheat and chickpea flours are enjoyed around the world in a variety of different ways including bread & pastry making, pasta, baking, desserts and…
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