Healthy Lifestyle, Sensational Salads & Sides
Matchstick Salad
RECIPE OF THE WEEK: Affordable Wholefoods This weeks recipe is a delicious labour of love. Julienned fresh carrot, beet and green apple combined with toasted walnuts, celery seed and fetta. A winner for summer. Enjoy! Ingredients: 80g organic walnuts 1 teaspoon celery seed 2 tablespoons Apple Cider Vinegar Olive oil 500g raw beetroot and carrot (combined) 2 green apples 1/2 cup…
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Lentil & Mushroom Rice & Quinoa Penne Pasta
Affordable Wholefoods Recipe of the Week This weeks recipe of the week is from local food blogger to the Byron Bay shire Meg Phillips. Meg used our popular Organic Rice & Quinoa Penne to make this recipe. It uses only vegan ingredients, is high in protein…and super delicious. Ingredients: 3 cups organic rice & quinoa penne pasta 1 cup dried…
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Sweet Potato and Goats Cheese Penne Pasta
A delicious dinner recipe using our Organic Kamut Penne Rigate Pasta. The combination of lemon, chives, goats cheese and pine nuts is divine. You will love this recipe. Enjoy! Ingredients: 2 cups cooked organic kamut penne pasta 20 grams butter 2 tablespoons of olive oil 1 medium sweet potato peeled into strips with a potato peeler 1 clove of crushed…
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Chocolate and Vanilla Hemp Bliss Balls
So we asked one of our local seasoned recipe creators to have a little play with the Organic Canadian Hemp Protein Powder and Organic Hemp Seeds for us and this is what she came up with. Thank you Meg Phillips, another stella recipe from yourself, and 2 in one. Chocolate Hemp Bliss Balls Makes approx 12 Ingredients: 9 medjool dates,…
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Take Home Health Tips For Winter
Winter is upon us and with it comes a whole other level of care we need to take for ourselves to ensure we don’t end up home in bed with a nasty cold or flu. The extra stress that cold weather places on our bodies can result in all sorts of symptoms and feelings and interestingly, there is actually a…
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Boost Your Immune Health This Winter
As the cooler months roll in, so to do the bacteria and viruses that cause the common winter ailments like colds and the flu. It’s almost impossible to avoid exposure to these bugs, which makes it really important to be keep your immune system in top shape going into winter. There are many things you can do to keep your…
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‘Keeping it Real’ with Natalie Harms
Everyone seems to have an opinion about what the best diet is or what foods you should or shouldn’t be eating! Every day there are articles in the news or on social media espousing the virtues of different “diets”, superfoods, nutrients and ways to improve health. Everyone’s an expert and it can be very confusing! As a nutritionist, I often…
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A Day in the Life of Nutrition Student Tristen Van De Kley
We recently got together with Tristen Van De Kley from Tris Alexander Nutrition to talk about life as a full-time student, food blogger and lover of wholefoods and healthy living. Tristen is one of our regular contributors on the Affordable Wholefoods blog sharing inspiring articles and recipes. Here’s what she had to say…. How do you like to start…
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Healthy Trail Mix for Kids
It can be difficult to find good lunch box snacks for kids that are nut free and in line with our schools allergy policies. Nuts are such a great way to get nutrition into our children, especially whilst they are burning so much energy running around in the playground or learning in the classroom – so we’ve come up with…
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Eggy Broccy Muffins
This month we will be sharing a few inspirations for back to school lunches on our blog. The purpose being to offer our readers a selection of healthy lunch options they can refer to on the blog for their kids. This one has come from one of our regular contributors Casey-Lee Lyons of Live Love Nourish who specialises in gluten and…
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