Wholesome Dinners
Black Bean Chilli
This weeks Recipe of the Week is a simple and tasty Mexican style dish that is perfect in soft taco’s or tortilla’s or accompanied with rice. It’s warm, spicy and soft on the palate. Serving Size: 6 Ingredients: 1/4 cup olive oil 3 large sweet potatoes, diced (about 1kg in total) 1 large red onion, diced 2 garlic cloves…
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Macadamia Chilli Chicken Tortillas
As we start to settle into the autumn months, here is a seasonal recipe using our delicious masa lista flour to make your own authentic Mexican tortillas. The combination of macadamias, chilli and chicken is super tasty, with fresh greens and homemade salsa. This is a definite must try. Ingredients: For the rub: 600g chicken breast (sliced into strips) 1…
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No Bake Banana Protein Bar (Vegan)
Our smooth & creamy ‘no bake’ banana protein bar is a banana chocolate lovers dream. We used the 180 vegan chocolate protein powder for the protein boost and well ripened bananas for sweetness. The result is just delicious. These bars would be great as an afternoon energy snack or to have following a workout. Serving Size: Makes 16 bars Ingredients:…
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Vegan Parmesan Cheese
Thanks to the lovely Meg Phillips, we now can enjoy a delicious tasting vegan parmesan cheese recipe….and with just 3 ingredients it is super simple to make as well. Ingredients: 1/4 cup nutritional (savoury) yeast flakes 1/4 cup raw cashews 1 teaspoon dried garlic powder (or more if you prefer stronger) Method: Add all the ingredients together in your blender…
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Lemon, Cashew and Coconut Cookies (GF DF)
This weeks recipe of the week comes from Natalie Harms, our newest addition to the Affordable Wholefoods blog as writer and recipe contributor. Natalie is a practicing Nutritionist with clinics in Maleny (in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland, QLD) and Inverell. Here she shares her Lemon, Cashew and Coconut Cookies – loaded with protein, fibre, healthy fats and flavour, and a great alternative…
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Gluten Free Cottage Bread Loaf
One of our favourite gluten free flour blends is our ever popular Cottage Bread Mix. After years of customers telling us how delicious the bread is, we decided to try it out for ourselves. The result was amazing, with the pepitas and LSA really bringing it home. Enjoy! Ingredients & Method: 375ml luke warm water 2 teaspoons of bakers…
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Vegan Bolognese
We recently discovered one of our customers to be a keen food blogger. Holly Valentine is an Affordable Wholefoods shopper who loves our TVP mince, one of the popular vegan/vegetarian products we sell. We found this recipe from Holly on Instagram and loved it so much she agreed to share it on the AW blog…so here it is, in Holly’s own…
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Cornflake Cookies
To complete our February focus on school lunch box ideas, here is a delicious, fun and easy cornflake cookie recipe. A great one to get the kids involved in the making. Ingredients: 3 cups cornflakes 100g organic butter 1/2 cup caster sugar 1 teaspoons vanilla essence 1 free range egg 1 cup organic unbleached self raising flour 1 tablespoon organic…
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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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