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Aug29
Kitchen Essentials Part 1 – Vanilla
The Vanilla bean is the source of all natural vanilla products and is harvested from the Vanilla Planifolia plant native to Mexico. The plant ...
Aug29
How to Choose your Rice?
Rice is a type of cereal grain that is produced from either an Asian or African grass species. It is one of the most ...
Jul11
Why Carob is a ‘Super’ food
The carob tree, known also by its beautiful botanical name Ceratonia siliqua, is native to the Mediterranean as well as Western Asia where it ...
Aug29
Choosing the Right Protein Powder for You
Image: Choose what works for you. Keep it simple. Protein is an essential nutrient found in every cell in our body and is vital ...
Aug29
The Benefits of Eating Raw
This week on the blog we had the pleasure of working with Raw Food & Vegan Chef and Owner of Healthy Living Inspirations Kerrie ...
Aug29
Cooking with Coconut
Image: Coconut Palms on the Simeulue Island, Northern Sumatra, Indonesia Coconut products have experienced a boom in popularity over the past few years ...
Nov10
Wholefoods and growing your own Herbs
Image: Fresh thyme is packed with immune boosting nutrients such as vitamin C, A and magnesium Growing your own herbs at home is a ...
Apr10
Making Your Own Nut Milk
Image: Ripe almonds with shells on Whether you are looking for alternatives to dairy milk due to ethical or health reasons or perhaps you ...
Aug29
Nigella : The missing spice in your kitchen
Image: The delicate Nigella flower comes is many shades of blue and purple Nigella sativa is a plant native to Southern Asia that produces ...
Aug29
The Benefits of Activating Nuts & Seeds
Image: A springtime almond blossom in all its glory You may have heard that eating nuts and seeds are better for you when they ...
Dec09
Top 5 Tips to Save Time on Dinner
Often it is the evenings when we have less energy to cook and would rather be relaxing. This might mean that spending time making ...
May09
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 ...
Aug29
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 ...
Aug29
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 ...
Aug29
Gluten Free Swaps with Naturopath Casey-Lee Lyons
Image: Casey-Lee Lyons of Live Love Nourish Living a gluten free lifestyle often means having to find substitutes for many ingredients/food products. At ...
Aug08
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. ...
Jan08
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 ...
Aug29
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 ...
Aug29
Healthy Eating: Being Body Aware
IMAGE: These long lived beings take their time to live and eat. Perhaps we could take a leaf out of their lettuce. In this ...
Jun06
The Essential Minerals of Life, Are you getting enough?
IMAGE: The mineral Sagenite Agate; a variety of agate that takes a crystallised needle form. A diet rich in minerals is essential for a ...
Aug29
Teff: Tiny Seed, Big Nutrition
Teff is a grass seed native to the North East African countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea. Also known as ‘love grass’, it has been traditionally used ...
Aug29
For the Love of Chilli
For over 9 thousand years’ human beings have been enjoying the benefits of the chilli plant. Being officially domesticated in Mexico over 6 thousand ...
Dec05
Tips for Storing your Wholefoods
Whole foods are packed full of minerals, vitamins, fats, proteins and carbohydrates, all of which are susceptible to natural environmental elements such as light, ...
Dec05
Cooking With Gluten Free Flours : Part 1
There are many advantages to using gluten free flours and this is because they are generally made from seeds that are high in nutrients ...
Sep05
Stress, Anxiety and the Wholefood Diet
Around the globe, there is a growing epidemic of mood disorders with anxiety at the core. Anxiety is a broad term used to describe ...
Aug05
Anti-inflammatory Foods for Health
Inflammation is a normal and healthy process that is occurring in our body all of the time. It is the response by our immune ...