A Busy Mum’s Guide to Cutting Out Sugar

Are you a busy parent looking to cut down your family’s sugar intake? Why not hop on over to Netmums to read my Q&A with them on how to do just that.
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I’ve been making a lot of muffins lately. They are just such a simple thing to make, can be made low in sugar and sweeteners much more easily than cupcakes, are a perfect grab-and-go breakfast, filling snack, great lunchbox filler or even a weeknight dessert. I love that muffins are usually a one-bowl made-in-minutes kind of…
Easter. Whether you celebrate the Resurrection of Jesus or simply have an Easter egg hunt and eat a lot of food, there will pretty inevitably be some sugar involved. Probably in the form of rather a lot of chocolate and cake. Having seen Easter cake recipes that contain as much as 70g of free sugars per…
Oh, those moments. You know the ones. Where every kid around you has an ice cream in their hand. And you see it coming. You know your watching child is about to turn around and say: “Can I have an ice cream? Everybody has one!” And honestly? If this is the first summer’s day this has…
I am a huge marzipan fan. I love it. Anything with almond extract in it is popular with me, and this is the epitome of Christmas treats in my opinion. But marzipan is loaded with sugar. Truly. It pretty much is just sugar. Not my version. My version is sugar free, beautifully soft and sweet, and…
Looking for healthy Halloween ideas? I’ve got you covered here, here and here. But I’ve also got a brand new recipe for you. These delicious one-bowl, super simple, sugar and sweetener free green banana muffins. You can go elaborate and decorate them with edible eyes (I make mine with yogurt – which I pipe and freeze…