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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This week is Sugar Awareness Week! Woop woop! Ok, so probably not something particularly big or exciting on many people’s radars, but still a very important event, especially as we all start to become more “sugar aware” these days. Still, I feel like “sugar awareness” is something that is really difficult and often not important…
These sugar free jam sandwich cookies are light, buttery and sweet. My ode to the Jammie Dodger, you won’t believe these have no added sugar. We love our biscuits in England (please note Americans: I am not talking about the scone-like savoury things here, I mean cookies!), and there are a small selection that appear at every…
St Nicholas’ Day (December 6th) was a big deal for us growing up in Belgium. The “original Santa Claus” would come into our schools with his frighteningly politically incorrect pageboy (the excuse was that he was a chimney sweep) and hand out sweets and the beautifully caramelised spiced biscuit known as speculaas or speculoos. As young schoolchildren, we…
Sometimes it feels like this time of year is just a string of relentless sugar-laden parties and over-exuberant marketing to children. Don’t get me wrong, I love this time of year. And the tips I gathered for my Party Survival Course for Low Sugar Families certainly help make this a far less stressful season. But…
At the weekend I got to go through yet another round with stomach flu…eurgh. Anyone who has young children knows the perils winter brings. Flu, colds, sickness, norovirus. From November through to February can feel like a string of illnesses that spread through the house like wildfire. Sadly, when this hits, the classic remedies tend…
These naturally sweetened apple raisin muffins are sweetened with only fruit and are soft, fluffy and delicious! Made in one bowl or blender, these low sugar muffins are as simple to make as they are yummy to eat. Hands up if you love muffins! 🙌 When I need an easy snack and we have got…