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 love getting veg into sweet recipes. I get a little thrill when a test for one goes really well. My spinach-packed green monster muffins are a great success, and my chocolate & beetroot cake goes down beautifully, but for me, no veg works in puddings quite as well as orange veg. You can tell…
It’s cabbage & leafy greens week over on VegPower’s #EatThemToDefeatThem campaign, so I thought I’d round up some of my favourite kid-friendly recipes featuring greens for you all. We all know that greens are good for us and we should eat more of them, but they can be the hardest food of all to get…
What kind of cake do you like to eat at Christmas? Many favour a light, fluffy sponge covered in a sweet white icing, like the coconut cake I shared with you guys last year. But others, like myself, are traditionalists, and love nothing more than a deeply-flavoured, rich fruitcake layered with marzipan or covered in a…
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…
Our “Sugar Free For £1 a Day” challenge has come to an end, and we have come in at about £30 (about £2 over). We had to go back out to the shops twice in the week: once because we remembered we had invited friends over for lunch and had not budgeted/planned enough for them…
At this time of year, sometimes it seems like nothing but hot chocolate will do. I am fortunate that my kids have yet to have more than a few sips of super sugary hot chocolate outside the house, so they are more than happy with a cup of hot milk mixed with cacao/cocoa powder and…