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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Sometimes, you just need pie. You know those times. A big ol’ fruit pie with berries bubbling under a golden buttery crust. *Excuse me while I wipe the drool off the keyboard.* Yep, it’s a pie day. But it’s also a beautiful spring day. So there’s no way I’m spending hours in the kitchen over…
Cranberries. I’m not sure there is any food, except for perhaps turkey, that is quite as associated with Thanksgiving and Christmas. My sugar free cranberry sauce is still one of the best winter recipes I’ve made, and I was determined to try and find a few more delicious ways to use fresh cranberries this year….
Growing up in Belgium, the approach to Christmas – particularly around the celebration of St Nicholas’ Day – contained a lot of biscuits. Speculoos cookies, to be precise. I love them. Oh-so-much. And I’m working on a good recipe for them for December 6th if I can. But I have been hiding another seasonal biscuit…
These sugar free banana crêpes are fluffy, filling and fantastic! They taste as good as they look, but require little effort and no sugar. Perfect for a weeknight dessert that feels fancy but takes minutes to make. Do your family whinge when you answer “fruit” again when they ask what’s for dessert? We try to…
Growing up in Belgium, I grew to love waffles. I mean, no one makes a waffle like the Belgians. Seriously – the stuff labelled “Belgian waffles” on menus elsewhere is not even close to a fresh-made waffle from a stand in Belgium. Soft, warm, fluffy, with little sugar crystals that take you by surprise as…
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…