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 had a pecan pie recipe on my “to make” list for a year now. It was one of the first recipes I put in my blogging plan for the winter back in July. I was very very excited to try it. I had my favourite shortcrust pastry recipe and ideas for how to lower…
My ginger cake with toffee sauce was my fall cake stunner. It was the decadent and delicious cake above all cakes for a low sugar Halloween or Bonfire Night or Thanksgiving. And now, I give you my Christmas equivalent. Coconut cake. Marshmallow frosting. Light, airy, candy-floss-textured icing topping a moist, filling and gorgeously luxurious coconut…
Thursday morning is croissant morning in our house. It’s a once-a-week treat, and although I do love to make some proper delicious wholegrain croissants when I can, often we just pick up a bake-from-frozen pack of butter croissants that have just a few simple, recognisable ingredients (flour, yeast, butter, sugar) and less than 5g sugar…
Brownies. Gooey, chocolate-y, delicious, warming, creamy brownies. And…and…they are sugar free. Oh yes, my friends, we’ve hit the jackpot. Back when I was eating sugar left, right and centre, I had a particular fondness for Smitten Kitchen’s cocoa brownie recipe. It wasn’t quite as gooey as I liked, but on the whole, it was pretty…
I do enjoy winter jumpers, hot chocolates, Christmas and coziness, but sometimes on a dreary winter’s day, I long for a little sunshine, don’t you? I have been experiencing the highs and lows of settling both my children into a new school and an old preschool without the beloved sibling, and it has been a…
I’ve been trying to get better at batch cooking and freezer cooking. It saves me so much in time, money and energy that I know it is worth it. But it does take some forward thinking and I’m often slow to plan it. When I do though, it is a lifesaver. I can batch cook…