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30+ Low Sugar Recipes for a Healthier Christmas

Are you looking to have a slightly less unhealthy and sugar-packed Christmas season? Hoping to keep the kids’ sugar highs and crashes to a minimum? Trying to find out if having a healthier Christmas means compromising on flavour or decadence? I am here to tell you you can eat all of the luxurious-tasting, indulgent, traditional…

Perfect Roast Potatoes

Sometimes I can be a bit down on potatoes. My reasoning is not totally unjustified. After all, they are classed as a carbohydrate rather than a vegetable, and certainly contain only a smidgen of the nutrients found in many root vegetables or its “sweet” relation. But the truth is, potatoes do contain plenty of goodness….

40+ Minutes | Desserts | One-Bowl | Vegetarian | Weekend Bakes

Sugar Free Coconut Christmas Cake

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…

40+ Minutes | Main Courses | One-Pot

Creamy Dijon Chicken & Dumplings

On Monday we had SNOOOOOOOW!!! Ok, so it was pathetic. I lived in Switzerland. That was snow. This was more like white rain. The one downside to living on the South Coast of England is that while everyone else in the country is frolicking knee deep in snow (or so I’m led to believe by…

Sugar Free Portuguese Custard Tarts (Pastéis de Nata)

I’ve baked my way through my fair share of technical challenges from the Great British Bake Off. I did every single technical challenge from the 2014 series, and thoroughly enjoyed it, but giving up sugar a few months later changed my attitude towards attempting the bakes! I made a few sugar free versions of some…

40+ Minutes | Gluten Free | Main Courses | Vegan | Vegetarian

Moroccan Stuffed Squash

Oh yes, the orange veg is back! You knew I couldn’t stay away for long! Squash or sweet potatoes are in our house pretty much the whole way through autumn (fall) and winter so they are a staple in my cold weather recipes. Their sweetness is much beloved in a low sugar household. Butternut squash…