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I often bang on about how wonderful a low sugar diet can be, and how enjoyable it is. How much more flavour and freshness you get in your diet. How much fun it can be to come up with sugar free foods and recipes. I 100% believe this. Still, there is one time when being…
Salads. One of the hardest things to feed to children. Or so we are told. But I think there is a simple reason for this: we rarely think outside the “green leaves with some dressing” box. Now don’t get me wrong, I love a simple dressed green salad. We have it alongside most meals, and…
Candy can be a tough thing to say no to at this time of year. And I have no problem with occasionally saying yes as a rare treat. But the truth is, if I can give my kids something they will consider a treat as much as (or potentially even more than) shop-bought processed candy…
My children have taken to yelling “CHOCOLATE” at random intervals without prior notice, usually when other people are around. It appears they take after their mother in their mild full blown chocolate addiction. This newfound exuberance about cocoa is one I don’t discourage. I feel it keeps me grounded. Sometimes I think I can get…
Hands up who dreads Halloween? If you are a parent trying to keep your children’s (and your own!) sugar intake to the World Health Organisation recommended daily allowance, then Halloween can be a nightmare, in every sense of the word. It’s the most sugar-laden celebration of the year, and candy is worshipped then in a…
I love this recipe, for 3 simple reasons: it requires zero energy (mostly just opening cans!) and takes about 2 mins to make, it is unbelievably cheap to make and can be adapted to use whatever you have on hand, and it is a delicious dish that gets a healthy helping of oily fish in you…