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30 Low Sugar Recipes for Thanksgiving

Sometimes it feels like this time of year is just a string of relentless sugar-laden parties and over-exuberant marketing to children. Don’t get me wrong, I love this time of year. And the tips I gathered for my Party Survival Course for Low Sugar Families certainly help make this a far less stressful season. But…

5 Minutes | Light Meals | One-Pot | Vegetarian

Warm Beetroot, Barley & Goat’s Cheese Salad

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…

Avocado Croque Monsieur

A true French croque monsieur is a thing of beauty. It takes an ordinary grilled cheese sandwich and turns it into a hearty, delicious, creamy meal. My family is French, and I cannot fault a yummy croque monsieur (or better yet, madame) except for one thing: it’s not exactly healthy. Sure, it makes a gorgeous…

20 Low Sugar Recipes to Make this Halloween

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…

Carrot, Miso & Double Ginger Soup

Orange soups are the best. Hands down. I enjoy a good green soup (especially if it involves broccoli and stilton or pea and ham). I think a fresh red sugar free tomato soup is delightful. But orange soups. YUM. My squash and apple soup is still a firm favourite in our house, and I’m looking…

Sugar Free BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches

Yum. Oh sorry, I mean YUM. YUM.YUM.YUM. Ok, you get the idea. There is something so totally-not-healthy-in-any-way and majorly guilt-inducing in a completely delicious kind of way about BBQ pulled pork sandwiches. I almost didn’t touch them, because it doesn’t feel like the kind of thing that should be allowed to be made more healthy. Like…