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So my kids have chickenpox. Yep, that’s my life right now. Oh, but it gets better… Because my own autoimmune disease means that although I’ve had both chickenpox and shingles in my life, my body still feels the need to fight the virus now with more extreme than usual measures. Namely, waking me up at…
Before having kids, I used to love to bake to impress. To bring out a pudding that had serious wow factor and that made people ooh and aah as they ate it. Between having children and cutting back on our sugar intake, I’ve had moments where I wonder if those wow-ing dessert days are behind…
Ok, first avocado brownies and now spinach & chocolate cupcakes?! What am I thinking, right? Except that it totally works. These cupcakes are light, fluffy, sweet and you just wouldn’t know there is spinach in there. But spinach there is… 4 CUPS of the stuff! 5 if you add some to the icing. 🙂 These…
What kind of cake do you like to eat at Christmas? Many favour a light, fluffy sponge covered in a sweet white icing, like the coconut cake I shared with you guys last year. But others, like myself, are traditionalists, and love nothing more than a deeply-flavoured, rich fruitcake layered with marzipan or covered in a…
Given the things I’ve been through in my 20s, and my lifestyle as a married woman with two young children, I’m not particularly apprehensive about turning the big 3-0 next year. I feel like I’m over 30 already in the way I live and feel, and many of my closest friends are in their 30s,…
I was never really a coconut person. I didn’t love the flavour, and while I can enjoy a coconut-based curry or desiccated coconut sprinkled on baked goods or cereals, I’ve never been someone who seeks it out as a predominant taste. But when I gave up sugar through the I Quit Sugar 8-Week Program, I…