Slow Cooker Beef & Barley Soup (with Gluten Free and Stove Top Versions)
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Slow Cooker Beef & Barley Soup (with Gluten Free and Stove Top Versions)

Ah, autumn (fall to any Americans reading). Cool breezes, drizzling rain, changing colours, fresh starts. Jumpers, hot chocolates, coziness, nights in. And soups. Lots and lots of hearty soups. Although I appreciate it all year round for the time and money it saves me, and for not having to use the oven too much in…

Homemade Jarred Red Peppers
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Homemade Jarred Red Peppers

After the I Quit Sugar 8-Week Program, I had developed a new level of love for cooking things from scratch, and my tastebuds had changed enough that I actually didn’t find eating really low sugar that difficult. Sugar was in a lot of processed foods, but I found a few low sugar options and made as…

Creamy Veg-Packed Avocado Dressing
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Creamy Veg-Packed Avocado Dressing

Eating salad has never been so easy. Seriously, this avocado dressing is the creamiest, richest, most flavoursome dressing you can make, and it makes everything better. Ok, so maybe I won’t be pouring it over peanut butter brownies, but in pastas, salads, wraps, sandwiches, over breakfast eggs, or as a dip for veggies? It doesn’t get…

Green Lentil & Bacon Salad
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Green Lentil & Bacon Salad

When summertime rolls around, salads are a go-to for me. If you use fresh, flavour-packed good-quality ingredients, they can taste genuinely amazing. The thing is, more traditional salads made with mostly crisp lettuce leaves are not going to go down well with my kids. They don’t mind salad leaves. In fact, they are usually willing…

One-Pot Chickpea, Sweet Potato & Spinach Curry
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One-Pot Chickpea, Sweet Potato & Spinach Curry

We eat quite a bit of homemade curry in our house. Not the complex, multi-layered curries that take hours to make and are truly delicious, but time-consuming. I make those occasionally (oh the smells they create in the house!), but mostly leave that to the experts and enjoy it as a treat takeaway or meal…