One of the most common complaints I hear about trying to get families to eat healthily is the belief that it is going to be expensive. The next most common is that it is going to take too much time. So as we start off the New Year and more people are thinking about tackling…
Ok, confession time. I have never actually had a Sausage and Egg McMuffin. Mostly because I’ve never really seen the appeal or felt the need for a Sausage and Egg McMuffin. Other than a brief flirtation with it in my teens, I have never really been a big fan of fast food chains, particularly McDonalds. I…
I had never eaten kale before I met my husband. I grew up abroad, and it wasn’t really something you saw much of where I was. But my husband’s family love the stuff. So I was introduced to it by them before it was really a big deal in recent health food trends. I was…
I can say with certainty that Christmas is the hardest time of year to be sugar free. Mostly because people keep saying: “but come on, it’s Christmas!” over and over, and before you know it, your “one or two treats a week at Christmastime” limit has ended as you realise a mince pie here and…
I wasn’t actually intending to post another hot chocolate recipe. I mean, I only just posted my yummy low sugar indulgent hot chocolate recipe a few weeks back. And it is oh-so-good. But I wanted to make something special to serve with my spiced Christmas biscuits on Saint Nicholas Day, and thought it would be nice…
Oh, you knew I’d post a chocolate chip cookie recipe eventually! But let me tell you, it was not the easiest road to a great recipe! A few weeks ago, a close friend told me she was struggling to get cookies to be the right texture using xylitol. I had had similar problems in the…
