Recipes

home-made healthy crackers

3 Guilt-free Healthy Cracker Recipes

With the amount of trans-fats, sugar and who knows what included in processed food, I like to make home-made crackers full of seeds and healthy fats for glowing skin.

Here are three simple and quick recipes to make crackers power packed with good nutrition for fuelling busy bodies and minds.

Healthy Wholemeal Breadsticks

Wholemeal Grissini-How to Make Healthy Breadsticks at Home

When my daughter is going through a ‘won’t eat phase’ I like to make dips for dinner. Somehow dips bypass her idealogical refusal to eat anything I cook. Today I served them with healthy Italian breadsticks to much success. We always make home made hummous and tzatziki together and add a third dip made from

zero waste hair removal

Zero Waste Hair Removal

I’ve heard a few conversations about how we’re managing our “grooming” over the past few weeks as stay-at-home-working-homeschooling mothers, with beauty salons shut down due to COVID-19 restrictions. In my 20’s I used to go to a salon for occasional waxing.  As time became more precious and prices crept up I started DIY waxing at home.

Black Bean Chocolate Brownies with coffee and sunflowers

Black Bean Chocolate Brownies Recipe

Black Bean Chocolate Brownies sound weird, but I promise you, they’re delicious and LOVED by my daughter.  They’re full of healthy fats, vegetable protein and fibre, but also eggless and flourless. I’ve long soaked and cooked my own legumes to reduce gas-causing galacto-oligosaccharides.The method is time consuming though, so I do a big batch all

Blueberry and Banana Buckwheat Pancakes Recipe

Blueberry and Banana Buckwheat Pancakes Recipe

I love this recipe because it is so easy to make, the pancakes are packed full of nutrition and everyone loves them, they freeze well and can be popped in the toaster for breakfast-in-a-hurry.

DIY Beeswax Wraps

How to Make Re-useable Beeswax Wraps to Decrease Waste

I like to minimise waste where I can – and plastic wrap has got to be the definition of single use plastic waste.  In honour of plastic-free July I decided to have a go at making my own eco-friendly re-useable beeswax wraps.   A quick google search found a number of tutorials and two different

get glowing skin with blueberry cookies

Glowing Skin Blueberry and Almond Cookies

Do you want glowing skin?  Blueberry and almonds are the perfect ingredients.  Bursting with phytonutrients, antioxidants and all the skin-loving, collagen-boosting goodness you can imagine!   So naturally, it makes sense to eat and enjoy these healthy delicacies in the form of delicious healthy cookies. Plus, kids love them! These also make perfect little affordable

Healing Winter Tea: An Heirloom Recipe

I felt the first cool chill of the year this week, and realised that I am well behind in my goals for 2016!  I had planned to launch two new products by this time, and although I won’t be ready to do that for a while, I have a special gift to share with you

Woman holding vehicle door open looking into the sun

Natural Homemade Deodorant Recipe

For years I tried many brands of natural and eco under arm deodorants.  I struggled to find one that I like, that works, and that isn’t expensive.  This lead me to making my own natural homemade deodorant recipe. Why DIY Deodorant is the Way to Go Free From Harsh Chemicals: Store-bought deodorants are packed with