Green smoothies are to H what lollies are to a lot of kids – he absolutely loves them. Guaranteed if we walk past a juice bar, he will drag me kicking and screaming until he gets one – he loves to choose the ingredients and it has become his little treat after daycare a couple of times a…
Frozen Banana Pops with Cocoa-Tahini Coating
Frozen banana pops with a healthy cocoa-tahini coating that not only tastes great, but it is good for you. Sugar-free and a great snack option that the kids will love to help make. You simply chop a banana into thirds and stick a paddle pop stick or skewer into the end and freeze for a few hours….
Mango and Puffed Amaranth Parfait
Parfait’s are a favourite breakfast of mine. They really are so easy to make and you can fill them with just about anything you have on hand. This mango and puffed amaranth parfait is a new favourite combination. Summery, light and so delicious. It would also make a great healthy dessert. Puffed amaranth is available…
Apple Chips with Rosewater Toffee
Happy New Year! I have a nice healthy recipe to start the new year. Apple chips with an optional rosewater toffee just to spice things up a little. H prefers his apple chips without toffee so I add toffee to half and leave the other half as is. I use a food dehydrator to dehydrate…
Mango-Rooibos Bubble Tea
Mango-Rooibos Bubble Tea – healthy, easy and perfect for ages 1 – 100…. During my uni days I drank my fair share of bubble tea. It was new to my area at the time and I always ordered it with tapioca and pudding. My version here is very simple. It’s also healthy, sugar-free…
Fruit Skewers with Coconut & Chia
This post has been a long time coming. I usually have 3 or 4 recipes ready to go but I have had a number of flops recently and have become a little over it! First there was my lemony asparagus pasta that I make often but turned to mush on this occasion. Then I attempted a…
Blackberry Frozen Yoghurt – sugar free
Frozen yoghurt is so easy to make – it only has 4 ingredients. I’ve added banana to give it some sweetness and a little maple syrup, but that is totally optional. It freezes quite hard so sit on the bench before serving to allow it to soften a little. Substitute the blackberries for whatever you have on…
Fruit Salad with an Orange Vanilla Glaze
We eat a lot of fruit in our house. The little dude just loves it, so I always like to mix things up a little. This fruit salad has a lovely orange vanilla glaze drizzled over the top, then I added a dollop of my homemade mascarpone and some toasted almonds. It would make a…
Sweet and sour sugar plums
This sweet and sour plum recipe is truly delicious; serve with cream, ice-cream, yoghurt, or it would make a lovely addition to trifle, pavlova, on top of cake or with meringues I thought I should also note that this isn’t something that I would make often for H. It contains both sugar and red wine – not very toddler…
Italian Plum Cake
Maybe not entirely toddler friendly but everyone deserves something sweet once in a while – right! H is very much a savoury man but he is a fan of this cake. It is not overly sweet and the combination of cake and tart plums is heavenly. I have made this cake a couple of times and…
