Gelatin: a superfood for kids
Gelatin is an incredible super food - it boosts immunity, repairs your digestive tract, promotes healthy skin, reduces inflammation, balances hormones, curbs cravings and strengthens bones and teeth! Making Gut-Loving Jelly Gummies are a cheap, easy and fun way to...
Crunchy Chocolate Granola
Chocolate for breakfast? Why not! This delicious crunchy chocolate granola is super easy and fun to make with the kids, and it's a more nutritious way to start the day than anything you’ll find in a box at the supermarket. When it comes to kids, it’s true what they...
Gluten-Free Buckwheat Wraps
Wraps are a great lighter lunch alternative to bread, but finding a gluten-free wrap in the supermarket can be a little tricky, as most contain unwanted additives and preservatives, or they simply fall apart on you the minute you try to roll them up. These Buckwheat...
Miso & Mushroom Stroganoff
Our neighbours, Eastwell Farms, grow the most beautiful oyster mushrooms, so I’m always looking for different ways to cook with them. I’m finding so much joy cooking this way, starting with the produce. It’s a more sustainable and pleasurable way to cook with what’s...
Herby Quinoa & Feta Patties
Did you know herbs can pack in just as much nutrition as vegetables? Just like green leafy vegetables, fresh herbs are a good source of vitamins A, C and K and contain polyphenols – powerful plant compounds that have both antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties....
Golden Olive Oil Granola
Crispy crunchy golden granola, full of fibre, protein and nourishing fats and sweetened with maple syrup… once you try this, you won’t go back to the store-bought stuff, it’s so much better! Use any combination of nuts and seeds that you like (just keep the ratio to...
Cultured Cashew Cheese
Cultured Cashew Cheese is easy to make and packed full of probiotic-goodness to support healthy gut function - and a healthy gut means a strong immune system, a healthy heart & brain, as well restorative sleep and effective digestion. This vegan fermented spread...
Gluten Free Pizza Scrolls
When I was 11, I was allowed to go home on a Friday lunchtime and make mini pizzas for my friends. I was in year 6, we lived across the road from my primary school and I thought this was positively awesome - the pizza part that is, living so close to school also meant...
Gluten-Free Spinach Wraps
A few of you asked for the recipe when I shared a pic of them in Oti's lunchbox on recently, and I’ve been making a batch every week since, so here it is… my gluten-free spinach wraps / crepes, whatever you want to call them. Otis loves to eat these plain whilst...
Easy Brothy Baked Beans
Good ol’ baked beans! They’re cheap-as-chips, got us through our struggling student days and most kids love them. They’re also a nutritious way for kids to start the day - beans are one of the best source of folate (needed for healthy nervous, digestive and immune...
5 (Hidden) Veg Pumpkin Soup
know the stress and anxiety having an extremely fussy eater can cause... especially when the lack of proper nutrition begins to affect a child’s development. I see this with my clients and I feel this as a step-mum. So whilst we work on ways to overcome these issues -...
Chocolate Cereal
Just like a chocolate milkshake, only... ... only I’ve added in nourishing fats and protein to satiate kids hunger and keep their tummies feeling fuller for longer. ... only the vitamins are naturally occurring and more bioavailable, not synthetic. ... only there...
Iron-Rich Meatballs
Iron is so important for kids energy production, immune function and brain development - it’s critical for this in babies in fact. Yet, iron deficiency is one of the most common nutritional deficiencies in children which can cause everything from fatigue, loss of...
Choc Cherry Chewy Muesli Bars
This is the one you’ve been asking for after spying some test kitchen versions in Oti’s lunchbox the other day... my nourishing version of the store-bought muesli bars that I used to love as a kid! Not naming names here, but you know the ones, with 27 ingredients, 6...
Lemon Collagen Sunshine Bars
A delicious and nourishing nut free snack that’s packed with protein, essentials fats, fibre, vitamins, minerals, and of course, collagen. Collagen is a structure of amino acids that make up a type of protein and the basic building block of our entire body - our body...
Raspberry & Apple Lunchbox Slice
Slice’s are kind of old school. My mum always made us a slice for our school lunches - there was a Date Crumble slice, a Strawberry Jam & Coconut slice and of course (as a child of the 80s) a Mars Bar slice. None of them were particularly nourishing but they were...
Banana & Zucchini Mini Muffins
Looking for some term 4 lunchbox inspiration? Look no further than these little Banana & Zucchini Mini Muffins. With a buckwheat flour base they’re wholesome and gluten free, full of fibre and nourishing fats for energy, and sweetened naturally with banana,...
Probiotic Banana (+ Cauli) Pops
These are a great way to get gut-loving probtioics to to kids, and are a bit of a homage to one of my favourite childhood ice creams - the Banana Paddle Pop (which contains no actual banana). What makes these pops probiotic is coconut kefir - I use a locally made one...
How To Pack A Nourishing Kids Lunchbox
Packing a nourishing lunchbox doesn’t have to be difficult, laborious or expensive. Here are my top 5 things include and my favourite lunchbox hacks. What to include 1. Protein This is what fills hungry tummies (so important!) & provides the building blocks for...
Mint Choc Chip Icy Poles
We were blissfully fooled in to thinking it might be Summer today. It felt so good to have the warm breeze blowing through all the open windows, the hot sun on bare arms and legs as we rode our bikes alongside the lake. I had visions of the kids (and I) eating ice...
Happenings 31.10.18
• written over the month of October. DOING: sitting under the awning of our RV while Otis has a nap – he still loves his daytime sleep and I’m so grateful for this 1.5 hours of peace a day (that I try and cram a million things in to). HEARING: the sound of children...
How To Establish Healthy Eating Habits
The healthy eating habits we teach our children when they are young, are the ones they will carry with them in to adulthood. Starting early with kids is key, as soon as they begin eating solid food – this is the time when they are primed for us to help shape their...
Maple Crunch Granola
Feeling like I’m doing everything and nothing right now. Long days that never seem to have enough time, filling me with exhaustion and no sense of achievement. Just getting by, and that’s ok. Adjust your expectations of yourself in isolation Mumma’s. Be kind to...
Gluten Free Crepes
I don't know about your kitchen, my a convoy of cars across the bench as I attempt to make breakfast is not an uncommon sight, especially when I make his favourite, crepes. Crepes are deliciously thin pancakes that are perfect for filling with either sweet or savoury...
