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Wakame gomasio: what it is and how to make it
I came across a recipe I wanted to try this weekend and one of the ingredients was wakame gomasio. I had no idea what this was. Even more mysteriously, the recipe had an alternative – sesame seeds....
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My weekend baking extravaganza
I set myself a challenge this weekend. I decided to try three new recipes of things that I’ve never made before. I love food and I love cooking (which if you read this blog you’ll probably have...
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My take on supplementing your diet
For a long time I’ve thought that vitamins and supplements were a complete waste of money. When I was a student, I remember going for several days without consuming a single fruit or vegetable (I...
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Roasting, Soaking, Sprouting, Activating, or Eating Raw – a guide to eating nuts
Nuts are super nutritious, and packed full of vitamins and minerals. Not only that, they are darn delicious. They’re surprisingly versatile ingredients too – they work equally well in sweet and savoury...
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How to make your own baking powder
I started making my own baking powder when I heard that some baking powders contain aluminium. I didn’t want to be eating that. Also, baking powder contains gluten in the form of wheaten cornflour....
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One reason why I don’t shop at supermarkets
I no longer do a weekly shop at the supermarket. I haven’t taken part in this ritual since July 2012, when I signed up to Plastic Free July and pledged to stop buying disposable plastic forever. It...
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Possibly the best raw chocolate brownie ever
This is my new favourite thing to make. Aside from the fact that it tastes amazing, it is also super simple to assemble. Now I love a cooked brownie, when the edges are crispy and the middle is molten,...
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Forgive me, for I have sinned (plus a recipe for coconut yoghurt)
I did something this month that I haven’t done for over a year. I deliberately bought something in a plastic container. Oh, the scandal! The product in question is a dairy-free yoghurt alternative...
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Tahini, pursuing a waste-free home…and when things don’t go to plan
I am currently addicted to tahini. What started as distrust for its strong and distinctive flavour has gradually grown into full-on love, and now I can’t get enough of the stuff. I use it in hummous,...
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Ethical chocolate
When we gave up plastic, it was a massive relief that we could still buy chocolate. Plastic-free bars of chocolate wrapped in foil and paper were our salvation. I’ve tried making my own, messing around...
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The sustainable, ethical, natural way to eat – the ‘clean’ approach
Have you ever heard of clean eating? No? I hadn’t until I started preparing for the Living Smart session I presented on Healthy Homes, Healthy You back in November. Food is one of my passions, and I...
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How to Eat Clean
My last post was about clean eating, what it is and why it is so important. I thought I’d follow up with this post on how to eat clean… in the real world. A lot of clean eating guidelines just aren’t...
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The irony of the “treat”
Why is it, that when we think of treats, we often think of the over-processed, over-packaged, sugary, additive-filled, preservative-pumped, nutritionally-devoid excuses for food that we can buy at the...
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Oven-roasted chickpeas – a plastic free alternative to potato chips?
When we gave up buying food that came packaged in plastic, one of the hardest things for my boyfriend to give up was potato chips. He’d wander down the crisps aisle forlornly, rustling each packet and...
View ArticleDo you know what’s in your food? (And can you trust your supermarket?)
If we all knew what went in our food and connected with where it came from, if we all shopped locally and supported independent shops rather than the big supermarkets and if we all cooked a little more...
View ArticleMake your own: plastic-free, sugar-free muesli
I used to be a huge lover of breakfast cereals. I’d hoard them. I actually had a cupboard dedicated to breakfast cereal. I liked to have a minimum of 5 different choices in my cupboard, and I remember...
View ArticleHow I Quit the Supermarket
For a long time I was uneasy with shopping at the supermarket. I wanted to shop sustainably from independent producers, support local businesses, and buy ethically, yet quitting the supermarket seemed...
View ArticleA Recipe: Banana Chocolate Surprise Muffins
These muffins may look plain on the outside, but there’s a decadent rich chocolatey centre hiding inconspicuously inside each one. Because chocolate makes everything better, don’t you think?! They’re...
View ArticleRecipe: Carrot Pulp Cracker Flatbreads
This super-simple recipe tackles two dilemmas I face when trying to live plastic-free and with zero waste – how to make your own plastic-free crackers, and what to do with leftover carrot pulp (from...
View Article5 Superfoods You Already Have in the Cupboard
Superfoods is a word that’s banded about a lot these days, and marketers have got on the bandwagon, telling us we need to be buying superfoods (complete with super-hefty price tag) for optimum health...
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