Spicy Pumpkin & Coconut Soup

What to do with the Pumpkin Flesh after you’ve made all those lanterns? This is a break in Family tradition as I usually make a sweet Pumpkin pie for Halloween. Now I’ve given up sugar I’m making Pumpkin soup for the first time and it’s just as good! The kids have lapped it up with […]

It’s hard to hide you’ve quit sugar.

It’s hard to hide you’ve quit sugar. Friends & family find out first when you start turning down biscuits with tea, pass on a piece of Birthday cake or they bump into you in the Supermarket straining to read a tiny label on the back of a box of crackers. But there has been an […]

Sugar-free Fudge

This is a Sarah Wilson recipe I’ve pimped using silicone ice cube trays to create pretty shapes. ( If you don’t have silicone trays you can just pour the hot fudge into a loaf tin lined with baking paper and then cut it into squares when it’s set). I experimented with a hard metal chocolate […]

Starbucks ‘lighter’, ‘beach body’ option contains 17 teaspoons of sugar: PART ONE

Today I popped into my local Starbucks for a quick Soya Latte on the go ( …yeah baby, I know how to live! ;-/). Whilst I was waiting for my (what I know now is quite a sugary) coffee I noticed a lot of advertising around the store promoting this Summer’s range of Fruit Yoghurt […]

Banana & Walnut muffins

These muffins are great for kids or pre/post workout energy food on the go. The coconut flour soaks up all the gooeyness from the banana and eggs making this a moist, wal-nutty muffin with natural sweetness. Not forgetting of course that bananas are a ‘good mood food’. They contain Tryptophan which your body converts into […]

Carrot & raisin muffins

Another great recipe for real food on the go. If I know I am going to have a busy few days I make these or Banana & Wanut muffins  so I always have something sugar free to snack on. The cinammon & nutmeg flavour mixed with the sweetness of the carrots and raisins make these taste […]