healthy – Page 3 – Sweet Tucker

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Chewy Fruit and Seed Slice {gluten-free, and very, very addictive}

January 21, 2015

Is it too early to start talking about lunchbox snacks? Probably. But with less than one week to go until the new school year begins, I thought it was time to get some healthy snacks on the radar. What actually prompted this post was a visit to the beach in the incredibly cold, wet weather…

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Healthy Homemade Chocolate Paddle Pops

January 9, 2015

Summer: translated, means: holidays + beach + ice cream, I’m sure you’ll agree. So… what’s your favourite ice cream on a stick? Mine has for a long time been one of the cheapest and simplest you can buy; the chocolate-flavoured Paddle Pop. Compared to the more expensive and indulgent chocolate covered varieties, it just seems…

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Mum’s Brown Rice Salad

January 3, 2015

Summer wouldn’t be summer without heat waves, and road trips. Many a summer during university was spent at beach missions, which were a brilliant way to spend a week or so of January, but the drive there was excruciating. I made many good, lasting friendships along the way, one friend in particular whose car was…

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Salted Caramel Truffles {gluten and dairy-free}

December 10, 2014

Karen and I go way back… um, let’s see now… 26 years. Yup, we met in high school. She was in year 7 and I was in year 8. We had a few things in common back then… for one; we were the children of missionaries… and sent to boarding school. We were also both…

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Easy Microwave Lemon Curd + Lemony Wholemeal Pikelets {toddler approved}

June 19, 2014

We grew up with a large lime tree out the back. My mother made countless Lemon Meringue pies with the juicy, yellow fruit. It was only the other week that I realised that it was indeed a lime tree, and not lemon! We were over at the in-laws picking ripe, yellow limes off the ground…

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Homemade Muesli Bars

April 24, 2014

It won’t surprise you to learn that I spend a fair amount of my down time drooling over foodie blogs and web sites. Sometimes I read them properly; sometimes I just browse for recipes. The smitten kitchen, one of the most popular foodie sites on-line, is always worth a read. Turns out Deb and I…

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Apricot Chews

February 9, 2014

She was the matriarch. Small in stature, but respected. Strong but always gracious. Brought up five children and took her wayward husband back years after being abandoned for a younger woman. Like her own mother before her, she lived well into her 10th decade, only really succumbing to the inevitable frailty of old age in…

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Chai-spiced Breakfast Muffins

January 5, 2014

I have a confession to make: I have not been eating properly. A slice or two of cake for breakfast, a few cups of tea, a hotdog for lunch… all a bit slap-dash and indulgent. As a singleton or even as a career gal, you might get away with it for a while, but as a…

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Smoky Beans with Chorizo

May 13, 2013

Who likes baked beans? Not I! I remember being offered baked beans on a camping trip (I couldn’t have been more than 5 years old) and rejecting them outright. My position hasn’t changed. Give me tinned spaghetti any day, but never baked beans! But this! This is what baked beans were meant to be… After…

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Banana and Choc-chip Muffins

January 27, 2013

Who needs another muffin recipe? Well, frankly, I do! Having been disappointed with one I tried from a recent foodie magazine, I went back to an old cookbook given to me when I was a teenager, and found a perfect match! These provide several mouthfuls of the best a banana cake can offer, but in…

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Maple Toasted Muesli

January 25, 2013

It turns out I don’t have to feel bad about using the air-conditioner when I’m home during the day… we have solar power, that on hot summer days creates energy while I’m using it, hence why our last electricity bill was so low. Bonus! So, today I toasted muesli for an hour while the air-conditioner…

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Aunty Liz’s wholemeal date scones

January 12, 2013

Disclaimer: I had no regular scone cutters when I made these the first time – hence the heart-shaped scones. These babies take me right back to high school. They were made by our house mother every other day, it seems, to satisfy a hungry man’s craving for sweet, solid carbs. The man in question being…