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Gluten Free Scones

 

Feel like some gluten free scones as you sit down to read that weekly wellness column of mine in Indulge Magazine? ;)

Ingredients

  • 3 cups  almond meal
  • 2 teaspoons baking powder 
  • ¼ cup coconut oil 
  • 1 tablespoon honey
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract I used heilala vanilla
  • 3 eggs

Cooking Instructions

  1. Preheat your oven to 150 C/305 F.
  2. In a large bowl combine almond meal, baking powder, oil, honey, vanilla and eggs.
  3. Mix well into a soft dough.
  4. Roll out the dough into balls, I used a large serving spoon to measure and then rolled them up. I then flatten mine, but would have been better not to in hindsight.
  5. Place in oven and cook until golden around 20 minutes.
  6. Serve up with some butter and your favourite magazine!

 

 

 

Apple Porridge

Warm and fulfilling just like normal porridge, only sightly different. Well more than slightly, its pretty good!

 

Ingredients

  • 1 cup almond milk
  • 1 grated apple
  • 3 tablespoons of LSA
  • 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
  • Banana

 

Cooking Instructions
  1. In a pan place milk, apple and LSA.
  2. Warm through and stir.
  3. Serve up with some sliced banana, if you want sweeter, drizzle with honey.

 

Breakfast Crunch

This Breakfast Crunch is a great mix to have on hand for breakfast or an afternoon snack. I love these jars, they are the coconut oil jars, I have a selection of them now in my pantry. They are currently mostly empty, so need to come up with great things to prepare and pop into them. This is one of those things. Remember it is all about being prepared. Read More→

Bircher Quinoa Muesli


This breakfast is for those who love porridge but are having problems with digestion  of oats, or for those who just want to try something new. Packed full of protein and because quinoa is a seed, this breakfast is great for those wanting to avoid gluten and grains. Soaking over night makes the quinoa easily digestable and less likely to cause any digestive problems. Also makes absorption of minerals and vitamins easier. I then cooked it to make it more digestible. Bircher muesli doesn’t need to be cooked, so you can decide if you want to go this extra step or not.

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Quinoa Seed Bread

 

 

 

 

Almost like Vogels bread, this quinoa seed bread is delicious. You are never going to get it quite like vogels as they have all sorts of other ingredients in there that we don’t want.

So I have made this with Vogels as inspiration and made it packed full of protein to make it super hearty. I also made this without yeast or baking powder soda as I wanted to be able to eat it with my sensitive tummy and was surprised at how well it turned out.

I’m not even sure if the yeast or baking powder would have made much difference. Read More→

Breakfast Patties

Getting sick of eggs? Why not try this breakfast and give the eggs a break for a while. Just when you  realised how good you felt after eating eggs for breakfast, you will be surprised at how good you feel after having this for breakfast. This is a breakfast for champions! Red meat is a fantastic way to start your day if you are brave enough. Add to that the nutrients from liver and garlic and you are going to be unstoppable! Read More→

Green Juice Recipe

 

 

My new habit of this year is replacing my coffee each morning with this green juice recipe. My liver needs some love, so this a new addition for the coming year. Green juices are fantastic for us, and they are even more fantastic for those who have digestive issues or mal absorption problems. Juicing allows you to get the nutrients into your body fast, it also allows you to get plenty of vegetables into your diet.  If you are anything like me, the thought of eating large amounts of raw vegetables chopped up into a salad for breakfast lunch and dinner seems like a huge task, luckily juicing allows me to get in the amount of vegetables that I want to consume in one go.  I then also use the pulp in salads. So it makes life incredibly simple and means I am getting in heaps of vege, which I know my body needs

The reason I am adding in this juice each day, is because juicing green vegetables bring chlorophyll which helps oxygenate the body and allows us to release stored toxins. Its fantastic to cleanse and renew your health at a cellular level. I am all about us getting our vitamins and minerals from food, over the last few years I have had digestive issues and this meant I also havn’t been absorping the nutrients from my food that I should of.

Juicing has been popular for a long time, you don’t have to look far to see a raw juice detox cleanse diet. Here is my thoughts on this, its about moderation, juicing is fantastic! However to go on just a juice diet is not giving you the valuable fuel you need from fats and proteins. So reap the benefits of juicing, but combine it with a diet that heals and fuels you at the same time. Also make sure you are jucing with vegetables, fruit is far to high in sugar, and will just leave you craving more sugar and affecting your insulin levels. So if you are wanting to add in a juice to your diet give green juicing a go.

Watch this space as I share some different varities of juicing.

Here is my recipe I am currently having each morning.

Green Juice Recipe

Ingredients

  • 1 apple
  • 2 stalks of celery
  • Leaves from kale/spinach or silverbeet
  • 1/3 cucumber
  • 1 tablespoon spirulina
Do you like green juices, comment below and let me know your favorite recipe. :)

 

 

How to make Sauerkraut and Fermented Carrots


Fermented vegetables are not only good for you because they contain beneficial bacteria for good digestion, they are also a fantastic way to make your vegetables go further and last longer.

Right now cabbage is really cheap and the vege garden is overflowing with them, so this means it’s time to do something about it. I had never made sauerkraut before, but got into it last year, and try to have some each day. I find supermarket bought sauerkraut pretty yuk, so tried my hand at making my own.

I was incredibly surprised at how simple it is!

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