Salted Pecan Nut Butter Recipe
We always have a jar of homemade (or bought) nut butter in the cupboard and this salted pecan nut butter is without doubt our current favourite. It’s also one of the …
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Homemade Yogurt
Homemade yogurt is surprisingly easy to make and whilst I’m never realistically going to abandon buying yogurt entirely (I’m far too lazy to do it all the time), I love …
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Savoury Seed Recipe
Finding healthy foods for kids and adults to snack on, particularly ones that are portable, can be a huge challenge. Seeds are a great solution (they’re a source of protein …
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Cranberry Sauce
Cranberries are amazing little berries, packed with beneficial polyphenols. Traditionally cranberries have been used to reduce the risk of bladder infections, which makes them a perfect addition to the Christmas season; high …
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Easy Homemade Spiced Nuts
These spiced nuts are a super easy, healthy snack for kids and adults.
By roasting the nuts yourself, you’ll be avoiding the high roasting temperatures that commercial nuts undergo and which …
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Healthy Halloween Food
Halloween: a night for pumpkins, garish costumes, excited kids and sugar. ‘Healthy Halloween food” seems a total contradiction in terms. When they were younger, the children were placated by a simple Halloween …
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Almond Butter
Home-made almond butter tastes amazing and tastes vastly different to a jar bought in a shop. It’s also a great staple to have on hand – we use it on …
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Roasted Garlic and Sesame Dip
This roasted garlic and sesame dip is such a simple and tasty way to benefit from the health properties of fibre-rich beans. It contains a large amount of garlic (but …
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Black Bean and Jalapeño Dip
This unusual Mexican-inspired black bean and jalapeño dip goes really well with a big bowl of blue corn tortilla chips! It’s another easy way to get some beans into the …
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White Bean and Artichoke Dip
Bean dips or hummus are on our lunchtime menu at least 3-4 times a week. It’s such a simple way to get a portion of pulses into the diet, and …
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Sun dried tomato, borlotti and basil dip
This vibrant red sun dried tomato, borlotti and basil dip is packed with antioxidants and makes a perfect lunchtime snack with oatcakes or flax crackers, or even in a wrap …
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Beetroot and White Bean Dip
This beetroot and white bean dip is beautifully coloured and fantastic tasting!
High in phytonutrients and fibre, with anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties, beetroots are a low GI/GL food, helping to keep …
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Easy Broad Bean, Mint and Lemon Dip
This broad bean, mint and lemon dip is a beautiful, pale green dip that evokes images of early summer, and is ultra-simple to make. If broad beans are in season, …
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Kale and basil pesto
Pesto is such a handy thing to have in the fridge and can really enhance so many foods from roasted vegetables to brushcetta and pasta dishes. The flavour of the …
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Seaweed Squares
You can buy packets of little seaweed ‘thins’; they’re undeniably tasty and convenient snacks. However, I do feel a little ripped off at paying nearly £2 for three tiny packets …
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Vegetable crisps
I’ve never really had a sweet tooth but I do have a weakness for crisps and can happily, mindlessly chomp my way through big bags before I even know it. …
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Homemade Almond and Rosemary Oatcakes
A box of oatcakes in the cupboard is something I’m rarely without. We get through tons of them – with dips for lunch, with chunks of cheese, apples and grapes …
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Flax seed crackers
I regularly make these flax crackers as they’re really handy to have around for snacks with dips and they’re gluten free – I can tolerate some gluten but do find …
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Easy bean dips (that aren’t hummus)
Much as I love hummus, occasionally I get a little bored of it but it’s just so convenient for lunch and snacks. So I developed some alternatives: easy bean dips that aren’t …
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Nutritious kale chips
If you’re looking for a healthy crisp alternative, these kale chips work really well and are always devoured when guests come over. Not only are they really easy to make, …
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Easy spelt soda bread
We love this recipe for easy spelt soda bread that can be made in 45 minutes, start to finish; it’s a staple recipe in our house.
For many people, toast is an …
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