Easter is next week and if you’re not thinking of Easter bunnies or painting eggs, I can guarantee you’re thinking about chocolate. Just because we do. Not matter what time of year. The majority of you reading this post are doing so for two reasons. 1. you are a health enthusiast who always has an [...]
Juices or Smoothies: To juice or to blend?…is a question that I get a lot from clients, blog readers and Facebook friends. What’s the difference? Which one is healthier? What kind of machine do I need for what? Does it require a lot of complicated piecing together and cleaning of equipment? Don’t these pricey machines [...]
You can have your cake and eat it too! There is no more pleasurable way to indulge than with scrumptious, rich yet highly nourishing desserts. ‘A moment on the lips, a lifetime on the hips’ – we’ve all heard that one before, right? With these cakes, rather than simply satisfying a moment of gustatory enjoyment, [...]
Whether you celebrate Christmas in style with the whole shebang or prefer a quiet, intimate meal without much a-do, we all have our favourite Christmas foods, those familiar flavours that we look forward to as the Christmas lights go up in the street, there’s a somewhat different seasonal hustle and bustle in the air and [...]
Ever tried massaging a salad before? Neither had I, until this weekend. It’s very simple and kinda fun to get your hands dirty to swoosh around delicious ingredients in your favourite salad bowl. We made a massaged kale (grønkål in Danish) salad which seems to be the green leaf of choice for this method as [...]
One of my favourite late Summer/early Autumn fruits is fresh figs. There’s something just so decadently, succulently delicious about them, don’t you think? A childhood friend of mine with all sorts of natural culinary wonders growing in her garden invited us to ravage her abundant fig tree (I felt like I was in an old [...]
Packets of chewy sweets, biscuits and motorway sandwiches just don’t cut the mustard when it comes to arriving fit and fresh at your destination at the end of a long road trip. It all comes down to planning ahead so that you don’t have to resort to what I call ‘motorway fake-food’: produce which has [...]
For those of you (including me) who don’t eat cheese whether it be due to a lactose intolerance, because you don’t like it (does anyone not like cheese?!) or for health reasons, nut cheeses – popular with raw foodists – are a great alternative. No, they don’t taste like regular cheese. Because they’re made of [...]
Evidence has been found that our ancestors, even as far back as 5000 BC in Babylon, preserved all kinds of vegetables and fruits through a process called lacto-fermentation both for preservation purposes and for their health benefits
Goal: 1000 kr (approx £117 / $190) Actual: 1040 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day, more or less (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual). The goal amount is based on local research that I carried out [...]
