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 [...]

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

Use runny Rawtella as a chocolate sauce on ice cream, as chocolate spread, to make chocolate covered almonds or dip fruit in it (put this in the fridge to have pre-prepared chocolate fruit pieces for dessert)

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 [...]

  Mmmm love the taste and smell of fresh picked organic strawberries…Our local health food shop is going to have them every day for as long as they last throughout the summer so we’re on a mission to find as many different ways of preparing them as possible. Of course, eating strawberries just as they are [...]

Goal: 1000 kr (approx £117 / $190) Actual: 681 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual). A pretty non-eventful week I’m afraid…the most exciting thing is that the health food shop [...]

  Goal: 1000 kr (approx £117 / $190) Actual: 626 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual). This week we bought a couple of tins, which we don’t usually do: Coconut [...]

I love hummus. Seriously, I could eat bucket loads of it – as a dip, in salads, on gluten-free bread, in a half avocado, in our nori rolls…. Of course you can make it using a tin of chickpeas but I prefer to sprout my own dry chickpeas and make a Raw Hummus so that [...]

We all need to drink water to survive, right? You think being healthy means drinking only water the whole time, right? Well think again. Yes, pure water should be our main beverage of choice (having spent years living like a camel, not drinking for days on end it seemed, I am now a regular c.2 [...]

  Goal: 1000 kr Actual: 737 kr Budget = rounded up for 2 adults preparing 3 meals a day (any meals eaten out and ‘unplanned snacks’ are not included in this budget as that is highly individual) Looks like we did pretty well this week but actually it’s a bit of a cheat as we [...]