Are you struggling to get your 5-a-day?
It is not just fresh fruits and vegetables…
Here is an easy and tasty way to eat more fruits – even in winter.
Snack ideas
snack ideas and recipes
The 6 lifesaver NO: how to survive a long drive with toddlers
Avoiding serious consequences:
read this before setting off on a long car journey with your small children.
6 lifesaver rules how to feed your toddlers and chidren to give the best start to your holiday.
The 8 best healthy ice cream recipes
No ice cream maker needed.
Nothing complicated.
Just real taste.
One of your 5-a-day.
The best ice cream and popsicle recipes according to me – tested and approved and frequently requested by my children 🙂
77 Healthy Snacks What You Can Buy in Every Supermarket
When we feel hungry, it is hard to think about healthy options.
So I have collected 77 healthy snacks on a list what you can print and use anytime.
The Heroes of the Season: Citrus Fruits
Eating only one of these can provide more than the recommended daily intake of Vitamin C.
They boost your immune system, can prevent certain types of cancer, help your weight loss, promote healthy vision.
What are they?
Give a Healthy Snack for Christmas
If you want to give something different something special for this Christmas, try these.
These two lovely trail mix recipes help you to prepare a delicious healthy snack just in minutes.
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Healthy First Birthday Cake: Caterpillar Cake
This Caterpillar cake is a healthy, sugar-free option for a toddler’s Birthday and really easy to make. The base is cooked millet sweetened naturally with creamed raisins and fruit juice. (Gluten-free recipe)
Quick and healthy snack for children: Chocolate and prune roll
Healthy sweets and cakes for kids is always a bit difficult, as they know immediately that they are tricked. Well, it is not impossible to hide vegetables (like beetroot, carrot) in a cake, but when they recognise it probably they feel cheated. My trick is letting them making the dessert themselves – and this chocolate and prune discs recipe is perfect for this. (more…)
Lovely pumpkin recipes: dinner in a flash
There are three really good reasons for eating pumpkins:
1, they are so healthy
2, they cook quickly
3, they are versatile.
Here are two recipes – you can pair them to make a lovely family meal – in a flash.
Top 10 holiday eating tips to avoid weight gain
Holidays usually mean a huge threat to our waistline. Leaving our familiar territory, it is nearly impossible to keep up our usual everyday eating habits. And there are so many temptations… It is hard.
Here are the 10 most important secret holiday eating tips to avoid holiday binge eating and it’s consequences: guilt and weight gain.
Easy energy bars for mums
We, busy mums need energy quickly and energy bars or muesli bars are so handy. These no-bake easy energy bars are ready in 10 minutes and keep well in the fridge for 5 days. And the best part: you can customise its favour according your taste.
Low-calorie cookies: guilt-free treats
Watching your calorie intake and still yearning for cookies? Treat yourself with these low-calorie cookies and you do not have to feel guilty.
I know that probably you do not feel to set up the oven in the summer, I must share this recipe now as these biscuits are perfect on the go – picnic food or summer holiday – they will be a sure hit.
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15+1 no-carb snack ideas for busy mums
Do you know the feeling when you cannot focus, you lose control and the only thing what you can think of is eating something high calorie and filling?
If you think that a biscuit or a small piece of chocolate is the only way to keep up your sugar level on your busy day, read this list.
I have collected these snack ideas for myself because in a rush I just do not have time to think about healthy options – and I am prone to reach for a piece of … well, anything could do what is sugary or high-carb.
Okay, – you may say, – but when I have the time for snacking? And why would I eat more times when I want to less?
Easy flatbreads – you’ll never buy flatbreads in the shop again
I love flatbread and I used to think that making flat bread is very difficult. Not anymore, as after a short experimenting, I found that making flatbread does not need more that 10 minutes mixing and 10 minutes baking. That’s it. And the result is delicious and toddler-friendly 🙂
How to Make a Braided Easter Bread in 5 Steps
After my detox week, when I eat mainly yoghurt, raw vegetables and fruit, I cannot wait to make something yummy. I share you the recipe for my Easter braided bread with poppy seeds and damson jam. This decorative sweet bread can be the main attraction on your Easter breakfast table or it is brilliant as a snack with a cup of tea/milk. It keeps for 2-3 days in an airtight container but is best eaten fresh.