FMTV
My favourite movie Food Matters has got even more exciting!! They now have a TV website called FMTV {affiliated link} where you can join for a month or a year and have access to over…
Tag Archives: wholefood
Preserving tomatoes
It’s that time of year when our tomato plants are finishing up and the tomatoes are super cheap in the stores. I pulled all my plants out and cooked up the ones I grew. I…
Lemon water drink
Lemons yummy yummy yummy lemons. Pretty much every backyard in New Zealand has a lemon tree just not ours. Luckily one of my girlfriend has a wonderful beautiful lemon tree that I love and she…
Why haven’t I spent any money on my second child?
My beautiful angel is one today. Wow where did that year go!!! It just flew by so crazy fast. What a whirl wind! So happy birthday to my darling baby Gabriel (as John calls him;…
Save money make your own yoghurt
Yoghurt is a yummy snack and has so many uses and flavours. Store bought yoghurt is often full of sugar and is expensive plus you have all the packaging to deal with! So save yourself…
Two hour rapid stripped down bread
We haven’t bought any bread since participating in plastic free July wow that’s a lot of bread. Assuming we eat two loafs a week (sometimes more sometimes less) that’s 54 loafs of plastic free bread.…
Almond and fruit truffles
Made these super yummy almond and fruit truffles today. I adapted the recipe from the fantastic the Gawler Foundation Eat well: be well cookbook that my brother and sister got me for my birthday. The…
Mixed grain bread
Being involved with plastic free July has really made me rethink the plastic coming into our home (which is the whole point of course) this has encouraged me to make more of my own bread…
Eco tin foil substitute
When I roasting beetroot for my beetroot ice cream Hugh mentioned to use tin foil (which I do own but never ever use) so I though there must be a better choice. So here…
Pantry baskets
When I organising my pantry I bought cheap second hand baskets. For most of the baskets I paid only a few dollars the most I paid was $5 for the biggest basket. Cane baskets are…