Ice Cream or Mousse – just add cold! Tonight I was in a mood. I just wanted something fresh for dessert and there wasn’t a lot in the house that didn’t involve chocolate. Even organic chocolate is on my no list this week, all things cacao-ish are a sometimes food for me. So, what did [...]
In January, Coca Cola put out a TV Commercial talking about obesity. The ad very cleverly showed how they had managed to reduce the average calories per serving by 22%. They’re bringing in smaller sized cans and have also added the calorie count on the front of the cans (yeah, because we all know that [...]
At the moment, Vitamix Australia are running a great awareness campaign about green smoothies called the Vitamix 7@7 Go-For-Green Breakcast Challenge. They want us to have a green smoothie for breakfast with at least 7 fruit & vegetables in it each morning for at least 7 days, ummm at 7am. That gets me the 7@7for7, [...]
I am often asked how the Vitamix blender can make hot soup when it has no heating element in it. It’s a perfectly valid question, and one that puzzled me before I learned about the machine. Watch the video below to learn how to make hot pumpkin soup in under 5 minutes in your Vitamix. [...]
One of my favourite brands at Shop Naturally is Pure & Green skin care. Not only do we strive to stock as much Australian skin care as we can, but we look really closely at the ethics of the companies we choose to deal with and the types of celebrities they use to endorse their [...]
Good oil, bad oil, good fat, bad fat. There’s so much confusing information out in the market place. A year or two ago, I thought that cooking was Extra Virgin Olive Oil was the healthy thing to do. I also thought that cooking with Rice Bran Oil was the healthy thing to do. Boy, was [...]
I recently purchased a large pile of books & DVD’s from raw food expert David Wolfe. I seem to have a knack of opening books and flipping through to find a really useful and timely piece of information. While looking through the copy of Eating For Beauty, I found such a piece of information. It’s [...]
Today was an experiment – to get my husband to eat a healthy piece of chocolate cake. Mission Impossible? I thought so. I started off with the Teresa Cutter Naked Chocolate Cake recipe, which I will not replicate here, because it’s not my recipe, but you can see it on Teresa’s website here. I had to [...]
I have been reading a lot recently about the quality of oils and what you should and shouldn’t be doing with them. Cooking oils can go rancid fairly quickly if not stored correctly, some quicker than others. Here are our quick tips. Store olive oil (and any other oil) in the fridge and only buy [...]
We came across a great graphic today from Dr Mercola about the many uses of different parts of the coconut. There’s very little wastage which is fantastic. It’s not only used for nutrition, but also fuel, shelter and even musical instruments! Starting from the outside:- The very outer Coir is a natural elastic fibre used [...]