Healthier Blueberry Muffins

So I am not a huge fan of over sweet baked treats, or ones that much little effort to hide the fact they are no good for you. At the end of the day baking cannot be 100% healthy - it is a treat, but you can tweak recipes to make them better for you, more filling, more nutritious, more fibre, which is what I try to do without compromising too much on taste or appearance. Now I was not really planning to make blueberry muffins this week but there was a special on blueberries at the shop and I couldn't resist and I love getting Mr A eating super foods and having fun in the kitchen so it s a win win all round. The recipe is one that I have tweaked over a while to get a healthier muffin that is still sweet but not sickly sweet and is full of fruit and fibre. I always use wholemeal and spelt flour when I bake, it's become a habit and I substitute it for while flour in nearly everything and I cut the sugar in recipes by at least half - you usually don't even notice the dif......

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Birthday Post - part 2

So I am not going to go too much into Mr A's birthday but instead just highlight our day. We decided to go with an native American Indian theme as his main present was a tipi, which he loves and spends hours in - money well spent! I also have a pet-hate against children birthday parties where the food only consists of sugary treats, now not to say we didn't have some treats but I did spend the nights in the run up making healthy wholemeal gingerbread men, spelt flour brownies and sugar free banana and organic apricot muffins - which all went down very well. I have to admit though I am not much of a supreme cake maker but I do have a go and this year went for a strawberry victoria sponge that was by no means perfect in shape but tasted yummy so I was really happy with the outcome. It's always great to have a big party with friends and family and it ended up being a great weekend. Gingerbread and yummy cake Mr A's new favourite den It's crazy how ......

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Good Natured Food

So anyone who knows me knows I love healthy yummy food. Anything fresh and interesting, I'm not vegan but I love vegan food and the effort that goes into making something like dairy free cheese cake that actually tastes creamy and just like cheesecake - amazing - I don't see why healthy food needs to be boring so when the lovely people at Good Natured invited me to do a review I couldn't wait. At my local supermarket I picked up some good natured peppers and baby plum tomatoes to add to a yummy salad. Good natured produce fruits, veg, salad and herbs and it's all pesticide residue-free and best of all my baby plum tomatoes were grown in Cardiff, so my food miles were minimal - win win. I also feel a lot better about putting peppers in Arthurs omelettes that don't have pesticide residue on it and I also made a very yummy egg salad, which is a night light main meal after a long day and I always feel revitalised and topped up with reaching my 5 a day. I love hea......

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Easter love

I had such big plans for Easter and then Mr A was ill the week running up to it and everything had to take a back seat and I didn't get to make all the crafty lovely things I had planned but we still had an amazing day. First of all I don't think giving an 18month old loads of chocolate is a good idea, in fact Mr A has up until this point had very very little chocolate (I can count on one hand) and on the occasions he has had a taste, it's simply been a taste. But saying that I still wanted him to have a easter egg hunt, so I have been keeping the eggs I have used for omelettes over the past week and stuck them back together with craft clue and tissue paper and painted them - this way he could still go into the garden and collect them. I also put Johns eggs out in the garden so Mr A could pick up these and he was of course allowed a small Lindt bunny which totally blew his mind. After the Easter Egg hunt we had some of my homemade healthy Spelt Apricot and Banana m......

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