Here’s an easy, healthy pizza dough that doesn’t involve any strange ingredients (like cauliflower). Just pantry staples to make a recipe that always works so that you can feel like a pro and easily whip up an easy pizza (or pizza scrolls) when you fancy it. Even if you don’t normally stock yeast, a few…
Lunchbox
Beef and Lentil Pies
These beef and lentil pies are a perfect hearty winter warmer. They’re packed with veggies and are very filling thanks to all the fibre from the veggies and lentils plus the protein from the lentils and beef. These mini pies are great for a weekend lunch or the lunchbox. You can easily adapt this recipe…
Chocolate Raspberry Muffins
These muffins are a new favourite in our house. They taste like such a treat, but contain the goodness of wholemeal flour, yoghurt, eggs and raspberries. They’re a variation of my original Magic Wholemeal Muffins. If you haven’t made the original yet, add them to your to-do list! We like to make these chocolate raspberry…
Nut Free Lunchbox Ideas
You’re not alone if you’ve ever found yourself staring blankly into your child’s empty lunch box, wondering what in the world to fill it with. How much? How many veggies? Will they even eat it? Will it keep them full enough? As a mum, I understand how tricky it can be balancing what you know they…
English Muffin Pizzas
These 5-ingredient English Muffin pizzas are tasty crowd pleaser. Perfect as warm afternoon tea, a side to tomato soup for lunch or cold in the lunchbox to switch up sandwiches! You can use regular grated mozzerella cheese, but I love bocconcini for this recipe. Bocconcini are small balls of mozzarella made from cows milk in…
Pie Maker Spinach and Ricotta Filo Baskets
Filo pastry works really well in a pie maker. It’s quick to cook with a beautiful crunch that suits light or set fillings really well. It’s much lower in fat than regular puff or shortcrust pastry so it can be enjoyed more often! These spinach and ricotta baskets are wonderfully impressive, but so simple to…
Pie Maker Veggie Slice
A colourful take on zucchini slice, this veggie slice recipe cooks quickly and easily in the pie maker. Perfect for a warm winter’s lunch or an easy school lunchbox snack. Pie Maker Veggie Slice Serves 6 Ingredients 3 eggs 1/4 cup wholemeal flour (a wheat-free alternative flour will work fine too) 1/4 cup grated cheese 2 cups finely…
Chicken and Risoni Soup
This soup is a classic in our house that’s loved by everyone. Chicken and risoni soup is perfect when someone’s unwell because it’s warming to help unblock sinuses and its loaded with nutrients and water for hydration. It’s also very easy to make and won’t keep you in the kitchen for long. When our toddler…
Nut Free Chocolate Balls
Chocolate balls, bliss balls and protein balls are great on-the-go snacks. Simply blended up dried fruit and nuts rolled into balls. They are high in fibre, natural sugars and good fats and make for a nutritious treat. They last well out of the fridge so are a great easy treat. Unfortunately, they don’t make a…
Healthy Packaged Lunch Box Snacks
Thinking of lunch box snacks isn’t as easy as it sounds. You have to balance what your child will eat, with what they should be eating. Then the school has some rules about what you’re not allowed to include too. Then there is the monotony of getting requests for the same foods that then only…
Chia Jam
It’s healthy, no-cook, sugar free, versatile and ready in 30 minutes! What’s not to love about chia jam? You’ve no doubt seen recipes all over social media before. If you haven’t tried it yet, you really should! Do you remember chia pets that sprouted ‘hair’ when you watered them? Well we have since discovered that…
Zucchini Crisps
What better way to eat more vegetables than to cover them with cheese! These zucchini crisps are really, really easy plus they taste great! Zucchini can be a challenging vegetable for some people, especially because it’s soggy. But baked like this makes it a winner in our house and I’m sure you’ll love them too….