GINGER HONEY I love honey. I love ginger. I always wanted a liquid sweetener that was ginger-y. Ginger Honey is beautiful on muesli, granola, in tea/coffee, stirred into yoghurt/cream, basically anywhere you would use honey – if you also like ginger then this will suit you! Recipe Type: GF, DF, RSF, V, PALEO Serves ~20 Time 5 min Ingredients: 1 C honey 8 big … Read More
Carrot Cake Bliss Balls
RAW CARROT CAKE BLISS BALLS Looking for a way to get more vegetables into you or your kids’ diets? Try these tasty lunchbox treats! They taste great and with only 1 tablespoon of honey between 30 balls, they’re very low in sugar too! Recipe Type: GF, DF, RSF, V, Paleo Serves 30 balls Time 20 min Ingredients: 2 cups grated carrot ¾ … Read More
Raw Turkish Delight Nougat
RAW TURKISH DELIGHT NOUGAT Do I have any NOUGAT fans out there? I had a craving for turkish-delight AND nougat on the weekend so I whipped up this Raw Turkish-Delight Nougat. It turned out SO amazing I just had to share with you all! Recipe Type: GF, DF, RSF, V, Paleo Serves 15 Time 2 hours Ingredients: 1 cup raw cashews 2 … Read More
2015 City2Surf (Sydney)
The Sydney City2Surf. Sunday 9th August 2015. Did you know the Sydney City2Surf is the largest fun run in the world, with over 60,000 entrants each year? More people participate in the C2S each year than in any other fun run. Impressive huh? And who can blame them? A picturesque run through Sydney’s eastern suburbs with views of Double … Read More
The importance of Core Strength
With all the hype about weights, resistance training, HIIT, marathon events and fun runs, it’s easy to overlook the importance of building and maintaining good core strength. Core Strength refers not only to the strength of our various abdominal muscles (I can tell you’re thinking 6-pack, washboard abs here) but also the muscles in posterior chain, in our back. Having … Read More
What are the benefits of Strength Training?
Resistance training (or strength/weight training), as defined by The Better Health Channel[i], is the use of resistance to muscular contraction to build strength, anaerobic endurance and size of skeletal muscle. The average person might associate weight training with bodybuilding, strongman competitions, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and the place in the gym where all the guys look in the mirror while they lift … Read More
6 Reasons to eat more Beetroot – Benefits of Beetroot
I’ve always loved Beetroot! As a kid, the colour and sweet flavor attracted me to them; I loved to have the baby beets in salad, just by themselves, and especially sliced on a burger with the lot! My sister was the same; I remember one occasion when we were quite young, we were out to dinner at a venue that … Read More
What is Quinoa?
Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa, pronounced Kee-nwah) is a member of the Amaranthaceae family (with Amaranth) and is closely related to beetroots, spinach and tumbleweeds. It is a grain crop, from which humans eat its edible seeds. Being a member of the Amaranthaceae family and not the True Grass family makes Quinoa a pseudocereal rather than a true cereal. Quinoa’s first links … Read More