Recipe: Broccoli, Avocado and Pinenut Salad with Parmigiano Reggiano

This warm salad is quick, easy, nutritious and tastes delicious! Here’s how to make it: Recipe: Broccoli, Avocado and Pinenut Salad with Parmigiano Reggiano Ingredients: 2 heads of broccoli, washed, chopped into florets and stem sliced thinly lemon juice, to taste 1 tsp. butter or 1 tsp olive oil 1 avocado, peeled, pitted and chopped into [...]

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Recipe: Healthier Homemade Cherry Ripe (With Real Food Ingredients)

Two years ago I posted a recipe for Homemade Bounty Bars which has become one of the most popular recipes on my Health Food Lover blog. Now here is another treaty recipe, just healthified. This time I have made a recipe for Healthier Homemade Cherry Ripe made with real food ingredients (no artificial colours, sugars, flavours) just like [...]

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Recipe: Paleo Sweet Breakfast Omelette with Sautéed Berries

Here is a little twist on my sweet breakfast omelette recipe which many of you seemed to love: This new sweet breakfast omelette recipe is similar to the former recipe, however this time I cooked it in red palm oil and added some mixed organic berries that I sautéed with red palm oil. It was [...]

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Animal-Based Nutrition: How Animal Products Are Beneficial and Crucial to Health

We all make our own choice as to whether we follow an omnivorous diet or one contains little or even no animal products. No one diet can serve us all.   Though, for a long time, we have been taught from the media, special-interest groups and many other sources how a plant-based diet is superior to [...]

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Recipe: Mint & Berry Great Skin Smoothie

Ever since I read Karen Fischer’s book the The Healthy Skin Diet: Your Complete Guide to Beautiful Skin in Only 8 Weeks! (see my review here) a few years ago, I have loved to make smoothies that are great for the skin; smoothies that help to build and restore it. It’s great to know that just eating or drinking something delicious [...]

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Recipe: Paleo Banana Pancakes with Fresh Strawberries

Thes pancakes are protein-rich, dairy-free, flour-free, grain-free and gluten-free. The recipe is adapted from SCD Kat’s Banana Pancake recipe. I thought I would share Kat’s recipe because they’re pretty delicious and it just goes to show how you can make delicious things for breakfast that do not have to contain any grains (if that’s your diet style)! [...]

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Things I’m Growing: December 2011 – January 2012

Plants are amazing. It’s quite magical how tiny seeds develop into such wonderful plants with a little love and care. Having said that, I thought I would share some pictures of the plants currently growing in my garden to help inspire and encourage you to get out there and get growing! My little foray into gardening began a few [...]

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Top 15 Most Popular Posts of 2011

Top 15 Most Popular Posts of 2011 Here are the 15 most popular mosts of 2011 on healthfoodlover.com: 1. Homemade Bounty Bars (with Real Food Ingredients)    2. How to Make Your Own Fermented Tabasco Sauce      3. Chunky Monkey Banana Ice Cream   4. Baked Eggplant Chips with Tahini, Lemon and Honey Dip   5. [...]

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Recipe: Mediterranean Style Sardine and Potato Noodles

Here is another delicious recipe that I adapted, this recipe originally coming from Jamie Oliver. I chose to use sardines rather than herring as it is one of the more ecological choices of fish in Australia (and when cooked this way it tastes great!).    Recipe: Mediterranean Style Sardine and Potato Noodles Adapted from Jamie Oliver’s Mediterranean Style Herring [...]

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Recipe: Slow-Cooked Kangaroo Bolognese with Zucchini Spaghetti

This bolognese is really very delicious and is worth the wait to cook it! This is actually the second time I’ve made it. The first time I used organic beef, while this time around I used kangaroo mince. Both were great. The first time I served the bolognese on some steamed veggies which is another [...]

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