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Recipe: Healthy Chocolate Chia Seed Milkshake

Have a chocolate craving but still want something nutritious and delicious?Â Here is a healthy chocolate milkshake sure to fix your craving! Â Chia seeds soaking! Recipe: Healthy Chocolate Chia SeedÂ Milkshake Serves: one Allergen info: This recipe is dairy-free, gluten-free, and refined sugar free. Those with pollen allergies should avoid this recipe (or just skip the bee […]

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Recipe: Purple Kefir Smoothie

Ahh Kefir. So many uses, so little time! Good thing for all those kefir-lover’s out there: I have a new recipe for you! Â Last time I shared the recipe for Jaffa Kefir (below). If you haven’t tried it yet, I highly recommend you do! Now, here for you today is another colourful andÂ delicious kefir […]

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80+ Ways & Recipes To Use Milk Kefir

Got milk kefir and not sure how to use it? Here are 70+ ways & recipes to use it. Here are now 80+ ways to use milk kefir! Some things you should know: What kefir ? What are fermented foods? How to make milk kefir. Storing kefir for ripening & reducing lactose Kefirpedia There are a lot […]

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All About Kefir + A Recipe for Homemade Organic Kefir with Lemon Zest & Raspberries

What Is Kefir? Kefired milk (or Kefir; said as ke-fear), is the fermented dairy* product made from adding Kefir grains** (which are also known as Kefir; see picture above which shows kefir’s cauliflower-like appearance) into milk to ferment. The Kefir grains are a symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast which exist on a structure of polysaccharide, protein, amino […]

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Eat Real Food (It’s What Our Ancestors Did)

These days there seems to be plenty of food around, but it isn’t what I’d call real food, nor even food for that matter. The kind of food I’m talking about, which is most often found on our supermarkets & junk food “restaurants” can be thought of “edible food-like substances”, to quote Michael Pollan. Edible […]

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Fermented Foods: How To Prepare Kombucha Tea

Kombucha Tea Kombucha tea is a refreshing, bubbly fermented tea historically from China, Russia & Germany (Greewalt et al, 2000). It is made from a Kombucha S.C.O.B.Y. /scoby. Scoby stands for symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast. It is also known as a ‘mushroom’ or ‘biofilm’. Kombucha tea is fermented which means that bacteria and […]

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Recipe: Fermented Buckwheat Pancakes with Biodynamic Currants & Cultured Butter

Certain food preparations can help increase nutritional content of foods. Such food preparations include sprouting (see: sprouted wheat crepes, sprouted sunflower seeds, sprouted wheat cookies), soaking and fermenting (see: guest post on fermented foods, ) grains, nuts, seeds and legumes. These practices are all beneficial as they help to neutralize anti-nutrients as well as increase […]

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Kale Salad with Feta, Walnuts, Mandarin and Olives & Blood Orange Dressing

For all those kale lovers, here is another kale salad for you! This time I have added daisy mandarins to this salad, as these mandarins like other fruit, taste really good in salads! About the produce I used: The olives were bought from the Hurstbridge farmers market from Panton Hill Estate. The kale and daisy […]

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Recipe: Baked Eggplant Chips with Tahini, Lemon and Honey Dip

How did this recipe come about? Well I was thinking about how well the cauliflower like fries turned out and I wanted to make a similar but spicy recipe, and so I saw an eggplant and “I thought yes eggplant chips”! And so eggplant chips were born! I do have say to that I love […]

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Wholesome Whole Foods #2- June 4th

Welcome to the second edition of the Wholesome Whole FoodsÂ blog carnival! I’m hope you enjoy the carnival and join in the fun! What is ‘Wholesome Whole Foods’ all about? Wholesome Whole FoodsÂ is about coming together and sharing with the world and other readers your healthy living, recipes and food ideas! We can all learn from […]