My Recipes

My original recipes, and a few adaptations of other favourites:

Prebiotic Guacamole
The popular favourite dip, made a little more gut-friendly. Read the post and view the recipe.

Prebiotic Guacamole

Mocha-Banana Breakfast Smoothie
A coffee-and-healthy-breakfast all in one, summer-friendly start to the day. Read the post and view the recipe.

Mocha Banana Breakfast Smoothie

Easy One-Pot Jambalaya
Spicy comfort food best served with a fried egg on top. Read the post and view the recipe.

Easy One-Pot Jambalaya

Cheesy Porcupine Meatballs
A family-friendly, comfort food dinner. Read the post and view the recipe.

Porcupine Meatballs with sourdough bread

Pear, Ginger and Macadamia Crumble Pots
Delightful individual desserts (or breakfast) for winter, with no added sweetener. Read the post and view the recipe.

Pear, Ginger and Macadamia Crumble

Autumn Spiced Hot Chocolate Mix
For your next camping trip (or to keep in the pantry for your next Netflix binge…). Read the post and view the recipe.

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Summer Mango, Maca, Macadamia Smoothie
A (coincidentally) vegan summer smoothie, which my kids love. Read the post and view the recipe.

Mango, Maca, Macadamia Smoothie

Turmeric Hummus
A tribute to the sandy landscapes of Game of Thrones… Read the post and view the recipe.

turmeric hummus

Hearty Chicken Casserole with Sweet Potato Dumplings
Warming fare for winter. Read the post and view the recipe.

Hearty Chicken Casserole with Sweet Potato Dumplings

Fiery Dragon Eggs
AKA Baked Avocado Eggs with Chilli Salsa. Read the post and view the recipe.

Fiery Dragon Eggs (aka baked avocado eggs with chilli salsa)

Zesty Orange French Toast
An easy breakfasting recipe (for Mothers Day?) with no added sugar. Read the post and view the recipe.

Zesty Orange French Toast

“Golden” Spiced Hot Chocolate
A chocolate-y take on the popular ‘golden milk’, featuring turmeric, ginger and black pepper. Read the post and view the recipe.

Golden Spiced Hot Chocolate

Veggie-Charged Chilli Con Carne with Green Salsa
A versatile family favourite with loads of hidden veggies. Great for the freezer stash. Read the post and view the recipe.

Chilli Con Carne

Strawberry Shortcake Mascarpone Tarts
A rich and indulgent dessert, with no added sugar (but I wouldn’t call it healthy!). Read the post and view the recipe.

Photo of single strawberry tart

Simple Strawberries and Cream Smoothie
A vegan, sugar-free smoothie with hidden greens, which my kids love. Read the post and view the recipe.

Simple Strawberries and Cream Smoothie

Jaffa Overnight Oat Breakfast Pots
A dairy-free, sugar-free, vegan and healthier breakfast take on the classic chocolate and orange combination. Read the post and view the recipe.

Jaffa Overnight Oats

Toasted Oat, Hazelnut and Cacao Granola with Rosewater
Although the world doesn’t need another granola recipe – I couldn’t resist sharing this one. Read the post and view the recipe.

Toasted Oat, Hazelnut and Cacao Granola with Rosewater
Sweet or Savoury Spiced Sweet Potato Waffles

These versatile waffles are sweetener-free and complement sweet or savoury toppings! Enjoy with fruit and yoghurt, or fried eggs and salsa. Read the post and view the recipe.

Sweet potato waffles with sweet or savoury topping

Easy Apple and Hazelnut Frangipane Tarts
These delicious tarts are quick to make, and moreish, using only a small amount of rice malt syrup as a sweetener. Serve on their own or with greek yoghurt and cinnamon! Read the post and view the recipe.

Easy Apple and Hazelnut Frangipane Tarts
A Healthier Egg and Bacon Pie

This bacon and egg pie is healthier than the typical bakery pie, and is based on my Mother’s recipe. Serve it with sweet potato chips and steamed green vegetables. Read the post and view the recipe.

Egg and Bacon Pie
Family Meal: ‘Good Fats’ Hot-Smoked Salmon Pesto Zoodles

This family-friendly dish is suitably quick for a mid-week meal, and is rich with satiating good fats. It’s my go-to when I feel like sugar is getting the better of me. Read the post and view the recipe.

Smoked Salmon Pesto Zoodles
Christmas Berry Trifles with Orange Custard
These individual trifle desserts are sugar-free, paleo and easily adaptable – change the flavours and toppings to suit you and yours.
Read the post and view the recipe.

Christmas Berry Trifles with Orange Custard (sugar-free and paleo)
Cherry Berry Ripe Smoothie
A much more fructose-friendly, smoothified version of the popular chocolate bar. This also happens to be dairy-free (although it doesn’t seem like it!). Read the post and view the recipe.

Cherry Berry Ripe Smoothie

Food for an easier menstruation
Yep, Iā€™m going there. About half the worldā€™s population does it, so why not talk about it? This post also includes a recipe for leftover vegetable spelt tart. Read the post and view the recipe.

Green vegetable fetta tart

Gelatin Dinosaur Chews
These fructose-free chewy ‘lollies’ are made with powdered gelatin, using Sarah Wilson’s easy method. In chocolate, strawberry and vanilla.
Read the post and view the recipe.

Dinosaur Chews

Choc-Toffee Popcorn Clusters
These fructose-free treats can be pimped any way you like, and are small enough to sneak into the cinema… They are also gluten-free.
Read the post and view the recipe.

Choc-Toffee Popcorn Clusters
Healthy dark chocolate mousse
Inspired by @_naturalnutrition_ on Instagram, this dark chocolate mousse is dairy-free, gluten-free, fructose-free, and even contains a vegetable or two! Read the post and view the recipe.

ChocMousse

Hazelnut Nut-Ella Biscuits
These fructose-free, gluten-free and dairy-free biscuits were inspired by I Quit Sugar, and are an adaptation of their almond jam thumbprint biscuits. Read the post and view the recipe.

Hazelnut Nut-Ella Biscuits

Sweet potato pikelets with candied pecans
Fructose-free, with flavours reminiscent of a pumpkin pie. The pikelets are dairy-free (aside from cream cheese topping). Read the post and view the recipe.

Sweet potato pancakes with candied pecans

Bitter Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
Containing only 6.5g fructose, this bittersweet cake is for hardened dark chocolate fans. It also contains one very crazy ingredient.
Read the post and view the recipe.

Bitter Chocolate Hazelnut Cake
Fructose-Free Salted Popcorn Brownie Sundae with Almond Toffee
Sweetened only with rice malt syrup and a little stevia, this sundae is indulgent and fructose-free. Read the post and view the recipe.

FructoseFreeSundae

Greek Yoghurt Pizza with Lamb and Mint Pesto
A greek yoghurt pizza base, paired with shredded lamb, mint pesto, roasted capsicum, zucchini and feta to create a fructose-free (tomato free) pizza. Read the post and view the recipe.

Pizza

Lime and Macadamia Coconut Truffles
A happy accident – these truffles are dairy-free, refined sugar-free, vegan, gluten-free, paleo, and very moreish… Read the post and view the recipe.

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A lazy trick to getting toddlers excited about their food
Not a recipe as such – but a little trick I use to get my son trying new foods. Particularly useful when I don’t have any clean dishes left… Read the post.

Ice cube tray idea
Tamari-Toasted Pepitas

The new ‘salted peanuts’! A lovely savoury and nutritious snack, which only take 10 minutes to make. Includes some other ideas for using pepitas. Read the post and view the recipe.

Pepitas
Upside-Down Lemon Pistachio Cheesecakes
A healthier, nutty cheesecake free from refined sugar, gluten and eggs. I’ll never go back to the traditional sugar-and-cream filled cheesecake. Read the post and view the recipe.

Cheesecake

A Mostly Fructose-Free Mother’s Day High Tea!
After my mother was diagnosed with diabetes, I didn’t want her to miss out on a Mother’s Day High Tea – so I created my own (mostly) fructose-free version. Read the post and view the food we served.

Sweet

Hazelnut Orange Cupcakes
An adaptation of Teresa Cutter’s Lemon Yoghurt Cupcakes. A favourite in our house, even with my toddler, who has become skeptical of my healthy ‘cakes’… Read the post and view the recipe.

OrangeCupcakes

Choc-Cranberry ‘icious Balls
Incredible bliss balls which satisfy any sweet craving – but contain no refined sugar, gluten or dairy. Wonderful to keep in the freezer for an energy boost. Read the post and view the recipe.

ChocCranberryBalls

‘Miracle’ Muesli
Muesli is such a personal thing… this is my personal favourite mix.
Read the post and view the recipe.

BreakfastMuesli