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Posted In Breakfast, Lunch / Dinner, Our kids love, Snacks

Super seed mix

18th February 2017

Small and easy ways of adding nutritional gains into family meals is one of my constant kitchen aims! Seeds are packed with dietary fibre, protein, iron, healthy fats and many antioxidants.This might be our most useful recipe – you can sprinkle these everywhere!  Continue Reading

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Cacao Christmas cookies

16th December 2016

Delicious gluten free and refined sugar free cacao cookies - perfect for decorating with little ones!
Confession time: these cacao Christmas cookies are unstoppably yummy.  We had to make them twice to photograph because too much of the first batch got lost in development. Continue Reading

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Protect our Planet

2nd December 2016

Practical tips and life advice to reduce your environmental impact. Introduction to super-charity Synchronicity Earth.
I have such an obsessional love with our planet and a low level underlying guilt about not helping protect the natural world enough. How many of my lifestyle habits are contributing to its decline? What needs to happen so that we can ensure that we pass on a planet worth inhabiting to our children and future generations? I believe it is our moral obligation to help the environment and support the planet we inhabit. I also believe that it is easy for individuals to make small practical changes which collectively could make a huge difference to their health and the health of the planet. Continue Reading

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Superfood dhal

21st November 2016

Our superfood enriched version of this traditional lentil curry. Dhalicious!
Baby it’s cold outside!  This is a super warming dish of healthy comfort food. So delicious! I am not so sure about the marketing word “superfood”. It gets bandied around, sprinkle some goji berries or quinoa into something and hey it’s a superfood, a food with special health benefits. Our view is that it isn’t a term used by many dieticians and nutritionists, and that no amount of turmeric or coconut oil (for example) poured over your life will prevent you getting unwell or compensate for unhealthy eating or lifestyles. Continue Reading

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Healthy Ice-cream?

16th August 2016

TMA pick of the best healthier ice-creams available from Ocado. Oppo Salted Caramel with Lucuma ice cream, Frill Intense Chocolate Frozen Smoothie and Smooze mango fruit Ice lollies.

Healthy ice-cream?! Now there’s an oxymoron if ever I heard one.  The reality is that you cannot really call any sweet dessert “healthy”. But everything in life is shades of grey, and you can certainly find healthIER ice-creams and frozen desserts, that at least limit the bad stuff and/or have redeeming nutritional benefits.  I add as a proviso to this that at TMA, we don’t really think anything should be totally out of bounds, and portion control is arguably the best “diet” in the world.  My own preference would be for one scoop of real Italian gelato than a tub of any nice-cream, which may in fact be higher in sugar anyway so watch out for those.  Remember to look beyond labels. Coconut Collaborative snowconut may be dairy free but it is higher in sugar (more of an enemy, unless you have a dairy allergy) than Haagen Dazs vanilla. Also, don’t forget you can make your own ice-creams, nice-creams and sorbets.  My recipe for matcha green tea nice cream is here, and I also love making popsicles with the kids – they like orange best (just plain freshly squeezed orange juice), while my favourites are either lime and mint (like a kind of virgin frozen mojito; tastes great tequila’d up too if you are party planning) or banana and coconut milk (I add a handful of spinach leaves and/or vanilla protein powder sometimes – sounds vile but honestly so delicious). Other than those ideas, here is my pick of the commercially available alternatives.
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Breakfast muffins

1st August 2016

Breakfast muffin upgrade!  A super nutritious and portable start to your day: gluten free, and refined sugar free muffins with extra lean protein and hidden vegetables.
If you are one of those people who routinely wakes up too late to make a proper breakfast and then grabs pastries and muffins en route to work: we need to talk. These are terrible for you! There is really minimal nutritional difference to eating cake for breakfast than that blueberry muffin or chocolate croissant you buy from a coffee shop. Continue Reading

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Beetroot banana pancakes

16th June 2016

A delicious recipe for gluten/refined sugar free pancakes. A great high protein Breakfast option or a nutritious and nourishing snack.
I just love pancakes. (We’re talking addiction level love here.) Great news for you if you are also a pancake addict – I can share the results of a long term dedicated self interest in learning how to impose nutritional upgrades into them! These ones are healthy. And pink! This is a great breakfast choice if you are planning on an active morning: the pink is thanks to beetroot juice, which has been proven in scientific studies to increase muscle endurance and efficiency in both low and high intensity workouts. Beetroot juice affects blood flow, muscle contraction and even neurotransmission. Continue Reading

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Beetroot: another anti-carcinogen?

27th May 2016

Salad season has arrived!  TMA salads have to be high in taste as well as nutrition. Recipe for beetroot, quinoa, feta and herb salad. P.S. Beetroot has legit superfood status. Beetroot salad
We are just getting into salad season! In response to an Instagram post about a year ago that stated “This salad tastes like I’d rather be fat” (yes, I howled laughing too), I started a hashtag #lifeistooshortforboringsalads and I am now finally getting around to writing all my favourite salad recipes down for you all.  They have to taste great AND be great for you. Continue Reading

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Nuts about walnuts; walnut and kale pesto

13th May 2016

Why walnuts are the world's healthiest nut. Nutritionally superior pesto recipe!

I often think that walnuts are like an inferior tasting pecan nut that is somehow 1000 years past its use-by-date but freakily ended up in my kitchen. Judged by taste alone, they’d be one of my least favourite nuts, reserved solely for carrot cake and brownies, in which they actually taste pretty great. But (sadly) I cannot live on brownies and carrot cake. So I am inspired to figure out other acceptable walnut situations because for nutrition, the walnut is pretty unequivocally the healthiest nut.  This is BTW a topic I discuss with my children: food is not just about taste. It is fuel, and if we want our bodies to perform really well, we need to nourish them correctly. Superman, supercars and Popeye feature heavily in this kind of chat. Continue Reading

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