Smoothie Bowl
Category: Breakfast
I love breakfast! There’s a lot of discussion around whether or not breakfast is actually a good thing or if it’s better to fast until early afternoon. If you ask Google you’ll get so many differing opinions! But I just do what I want to do – I like eating breakfast so I’m going to...
Green Immunity Smoothie
There’s never a bad time to boost your immunity, but with the COVID-19 pandemic and winter on its way now seems like a better time than ever. A smoothie is a really good way to do it too because it’s full of real food and ingredients and you can fit so much in. Plus those...
Sugar-Free Breakfast Cereal
Category: Breakfast
I first made my own sugar-free breakfast cereal a few years ago when I started paying more attention to sugar content. I noticed that pretty much all breakfast cereals in the supermarket are loaded with sugar. I hated this as cereal tends to be marketed as healthy and a great way to start your day...
Apple Pie Overnight Oats
Category: Breakfast
If you are a fan of apple pie you need to try these Apple Pie Overnight Oats! Even if you’re not a huge apple pie fan, I bet you will still like these! I’ve used spices which are commonly used in an apple pie including cinnamon, nutmeg and allspice as well as vanilla. I chose...
Neapolitan Chia Seed Pudding
This week I thought I’d try making a neapolitan chia seed pudding. Yup you read that right. Like the ice-cream flavour but in healthy, chia seed form. Chia seed puddings are pretty weird, you can make them just with chia seeds and milk, the chia seeds expand and go kind of jelly like and with...
Chocolate Porridge
Category: Breakfast
Ok so you know about normal porridge, but have you tried chocolate porridge? It’s a great way to liven up what could normally be a relatively plain breakfast and it makes it seem a bit like a treat, but it’s healthy with no added sugar! What a great way to start the day! Let’s...
Tofu Scramble
If you have never had tofu scramble you are missing out and need to try it asap! It’s such a great breakfast, brunch or even lunch – super tasty, quick and easy to make, vegan, low carb AND gluten-free! So what is tofu scramble? Well, it’s a sort of vegan, egg-free, dairy-free replacement for...
No-Cook Strawberry Chia Jam
Carbohydrates per 30g serve: approx 2g This No-Cook Strawberry Chia Jam is not quite like the traditional jam you’re used to. Traditional jam uses a huge amount of sugar for both sweetness and for setting and consistency. This recipe skips the added sugar entirely and instead uses a small amount of sweetener and chia seeds....
Stuffed Pumpkin
Stuffed Pumpkin – my first dish of the festive season! Wahoo! One of my favourite things about Christmas is the food. I love eating such a variety of dishes and trying bits of everything. The main Christmas event for a lot of families tends to be sitting around the table enjoying a Christmas lunch or...
Dairy-Free Gingerbread Frappe
What’s Christmas without a Gingerbread frappe? Or even better a DAIRY-FREE Gingerbread Frappe? I love when Starbucks brings out their Christmas coffee range! Here in New Zealand we usually only get 3 flavours and occasionally a 4th. The ones we always get are Toffee Nut, Candy Cane and of course Gingerbread. I always get so...
Pumpkin Spice Bundt Cake
My latest addition to my Chritsmas recipe lineup is a pumpkin spice Bundt cake. Vegan of course and also sugar-free. This is sort of a new, original take on the traditional pumpkin pie. I love a good (vegan) pumpkin pie as much as the next person but to be honest it can be a bit...
Vegan Nut Roast
A Vegan Nut Roast is the staple main for a vegan or vegetarian Christmas. Probably because they’re delicious and also have lots of protein as nuts are really high in protein. So maybe someone back in the day thought a good vegetarian alternative to the traditional meat dishes should be high in protein? Who knows....
Easy Vegan Trifle
I decided to make an Easy Vegan Trifle recipe as even though I love Christmas it can so often be really stressful. Long, complicated recipes for Christmas day don’t help. So I thought an easy dessert option was the way to go for those who are short on time or feeling a bit stressed and...
Strawberry Sponge Cake
This Strawberry Sponge Cake is so good in summer as it utilises fresh strawberries. It’s also vegan and sugar-free! Every summer I love going strawberry picking. It’s nice to get out in the sun and wander around the strawberry patches finding all the best ones and of course sampling them too! This summer’s haul was...
Peanut Butter Cookies
Category: Dessert
When I was a kid my mum used to make peanut butter cookies and they were so good! Sometimes she would put chocolate chips in too! In my adult years I have made full sugar and animal product versions complete with choccie chips and I’ve also made a vegan, gluten free version, still full of...
Chocolate Hazelnut Tart
Category: Dessert
Who doesn’t love a chocolate tart? This one is sort of a hazelnut chocolate tart, reminiscent of Nutella, but without the dairy or sugar. I had originally wanted to do this with sugar free, dairy free melted chocolate instead of the cacao but I just couldn’t find the chocolate. If you aren’t too concerned about...
Banana Oat Muffins
These Banana Oat Muffins are approx. 16g of carbs per muffin. Do you find yourself often buying bananas and then you don’t eat them in time and they go brown? I do. All the time! And for me that means baking time! You could also peel them, chop them up and freeze them ready for...
Guilt-Free Chocolate Truffles
With Easter just around the corner I thought it would be nice to provide a chocolatey recipe which diabetics and vegans can enjoy! So many Easter treats are loaded with sugar and dairy, but my chocolate truffles are both vegan and sugar while still being delicious! You wouldn’t guess they don’t include sugar or animal...
Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf
This lemon poppy seed loaf is not only vegan and sugar-free but it’s also gluten-free! I usually don’t do gluten free baking, in fact I tend to stay clear of it. It’s so different from normal baking and even more difficult when I’m trying to also make something vegan and sugar free. I always just...
Individual Lemon and Blueberry Cheesecakes
Category: Dessert
These individual lemon and blueberry cheesecakes are vegan, refined sugar free and gluten free! And the best bit is you can’t tell! I don’t normally use store bought vegan cream cheese but I wanted to give it a try and make things a little easier on myself, so I gave Angel Food Dairy Free Cream Cheese...
Neapolitan Chia Seed Pudding
This week I thought I’d try making a neapolitan chia seed pudding. Yup you read that right. Like the ice-cream flavour but in healthy, chia seed form. Chia seed puddings are pretty weird, you can make them just with chia seeds and milk, the chia seeds expand and go kind of jelly like and with...
Vegan Peanut Butter Cups
I’ve always looooved peanut butter cups. Before I was vegan or diabetic I was obsessed with Reeses. Chocolate and peanut butter is just the perfect combo, that semi sweet, thick creamy peanut butter centre covered in a coating of delicious chocolate. What’s not to like? Well unfortunately, Reeses are made with dairy and a lot...
Caramel Slice
Caramel slice is a treat I used to love getting from the bakery or a cafe, however, they generally are loaded with sugar as well as butter and who knows what other animal products! Fortunately I’ve come up with a recipe which is vegan and refined sugar-free as well as gluten-free so you (and I)...
Stir Fry Satay Veges
Category: Dinner
If you are a fan of peanut butter you need to try this,it’s full of that delicious creamy peanut butter taste. Peanuts are high in protein, as is tofu so this meal will keep you fuller for longer. Feel free to use whichever veges you like and what’s in season. The broccoli works well as...
Eggplant Tomato Pasta
Category: Dinner
When I first started taking more notice of what I’m actually eating and in particular ingredients and nutritional information of pre-packaged foods, pasta sauce was one of the worst. If you have some in your pantry go and look at the ingredients, why is there so much sugar and what are half of these things?...
Vegetable Quinoa Risotto
Category: Dinner
This vegetable quinoa risotto is a really nutritious, delicious and relatively easy dinner to make. There are so many vitamins in the veges including vitamin C, E, and K, as well as iron, folate and magnesium. Plus of course lots of protein in the quinoa. This meal is also gluten free! It makes a lot,...
Vegan Savoury Puff Pinwheels
Ok so full disclosure this recipe isn’t really mine. I have made some changes to an already existing recipe to make it vegan. It’s also not particularly low carb either due to the pastry. However I wanted to do this one as when I was a kid I absolutely loved it. My mum bought this...
Broccoli Tempeh Salad
Category: Dinner
I love a good hearty salad and this broccoli tempeh salad is just that. A basic green salad won’t do and to be honest as a vegan or vegetarian it’s extremely frustrating when you show up at a pot luck BBQ or go to a restaurant and a green salad is the only option. As...
Wellness Bowl
What exactly is a “wellness bowl”, well I guess it’s just exactly that. A bowl of tasty, nutritious food which makes you feel well. They usually consist of some sort of grain for the base – quinoa, rice, freekah – something like that, then a few cooked veges and some fresh garnishes. They are intended...
Roasted Tomato and Capsicum Soup
The temperature is starting to get cooler and some nights it’s really feeling like winter. And what better meal is there for a cold evening than soup? If you are a fan of capsicum or tomato you will love this one. Capsicum, tomato and garlic are all roasted together for a long time to bring...
Thai Green Curry
I’m a big fan of a good Thai Green Curry. However when you buy one from a takeaway store it’s not very easy to know exactly what’s in it. A lot of the time they include too much sugar and also fish sauce which of course is not vegan or even vegetarian. Yes you could...
Cauliflower and Broccoli Cheese
Cauliflower and Broccoli Cheese is the ultimate comforting and warming meal. I’ve always loved it even when I used a sauce made from real cheese. So I thought I would have a go at a vegan version. You could also swap the cauliflower and broccoli for macaroni pasta too. I have done this before and...
Mexican Stuffed Capsicums
If you don’t know by now capsicums are one of my favourite vegetables, specifically roasted, and these mexican stuffed capsicums are the perfect way to get my fix. These are roasted to bring out all that delicious sweet capsicum flavour and filled with a Mexican inspired filling consisting of black beans, corn and a bunch...
Turmeric Latte
I love a good turmeric latte. They’re warm and comforting and perfect for a cold morning or evening and they look pretty awesome too. If you’re avoiding caffeine, a turmeric latte makes a great substitute, although you could also add coffee to this if you like. Just add a couple of teaspoons of instant coffee....
Homemade Almond Milk
Plant milk, or mylk, is becoming increasingly popular. They’re not only better for you and the plant but lots of them, such as my Homemade Almond Milk are also super easy to make yourself! More and more people are starting to realise the benefits of less dairy and more plant based options. In the Euromonitor...
Dairy-Free Gingerbread Frappe
What’s Christmas without a Gingerbread frappe? Or even better a DAIRY-FREE Gingerbread Frappe? I love when Starbucks brings out their Christmas coffee range! Here in New Zealand we usually only get 3 flavours and occasionally a 4th. The ones we always get are Toffee Nut, Candy Cane and of course Gingerbread. I always get so...
Low Sugar Cocktails
This trio of Low Sugar cocktails are perfect for summer. They are full of fresh fruit and are super refreshing, plus they look so pretty! All 3 of these cocktails only contain natural sugars from the fruit which is in them, no refined sugars. Using whole fruit rather than just syrups or fruit juices also...
Healthy Banoffee Milkshake
This Healthy Banoffee Milkshake is, well, healthy. But you wouldn’t think so, it’s super tasty and loaded with banana and toffee flavour, aka banoffee (not banana and coffee which is what my husband seems to keep thinking!). This milkshake is vegan, refined sugar-free, gluten-free and nut-free. I do need to point out that even though...
Homemade Chai Latte
Carbohydrates per serve: 5.5g depending on milk. You can’t beat a warm and spicy homemade chai latte, especially on a cold day! They’re super warming and comforting, not to mention yum! I’m a huge fan of all of the spices that tend to go in a chai blend, so naturally I love a good chai!...
Wellness Bowl
What exactly is a “wellness bowl”, well I guess it’s just exactly that. A bowl of tasty, nutritious food which makes you feel well. They usually consist of some sort of grain for the base – quinoa, rice, freekah – something like that, then a few cooked veges and some fresh garnishes. They are intended...
Roasted Tomato and Capsicum Soup
The temperature is starting to get cooler and some nights it’s really feeling like winter. And what better meal is there for a cold evening than soup? If you are a fan of capsicum or tomato you will love this one. Capsicum, tomato and garlic are all roasted together for a long time to bring...
Thai Green Curry
I’m a big fan of a good Thai Green Curry. However when you buy one from a takeaway store it’s not very easy to know exactly what’s in it. A lot of the time they include too much sugar and also fish sauce which of course is not vegan or even vegetarian. Yes you could...
Cauliflower and Broccoli Cheese
Cauliflower and Broccoli Cheese is the ultimate comforting and warming meal. I’ve always loved it even when I used a sauce made from real cheese. So I thought I would have a go at a vegan version. You could also swap the cauliflower and broccoli for macaroni pasta too. I have done this before and...
Mexican Stuffed Capsicums
If you don’t know by now capsicums are one of my favourite vegetables, specifically roasted, and these mexican stuffed capsicums are the perfect way to get my fix. These are roasted to bring out all that delicious sweet capsicum flavour and filled with a Mexican inspired filling consisting of black beans, corn and a bunch...
Low Carb Satay Tofu Burgers
These low carb satay tofu burgers aren’t quite what you think of when you think burger. Marinated tofu acts as the patty and lettuce leaves act as the bun and you will need a knife and fork, don’t go thinking you’ll be able to pick this up and eat it like a traditional burger, it’ll...
Vegan Jackfruit Quesadillas
These vegan jackfruit quesadillas are super tasty and easy and fun to make. A quesadilla is a Mexican dish. It is typically a filling which can be pretty much anything you like from beans, beef mince, pork etc. The filling is sandwiched between 2 corn or flour tortillas and then fried. It also has cheese...
Beetroot and Carrot Fritters
Fritters can be made with just about any vegetable, they’re usually quick to make and make for a nice sharing meal, lunch or a light dinner. They’re particularly good in the warmer months. When creating these beetroot and carrot fritters I was wanting to make something healthy and nutritious and not doughy and stodgy or...
Vegan Rice Paper Rolls
I first made these vegan rice paper rolls a few months back to take to a friend’s potluck birthday lunch. I wanted something which would suit multiple dietary requirements as there’s a few in or group of friends. So that included vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and not ridiculously high in carbs. While these rice paper rolls...
Vegan Cajun Kumara Fritters
Fritters make a really good light meal, ideal for warmer months or when you just want something easy for dinner and my vegan Cajun kumara fritters are just that. Easy and relatively quick to make, while also filling and of course delicious. I actually first made these when my oven broke and I was hosting...
Flaxseed Egg Replacer
Category: Meal Essentials
Flaxseed or linseed, they’re the same thing just called different things depending on where you live, are high in fiber, protein and good fats. Which also makes them keto friendly! If you’re like me and seem to always have them on hand they make a great, easy and affordable vegan egg replacement. It’s super easy...
Cashew Cream Cheese
Category: Meal Essentials, Snacks
Ok so this doesn’t really taste that much like cream cheese. But it’s really tasty and has a similar consistency. I actually prefer the taste to cream cheese, plus no cows harmed in the making! Win win! It’s incredibly easy to whip up and it can be stored in the fridge for 3-4 days which...
Homemade Peanut Butter
Category: Meal Essentials, Snacks
Cuisine: Spreads & Dips
I am a self-confessed peanut butter fiend. It’s no secret I’m kind of obsessed with the creamy peanut spread, and luckily this recipe for homemade peanut butter is incredibly easy and it only contains two ingredients – peanuts and salt. No nasty additives or preservatives, and no unnecessary sugar! My husband and I go through...
Cashew Cream Cheese
Category: Meal Essentials, Snacks
Ok so this doesn’t really taste that much like cream cheese. But it’s really tasty and has a similar consistency. I actually prefer the taste to cream cheese, plus no cows harmed in the making! Win win! It’s incredibly easy to whip up and it can be stored in the fridge for 3-4 days which...
Vegan Savoury Puff Pinwheels
Ok so full disclosure this recipe isn’t really mine. I have made some changes to an already existing recipe to make it vegan. It’s also not particularly low carb either due to the pastry. However I wanted to do this one as when I was a kid I absolutely loved it. My mum bought this...
Banana Oat Muffins
These Banana Oat Muffins are approx. 16g of carbs per muffin. Do you find yourself often buying bananas and then you don’t eat them in time and they go brown? I do. All the time! And for me that means baking time! You could also peel them, chop them up and freeze them ready for...
Seed Crackers
Category: Snacks
Crackers are a great snack. Easy to eat on the go and easy to mix up with lots of different dips and toppings. The problem is though a lot of crackers (not all) you find in your local supermarket are loaded with carbs, often sugar, and milk products. I honestly spend far too much of...
Guilt-Free Chocolate Truffles
With Easter just around the corner I thought it would be nice to provide a chocolatey recipe which diabetics and vegans can enjoy! So many Easter treats are loaded with sugar and dairy, but my chocolate truffles are both vegan and sugar while still being delicious! You wouldn’t guess they don’t include sugar or animal...
Green Immunity Smoothie
There’s never a bad time to boost your immunity, but with the COVID-19 pandemic and winter on its way now seems like a better time than ever. A smoothie is a really good way to do it too because it’s full of real food and ingredients and you can fit so much in. Plus those...
Lemon Poppy Seed Loaf
This lemon poppy seed loaf is not only vegan and sugar-free but it’s also gluten-free! I usually don’t do gluten free baking, in fact I tend to stay clear of it. It’s so different from normal baking and even more difficult when I’m trying to also make something vegan and sugar free. I always just...
Double Chocolate Bliss Balls
Category: Snacks
These double chocolate bliss balls are perfect for a quick snack or afternoon pick me up. So, what is a bliss ball? I switch between calling them a bliss ball, an energy ball and a snack ball. They’re all of those really. A little blissful mouthful of energy, great for a snack. They’re a really...
Neapolitan Chia Seed Pudding
This week I thought I’d try making a neapolitan chia seed pudding. Yup you read that right. Like the ice-cream flavour but in healthy, chia seed form. Chia seed puddings are pretty weird, you can make them just with chia seeds and milk, the chia seeds expand and go kind of jelly like and with...
Turmeric Latte
I love a good turmeric latte. They’re warm and comforting and perfect for a cold morning or evening and they look pretty awesome too. If you’re avoiding caffeine, a turmeric latte makes a great substitute, although you could also add coffee to this if you like. Just add a couple of teaspoons of instant coffee....
