Blender Flourless Brownies

February 8, 2018Chocolate, Coconut, Gluten Free, i love making things, kids nutrition, Meals and snacks, Recipes, recipes your kids will loveblender, brownies, Chocolate, coconut oil, collagen, dairy free, egg, flourless, gluten free, paleo, primal, recipe, simple, sugar freeLeave a comment

Blender Flourless Brownies

Yep, you read right, make flourless brownies in your blender! So easy and quick! Throw all the ingredients and then pour the mix into your baking tray or molds like I do!

My kids love these and they also take them to school as their snack. I love them because they take literally minutes to make, there is minimal washing up, they have great nutrition in them and are sugar-free so continue to build their healthy relationship with food and real chocolate.

They are also great with a cup of tea for me!!

Blender Flourless Brownies

2018-02-08 11:04:53

Yields 25

A simple, delicious and nutritious adjustment of a classic chocolate brownie recipe to make in the blender. Blitz, pour and bake. Sugarless too.

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Prep Time

5 min

Cook Time

20 min

Total Time

25 min

Prep Time

5 min

Cook Time

20 min

Total Time

25 min

Ingredients

3/4 cup raw cacao powder
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp. Himalayan Pink salt
1 cup coconut oil (you could also use butter/ghee)
14 dates (more or less for you own sweet tooth)
1-2 tbsp. coconut sugar (optional)
3/4 cup cacao paste or 1/2 cup 70-80% chocolate bar/chips
4 eggs
3/4 cup water
1/2 cup collagen hydrolysate (optional)
pinch of vanilla or tsp vanilla extraxct
Chocolate chips for the top (optional)

Instructions

Add all the ingredients
Blend
(yes it is that simple!)
Pour into greased baking tray or moulds
Bake for 20 mins at 180c (it may be longer if you are baking it in a baking tray)
allow to cool. They may feel fragile but when they cool they will firm up

Notes

These have a rich dark chocolate taste. My kids love them but if you are used to refined sugar brownies, these may taste bitter, adjust and reduce the amount of sugar each time you make them to change your palate. On the flip side if you are used to being sugar free, these may taste really sweet!

By Louise Kane Buckley

Adapted from Martha Stewart

Loula Natural https://loulanatural.com/

If you want to know where I get my ingredients from, have a look at these items. I normally buy from iherb and these links will send you there (I get a bonus if you buy them too with this link). However, you can find the same brands in other shops too.

Coconut Yoghurt breakfast bowl

January 9, 2018January 9, 2018Whole 30breakfast, dairy free, delicious, desert, grain free, guilt free, kids food, pudding, whole 30Leave a comment

I normally have two fried eggs for breakfast, sometimes with Kimchi and bacon and sometimes with my Nacho not Cheese Kale chips. Sometimes I get bored of eggs, rare, but it does happen. I try to stay away from dairy (except ghee) and grains, especially when I am eating whole 30, which I tend to do every couple of months to help me to reset and to feel better. This coconut yogurt breakfast bowl is my other favourite breakfast. Coconut’s are amazing and are packed full of nutrients especially healthy fats. See my fact sheet on coconuts here.

When I am whole 30 I stay away from sugar hence the choco-coco snackaroons however I also use my Choco-orange grain free granola and my salty cinnamon maple raw-olna. Sound good, oh it is I promise. The Choco- Coco snackaroons are super simple to make and I always have a batch made as they are idea kids snacks for after school.

If you want to make your coconut yoghurt (which believe me you should try) here is my recipe, if you do not have coconuts to hand (most of the world does not I understand!) then try the method with coconut milk (see my homemade version here or use canned).

Coconut Yoghurt Bowl with fruit and Choco-coco snackaroons

2018-01-08 11:22:39

Serves 1

A great grain free and dairy free breakfast. Paleo and Whole 30 compliant, delicious and nutritious

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Prep Time

15 min

Prep Time

15 min

Ingredients

4 tbsp Coconut Yoghurt (homemade or if store bought ensure no sugar or cornflour has been added.)
1 tbsp Collagen (optional)
6 Raspberries (ideally organic)
10 Blueberries (ideally organic)
3-4 Choco-coco Snackaroons (Dates, coconut, raw cacao, salt and vanilla- see adapted link)

Instructions

Add coconut yoghurt and collagen to the bowl and mix well
Add your berries and break up snackaroons to add on top.
Enjoy!

Adapted from http://loulanatural.com/choco-coco-snackaroons/

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Weaning Recipes from Nurture Your Life

January 15, 2016January 17, 2016baby led weaning, kids nutrition, Meals and snacks, Parenting Experiencebaby, baby led weaning, baby led weaning recipe, baby nutrition, childrens nutrition, dairy free, ditch the baby rice, eat with your kids, gluten free, grain free, how to get your kids to eat, kids, kids food, paleo, recipesLeave a comment

Weaning Recipes

Have your read my new REAL FOOD way to wean your child? Its called Nurture Your Life (link here). These weaning recipes are all featured in the book.

Here are all the recipes with their links from the book. Let me know your favourite!

First foods:

(4-8 months depending on child’s ability to sit up)

Fish eggs

Bone Broth

Coconut Yoghurt

Parsnip rice (steamed of stirfried in Ghee)

Sweet Potato/carrot Chips (cut into battons and lightly steamed or baked tossed in coconut oil.

Sweet Potato mash

Sweet potato Rosti

Steamed broccoli

Sliced avocado

Sliced pear

Scrambled egg yolks (separate the eggs and scramble the yolks in a little ghee)

Mashed banana

Water or coconut water kefir

Green smoothies (make with powdered greens and fresh coconut water or water kefir)

Fermented green beans

Apple Sauce

Rhubarb and ginger sauce

Oat milk/ Coconut milk

Miso soup

Seaweed snacks (ensure the ingredients contain healthy fats and no MSG)

6-12 months

Popcorn chicken

Cauliflower Crust Pizza

Falafel

Coconut and ginger chicken soup

Sweet Potato Falafel (use flax/chia as an egg replacer until 12 months or just use egg yolk)

Cauliflower Cheese nuggets (same advice as above for eggs)

Beef Jerky made with thinly sliced beef

Kefir/Kombucha gummies

Chia porridge (use breast, coconut or oat milk) with coconut yoghurt

Banana Flax Crackers or quinoa flatbreads serve with:

Salmon pate

Coconut butter/yoghurt

Hummus add some fermented garlic for an added fermented kick

Tahini and avocado

Rasperries/blackberries/watermelon/mango (mango seeds are great for kids to suck on)

Mango Chia jam

Fat banana custard (before 12 months only use the egg yolks)

Chocolate Avocado pudding

Homemade Chocolate

Balls of Energy (until 12months use only seeds)

12-18 months

based on elimination diet protocols can start to introduce egg white, nuts, raw honey. (Try to keep grains to a minimum or traditionally prepared and served with something fermented until 2years)

Blender Waffles/Blender pancakes

Egg Muffins

Grain free granola (until you have checked nuts you can just use a variety of seeds; pumpkin, sesame, sunflower, chia and ground flax. Try this salty cinnamon flavour

Breakfast in a glass smoothie

Slow cooked apple, rhubarb and ginger porridge (serve with coconut yoghurt)

Almond milk

Nate’s Kefir Blueberry Mawfins

Christmas Kraut

December 13, 2015January 17, 2016Fermented, Fermented Foods, Raw, Recipes, recipes your kids will love, Uncategorized, Updating the Classicsanti-inflammatory, antioxidant, cabbage, Christmas, cinnamon, cranberry, dairy free, easy, fermented, ginger, healing, healthy, homemade, immune system, kraut, natural, naturopath, nutrient dense, prebiotic, probiotic, raw, real food, recipe, sauerkraut, simpleLeave a comment

This spicy, tart and juicy Christmas Kraut is a match made in heaven for your plate, throughout the holiday season.

Traditional Christmas foods are naturally rich in fats, nutrients and, of course, sugar! Many of us will also be enjoying a tipple or two at parties over the coming weeks. Adding a fermented aspect to these meals, this Christmas Kraut may help the body to deal with and digest all these excess foods and drinks. Hopefully lessening the fatigue, bloating, hangovers, sugar highs (and lows) and of course the noxious fumes that generally comes with turkey, sprouts et al.

Perfect on the plate at the main event or served with cheese, this Christmas Kraut will totally change some of your Christmas traditions!! It will certainly be on the menu for me for years to come.

So simple, if you are in a warmish climate you could ferment this in a week and have it ready for your Christmas table this year.

To find out how to make a basic sauerkraut see here and for my beetroot and ginger flavour see here.

Christmas Kraut

2015-12-13 12:00:28

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Ingredients

Ingredients
1 whole green cabbage thinly sliced
1 whole red cabbage thinly sliced
1.5% Salt
250g of fresh cranberries cut in half
1 orange (zest and segments cut in 3)
2tsp Pumpkin pie spice (or use a mix of cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, ginger and star anise)

Instructions

Retain 1/2 of the outside cabbage leaves for later.
Make sauerkraut by mixing the cabbage with the salt. Massage the cabbage until it starts to wilt and release water.
Add and combine the cranberries, orange and spices.
Press the mixture into a fido (airtight sealable jar) jar and keep pressing down to release liquid.
When the mixture is all in the jar and there is liquid covering the top, press down the outside cabbage leaves to keep any stray bits of cabbage from floating to the surface of the liquid.
Seal and leave to ferment on the counter for a week-28 days. Keep tasting the kraut every few days.
Put in the fridge for an additional week.
Enjoy, Merry Christmas

Notes

This recipe is especially nice with cheese or an alternative to cranberry sauce.

By Louise Buckley

Adapted from How to Ferment: Sauerkraut

Loula Natural https://loulanatural.com/

Salty Cinnamon Maple Grain Free Granola

September 26, 2014September 26, 2014Coconut, Gluten, Gluten Free, Holistic health, i love making things, Meals and snacks, Natural Alternatives, Raw, recipes your kids will love, Uncategorizedbreakfast, dairy free, easy, gluten free, grain free, healthy, kids, quick, realfood, recipes, yummyLeave a comment

Salty Cinnamon Maple Grain Free Granola

I have loved alternating between my eggs in the morning and my different grain free raw granola flavours (other recipes here and here). I took inspiration from my cinnamon salty/sweet popcorn to try to entice my daughter to try it (she is devoted to her muesli for breakfast!). I love it warm straight out of the dehydrator and served with kefir and berries. I also like it with gently warmed almond milk. Especially with the mornings starting to be a bit cooler.

It also works really nicely as a crumble topping with some stewed fruit and my fat banana custard for puddings!

Grain Free Salty Cinnamon Maple Granola

2014-09-26 08:16:29

A warming and comforting granola. Great warm or cold. Serve with Kefir/yoghurt and berries.

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Ingredients

1/2 tsp live sea salt (or pink salt)
1-2 tbsp Maple Syrup to taste
1 tsp Cinnamon
1/2 cup ground flax seeds
1 cup almonds
1/2 cup hazelnuts
1/2 cup pecans
1/2 cup cashews
1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
1/4 cup sunflower seeds
1 tbsp coconut oil
1tbs water

Instructions

Put all ingredients together in a food processor
Blitz till combined
spread out onto a silicon sheet or baking tray with baking paper and either dehydrate at 100F for 12 hours or bake in a low oven.
Store in the fridge

Notes

To have warm, either add to a bowl and put in the dehydrator for 10-20 mins or gently warm milk and add to the granola.

By Louise

Loula Natural https://loulanatural.com/

Here are my other breakfast recipes

and my dedicated pinterest board;

Follow Loula Natural’s board Loula Natural’s Breakfast Inspiration on Pinterest.