• Home made chicken strips

    Published On: April 29, 2026Categories: Healthy food, Mains

    One of our favourite meals is chicken strips in a wrap with salad. These are some thing that we make regularly and these chicken strips make a great, healthy alternative to the McDonalds ones that [...]

  • Healthy fridge salad

    Published On: April 5, 2026Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals

    I had forgotten to take anything out of the freezer, and didn't feel like cooking. My lettuces and green leaves are just beginning to be ready to harvest but I decided to make a salad [...]

  • Healthy snack.

    Published On: February 8, 2026Categories: Healthy food, Snacks

    For about 2 years now I have seen reels with this healthy snack. Ramadan is just around the corner and so majoule dates are discounted at a lot of shops. I finally bought some to [...]

  • Home made bone broth

    Published On: December 16, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Nutrition

    Bone broth is so good for you. It is full of collagen which apparently helps keep the skin elastic and hold back aging. I could definitely do with some of that. Another bonus is that [...]

  • UPF free chocolate cereal.

    Published On: December 4, 2025Categories: Breakfasts, Healthy food

    I try to give my grandson as little ultra processed food as possible. He loves chocolate cereal, though. I therefore decided to make some of my own UPF free chocolate cereal. Making my own also [...]

  • Cooking a pumpkin in the slow cooker.

    Published On: November 19, 2025Categories: Healthy food

    I have 4 pumpkins stored. Recently I have been researching all of the different things that you can make with pumpkin puree and so I thought I would make some. I didn't want to put [...]

  • Lemon slaw

    Published On: September 18, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Recipes

    I don't like mayonaise but like the thought of eating a slaw. We were having family around for a meal and I wanted to make falafels in wraps and needed something else to put in [...]

  • Spicy summer cous cous

    Published On: September 13, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    I love cous cous. It is so quick to make. Today we had some bits and pieces to use up from the freezer and so I made spicy summer cous cous to accompany them. I [...]

  • Airfried chick pea snack

    Published On: September 9, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Snacks

    I had the munches today but am trying to be good. I therefore decided to make a healthy, crunchy snack to eliminate my craving. I soaked and boiled some chick peas yesterday and so I [...]

  • Healthy carrot cake snacks

    Published On: September 1, 2025Categories: Healthy food

    I am on a mission to have healthy snacks in September. We have a wedding to go to in February but I usually put weight on over winter. I am therefore trying to get into [...]

  • Lentil Salad

    Published On: August 2, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals

    My daughter rang me today asking me for the recipe of a lentil salad that I made for her birthday buffet. It is full of flavour, has great texture and lasts 4 or 5 days [...]

  • Easy courgette fritters.

    Published On: July 23, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Vegetarian

    These courgette fritters are very similar to the courgette waffles, but cheaper as no egg is needed. I make these a couple of times a week now that courgettes are in season. They are great [...]

  • How Rosemary is good for my purse and my health

    Published On: June 22, 2025Categories: Growing Food, Healthy food

    I have lots of big rosemary bushes in my garden, but have never bought any.  They are evergreen and last for years.  The blue flowers are so pretty. Rosemary is easy to propagate and mine [...]

  • Courgette waffles

    Published On: June 18, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Recipes

    We like waffles. We can batch cook them, freeze them, or store them in the fridge to use during the week. We cook different kinds for different uses, but these are a new savoury one [...]

  • Falafels

    Published On: March 29, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Recipes

    We use lots of different recipes for falafels, depending on what I have in the cupboards.  I have been asked for a recipe, and this is one that we made the other day.  Usually I [...]

  • No bake healthy ‘Snicker’ type snack

    Published On: February 15, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Snacks

    My mission to avoid the supermarket and spend as little money on food as possible, continues.  I am using up what I already have.  We are not baking as much now a days, in an [...]

  • The importance of cleaning your bought fruit and vegetable

    Published On: February 1, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Wellbeing

    Fruit and vegetables are a really important part of our nutrition. I hold my hands up that I never used to wash my fruit, and would eat an apple straight from the fruit bowl, or [...]

  • Drinking home made teas made from what we have

    Published On: January 28, 2025Categories: Healthy food, Saving money on food

    Coffee and tea have really increased in price.  I don't actually drink either, but Mr S drinks both.  This year I am trying to embrace winter, and so have decided to try to make 'teas' [...]

  • Air fryer quick, cheap, quiche

    Published On: November 27, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    So many people tell me that they can not cook from scratch because they do not have time, don't have enough money, or it is too much bother.  Here is a cheap, quick meal that [...]

  • Gluten and sugar free apple cake

    Published On: September 9, 2024Categories: Baking, Healthy food, Recipes

    I am on a quest to eat more healthily. I especially want to cut out sugar. We have an abundance of foraged apples, and I bought some reduced over ripe bananas the other day which [...]

  • Vegetable salad and how to turn it into Spicy Coleslaw.

    Published On: July 2, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    This is a lovely, bright salad which is full of colour. It uses what is in season and growing in the garden. Ingredients 1/3 of a red cabbage shredded, or thinly sliced. 1/3 of a [...]

  • Raspberry and coconut bounty bars

    Published On: June 1, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Recipes, Snacks

    I have just come back from a break a way on my own and I am determined to improve my eating habits.  I have got into some bad snacking habits.  The trouble is, that if [...]

  • Spinach wraps

    Published On: May 29, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    I wanted a healthy substantial breakfast today, and I have so much spinach to use up.  My perpetual spinach is going mad this year.  I therefore decided to make some spinach wraps.  We eat a [...]

  • Cous Cous Salad

    Published On: May 26, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    I love making  cous cous salad as it is a quick healthy meal. I make it on the days when I can not be bothered to cook or if I have been busy in the [...]