Know Your Butter
We have often discussed which butter is better and both often get asked which butter we use. We decided to do a little research. We are well aware of the increasing number of feedlot dairy farms in the USA and some Asian countries whereby…
EGGS – are they always what they are cracked up to be?
Googies, bumnuts, cacklberries or eggies! What else do your family call eggs? Unfortunately, the eggs predominantly available in supermarkets today are not the healthy little bundles of nutrition that nature intended them to be. WHY? Have you ever seen how happy a chook…
Juice…Not so juicy
Freshly squeezed or not, a glass of fruit juice is not as healthy as we’ve been led to believe. Not all juice is created equally. Avoidance of the nasty ‘fruit juice drinks’ consisting of 20-50% fruit juice, sugar, water, colours and preservatives, is easy….
Milk aint Milk
Not all milk is created equal. Raw milk, homogenised, pasteurised, organic? What does it all mean and why are we drinking milk anyway? Humans have been conventionally milking animals (sheep, goats and cows) for their milk for at least 1000 years but there are…
Honey
We love using natural sweeteners on special occasions, especially raw honey. So, what’s the difference between raw honey and any old honey you can buy at Woollies? Is it worth making the switch to raw? It sure is. Raw honey has NOT been pasteurised,…
The Dark Side of Olives
A food journey is forever evolving. What we enjoy most about our food journey is learning. With knowledge comes awareness and with awareness comes change. With a family of 7, take-away food is really not an economical operation. We very rarely have it. If…
Masa Harina
It has been very exciting to get hold of “Masa Harina” from our fantastic Health Food Store in Atherton, to make authentic mexican corn tortillas! We had these for dinner last night and the man of the house said they are the very best…
Yoghurt
How can you go wrong with yoghurt? A cultured food? A probiotic?……..What next? As we have evolved on our food journey we have found the most important thing has been, simply knowing the food we put into our bodies. Gaining this knowledge has helped…
True Arrowroot
Arrowroot Flour (True Arrowroot) is derived from the rhizome or root of the arrowroot plant that is dried then ground to a fine powder. With the increasing number of people suffering from gluten and corn allergies, arrowroot flour is becoming more widely used as an…
Tamari
Tamari sauce is similar to soy sauce in that it is made from fermented soybeans, however tamari is a gluten free option. We don’t use any soy products unless it is in a fermented form like in soy sauce, tamari, miso, natto or tempeh….