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North African Inspired Tagine Style Chickpeas


North African Inspired Tagine style Chickpeas How exciting! I’ve just received my bespoke organic vegetable delivery and it looks like I’m going to be busy! As well as the regular vegetables I also have some red Jerusalem artichokes (grown locally in the UK), a very large purple kohlrabi, a tub of mixed sprouts, some golden globe beetroot, fresh horseradish and……

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Luscious Lentil Pakoras… a Bengali comfort food. D.E.G.Free!


Luscious Lentil Pakoras. Dairy. Egg. Gluten. Free. Today I had no idea what recipe I was going to post! Sometimes I might have a day in the kitchen and end up producing three different wonderful recipes, whereas on other days I’m too tired to be Mrs Inventor! 😛 I usually have a rough idea what I will post the following…

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Breakfast the DEGF free… and A to Z Challenge


Breakfast the Dairy. Egg. Gluten. Free. way and the A to Z Challenge Back to school Monday! So much to do so just a quick post this morning! (maybe)! 😛 Seems though breakfast is the way to kick-start your day and fuel your body up ready for whatever you throw at it, it seems only fair that I should post another…

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Blogging Love and Another Award!


Blogging Love and Another Award Another Liebster Award! 🙂 This time Beverley at One Vegan Day at a Time has nominated me for a Liebster Blog Award. Beverley’s blog is charting her journey into a healthier life and looking at the transition from vegetarian to vegan. Beverley likens the Liebster award to an encouraging hug for new bloggers! 🙂 As my…

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Award Day! Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award!


Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award Well would you believe it! Jennie at VeganMiow nominated my blog for The Sisterhood of the World Bloggers Award (TSOTWBA). I love Jennies blog as she has some super delicious recipes on there and they are all vegetarian (& vegan) friendly. 🙂 Anyway, awards (I have discovered) are a fantastic way to get others…

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Saturday Shock! Liebster Award!


Saturday Shock! Liebster Award! OMGosh!!! I’m thrilled. I’m honoured. I’m so excited. I’m an award winner!!! Thank you so much to Andrea at The Healthy Secret Identity for nominating me! That was SO NOT what I was expecting when I checked my inbox from under my warm snuggly duvet this morning. It certainly brightened my day after having been woken…

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Fabulous Flapjack Friday (and its DEGF & chocolate too)!


Fabulous Flapjack Friday (DEGF & Chocolate) It’s fabulous Friday… fabulous because tomorrow it’s the weekend! That means plenty of yummy cake and biscuit trialling 🙂  What’s so good about this flapjack? Apart from it being DEGF (Dairy. Egg. Gluten. Free.) and tasting sooo good you want to eat it all before it’s even out of the oven!? Well as if…

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Free From Pancakes (DEGF) and wordpress.com OR wordpress.org ?


Free From Pancakes (DEGF) At the weekend my son said “we haven’t had pancakes for ages?” so, taking that as a challenge I set about seeing what I could come up with! I had been making pancakes with regular white flour, egg and coconut milk (for the dairy sub.) but since trying to cut out both refined white products and eggs,…

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Warming Winter Spiced Chocolate (DEGF)


Warming Winter Spiced Chocolate Oh My Gosh! 🙂 It was so cold yesterday I thought my fingers would drop off! I needed something to warm me up without making me (more!) lazy and lethargic and this… this was amazing! Don’t think ‘hot chocolate’ as this is most definitely not! Don’t think ‘creamy & calorific’ as there’s no cream or no dairy…

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New Year… New Blog!!!


Hello all and welcome! Please bear with me whilst I get my head around this ‘blog’ thing! My husband always laughs at me as I have an IT Level 2 qualification but it appears ‘blogging’ (amongst other things!) was not one of the topics covered! Hopefully, you have found this blog by searching ‘Life’ or ‘Diet’ or ‘Health’ or even…

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