Healthy Eating

Homemade Bacon Ranch Salad Dressing. Easy to make as a low fat dressing too, using half fat mayo; plus ideas for Bacon Ranch Pasta Salad and Bacon Ranch Egg Salad.

Crispy Cornflake Fish Sticks with an easy gluten free option too! Oven baked, not fried! Kids of all ages will love these crispy dippable fish fingers. They also make incredibly tasty fish finger sandwiches!

The Best Oven Fried Chicken Nuggets. Kid approved, low fat baked chicken nuggets in a delicious herb & spice coating; crispy outside, tender on the inside.

Quinoa Vegetarian Chili is the ideal tasty choice for a “Meatless Monday” dinner. It’s chock full of flavour & nutrition and the leftovers freeze well too.

Spinach Pesto on Pappardelle pasta is an easy, tasty way to get some nutritious spinach onto the plate quickly and easily.

Maple Baked Beans with Apple Sausage – a very different and infinitely more delicious version of “beans and weiners”. 

Warm Grilled Potato Salad with Lemon and Oregano. A tasty, warm grilled potato salad with plenty of bright fresh flavours in the dressing and finished with some crumbled feta cheese. Originally published June 2013. As regular readers will know, our family practically lives off the backyard grill in the summer months. With the season so …

Tarragon Lime Shrimp Scampi. A fresh, fast and utterly delicious seafood & pasta dinner in only about 20 minutes.

Roasted Garlic Caesar Salad Dressing. The easy way, using a plain mayo base. Roasting the garlic brings out its natural sweetness and adds a more mellow garlic flavour for an exceptional caesar salad.

Tomato Cucumber Salad with Chickpeas & Mint. This delicious version of tomato cucumber salad features the additional bright flavours of lime & mint plus the healthy addition of protein-rich chick peas.