Easy Low Carb Recipes. Sugar Free, Gluten Free, Natural Ingredients
Spread some love with these home-made heart shaped eggs. Easy to make and simply adorable, they will be the superstars of your Valentine’s or Easter breakfast!
I know. This is not quite cooking. It’s not quite a “dish”.
But.
I just could not resist. I want to spread some egg love!
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Incredible creaminess, a most mellow milky flavour and an all-around superiority over store-bought versions: It’s easy to make your own homemade almond milk!
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Ditch the chocolate bars and Doritos: Find inspiration for plenty of healthy and yummy sugar free snacks for kids (and adults) right here!
In our current food culture we often equate snacks with “treats” – muffins, biscuits, ice cream, crisps, crackers. Generally speaking, you could call them “tasty sweet and salty things you buy that are wrapped in plastic”. So when you’re cutting down on sugar and are eating more unprocessed, whole foods, it can be difficult to imagine what snacking can look like….
Spiced Pear and Goat Cheese Salad. A starter with a wow factor or a super-sophisticated light lunch. 
This is one of my absolutely favourite recipes and it doesn’t matter how much of it I make… it disappears as quickly as I can say “spiced pear and goat cheese salad”. See? It’s gone again. Now I have to make some more….
Making your own Sugar Free Ketchup is super-easy. This recipe is delicious, healthy and tastes surprisingly sweet. Move over, Heinz!
Darling, would you like a spoonful of sugar with your chips?
Yes, seriously.
Shop-bought ketchup. Friends, most varieties have one teaspoon of sugar per serving! And do you ever eat your burger with just one serving of ketchup? On goes another dollop half way through, then one more on the plate for the chips. Once you’re at it……
The holy grail of foodie goodness: Vegetables for breakfast! These Spinach and Chive Mini Quiches are easy to make and almost too good to share.
How handsome are these little guys? Don’t they look sooo yummy?
If you want to wow yourself with a breakfast that does not only taste good and sets you up for the day but is also easy on the eye, try these Spinach and Chive Mini Quiches. In fact, I am not going to be humble at all here: This is a breakfast perfectly formed you could imagine eating at The Wolseley – the one place that can make scrambled eggs with sliced avocado look so beautiful you want to flick your freshly blow-dried hair back with your bejewelled hand, do your best Blue Steel pout and then just stroke it gently….
A colourful feast for the eyes: Piedmontese roasted peppers make a delicious light lunch and are a perfect partner for chicken. Summer on a plate!
Aren’t these roasted peppers a feast for the eyes?
There are days when you need a bit more colour in your life to cheer yourself up. Like today:
I looked outside: grey sky.
I looked at my outfit: grey jumper & black jeans.
I looked in the mirror: Let’s not go there.
Time for some serious Italian food passion! The sweetness of the roasted peppers with their browned edges combined with the garlicky tomatoes and the saltiness of anchovies are a divine combination. Don’t be put off by the idea of adding fish to a vegetable dish – the anchovies melt into the tomatoes and create a delicious sauce that is not fishy at all. As always, it is the quality of the raw ingredients that make or break a dish, so look out for really decent peppers and vine ripened tomatoes.
I found this recipe in an old Delia Smith cookbook I was leafing through in a cafe years ago and it has been one of my favourite happy dishes ever since. Every time I make it I can’t believe how something so simple to make can taste so good! It is, frankly, summer on a plate. 
Together with some chunky sourdough bread to scoop up the garlicky juices – one of the yummiest parts of this dish – these roasted peppers make a great light lunch, but they also work well as part of an antipasti buffet or partnered with roast chicken or lamb for a weekend family feast.
Any leftovers can be cut up and used as a flavoursome pasta sauce or tossed into a green salad.
My tip: Make a large portion. This dish is so good it would be a shame if you do not get seconds.
Summer on a plate - juicy and flavourful, these Piedmontese roasted peppers are a classic Italian dish.
Moist, satisfying and finger-licking chocolatey. A healthy brownie recipe without the sugar rush. Hello, Sweet Potato Brownies!
A brownie with no added sugar is a feat in itself. But healthy brownies that also features a vegetable? A superfood vegetable that’s a major source of vitamin C? Friends, I know. This is almost too good to be true. But here they are: Gooey, moist, chocolatey, superbly satisfying Sweet Potato Brownies….
This applesauce recipe is so easy it is absolutely fool-proof and made with no added sugar whatsoever.
It is so incredibly simple to make homemade applesauce that, after whipping up a batch, you wonder why people don’t make it more often. This condiment/dessert/ingredient for countless dishes is super-versatile and delicious and really can be made in no time at all. Most recipes recommend adding sugar, but this is absolutely not necessary. The fructose in apples alone will make your applesauce taste deliciously sweet.
The best thing about this super-healthy sugar free version is this: You do not have to peel the apples! Yes I know, there is a certain satisfaction in peeling an apple in one continuous coil, starting from the top, and when you manage to get to the bottom without ripping the peel you… will become famous, get a personal massage therapist, have a happy life, or something like that. I know, that is always fun.
Glad you know what I am talking about!
But, friends, you can still play that game elsewhere. Try to empty the dishwasher before the kettle finishes boiling, for example. One of my personal favourites. Works just as well!
Leaving on the peel when cooking applesauce actually has several benefits:
Now, let me remind you of all the beautiful ways you can eat apple sauce:
Homemade Applesauce rocks!
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This recipe for sugar-free applesauce is so easy it is absolutely fool-proof. Apples are so sweet on their own - there's no need for extra sugar!
I calculated 1 portion to be 50g / ca 1/4 cup.
Added sugars shouldn’t make up more than 5% of the energy (calorie intake) you get from food and drink each day. Yet most of us eat way too much of it. Are you ready to drastically curb your sweet tooth and get your sugar cravings under control? Here are some essential tips on where to start.…
When you look at old photos of people in the 40s and 50s, you’ll be amazed at how slim everyone looked. Even though they probably did not go to the gym every day and obsessed over their health the way we do today. How could this be possible? Why is it that, only a few decades later, the Western world has a serious obesity problem, with type 2 diabetes being one of the biggest health hazards around?
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In the UK, we consume over two million tonnes of sugar every year. Yet we often don’t know we’re eating it.
Let’s say you buy some chicken in the supermarket. Chicken is protein, right? Therefore good for you? Quite the opposite. Prepared chicken and other meats are often marinated with dextrose, which is one of sugar’s many aliases. Once you start checking the labels, you will be amazed how many hidden sugars prepare foods contain.
The problem is this: Sugar is good for business. It helps to extend the shelf life of packaged food and makes it more tasty. Therefore, food manufacturers add sugar not only to sweet treats and food perceived as healthy such as fruit yogurts or low fat snacks, but to all kinds of savoury products, from meat to bread to crisps to pasta sauces.
If you were to take out the salt, sugar and fat out of processed goods, they would probably taste like sawdust. Just saying….
Little effort, big effect: Homemade green pesto smokes all ship-bought varieties.
There are things that are so simple and yet so incredibly brilliant that they make your day.
Like wearing shoes that look great AND are comfortable.
Like signing up to Netflix and being able to watch 4 episodes of your favourite show in a row. Or 40. Or 400.
Like the feeling you get AFTER you have exercised. And you were in the gym for only 20 minutes!
Like going to a café in central London and getting the last available table. And it’s in the sunshine.
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