a pile of useful cookbooks for intolerances
Body, Recipes

6 Useful Cookbooks For Intolerances

Are you looking for recipes or cookbooks that are useful for intolerances. This post shares some cookbooks that I've got that help us when catering for food intolerances. When we first started dealing with food intolerances it was hard to know where to start and what recipes could be safely used. Most of my cookbooks… Continue reading 6 Useful Cookbooks For Intolerances

Body, Mains, Menu, Recipes

10 Meals to Make in Under 40 Minutes

Many of the meals that I make are quick and easy and can be made in 30 - 40 minutes. Here's 10 meals that I make when I want to make dinner quickly and there all gluten, dairy, soy & sulphite free: Quick Chilli Beef served as nachosTric's mince cookingheart shaped rissolesFried RiceCreamy Tomato Chickenporcupines… Continue reading 10 Meals to Make in Under 40 Minutes

Advent & Christmas, Body, Recipes

Christmas Baking

We're going to my brothers house on Christmas Day.  There will only be 12 of us for lunch.  We've divided up what everyone is bringing.  We're having prawns, cold meat and salad along with lots of other goodies. Since we're away at the beach until Sunday most of my baking is going to happen on… Continue reading Christmas Baking

vanilla cupcakes with icing and sprinkles
Body, Cakes, Recipes

Vanilla Cupcake Day

Today is Vanilla Cupcake Day.   When I was little cupcakes used to be called Patty Cakes here in Australia, as you baked them in patty pans.  I just pulled a a box of the papers out of my pantry & they called them 'cupcake patty pan set'. Anyhow I thought I'd share a few links… Continue reading Vanilla Cupcake Day

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Special Dietary Requirements at Events

I've been to 3 events in the last 6 weeks or so.  Two were events of about 300-350 people where we were fed morning tea, lunch and afternoon tea.  At one of these events we even got dinner on 2 of the nights.  The other event was a training event with about 20 people. At… Continue reading Special Dietary Requirements at Events

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What My Husband Eats – Then & Now

When my husband was first diagnosed with his food intolerances he was struggling to know what to eat.  He usually had wheat in some form or other for breakfast, morning tea, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner.  There was also a lot of dairy which is one of his intolerances but to a lesser degree.  Sulphites… Continue reading What My Husband Eats – Then & Now

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Gluten and Dairy Free Cupcakes

Apparently the 18th of October is Chocolate Cupcake Day. When I first started cooking gluten free I found that chocolate or cocoa helped hide the gluten free taste.  Hence I made a lot of chocolate slice and chocolate brownies. I also found that it was very easy to sub your milk of choice (eg., almond,… Continue reading Gluten and Dairy Free Cupcakes

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5 Blogs for Recipes that we can use

I've been making dairy free & soy free recipes for about 8 years now, since my son was first diagnosed with his food intolerances.  And then we added gluten free & sulphite free recipes to that about 2 years later, when my husband was tested.  So I have had lots of time to find sources… Continue reading 5 Blogs for Recipes that we can use