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This is absolutely delicious, fairly simple to make, is sweetened only with manuka honey – and it’s dairy free! Ingredients: 3 bananas large, ripe, peeled and sliced 1/2 cup Natural,...

If you enjoy eating healthy and want to make the most of your food’s nutritional benefits, this article is for you. It describes different ways you can add things, remove...

Summer’s almost here which for me means eating a lot more salads and what better way to get a daily dose of Hemp Seed Oil than in a yummy healthy...

This week, we are soft launching 300ml bottles of Organic Hemp Seed Oil from The Hemp Farm who currently import an extremely high-quality oil from Canada while they wait to...

Wendyl Nissen interviewed Jamie Oliver recently for the The Australian Women’s Weekly. Wendyl reports – ‘we spent a lot of time talking about the sugar tax which he and his...

We all know that a healthy diet is critical for a child’s development. As parents, it’s our responsibility to ensure that our children are given all the help and support...

It’s not often (maybe never) that I find myself ahead of any trends, but after reading this definition of what clean eating actually is, I’m feeling trendy. Clean eating is...

I find a lot of the popular health and wellness blogs a huge hassle when it comes to actually living in reality. If the articles and recipes aren’t riddled with...

Considering the New Zealand media’s love affair with stories about homegrown violence, this piece might surprise you. If you’ve managed to not pay too much attention to all the glorified...

One of the things I love about driving up north in the early summer is the abundance of a really bright, almost fluorescent pink rambling rose which grows on the...

This salad is a wonderful combination of flavours, spicy, sweet, earthy, fresh and delicious! **For the vegan version replace the honey with pure maple syrup or agave and use vegan...

I’m always on the lookout for scientific studies on the effects food food has on us even though sometimes, it is all a bit contradictory and on one day coffee,...

Having a healthy scalp is harder to achieve as we age. We often hear of men suffering hair loss, but it’s also common amongst women (especially as we head towards...

Here’s a worrying story for you. I’ve seen it reported over many reputable news websites as well as many blogs in the past week and I have to admit that...

As you all know, I don’t drink coffee or tea anymore, so I am always on the lookout for a coffee substitute. I recently met a friend at Unbakery Café...

Recently I wrote about the F.D.A. in the U.S. banning triclosan as an ingredient used in soaps. This week I found out that Colgate have managed to convince the F.D.A...

If your garden is anything like mine after winter, there’s a fair bit of work to do. This year my broccoli and cabbage were not a great success, so I’m...

Some of you keen gardeners may be planting out seedlings at the moment and I thought I’d share a great trick I learned recently. My garden up north was completely...

The FDA (Food and Drug Administration) in the U.S. has just banned antibacterial soaps for having the potential to harm us and no potential to be “antibacterial” as they claim....

Apparently, bitter almonds contain small amounts of cyanide – but don’t worry, even though our supermarkets do like to sell us all kinds of poisons and chemicals in disguise, the...

We love taking Cruz for a walk off the lead in Auckland. There are some great spots for a good romp. A couple of weeks ago we noticed he was...