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    Sourdough pancakes are good for you!

    21 September, 20163 April, 2018

    If you’ve had a go at sourdough or have taken an interest in it already, you will know that a sourdough starter, as a living, growing thing, needs to be used regularly, so that you have a reason to continue feeding it with fresh flour and water daily (or a little less frequently if you

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    Easy-peasy Sourdough Bread

    14 September, 201629 March, 2018

    I’m excited to share with you my recipe for easy-peasy homemade sourdough bread this week.  Just in case you weren’t waiting for it, this post follows on from my last, Why We Switched To Sourdough. Because we’d been baking fresh bread in our bread maker for a few years before I decided to try sourdough,

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    Why we switched to sourdough

    7 September, 201629 March, 2018

    Before I start writing this post about how much I love baking and eating sourdough bread, I just want to make it really clear that I am not an expert on sourdough, bread making, or baking!  I’m just a really ordinary mum/homemaker who bakes enough bread to feed her family.  I’m new to sourdough, and

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    Coconut oil – why I love it and how I use it

    16 August, 201629 March, 2018

    Coconut oil is fast becoming about as much of a “super-oil” as olive oil did when I was a teen.  I remember when my mum started buying olive oil for cooking, because it was proclaimed to be the healthiest oil you could possibly cook with.  Mum used it for everything: stir-frying, baking, roasting, dressings… Everything. Well,

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    Mummy’s Milo

    27 July, 20163 April, 2018

    Growing up, I guess I always took it for granted that Milo was made in New Zealand. I’m not quite sure why; I suppose it was my own ignorance …or clever advertising by NestlΓ© helped me to form that wrong assumption. Well anyway, that was my understanding well into adulthood, so that when I left home (after

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    Homemade hummus, made from scratch

    5 July, 20163 April, 2018

    For my first post this Plastic-Free July, I’ve decided I’ll share with you how I make hummus from scratch.  This is something I’m doing about once a week these days, as my little boy is OBSESSED with it!  He’s not really talking yet, so he just squeals and points to indicate that me spreading the

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    How we make organic food affordable

    28 June, 201629 March, 2018

    Before we had children, I was one of those people who had an idea that organic might be better but I actually preferred not to know any hard facts or scary details relating to the difference between organic and non-organic food because the fact is, organic foods cost significantly more than their mainstream alternatives.  And

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    How and why I make sauerkraut

    21 June, 201629 March, 2018

    Thanks to my Dutch father, I have been eating sauerkraut for as long as I can remember.  Certainly, long before it became fashionable as a probiotic superfood!  My dad used to serve it up mixed through mashed potato with a rookworst sausage and gravy on top.  Just describing it makes me drool! It was the

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    Soap

    7 June, 201629 March, 2018

    Originally, I had planned for this post to be about my very cute glass preserving jar soap dispensers, and about our lovely (organic) foaming hand soap that smells beautiful and is very gentle on our hands.  But then I sat down to write and I realised I actually want to share my ideas on soap

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  • Thank you, little one, for helping out my cucumber plant! My Lebanese cucumber has done so well this summer, I'm so happy! My kids get whole cucumbers in their lunchbox and they love them 😊. My gherkins, on the other hand, have been a bit of a dud - I think I've had 10 gherkins from 2 plants so far! Not so much gherkin pickling going on here... πŸ˜’ . . #helpfullittlebee #bees #beefood #veggiegarden #growingfood #homegrownveggies #sprayfreegarden
  • OK, so my mind is officially 🀯, haha! I just strained the apple scraps from my apple scrap vinegar. I've made almost 1.5L of raw fermented apple vinegar for the mere cost of a couple of tablespoons of sugar! πŸ˜… And its soooo easy, I can't quite believe it... Wow. . . #applevinegar #homemadevinegar #madefromscratch #naturallyfermented #applescrapvinegar #lovefoodhatewaste #nofoodwaste #frugallysustainable #frugalkitchen #realfood #goodfood #learningnewthings
  • We were invited to take as many apples as we wanted from a friend's backyard apple tree. They're homegrown, spray-free, REAL apples and amazingly there were lots that were worm-free, yay! We've chilled the worm-free ones, and then I made two batches of sugar-free appelmoes which have gone into the freezer for baking and winter porridge πŸ˜‹. As for the skins and clean cores, I'm using them to make scrap apple vinegar! It's SUCH an easy process to make apple vinegar, and ultra-frugal too. I froze the rest of the peels and cores so I can make subsequent batches of vinegar, as per the ingenious suggestion of the @zerowastechef (whose recipe I also used: https://zerowastechef.com/2014/10/30/apple-scrap-vinegar/) Alas, I can't enjoy apples myself, because their super-high fructose levels give me the (farts😳) ... but the kids are loving them! . . #applevinegar #applescrapvinegar #homemadevinegar #naturallyfermented #frugallysustainable #frugalkitchen #lovefoodhatewaste #nowastedfood #applescraps #homegrownapples #sprayfree #backyardharvest
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  • Good morning! It's my 41st birthday today, eek! For some reason I'm more apprehensive about this one than I was about turning 40. I've got some grey hairs now, wrinkles around my eyes, can't cope without sleep, and I hate changes to my routine - all little reminders that I'm not young and carefree anymore. But instead of pining wistfully for my youth, I find myself thinking about what kind of old lady I'll become. I don't want to become a grumpy, inflexible, disillusioned old grouch - I hope I can age gracefully in spirit and in health. Through life's challenges and highlights I feel I'm evolving as a person - sometimes it's easy to focus on the things that knock us back, but it's healthier to live with gratitude for all the things that have lifted me up. I'm so grateful for my family, for the true friends I have (had) in my life, and for the amazing opportunities I've been given. I feel blessed for being able to see beauty all around me, and for being able to say after 41 years that I have no regrets. How lucky I am! I am slowly, slowly learning that I can't do everything - my goal for this year is to work on being at peace with this reality. It's hard - I seriously have soooo many things I want to write, make, share, and do for Mrs Goodness! But family and health have to come first, so all I can do is do what I can do. Thanks for your support everyone! I truly appreciate your interest in my Mrs Goodness project and I hope this year is going to be a Goodie!
  • Homemade plum & chia seed jam πŸ˜‹. A LOT less sugar than regular jam means that it doesn't keep longer than a couple of weeks in the fridge, but frozen it keeps for a few months. And it's sooooo yummy... . . #nofilterneeded #plumjam #chiaseedjam #lowsugar #lowsugarjam #homemadegoodness #homemadejam #madefromscratch #realfood
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