Death By Chocolate Brownies

I tried these for the first time yesterday and I have already had requests to make more at the weekend they are that good!

These chocolate brownies are flour-less, refined sugar free, gluten free and absolutely heavenly (hence the 'Death by Chocolate' name).

A very quick method to making them so you will be able to whip up a batch in no time...

Ingredients:

Matcha Green Tea and Wheatgrass Smoothie

If you are looking for a superfood detoxifying smoothie to kick start your morning then look no further!

Follow this recipe for creamy fresh delicious-ness in a jar!!

Matcha green tea powder is the highest quality powdered green tea there is. Some of the benefits include, very high levels of antioxidant, raised energy levels for up to 4 hours, boosted metabolism, regulated blood sugar levels and a created state of calm with mental alertness.

In other words we need to get it in our lives!

Chocolate Heaven

Surely this is a dream?! Healthy chocolate with four ingredients that can be eaten guilt-free?!

Yes this is true... Follow this recipe and you will be in chocolate heaven in no time!

This is an example of the chocolate being used as a cake filling and topping but can equally be stored as a solid to indulge whenever you fancy.

Ingredients:

(To make this chocolate for a filling and topping of a cake double the ingredients.) 

Clean Vanilla Sponge Cake

This is a cake for any occasion- a birthday, a celebration, or just a treat for family and friends! The beauty of it, is that is is Gluten free and refined sugar-free. For baking I like to use alternatives with the ingredients that I cant eat, instead of coming up with a complicated new recipe.

I challenge anyone to taste any difference in the taste of a normal sponge cake and my GF and SF sponge cake because it really is that delicious!

I have added a sugar free chocolate icing in the centre and as a topping that I will share the recipe in a post soon! This post is all about getting a perfect sponge....

Ingredients:

Clean Crustless Pumpkin Pie

It is that time of year again.... Autumn is coming and what does that mean?... Pumpkin time! I'm going to be honest I have never tried pumpkin before I made this recipe but have read a lot of the health benefits and been getting a lot of inspiration for it on the internet! Thought I would give it a go (very happy I did!).

 Gluten and sugar free this is a lovely sweet treat that is clean and with no guilt after! Winner!

Supporting Local Produce

Living on the Isle of Wight there is a big community feel about the Island and local produce is no exception! Majority of the island is agriculture which means amazing organic fresh, and more importantly local produce.

There are health benefits shopping for local produce because the chances of pesticides being used in mass produce growing are high and almost certain! The distance the food has travelled I couldn't even guess with supermarket produce, whereas if you source it more locally it has spent a fraction of the time travelling, and therefore you have a longer time period to use the produce. Supporting local businesses is really important too!

 This is why I love buying my fruit and vegetables in local stores not just the big chain supermarkets. Below are a few photos of my local produce shopping recently....

Isle of Wight

Gluten Free Soda bread

For any bread lover that cannot eat food with gluten this is a god send! Deliciously warm and crunchy on the outside and soft and squiggy on the inside this bread is great! If you bake this with people around I can assure you this wont be around for long!

The crazy thing is about this soda bread is that it only has four ingredients! No prove needed with this dough either so it is very quick to whip up- only around a 10 minute preparation time.