Food Security – A Cautionary Tale
On the unfortunate events of the past week… This past week, pig farmers across the Mid North Coast received some devastating news – our local abattoir, Eversons Food Processors at Frederickton, have decided to stop processing pigs. The icing on the cake – they gave us less than 24 hours’ notice of their final day….
Natural Second Trimester Survival Kit
Yep, I’m writing this post about my favourite things for a natural Second Trimester…. on my due date! Oops. Suffice to say, life has been pretty busy. But I still have loads of useful tips to help you through your second trimester, naturally. If you haven’t read my first Pregnancy Survival Kit post, or if…
Natural First Trimester Survival Kit
It’s all I can talk about, I know – this pregnancy and everything about it, including now the things that got me through a natural first trimester. What is a natural first trimester? Well, part of a natural pregnancy, of course! Which to me means a pregnancy that is as sustainable, organic, healthy, nurturing, and…
Flop!
Well, I started on one of my biggest summer tasks a little early… This task is to cook my way through a breadmaking cookbook. Sounds simple, right? Except… the recipes are written in German! I’m trying to scrape together my 4 or 5 yrs of high school Deutsch, and both translate and cook at the same…
And more mangoes!
In case you missed my post yesterday, we bought a tray of ten massive mangoes in the afternoon. Last night we used 2 of the mangoes to make some mango and passionfruit jam. This morning, we woke up with a big task at hand – to see if we could do something with all 8…
Mangoes!
We had such a lazy start this morning. I love (and crave) lazy starts. Any day when Mr T’s first sentence is NOT “I’m hungry, what’s for breakfast?” is pure joy. We just fluffed around for a while, took a long shower, eventually threw together some pancakes. Mango and cashew pancakes, yummy! I pureed some mango…
Woops!
Today was National Additive Free Day and….. it was business as usual, not the spectacular Additive Free Picnic that I had dreamt of. Ahhhh well. Several reasons, all of which relate to being super busy! Exams are coming up for me, so consequently this week was spent studying and not planning a picnic. I also…
