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…
Review: Chic Pea Restaurant
Last Saturday, Sydney gained it’s first (and only) real food restaurant and I was lucky enough to score a table on opening night. Chic Pea, a joint effort between chef and food wizard Fouad Kassab and the always smiling and ever-so-welcoming hospitality guru Hesham El Masry, is a Middle Eastern permanent-pop-up-restaurant of sorts with a strong basis in the philosophies…
Kale Coated Roast Potatoes
One weekend, not too long ago, I had a glut of kale and potatoes that were just crying out to be turned into something delightful. We love kale, and we love potatoes. There are about a million ways to use both, but I wanted to do something new and exciting. Something that fused the two…
HHH Book Club – Book Two!
A quick post today, announcing our second book for the Homemade, Healthy, Happy Real Food Book Club! It’ll be hard to top Michael Pollan’s Cooked, I think. I deliberated over book 2 for quite a while because of this. And I actually ended up choosing something quite similar! Similar in the sense that, like Cooked, it…
HHH Book Club – Final Thoughts on Cooked
I am still just as in awe of Michael Pollan (and his book, ‘Cooked’) as I was when I first started listening to the book. Okay, I kind of knew going into it that I would love it. Michael Pollan is sensible. The book was about traditional foods and cooking methods. If ever there…
