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Spiced Apple Rings Recipe

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Favourite Recipes, Out & About, Snack / 1 minute of reading

Spiced Apple Rings What a convenient no-mess, no-fuss snack food that can live in the nappy bag in case of those emergency hunger situations… or the holiday beach bag! They make a great addition to school lunchboxes or a festive season snack table too. Most dried fruit available in the supermarkets are covered in [...]

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mila's meals dairy-free cheesecake recipe

Mango Cheesecake Recipe

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Dessert, Festive Food, Party / 1 minute of reading

Dairy-free Mango Cheesecake Recipe I have such strong childhood memories of my mom making her strawberry cheesecake as a dessert for her dinner parties. It was a recipe she got from her sister and I can literally taste it in my mouth as I type this! Obviously it was loaded with dairy and sugar so

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Healthy Vegetable Chips Recipe

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Lunch Box, Out & About, Snack / 5 minutes of reading

This post contains affiliate links. Click here to read my affiliate policy. This recipe is taken from my book Mila’s Meals: The Beginning & The Basics. This is a gluten-free, dairy-free AND refined sugar-free recipe. All Mila’s Meals recipes are. “I don’t eat vegetables!” When Mila was 3 years old she declared “I don’t eat vegetables!”.

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Paleo Doughnut Recipe

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Dessert, Party Food, Something Sweet / 1 minute of reading

A gluten-free, dairy-free, sugar-free AND grain-free Doughnut Recipe Mila has been asking for doughnuts for going on 2 years now. She has seen them in the grocery store and, as with other ready-made food items, she picks them up, smells them (through the packaging), looks up at me and says “Mama can you make these

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Fermented Sauerkraut

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Favourite Recipes, Pantry, Simple Superfoods / 1 minute of reading

Lacto-fermented Sauerkraut Sauerkraut could perhaps be one of the most vital things you could add to your diet because to nourish your gut, is to nourish your body and mind. Sauerkraut works wonders for your digestion, producing amazing amounts of probiotics and other disease-preventing compounds. This recipe is taken from my cookbook Mila's

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Chickpea Crackers Recipe

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Lunch Box, Out & About, Snack / 1 minute of reading

Chickpea Crackers Recipe One of the few food items I bought ready-made for Mila were rice crackers (organic ones). I knew full well that they weren’t a nutrient-dense food, but I used them as a ‘vehicle’ for other nutrient-dense foods like Chicken Live Pâté, Snoek Pâté, Almond Butter with Chia & Hemps Seeds. But

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Mila’s Meals wins Gourmand ‘Best In The World’ Cookbook Award

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Announcements / 4 minutes of reading

Gourmand ‘Best in the World’ Cookbook Award won by South African self-published and first time author. Mila’s Meals: The Beginning & The Basics by Knysna local Catherine Barnhoorn has been awarded the prestigious Gourmand ‘Best in the World’ Cookbook Award in the First Book category at the glamorous ceremony held in China on 28 May.

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Mila’s Meals: The Beginning & The Basics wins Next Generation Indie Book Award

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Announcements / 2 minutes of reading

I am delighted and honoured to announce that my book, ‘Mila’s Meals: The Beginning & The Basics’, has been placed as a Finalist in the HEALTH/WELLNESS (NON-FICTION) Category of the international 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (NGIBA). The Next Generation Indie Book Awards (based in America) is the largest not-for-profit book awards program

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Ontbijtkoek Recipe

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Eating In, Lunch Box, Snack, Sneaky Veggies / 1 minute of reading

Gluten-Free ‘Ontbijtkoek’ (Spiced Breakfast Cake) Recipe The original ontbijtkoek is made with wheat or rye flour, sugar and milk – this recipe is my gluten-, dairy- and sugar-free adaptation! Ontbijtkoek (Dutch for Breakfast Cake) is another food I remember fondly from my childhood. My dad is Dutch and we would often have this ‘cake’ at

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Sweet Potato Bread

By Catherine Barnhoorn / Breakfast, Lunch, Lunch Box, Out & About, Sneaky Veggies / 1 minute of reading

Gluten-free Sweet Potato Bread Recipe It took me a LONG time to perfect gluten-free, yeast-free bread! Many loaves were inedible, and much money was spent at the health food store as Mila went through her ‘toastie’ stage. I am very proud of this recipe, and it is the only one of my breads that Mila

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Spiced Apple Rings Recipe

Mango Cheesecake Recipe

Healthy Vegetable Chips Recipe

Paleo Doughnut Recipe

Fermented Sauerkraut

Chickpea Crackers Recipe

Mila’s Meals wins Gourmand ‘Best In The World’ Cookbook Award

Mila’s Meals: The Beginning & The Basics wins Next Generation Indie Book Award

Ontbijtkoek Recipe

Sweet Potato Bread

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