Category Archives: Cooking

Classic Anzac Biscuit Recipe

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Ingredients

1 cup rolled oats

¾ cup raw sugar

¾ cup dessicated coconut

1 cup plain flour, sifted

125 g butter, melted

2 tablespoons Golden Syrup

½ tsp bicarb soda

3 tablespoons boiling water

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C or 160°C  fan forced and line a baking tray with baking paper.

In a large bowl, mix together the oats, coconut, flour and sugar.

Melt the butter and golden syrup together, either on a low/medium heat in the microwave or a low heat in a saucepan.

In a separate bowl,  combine the bicarb and boiling water. Add this to your butter and golden syrup mixture. Add this to your dry ingredients and combine.

Place balls of the mixture onto the baking tray leaving about 6 cm between them. This would fit about 9 biscuits to a standard tray.

Bake for 15-18 minutes or until golden brown, and rotate the trays halfway so your biscuits cook evenly.

Transfer to wire rack to cool.

MMMM I can smell them now. Enjoy!!!

Eating during the holidays while pregnant

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pregnancy article ninehoney

I was interviewed for an article this week about safe eating during the holidays while pregnant. (trigger warning: the article is embedded on a page which features other articles stuck knee deep in diet culture). When pregnant, the risk of becoming ill from food borne bacteria such as listeria and salmonella increases, and listeria can also effect the foetus/embryo.

Particular foods have an increased risk of carrying these bacteria than others and you can read more about that in the article. Although the topic of intuitive eating was not covered in the article, it was important to me that I got across the message that women should not feel shamed about the choices they are making. Know the information, and make the choices which you feel comfortable with.

If you have a history of chronic dieting, or an eating disorder, you may need extra support while trying to navigate this on an individual level. Feeling restricted in any way can increase the risk of disordered eating behaviour,  so please speak with your support team to discuss how it may apply to you and to put safe strategies in place if needed.

For more information on eating disorders and pregnancy from Eating Disorders Victoria, click here.

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Workplace health and wellbeing

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This is a photo of me prepping for a couple of sessions with a marketing team from a health and beauty business at their workplace. We made a couple of recipes and discussed ways to get more nutrition in during the day at work, especially when you get in a rut of making the same sandwich, or visiting the same cafe everyday at lunchtime. In particular we spoke about breakfast and snack ideas. This team brings their breakfast in to work everyday and eats together before work- what a wonderful office culture!

I couldn’t have conducted a session without talking about mindful eating and conducting a mindful eating activity which of course they found really enlightening.

Read one of the recipes for Overnight Oats here