Dan picked up a cheap dehydrator for $55 and it’s amazing!!

He’s clearly focused on the beef jerky possibilities whilst I’ve been getting into the mango fruit straps, dried peaches, tomatoes and veggie chips…..

Tomatoes

10 x tomatoes – skinned and quartered

drizzle with olive oil

flavour with fresh thyme, salt and garlic granules

place in dehydrator for 12 hours at 70degrees

 

Sweet Potato Chips

1 x large round sweet potato

thinly slice with mandolin

soak in water for an hour, rinsing halfway to remove starch

drain and place on paper towel to remove excess water from both sides

drizzle with coconut oil

season with salt

place in dehydrator for six hours at 70degrees

 

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Buckwheat pancakes with banana and avocado chocolate mousse…

Whether it’s a quick pancake rolled around a banana on the way to school drop off…. or a mid morning snack of decadent yet beautifully healthy chocolate mousse topped goodness… There’s nothing better than buckwheat pancakes!!

Buckwheat pancakes..

1 cup buckwheat flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1 1/4 cup almond milk

1 egg

1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste

1 tablespoon chia seeds – optional

Method..

Mix together ingredients and cook just like a normal pancake

 

Banana and avocado chocolate mousse..

1 banana

1 avocado

4 dates – or 2 medjool dates if you have them (but if you’re anything like me they don’t last even an afternoon in the house) so I generally use standard dates and soak in hot water for a few minutes to soften

1 table spoon cacao powder

Method..

Using a stick blender blend ingredients until well combined

Spread over and between pancakes and top with frozen berries and shredded coconut

mmmmm

To make it easy I’ll usually have a pancake making session while I’m cooking breakfast/ dinner or doing the dishes and will freeze a few ziplock bags with a couple of serves of pancakes in each. Then when I’m hungry all I have to do is defrost and enjoy.

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Six month’s on and I still can’t believe we live here! Healthy, happy and together. xx

Friday afternoon at the school picnic. You both spent an hour or so playing with your friends and then all of a sudden gravitated towards each other. With Kardez asking Where’s Dacka? Where’s Dacka? You spent the next hour moving from play thing to play thing, never leaving each others side. Stopping occasionally for a hug or to help each other up or down or even off  when it all got too much for Kardez.

Other parents were commenting. Oh aren’t they beautiful. Are they always like this….? Ummmmm…..

Since we moved to Caba your relationship has grown so much. Now that it’s just the two of you, you appreciate each other’s company so much more. You really talk to each other and adore the time where it’s just the two of you hiding or skating or riding or playing cricket or building lego or drawing or painting or whatever mischief you can get yourselves into! And then there’s the fighting… That too has grown. But I accept that it’s all a part of being brothers and growing together. xx