Frozen Banana treat.

Frozen banana treats - definitely a hot weather thing!

Ok take some ripe bananas, cut them in half.

Pop a skewer through the middle.

Pour some honey and nuts over and then sprinkle some carob powder.

Freeze and eat when you want a treat.

The beauty of this is the children can make it themselves.

Weekly eating

A good friend has asked me to post a weekly menu plan....well I am not ready to do that yet, but it got me thinking to really expose to you what I plan to eat in a week, what we buy at the shops and hopefully as my thoughts get more organised over these series of posts I will get to an actual menu plan!

So what we plan to eat this week:
I always shop once a week on a thursday. I shop at the health shop, woolworths, pick n pay and the Organic Food Zone in Lakeside.
So this week our menu has and does look like this:

Breakfasts:
1 raw flapjacks with nut cream and maple syrup (takeaways from earthshine)
chocolate superfood smoothies x 3
kale green smoothis x 2
Nut milk x 1

Lunches:
Homemade Jo-i's buckwheat crackers (recipe to come soon) with avo, and sliced tomato
Rice cakes for the children with almond nut butter and marmite, avo mashed or tahini and honey.
Orgran gluten-free bread made in my bread machine
Salad for me, Cucumber and carrot sticks for the kids
Fruit

Supper:
organic meat kebabs with baked butternut and steamed spinach.
raw pizza takeaway from earthshine
Corli's flatbread with tomatoes, guacamole, fruit, and rawilicious chewy mushrooms and tuna with a homemade raw mayo for the boys on a platter. (this was a weekend dish)
Hot chips with salad
raw pasta with a nut cheese sauce
organic cornflakes and rice milk (sunday night supper for kids) with banana sliced in and for me and hubby raw carrot soup.
millet and salad with a nut cheese.

Snacks:
Me - nutmilk, tea with honey, fruit, nuts, crackerbread, raw chocolates
Boys - nutmilk, fruit, raisins, raw chocolates, fruit ice cream from my juicer, popcorn or corn chips.

Spirali the spiralizer

Welcome....raw pasta on winter nights! This is the best machine, you can use butternut or sweet potato to spiralise into raw pasta, you soak it in lemon juice and salt to soften. Wash off in warm water and toss with a raw pasta sauce. They are on special at Superfoods for R350 at the moment and worth every penny. It is a really easy way to get raw food into kids and some raw suppers in the evenings. Gotta run, nature baba needs me...

Raw Carob Fudge

This is the raw carob fudge I will be making for the nutrition course I am running tonight.

To find the recipe go to the Hallelujah Acres Holiday Recipes

1 cup rolled oats / buckwheat flakes

3/4 cup of carob powder

1/4 cup sesame seeds (grind in a coffee grinder first)

1/4 cup sunflower seeds (grind in coffee grinder first)

1/2 cup almond butter or tahini

Handful of soaked dates

1 cup pecan nuts or hazelnuts

1 cup of macerated dates

honey to taste

Put all in food processor then with wet hands shape them into balls and put into fridge or freezer.

Enjoy.