When I first decided to make my own personal care and household cleaning products I didn’t realise just how many products I would have to make. However, I also had no idea about how simple the process would be for most products and how simple the ingredients could be. One product that was a bit Continue Reading
Where do you find your recipes these days? Online, in books? When I was very young the radio was the equivalent to the web for information sharing and many of Mum’s recipes were quickly jotted down as she was working in the kitchen and listening to her favourite radio programs. This tea cake recipe was Continue Reading
I love cooking with yeast and I am excited that I can now combine this love with my new found interest in Cooking with Oils!! I often make this recipe to accompany soup or a casserole. With the addition of a drop of Rosemary Oil to the topping the pizza is popping with flavour! What Continue Reading
We posted about a hand sanitiser product that we make last year but given the recent virus outbreak we thought it was a good time to update it and remind you that you can make your own sanitiser. We are all being encouraged to wash our hands properly, not to shake hands and not to Continue Reading
It has been a windy, cold week in Sydney and we have had decent rain for the first time in a long while. So what does that make me feel like making for dinner tonight? A slow cooked casserole with rich and tasty sauce. So that’s what we will be having. One of the benefits Continue Reading
When we started writing our blog we said that healthy households are about the emotional as well as the physical. So far we have had a lot to say on the physical and last week I wrote about how swimming has kept me healthy over the past 10 years. So I wanted to talk about Continue Reading
It is officially Winter tomorrow in Australia and we are finally getting some cold weather! Of course the colder weather brings it fair share of health problems for many people and the doctors are already telling us that this year is going to be bad for the flu. So what are you doing to stay Continue Reading
As a user of Essential Oils you will no doubt find that some of your family and friends will question and even mock the use of oils. So the day that a family member asks if you have an oil to help them is very exciting. Now I’m not saying that Andrew mocked my new Continue Reading
Growing up in suburban Sydney in the 60’s meant that our food was plain and predictable. We always had enough to eat but as with most children, we had our likes and dislikes! In fact I disliked eating chops and three veg so much that it took me years to serve it to my own Continue Reading
I have to say I have never been a keen gardener but I am spending more time in the garden these days. I think for years I was running around after the kids on the weekends and garden became something of a chore to look after. But even though I have more time now I Continue Reading
