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Healthy and Balanced Family Recipes

'My recipes are colourful, pretty, balanced and designed to inspire happy & sustainable eating habits'
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9/5/2019 0 Comments

chocolate peanut bliss balls

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Gluten free

Ingredients:
1/2 cup almonds
1/2 cup walnuts

160g Medjool dates
50g currants
50g sultanas
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
2 tablespoons peanut butter
1 teaspoon cinnamon
2 tablespoons cocoa
Shredded coconut
Extra cocoa, for dusting

Method:
1. Place all ingredients into a food processor, blitz until mixture becomes fine and cohesive.
2. Roll tablespoons of bliss ball mixture, roll in coconut and place on baking paper lined tray.
3. Place 1 teaspoon of extra cocoa into a sieve, dust over bliss balls if desired.
4. Refrigerate until firm and serve. (Bliss balls can be frozen in an airtight container for up to 3 months).

Tip – if mixture is too wet, add coconut. Wet fingers slightly when rolling balls
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8/20/2019 0 Comments

pear, dark chocolate & cinnamon loaf

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​How perfect are pear and dark chocolate together?
Bake my pear, dark chocolate and cinnamon loaf over the long weekend. It’s still cake but a slightly healthier version 🍰
Ingredients:
3/4 cup wholemeal flour
3/4 cup white flour
1/2 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon bicarb soda 
1 teaspoon cinnamon 
2 eggs
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 cup yoghurt 
1/2 cup dark chocolate chips
2 pears, cubed (skin on)

Method:
1. Mix dry ingredients
2. Whisk eggs, oil, yoghurt
3. Add to dry ingredients
4. Fold through pear and chocolate.
5. Bake in lined loaf pan for 45 mins 180 degree oven.

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Nicole is a specialist Paediatric and Family Health Dietitian and Lactation Consultant, in private practice. She provides evidence-based, sustainable nutrition and feeding advice that supports optimal health and growth, and meets a family at their unique needs. Nicole graduated from Monash University in 2003 with a Bachelor of Nutrition & Dietetics, and worked as a Clinical Dietitian at a large metropolitan tertiary hospital, with Melbourne’s most critically ill, for over 15 years, before a career change to infant and family feeding.
Helping with (click the links for more info):

Mastitis, Blocked Ducts and other breast concerns.
Is my child overweight?
Fussy Eating.
My child is underweight.
​Starting Solids
Iron Deficiency.
Breastfeeding a newborn baby.

Food Allergies and Intolerances.

My baby is not interested in solid foods.
Weight loss after baby.
​Too much breastmilk and oversupply.
​Painful breastfeeding.
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Low breastmilk supply.
Weaning off breastmilk.
Breastfeeding education before baby arrives.
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Family nutrition.
​Toddler nutrition.
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Nutrition for primary school aged children
​Nutrition for preschool aged children
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