Yummy guilt free yoghurt treat

Now I don't know about you, but I'm pretty disgusted to know that one small pottle of yoghurt has between 4-5 tsps of sugar in it.

Natural and added- read the stats on the back.

Anyway its not very low carb friendly but this is an alternative that has become a regular favourite of me and the hubby.... yummy, easy, mostly sugar free and therefore guilt free...

3/4 cup plain unsweetened greek yoghurt
1/3 tsp Vanilla paste (expensive but goes a long way)
Handful of blueberries (could substitute any berries or frozen berries.

Put in cup, mix and serve

Yum! If you're a sugar addict it might take a bit of getting used to, or add extra sugar- but this really is much better than bought stuff :-)

A few favourites....

You know you must be feeling healthier when you get back into things you love doing......

Like baking sweet treats and decorating them - for my lovely mumsie's birthday



Lemon cupcakes.....



Lemon butter cream icing (mum is a fan of lemon)



Pretty plates... and pretty decorating....



I also tried doing this... first time ever



My mum-in-law is the most amazing woman to learn from for bottling/preserving etc.  We got given a STACK of apples recently, and I had to do something.

It took time, but was a simple process.  Looking forward to the super quick apple crumbles etc to come as a result!



Of course, I had to throw one in of the sidekick.  She's pretty cute I reckon.

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Things I'm Loving

So I'm joining in with my beautiful friend Paisley Jade in Things I'm Loving....

Honey Oat Cookies - these remind me of this icecream my mum made when we were kids!  Recipe at bottom....

[caption id="attachment_265" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="YUM!"][/caption]

 

This amazing lady - she is my Oma.  She turns 80 next Sunday.  She is one of the most beautiful and courageous women I know.  She has so much to tell me.  I have recenlty been making an effort to see her once a week - and I am so rewarded by this special time... and she loves it.

[caption id="attachment_268" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="with her great grandbaby - my little miss"][/caption]

 

These are in my garden!!  I grew them - yes I'm amazing!! (haha)

[caption id="attachment_267" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="pretty pink hibiscus!! might paint this someday..."][/caption]

[caption id="attachment_266" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="sunflower remnants - the plants have one big flower, but then produce all these babies!"][/caption]

I got out my crochet hook earlier this week...... ready for winter -

[caption id="attachment_264" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The first hat I've made that actually has NO mistakes! YAY"][/caption]

And buying this - in preparation for some teeny-tiny hats for a teeny-tiny I'm expecting in August :D

[caption id="attachment_263" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="loving the warm earthy coloured wool!!"][/caption]

I'm also looking forward to a few things:

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  celebrating a special little girls 1st birthday next week


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  Young Mum's night out with my girlfriends TOMORROW!!

 

Now for the recipe:

Honey Oat Cookies - Edmonds cook book

125g butter

1/2 c sugar

2 T honey

1 C flour

1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp baking powder

1 1/2 c rolled oats

Method: cream butter, sugar and honey until pale.  Sift flour, cinnamon and baking powder and add to dry ingredients.  Add rolled oats and mix well.  Roll tablespoon amounts into balls and place on well greased oven tray.  Flatten with a floured fork.

Bake at 180 for 15 minutes or until golden.

YUM!!  they'd also be nice with choc chips in I reckon!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Humour me.....?

Today, just for fun, I'll humour you a little - here are some pics of Lily -

 with her new "hat"...

 

  

 

She walks around with it completely covering her face - can't see a thing, and bangs into stuff all the time - but loves it....??

 

 

 

 

Humour #2.  We made a cake last week.  A mammoth of a cake.  My little bro turned 21, and my mum asked me to do his cake.  Then she "suggested" it could be in the shape of a guitar.

 

I obliged (I quite like working my creativity out on tasty things).  I'm not that skilled, this is only the 2nd cake I've ever made into something other than an oblong with standard icing.  But I'm learning...

 

  

 

So here is the finished product - before it left my house....

 

 

 

I didn't get any really decent pics - it was so big it was sitting on cardboard which didn't help!

However, (here's the humour), when it arrived to it's destination - it was dropped on the rug in the hallway (it wasn't me).  My 2 hours of icing went out the window :( 

So when I arrived at the party, my cake had been redecorated quickly by my sister.  And looked quite different. 

In my brother's words "still looked good still tasted good so its all good".

I did laugh about it later.

Well, apart from that and a festivity filled weekend - I must update you -

I'm 13 weeks today (scan changed my DD to 15/08), and I'm feeling much less sick, exhausted and nil energy.

So, miss 1 and I went for a stroll in the bush at a local park, and I did 10 mins of rowing.  It is about all my unfit body can handle after not being able to do any exercise for the last 9 weeks!  Working on it!  Will keep you posted on that one.

I'll leave you with this....

the delight of my life......

Pizza making....

Mummy is making pizza for dinner.... rolling the dough, chopping the toppings, smearing on tomato paste

Princess is sitting on the kitchen bench...... "helping"....

Mummy turns to ask her something, and immediately forgets when faced with this

[caption id="attachment_40" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Yum yum! tomato!"][/caption]

Tomatoes are pretty expensive this time of year.  I bought one big one in yesterdays shopping.  Princess thought it would be a yummy afternoon snack..



I couldn't bear to stop her.....

 

This is what was left......

[caption id="attachment_43" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The remnants..... guess what was added to the pizza topping?"][/caption]