Cookies & Koalas

Mumma's hot choccy! CHEERY HOT CHOCOLATE guilt free. refined sugar free. positive side effect: happy mom and koala kiddos....  Sometimes when the volume in the house starts to climb as the kiddos play starts to escalate and the to do list is feeling a little overwhelming, everyone in the house needs a nice warm drink. At least in our home it provides everyone with a bit of calm, some connection time, and something special for my little koalas. Perhaps I'm the one who needs all these things the most. Sipping the warm chocolate infused milk settled me and the smiles from the 3 and 4 year old as they discovered hot chocolate for the first time warmed my tired mummy heart.This recipe got us through dinner making time last night.   Stir it up!  The other great thing about this hot choc recipe is I felt good about all of us drinking it - no guilt about refined sugars, additives or just unnecessary ingredients found in "hot chocolate mixes." If you can use cocao...

      NUTRITION PACKED CARROT CAKE BLISS BALLS.. As a mom of a 3 and 4 year old I'm always looking for ways to get extra nutrition and veggies into my kiddos diets.Well, frankly into my diet as well! So I put together this little Carrot Cake Bliss ball recipe that packs in the healthy stuff and includes those raw carrots to give a bit of a veggie bang all while tasting oh soo delicious. My girls are begging me for them...they don't last long around here between the kids and ahmmm the parents. If your kids are more on the picky side you may want to blend up the nuts and pumpkin seeds and perhaps leave out the buckwheat kernels but we like ours nice and chunky. NUTRIENT DENSE The recipe starts out with dates which are a source of energy, sugar, and fiber. They even are a source of minerals such as calcium, iron, phosphorus, sodium, potassium,and magnesium. Healthy but sweet to ease some sugar craving that I may or may not have... Then of course there are the carrot...