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Making your life greener - one bite at a time.

Save energy romantically and dine by candlelight.

Buy your food from an organic farmer’s market.

Plan a simple meal with a lot of presentation – Use a heart shape cookie cutter for making bread croutons and serve with beetroot soup/ pate / dip. Use the heart cookie cutter for vegetables, fruit and salad ingredients. Heart shape moulds are just the thing for a Valentine’s dessert, try ricotta dessert or frozen fruit through the champion juicer and freeze in heart mould, and sip organic champagne from recycled glassware, don’t forget to recycle your empty bubbly bottle(s)!

Bake A Heart Shape Cake...

1 cup organic dates

½ cup organic yoghurt

2 cups flour of choice (1 cup organic coconut flour + 1 cup orgran SR flour) / (buckwheat + millet meal + brown rice flour)

½ cup fruit juice (eg grape / orange) / water

1 egg

Coconut milk

Simmer dates in juice – cool

Blend yoghurt + egg

Process / sift flour

Add yoghurt mixture to flour and gently fold through

Add coconut milk if too dry

Bake preheated oven 180 for approx.30 – 45 minutes

Variations:

Pumpkin Cake... add ½ cup cold cooked organic pumpkin

Sultana Cake...add ¾ cup organic sultanas

Mixed Fruit... add 1 cup mixed organic fruit for dates, add mixed spice + ginger + nutmeg

Valentine’s Delight...add freshly grated beetroot and zucchini + sultanas

Apricot...add chopped organic apricots for dates + shredded organic coconut

Enjoy!

For Raw Energy...

Valentine’s Carob Cake

2 cups quinoa flakes

1 cup organic shredded coconut

1 cup sesame seeds, ground

3 tablespoons organic carob powder

1 cup organic fruit, diced (strawberrries / raspberries / mixture of berries or pitted cherries)

1 cup organic dates, chopped

Mix all ingredients until smooth and press into heart shape container suitable for fridge.

Sprinkle with coconut and decorate with sliced strawberries or top with carob frosting (blend banana + carob powder + rice syrup + organic arrowroot)

Chill. Keep in fridge until serving.