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As a child I used to love donuts. It was by far my favorite after school indulgence and even today I remember the pleasure it brought me to bite into a fluffy warm donut in a cold sunny day, seating out side in a bench on my way back home until a full day at school. That faint smell of cinnamon and powdered sugar on top… what a dreamy treat.
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As you probably know by now, I like to make non vegan recipes into vegan ones. For that, it is important to find vegan friendly replacements for ingredients that are consistently used in baking and cooking. Eggs are one of those ingredients that you find almost in every baking recipe so I set out to find the best natural and healthier replacement.
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Today the day was bright and sunny, but very cold so I decided to warm ourselves up with a lovely and simple pumpkin coconut curry. Due to Halloween’s celebrations we have an immense amount of pumpkins to use in the next week, so I have been roasting lots of it almost every night to be able to easily incorporate them into the next day meals.
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For the last year or so, we have been (irregularly) using activated charcoal toothpaste to help us remove any stains from our teeth. For those of you not familiar with activated charcoal, its usually made from coconut shell. It is similar to common charcoal, but is made especially for use as a medicine. To make activated charcoal, manufacturers heat common charcoal in the presence of a gas that causes the charcoal to develop lots of internal spaces or “pores.” These pores help activated charcoal “trap” chemicals. It can be used internally to help with stomach ailments as well as to cleanse the body, and we use it externally as toothpaste.
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‘What natural beauty & skincare products do you use?’ This is a question I get asked quite often. It’s a fair question, because we use mostly (at least within our possibilities) everything organic and as pure as we can get. Most people initially think that maybe the quality or the performance of such items would not be as good as the more commercial counterparts,
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