1 mugful of oats (rolled or porridge, whatever you have)
Half a mug of seeds (i.e. sun flower, pumpkin, sesame)
Handful chopped almonds
Third of a mug of desiccated coconut
Heaped teaspoon cinnamon
1 table spoon of agave syrup (or maple syrup)
2 and a half table spoons of coconut oil

Mix all dried ingredients together in a large oven tray.

Add syrup and oil mixing together thoroughly.

Place under a grill (medium heat) for less than five minutes. Stir mixture about three times (listen for 'popping' of the seeds, which is a great indication that the mixture needs stirring thoroughly ensuring even cooking). If you don't have a grill, then baking is fine (this takes longer).

Allow to cool (is also lovely served straight out of the grill) then serve with fruit such as chopped apple, strawberries, banana etc.

You may like to serve in a bowl with rice, nut or soya milk.

Some like to add raisins or chopped dried fruit to the mixture after it has been grilled.

Enjoy!

With Love
Trinity

How to make a smoothie

The key ingredient in a smoothie is often banana. This is generally because people enjoy the sweetness and creamy texture.

One of the secrets to making a really creamy smoothie is to freeze the banana first (a great thing to do with the rapidly ripening bananas sitting in the fruit bowl).

Use only ripe bananas (i.e. there is no green on the outside and the skin is beginning to develop brown spots - the more spots, the sweeter the fruit will be).

To freeze the banana: remove the skin and then chop the banana into slices, pop into a container (or freezer bag) and freeze immediately. It will be ready the next day if required (or will still be fine the next month if you forget about it).

Basic smoothie ingredients:

1 frozen banana
1 fresh ripe banana (unfrozen)
1 cup vanilla rice milk (or water)
Spring water to achieve desired consistency

How to prepare:

1. Take one banana's worth of frozen banana out of the freezer (chunks can be easily broken off with a blunt knife if you have a lot in there)

2. Roughly chop one fresh, ripe banana

3. Place all ingredients into a blender and add a cupful of vanilla rice milk.

4. Blend together, slowly adding spring water to achieve desired thickness.

My eight year old son regularly makes this himself and adds a half teaspoon of spirulina or blue green algae. It a great medium for adding super-foods, super-greens, maca if you would like to incorporate these into your diet.

If you have a surplus of fruit then add them to the blend in the place of the fresh banana. Certain fruits tend to work really well including berries (which are generally loaded with antioxidants) and tropical fruits such as mango, papaya, pineapple.