Chocolate for Easter!
I love chocolate. Always have and always will. But if I’m going to eat it I want the real deal. I’m talking about REAL chocolate made from raw cacao powder, raw cacao butter and a natural unrefined sweetener like maple syrup or dates. I don’t want some poor imitation made with soy lecithins, sugar, agave syrup (which is 90% fructose), milk powders, flavours and artificial ingredients (read the ingredients on some Cadbury’s chocolate and you’ll get my drift). There is no chocolate that I know of that ticks all of these boxes…which is why I started making my own years ago. Raw cacao powder is high in antioxidents, and raw cacao butter is high in healthy saturated fats. I want my children and family to enjoy the sublime taste of real chocolate especially at Easter time. I pop chocolate coconut balls and almond coconut balls (both sweetened only with dates) into coloured plastic egg containers and hide them around the garden for an Easter egg hunt for the children and their friends. If you want your kids, family and friends to enjoy real chocolate for Easter without any of the nasties, pick up a bag of my hand-made chocolate coconut balls…..its the real (raw) deal!
I’m working with the Sydney Roosters this season as their nutrition coach to introduce them to the benefits that a nutrient-dense traditional wholefoods diet can have on their health, fitness and performance. Out with the sports gels and Nutrigrain and in with the bone broths and chicken livers!! So I’m getting down and dirty in the kitchen with some boisterous 18 year old boys …..last week we kicked off the classes with what to cook for breakfast. There was no complaints about pastured bacon and sausages, eggs cooked any way (boiled, friend, scrambled, omelette) served on buttery steamed greens, and washed down with coconut banana smoothies. This coming week I'll teach them the art of making delicious and nourishing slow cooked casseroles. So far the boys are very receptive and I'm really excited about the prospect of seeing their health, fitness and performance soar over the course of the season. GO the Roosters!!! (…am I allowed to say at this point that I don’t follow football?!?......well not yet! I never thought in all my living years I would ever utter the following 3 words “What’s the score?!?” )