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Healthy Banana Bread

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If you love your sweet treats but are still wanting to be healthy, then this banana bread is perfect for you. I will leave the ingredients and methods down below, but if you want to know about some of the nutritional value then keep on reading. The bananas, maple syrup and dark chocolate are what makes it sweet, so there's no need to worry adding sugar. Turmeric is also a great ingredient, I add a bit to most of what I cook or bake because it doesn't have a strong taste and it has a lot of health benefits. If you are interested, here is a website that gives you more information on that:  https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/top-10-evidence-based-health-benefits-of-turmeric  .Turmeric also adds a yellow tinge to everything as you can see from the image above, so it is perfect for banana bread. I also add a tablespoon of chia seeds and flax seed mix. Chia seeds are high in fibre and omega 3 and the flax seed mix also has fibre, vitamins and minerals and it can offer preventio...

An ornament for an occasion

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I thought I'd start things off by posting the thing that made me have a spark in starting this blog, which was making homemade gifts for people. I wanted to make a homemade gift for my parents 25th Wedding Anniversary and I was finding some inspiration on Pinterest, which as many of you know is such as great place to find inspiration. I saw a lot of dangling decorations, as you can see from the picture below which helped spark my idea for the ornament that I wanted to create. I am happy to say that my parents loved this gift and if you wanted to make one yourself for a loved one I will leave a step by step guide on how to create the ornament that I designed. Decorations that I was inspired by on Pinterest. Click to enlarge.                                                                 What you will need: * Jar li...