Quiet books.

There are some wonderfully creative people out there in Internet land and I have been browsing the net for ideas for Quiet books. I came upon an excellent blog site  and thought I would save it here. I have lots of ideas on my Pinterest board but sometimes I think a list in a blog like this could be more useful.
The site is Imagine our Life

http://www.imagineourlife.com/quiet-book-patterns/

Time to cook again.

Life has been busy lately and we have travelled up and down the NSW coast and into Queensland - our house is a mess and I am frantically washing clothes from our travels. So to divert myself I decided to make a slice using healthy Low GI ingredients.

Some of the Low GI recipes are a bit dull but this one is GOOD!

Chocolate fruit and nut slice.

Olive or canola oil spray
150 g wholemeal self raising flour
2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
50 g wholegrained rolled oats
30 g desiccated coconut
2 tablespoons unprocessed oat bran
9 g sucralose or 60 g soft brown sugar
60 g chopped dried fruit
60 gm walnuts (I used chopped almonds)
90 g reduced fat canola oil margarine (just melted)
1 tablespoon pure maple syrup
250 ml low fat milk.

Preheat oven to 180 celcius. Spray a 27 x 17 cm shallow baking tin with oil and line the base with baking paper, with the baking paper overhanging the long sides.
Mix flour cocoa, rolled oats, coconut, oat bran, sucralose, fruit and nuts.
Combine the margarine, maple syrup and milk , then add to the flour mixture and stir well until combined.
Spread evenly into the tin.
Bake for 25 minutes, cool in tin and then turn onto wire rack to cool completely.

Serving idea: serve with berries and low fat yoghurt

Now - back to the housework!