This blog is coming to you a little later than planned, because with birthdays, teaching and a sickness bug that knocked me out for a week, I don’t really know where the time went. As many of you will know this year Gareth and I gave up buying anything packaged in plastic for Lent, which, living in a small town, wasn’t the easiest. There are no bulk stores here, no plastic free shops, and so it came down to a lot of pre-planning and inventive thinking (not a bad thing). And s

These chocolate pancakes have both banana and protein powder (and a load of other ingredients) in them but for a much different reason than