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Sugar-free chocolatey brownies

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Sugar-free chocolatey brownies: A decadent-but-actually-healthy treat for when you feel like a chocolate fix.

Guilt-free chocolate fix: sugar-free brownies (c) Flynn & Tonic

Guilt-free chocolate fix: sugar-free brownies (c) Flynn & Tonic

I had my first baby a little over a month ago, and after being a savoury girl since way back, I developed a major sweet tooth while I was pregnant. And while you can justify a daily slab of cake / kilo of chocolate while you’re ‘eating for two’, I’ve been attempting to wean myself off my sugar habit before it goes too far.

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Healthy baked muesli

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Breakfast Boredom Buster: Healthy baked muesli 

(c) Flynn & Tonic

(c) Flynn & Tonic

I don’t like breakfast. Never have.

I always wished I lived in a culture where you started the day with something a bit less ‘breakfast-y’. At a hotel buffet, I’m more likely to be sniffing around the dumpling display than the bread basket.  I mean, if every day I was greeted with a personal chef who could whip me up a cheeky bacon and eggs, that’d be one thing, but frankly a soggy bowl of cereal doesn’t exactly inspire me to jump out of bed each morning.  I dream of a daily yum cha, Thai rice soup, Mediterranean cheese and cold cuts, hell – even a nice omelette, but a) I don’t have the aforementioned personal chef; b) the likelihood of me waking up early enough to make any of these things myself is pretty much nil to none; and c) I do buy into that whole ‘starting the day right’ nutritional thing, so I try to keep my brekkie healthy yet substantial enough to tide me over through the morning.

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