Top five ways to kick-start your 2016

January. It rolls around too fast every year, and we begin it with the best of intentions after the indulgence of Christmas. Our first question to ask once the clock strikes midnight is ‘What are your New Years resolutions?’ And we set about setting goals for what we want to achieve in the next 365 – well 366 days this year!

Featured Foodies - Raw-Lishious, Tori Fleuren

I am a huge advocate for Fresh Local Produce. (Support your local!). Rain, hail, or shine, you will find me at the farmers market buying my fruit and veg for the week.

A Day In A Plate: Matcha Maiden

"I am that embarrassingly devout foodie who is already planning lunch and dinner while still halfway through breakfast. My whole day is structured around meal times and I’m always counting down to the next socially acceptable time to eat. It completely escapes me how anyone can ever “forget to eat”, especially because I have less personality than a door handle when I haven’t eaten in a few hours."

6 Dessert Ideas for Christmas!

We get so excited around this time of year when we finally get to plan the ultimate Christmas menu! We do however find when it comes to dessert it's so hard to lock in one idea. We've shortlisted our favourites down to just six recipes and now it's up to you to decide which one will be the perfect Chrissy day indulgence!

Featured Foodies - Our Holistic Kitchen, Anna & Bree

"Our days have always evolved around food for as long as we can remember. We are those annoying people who are always eating and talking about our next meal! With Bree being a photographer and myself a designer we get excited about creating images and putting together recipes. We have been meaning to pair up for some time, but it has taken till now for us both to be based in our hometown."

Friends of Loving Earth: Marni from Fresh Organic Goods (F.O.G)

"Fresh Organic Goods or F.O.G as most people like to call it for short first began as a wholesale nut milk business and a lifestyle change for me from my previous profession as a Lawyer. I wanted to provide people with an alternate to regular milk and rather than soy (which is an over consumed product) there didn’t seem to be any other options that weren’t filled with sugar or less than 1-2% almonds in the UHT versions available."

A Day In A Plate: Julia Ostro - OSTRO

Good quality produce, simple techniques and real food have always been respected in my family! I have really fond memories from when I was about 4 or 5 years old, collecting sea water from our local beach to make ricotta with my parents! This importance of making food from scratch has really stuck with me and plays a huge part in the way I think about food and our daily meals!

Featured Foodie: Holly Shelley - Paradise Pantry

"I always have to have a good walk and stretching session everyday. Plenty of water and real homemade food otherwise I get grumpy. I prioritise a bit of down time in my day, whether it be taking photos, cooking something special, reading my favourite magazines, just sitting and listening to music or cuddling my puppy Blaze. You end up happier and more productive for the rest of the day when you do."

Featured Foodie: Ashley Alexander - Gather & Feast

"I spent a lot of my early years learning in the kitchen. Mum enjoyed teaching my brother, sister and I to cook from a young age, preparing three course meals for dinner parties by the time we were 12 (well played Mum, well played). I am very thankful for all the valuable time spent and the lessons we learnt. Mum always taught us to cook using natural and healthy ingredients and instilled in us the value of whole and organic foods. (Vegan ice­cream for the win!) Thanks Mum!"

A Day In A Plate: Matt & Lentil - Grown & Gathered

"We see food as the centre of the world. Food for us is all that we do – we farm, we cook, we celebrate, we nourish our bodies. Real food is what it’s all about and the joys that come from that."

Nuts About Nuts - Win A Box Of Hazelnut Chocolate Butter!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (and probably even then), you’ll have noticed that Nutella has been trending hard for the last few months. Nutella donuts, nutella croissants, nutella deodorant… (okay we made that last one up).

Featured Foodies: Kathie & Jade - Panaceas Pantry

"I moved out of home at 17, not really knowing anything about cooking and without much knowledge on nutrition and unsurprisingly I quickly started to create some pretty bad eating habits and soon after my body started to suffer. When I made the connection that whatever I put into my body directly affected me so much, and thankfully after years of living with Jade who was studying nutrition at the time, I started to take an interest in my health."