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Swedish kladdkaka recipe (1)

Swedish chocolate cake (kladdkaka) recipe

Posted on April 14, 2025April 14, 2025 by Simple Essentials

This is a lovely sticky chocolate cake that I often make (my husband loves it). It’s very quick to whip up and lasts 1-2 days in the fridge. We normally serve our ‘kladdkaka’ with whipped cream, yoghurt or ice cream. The recipe below includes optional salt liquorice powder, which is totally not necessary if that’s…

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Simple hearty soup recipe

Simple Hearty Soup Recipe

Posted on February 17, 2025February 17, 2025 by Simple Essentials

This is a great and very simple soup to make. You can vary this recipe to make it vegetarian and also use any veggies you like (and need to use up). I often vary this recipe based on the season and what I have at home. Soup ingredients: Cooking instructions: This soup makes great leftovers!…

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Easy Chicken Hot Wings Recipe

Posted on January 19, 2025May 2, 2025 by Simple Essentials

This is my husbands recipe for chicken wings, which is a modification of a range of recipes over the past year. This chicken hot wings recipe is easy to double (or triple!) and it’s a great party food to cook up on your barbecue. To make delicious hot wings on your Weber Q BBQ using…

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4easy mix & match meals

Easy & Budget Friendly Dinners

Posted on June 5, 2024September 6, 2024 by Simple Essentials

Let’s cook up 4 yummy, easy and budget friendly recipes from last week’s grocery haul! This meal plan is designed to use basic ingredients that you can mix up for variety whilst staying on a budget. Recipes:

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16 meals for $50

Grocery haul + mix & match meal plan

Posted on May 29, 2024September 6, 2024 by Simple Essentials

This weeks’ video is all about varitey! This budget friendly mix & match meal plan helps you cook up 4 different meals and have lunches and dinners sorted for more than a week! Recipes:

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easy lunch, dinner and dessert

Easy lunch, dinner and dessert

Posted on May 19, 2024May 2, 2025 by Simple Essentials

Meal prep sure helps save a lot of time, and there is no reason we should not enjoy a sweet treat from time to time as well! This week I’m sharing one of my favourite stews/casseroles along with a chocolate cake that’s fool proof. Budget dinner recipe | Beef and veggie stew: You can vary…

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use-it-up meals and grocery haul

Grocery haul & use-it-up meal ideas

Posted on April 8, 2024May 2, 2025 by Simple Essentials

Join me for some great ideas to use up leftovers from hosting, plus a grocery haul and stocking up on a few items and preparing some healthy and super simple lunches. This week I shopped at Woolworths instead of ALDI, but I found some really good deals!

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shelf cooking easy dinners

Shelf cooking: 2 quick & easy dinners

Posted on March 30, 2024September 6, 2024 by Simple Essentials

Shelf cooking and using what you have in your pantry, fridge and freezer to meal prep can save you so much money! These dishes are delicious and is great for meal prepping. I would love it if you to share some of your favourite shelf cooking recipes down in the comments too!

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How to start a simple meal plan

How to start a meal plan

Posted on March 24, 2024September 6, 2024 by Simple Essentials

It’s no secret that I love meal planning, saving money on groceries and eating (mostly) healthy food. Let me show you how I meal plan every week for my family of 2! This meal planning technique is beginner friendly and easy for anyone to get started with, or get back on track.

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big grocery haul for 2 ALDI

Big restock grocery haul

Posted on March 9, 2024September 6, 2024 by Simple Essentials

Join me for a big restock grocery haul for 2 people from ALDI in Australia. Lots of budget friendly ingredients and gluten free options and a very healthy haul.

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