Sharabelle bakes

Dried cranberry & macadamia nut dark chocolate bark Every time I find a product that's dairy free, I tend to impulsively buy it.  Especially if it's something I can bake with.  It's a habit I'm trying to break, usually my mum's voice pop's into my head saying " Do you really need that, and if so what are you going to do with it!!!.   Which always makes me think twice, doesn't always work though.  As I seem to have accumulated several bars of chocolate over the past few months.   After giving up chocolate years ago because it was an IBS trigger Iv kind of lost my taste for it.  I couldn't eat a whole chocolate bar now, I do however occasionally crave a nibble.  I think I like the idea of being able to eat chocolate more than actually eating it.    So in my reducing food waste quest, I decided to do something with it.  I'd never heard of Chocolate bark before, until I watched the Barefoot Contess...

Orange marmalade and cranberry cookies Continuing with yesterdays Blog about food waste, thought Id better post a recipe along the same theme.  I had Orange marmalade in my fridge and some dried cranberry's left over from my Christmas baking.  The marmalade had been in the fridge for a while so really needed used up.  Iv just finished eating the orange and cranberry soda bread scones and bread I'd made, so didn't really want to eat any more so soon.  So that just left cookies......... One of the worst things about IBS is sometimes you can get stuck in a rut, eating the same foods.  Mainly because you know they won't trigger your symptoms.  Some one I know commented not that long ago that my food was always interesting.  Just because I have food intolerance's doesn't mean my meals have to be boring. I like to freeze all my food into portions, that way I'm not eating the same meals for the rest of the week.  My homemade...