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Caleb's Birthday Bundle!

This bundle will be live until 12am Midnight Sunday 21st June AEST when Caleb’s birthday ends. You can take a look at each individual book with the links below, but this is the first time we’ve ever sold them in a bundle and at such a cheap price, so we hope you take advantage of it and grab yourself two great books at a rock bottom price.

The bundle includes both our books, Fresh Fragrant Keto:…

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Sugar Free Pizza Sauce | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF

For a really long time, a bottle of store bought pre-made Pizza Sauce was a condiment I pretty much always had on hand in the fridge or pantry. When I started a low carb diet though and began reading the labels on everything, I was shocked to see how high the carbs/sugar are in store bought pizza sauce and that there was ADDED SUGAR in there also!

I started using different things as a pizza sauce…

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Mint Chip Cheesecake Squares | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF

I can’t remember much about what prompted me to try doing these Keto Mint Chip Cheesecake Squares, except that picturing them in my head I thought they would look really good! I also really love cheesecake, if you couldn’t tell by all the cheesecake recipes on the website, but mint is a flavour you don’t see too often with a cheesecake, that goes great with chocolate and that can easily be made…

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Thai Red Curry Crackslaw - Cabbage Stir Fry | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF

This recipe for Thai Red Curry Crackslaw or Cabbage Stir Fry is a real throw together and very different from my other Asian style crackslaw recipe. This Thai Red Curry Crackslaw is much easier to make, has fewer ingredients and takes less time. I wanted something quick and easy to once again use up a lot of beef mince and cabbage I had on hand from being a little low on funds. These are two…

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Creamy Peppercorn Sauce | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF

You only have to look at the logo on this website to know that I LOVE steak! It’s always been one of my favourite foods and it was always what I would order when we would go to a restaurant. The only question anyone had to ask or that I had to think about when I went to a restaurant, was what sauce was I going to have on my steak?

I love all the options here in Australia, diane sauce, peppercorn…

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Creamy Mushroom Meatballs with Fried Cabbage | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF

I came up with this recipe literally just because I was thinking of something new to make with the massive amount of beef mince/ground beef I had sitting in the freezer. I really love how sometimes being a little low on money and having to utilise what you have on hand, really gives you great ideas for something new to make!

It has been really cold and rainy this week, after bushfire smoke and…

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Avocado Bowls with Poached Egg | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF | Low Carb

Avocado Bowls with Poached Egg | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF | Low Carb

If you’ve never tried avocado with eggs, you’re in for a treat! I used to always hate avocado, to me it just tasted like eating butter (another thing I didn’t like much except for in cooking). But it’s so nutritious and so widely used and favoured that I started introducing myself to it, first in small amounts like sushi and salad, then more and more. Now it is 100% one of my favourite foods and…

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Cheese Layered Lasagne | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF | Low Carb

Over the years I have tried LOTS of keto lasagne recipes. Lasagne used to be a favourite dish I’d make often. I’d do a classic beef one and a vegetarian one with lentils which I loved and which my mother could enjoy as she doesn’t eat meat. Often we’d have a ‘lasagne night’ and I’d do a chicken one as well.

I’ve made quite a few keto varieties of lasagne, some of the most popular are ones using…

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Red Velvet Cupcakes | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF | Low Carb | Sugar Free

This recipe for Red Velvet Cupcakes originally was made for our first cook book ‘Low Carb Celebrations’ as a Valentine’s Day recipe. I made it as a double layer cake and it was honestly one of my most favourite cake recipes that I’d made up to that point. I have been wanting to put it on the website for a long time, but always feel it really isn’t fair to people who have paid for a book, to then…

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Easy Cheats Poached Eggs | Low Carb Nikki | Low Carb | Keto | LCHF

As good a cook as I consider myself to be, I have always been fearful of making a poached egg! I’ve always loved poached eggs, it’s actually one of my absolute favourite ways to eat them. But I used to never make them myself as a kid or teen, I’d always get someone else to make them. I just couldn’t stand seeing all the wispy bits coming off, knowing I wasn’t doing it right. I also used to always…

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Almond Raspberry Yoghurt Pots | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | Low Carb | LCHF | Sugar Free

You may have noticed on my blog there are very few recipes that feature yoghurt. While full fat natural yoghurts are totally fine to eat on a low carb diet, it’s a food that I have cut out of my diet almost completely, except for use in things like marinades or something like Tzatziki.

This isn’t because I don’t like yoghurt, I love it! In fact, I love it just a little too much! Yoghurt is one of…

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Crunchy Chicken and Cauliflower Rice Salad | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF | Low Carb

Crunchy Chicken and Cauliflower Rice Salad | Low Carb Nikki | Keto | LCHF | Low Carb

With the heat returning, cold and fresh dishes are an absolute must, as well as dishes that are quick and easy to prepare, so you’re not slaving over a hot stove for ages or heating up your house with the oven. In Australia, salads are also incredibly popular at Christmas, especially as there is always such beautiful fresh produce to be had.

All my close followers will know that I absolutely LOVE…

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Keto Spanish Omelette | Low Carb | LCHF

If you’re unfamiliar with a Spanish Omelette, it’s a classic dish that seems very simple given the small amount of ingredients, but can be tricky sometimes to cook. My mum used to make a version of this very often when I was a kid, since eggs are so cheap and it makes for a really quick meal on a late night, when you’re tired from work and have kids to feed and put to bed.

The classic recipe…

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Portuguese Style Baked Fish - Peixe Assado | Keto | Low Carb | LCHF

Portuguese Baked Fish

This recipe is one that I used to make repeatedly since I was a teenager, but that I had forgotten all about for many years. It uses few ingredients and is one of the simplest and easiest recipes I’ve made, but has great flavour!

Opening the oven to the smell of this Portuguese Style Baked Fish or Peixe Assado was like smelling my childhood again, beautiful flavours and aroma you’d often smell in…

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Mi Goreng | Low Carb | Gluten Free | LCHF | Keto

This recipe is adapted from my cookbook ‘Fresh Fragrant Keto’ and is even better than the original recipe in my opinion. The original recipe in the book uses konjac noodles and chicken, but I was turned on to making it with the Slendier soy spaghetti by a very talented food stylist, Ali Irvine of Ali Irvine Food. She had been making my Mi Goreng recipe over and over, using the Slendier soy…

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Stuffed Mini Peppers | Keto | Low Carb | LCHF

I’ve been wanting to try a recipe like these Stuffed Mini Peppers for ages! I grew up with capsicums/peppers that were always stuffed with a meat and rice mix and for some reason I always hated them. I wanted to use something different and I loved the idea of using mini peppers/baby capsicums because I knew it would make for great bite sized morsels that could be eaten as a meal or served as a…

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Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cupcakes | Keto | Low Carb | Sugar Free

I have had this recipe for Peanut Butter Filled Chocolate Cupcakes all drafted and planned out in my head and in scribbles for AGES! It was an idea that I knew would be fantastic if I could pull it off, but whenever I’m doing baking involving frozen items that will ruin the whole recipe if they melt straight away, I always have a bit of panic in me that I’ll open the oven to a disaster! The plus…