A healthier low sugar take on a classic hazelnut chocolate spread, this recipe is made from just 5 ingredients (6 if you want to include some unnoticeable veg!) in 1 minute.Yep, you read that right.Hands up if you love chocolate spread! Let’s face it, we all have our hands up right now, right? Growing up in France and Belgium, Nutella was everywhere.

They put it on toast, pancakes, waffles, ice cream sundaes, and even in sweet pizzas.It’s a bestseller there.And it’s not exactly easy to avoid here.

Chocolate-stained grins are a familiar memory for me, and I still find the taste of Nutella nostalgic! It’s a great treat.But when you read the list of ingredients, it’s slightly alarming: Sugar (first ingredient listed, meaning the one there is most of), palm oil (uh-oh), hazelnuts (alright, this is better), skim milk, cocoa, soy lecithin as emulsifier (hmm…), vanillin: an artificial flavour (oh joy! what’s wrong with vanilla?!).It’s over 50% sugar – 21g in each 2 tbsp portion, which is just under an adult’s daily recommended sugar intake, and almost twice a child’s.

It’s delicious, but it’s not exactly something we want to be eating regularly.So is there a way to eat chocolate spread that is at least a little healthier? Well, there are a number of “sugar free” options these days, including: Diablo, Jim Jams, Nuttvia, GoodGood Belgian Choco Hazel, and CarbZone Belgian Hazelnut Spread.However, all except CarbZone’s

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