Drum rolls and fanfare be silent. The day has come. Yep, the I Quit Sugar Chocolate Cookbook is available today. And thank you for being so patient!

My love of chocolate has seen me experiment madly with different densely nutritious and satiating recipe ideas for two years now. It’s not a bad experiment to sign up for, mind you. This cookbook, as with my previous books, evolved as an experiment as I explored sugar-free living for myself. I say this often: I’m not a scientist. I don’t pretend to be. I’m someone who gave this way of living a crack, found it did great things for my wellness, and now I love sharing what I’ve learned.

To grab the Chocolate Cookbook, click on the button below. If you’ve pre-ordered, your copy will be delivered to you today via email. Stay tuned!

I’m hoping you’ll love it. Here’s what you’ll find inside:

Update: The 500 Vital Vanilla Protein Powder sachets mentioned below have all been snapped up!

Hello. How’s your day? Mine’s good, thanks. Onto other matters…the I Quit Sugar Chocolate Cookbook: 74 Sugar-Free Cakes, Fudges, Truffles + Barks is almost here.  Since so many of you are rather keen to get in early, we’re taking pre-orders from today. And I’m sharing one of my favourite recipes from the book: My Fudgy Protein Bites. So healthy you could eat it for breakfast (and I do!).

Fudgy Protein Bites, photography by Marija Ivkovic. Recipe below.

Hang on Sarah! Can you even eat chocolate when you go fructose-free? Yes,  friends, you can. You can!!

However, it does mean making your own real chocolate. I’ve been experimenting for over a year now with different techniques and ingredients, and this cookbook is the culmination of my favourite flavour combos, transformed into more than 70 fructose-free cakes, truffles, brownies, smoothies, mousses and barks.

If you’re keen to get in early, we’ve got a bit of an offer for the first 500 people who pre-order:

Pre-order today + get a Vital Vanilla Protein Powder sample. 

The first 500 to pre-order the I Quit Sugar Chocolate Cookbook will also receive a 7g Vital Vanilla Protein Powder sachet from Vital. These 500 sachets have already been snapped up!

For more information on the book – what bang you get for your buck – and how to pre-order, simply click this button below:

I should say, I use the Vital Vanilla Protein Powder to make a number of the treats in the book, including my favourite, My Fudgy Protein Bites (above). This protein, importantly, is 100% Pure Pea Protein. The Vital Protein

This post has been updated.

I’m getting older and more sentimental and this year’s ANZAC day is piquing some emotional spots. For readers outside Australia and New Zealand, ANZAC day is a national day of remembrance to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli during World War I. (Today however, it goes beyond that anniversary; it’s now a day when we remember the service and sacrifice of all Australian servicemen and women from every conflict, past and present.)

Image via Claire K Creations. Recipe for sugar-free ANZAC biscuits below.

Right now, I’m feeling much respect. Respect for oldies. For a generation who sacrificed. It’s this – the idea of sacrificing for a greater and largely unknown good – that touches me. My goodness, the faith!? Do we ever feel this?! Couple this with the fact that these very people who sacrificed are now so very out on their own. We don’t care for our oldies as they cared for the future generations. We don’t “do” this same notion of sacrifice. Somewhat sadly, we just don’t have the time. Or faith, somehow.

Our “way” is to give money. This is not the same as our time and intimate contact. Is it? But it’s still very much needed. Today, as well as running an ANZAC biscuit recipe, and a special sale offer, I’m giving $1 from every sale to the ANZAC Appeal. Next year, I hope I have the time to be more intimate.

My Sugar-Free ANZAC Biscuits

Again, for readers outside Australia and New Zealand, these biscuits were eaten by our soldiers in lieu of bread and was a tooth-cracking combo of long-last foods that would withstand the journey via ship to reach the troops: oats, flour, golden syrup, coconut and bi-carbonate of soda. It was an incredibly hard wafer, leading some of the wives and mums back home to finesse things a little. Today, we make them on this special day to remember the Fallen. I invite you all to take a moment to reflect and