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$5 Feasts – Healthy Tarator and Shopska Salad with love from Bulgaria

This month for my guest blogger $5 feasts, I have not just one but TWO amazing recipes for you. My mouth is literally watering as I get this post ready, so as soon as I am done I am heading to the local market and grabbing the ingredients to whip these …

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Healthy Mexican Steak with Veg Salsa – on a camping stove

Cooking in hostels is always a challenge. Cooking something healthy and delicious is even more of a challenge… one might even call it an experiment. You have to deal with limited utensils, stoves that either burn too hot or not at all, lack of spices and oil and other people …

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Lime and Chilli Chicken Salad

I am chilling out on the Mexican island of Cozumel in order to complete my open water PADI diving course… as you do. Cozumel is a relaxed place with the whole island revolving around the scuba diving trade – which is obviously why I am here. Most people visit the island …

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Vegetarian Nachos – perfect for that night in!

When I am travelling for long periods of time, I make sure that I give myself a ‘rest’ day or evening, a couple of times a week.  You may wonder why? When I am off gallivanting around the world having the time of my life?  Well, gallivanting can be exhausting …

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Hello, I’m Helen, AKA The Lite Backpacker – an Australian with an English accent (thanks to having one English parent) on the 30 side of my 20s. Like so many Australians, at 18 I packed up my backpack and headed to Europe, flittering from museum to bar for nearly a year. When I came home I thought I had gotten the “travel bug” out of my system as well as putting on an unhealthy amount of “backpacking weight”. Instead, within 6 months I had booked my next trip, with a vow of finding a way to enjoy travel food without the weight gain. Read More about “About Me”…

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