Superfoods for Better Health, Looking Good and Feeling Great
Despite their popularity, most breakfast cereals aren’t a great way to start your day.
Usually made with highly processed grains and often loaded with sugar, or even worse high fructose corn syrup, they provide a brief burst of sugar-based energy, but then often lead to the classic mid-morning slump.
Worse, the excess insulin that is released to deal with this flood of simple carbohydrates is the very Read more »
Here are two simple and healthy ways to use bok choy in your meals. If you’ve never cooked with it before you’ll find it a great base for many recipes. Best of all, bok choy is extremely good for you and when made up like this, very tasty as well.
I’m a big believer in cooking nutrient rich vegetables like bok choy lightly and on a low heat to retain as many beneficial compounds as possible Read more »
One of the best tasting ways to get the health benefits of amla into your diet is mixing the whole fruit powder into a superfood smoothie.
I’ve been making up different variations on the recipe below to start off my day for quite a while now. It’s been one of the best things I’ve ever done for my health and I’d really recommend trying it for yourself.
You’ll need a good blender for some of the ingredients ahead but it’s a great way to have some very healthy foods that are not always the easiest to eat, Read more »
Fresh amla fruit has an interesting flavor. I’d already been using the powdered version for a while when I found some in an Indian grocery store and bought a bag.
Cutting it open the first taste is quite sour and tart and my initial thought was that I might struggle to eat them all. I’d read though about a couple of tricks to try when eating amla.
The first was to taste a little salt before you bite into them. I tried this and it definitely improves the flavor. There was much more depth, less sourness and Read more »
This recipe is one of my favorite meals for lunch or dinner. It combines avocado with wild salmon, pumpkin seeds and several other superfoods into an extremely nutritious meal.
Due to the low carbohydrates, high protein and healthy fats in this avocado salad, it tends to satisfy your hunger for much longer than a sandwich, pasta or rice dish. Eating meals like this can really help avoid that afternoon slump that leads to unhealthy snacking, or late night cravings on the couch. Read more »
Here’s a great tasting avocado omelette recipe, packed with nutrition for an extremely healthy breakfast to start the day with.
Eggs are full of easily digested protein, vitamin A, choline, folate, potassium, phosphorus, selenium and zinc. They also fill you up really well and give you a much steadier, more consistent and longer lasting energy than sugary cereals or toast first thing in the morning. Read more »
Avocados are best ripened at home so you can use them just as they become soft. It can be risky to buy ones that you think are already ready at the store for two reasons.
Firstly, you don’t know how long it has been soft for. From my experience, there’s a fair chance it will be overripe and starting to go off in the middle.
Secondly, if a loose avocado has been sitting on the supermarket shelf for long enough to turn ripe it may have had a lot of fingers pressing into it and bruising the pulp. Read more »
Here’s a recipe for a great tasting pumpkin and mushroom risotto using BPA-free canned pumpkin and very healthy shiitake mushrooms.
Alternatively, fresh steamed pumpkin is great in this risotto recipe if it’s in season. Butternut squash also makes a fine replacement.
For the mushrooms you can also use other stronger tasting varieties such as portobellos, but shiitake mushrooms are best if you can find them. Read more »