So I’m back from Cherry Blossom gazing in Japan and wow(!) what an amazing place that is for a number of different reasons. Will elaborate more in a coming post but for now, I just wanted to show you my latest breakfast-on-the-run creation.
With both more fruit and coffee coming back into my life, start the day with a Ka –BANGO!
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So I was chatting to a social media follower, let’s call her Betty and we got to talking after she commented on one of my posts where the theme was ‘I walk because I hate running.’
Ok, so I’ve mentioned a few times now that I have changed how I am eating.
The reason:
…my holy grail – low sugar and low carb – stopped working for me and the weight started to pile back on!
Oh no!
It’s been an eye opening last 6 months for me on the healthy food front!
I’ve discovered a whole different angle of nutrition based on nourishing, healing and nurturing your body. It supports healthy hormones, regulates your blood sugar, encourages repair and rejuvenation and is basically everything you need for a super healthy body, fast metabolism and easy weight loss/maintenance.
Do you know what your resting temperature is?
How about 30 mins after you eat food?
Why does it matter anyway?
Well turns out your body temperature and heart rate are like a little window into your metabolic system and gives a good indication if it’s cranking properly or spluttering to a halt. Health professionals are using these measures along with blood work and checking a list of symptoms, to give a true picture of what’s working, what’s not and if your hormones and thyroid may be out of whack.
Now that coffee has crept back into my life a little, it was inevitable that it would appear in some recipes. Added here, it gives a brilliant taste to the gummie lolly, which ends up all creamy, sweet and bursting with flavour.
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I’ve been reading lots of recipes for banana ice-cream lately with some peeps even making whole recipe books about it! And most others declaring that it is soooo good. I’ve been meaning to try it for a while, but I don’t usually eat bananas as I find them too starchy and just all too much really.
I’ve bought bananas a few times and cut it up and whacked it in the freezer with the intention of giving it a go, to see if it is ‘just like normal ice-cream’ as they say but every time I would forget and 3 months later – oops the frozen bananas are a bit too rank to do anything other than throw them away. (Sorry food waste police!)
I recently saw Sarah Wilson showing her new jumper with SUGAR SUCKS on it and it made me wonder… is this getting a bit too negative, counter productive and perhaps even wrong?
Continuing the theme of ‘lunchbox or travel snacks,’ another recipe evolved and this may be my current favourite!
It just astounds me how a raw cookie can be crunchy. Totally tastes like it’s cooked, only it’s not!
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While I totally love my normal fudge/chocolate creations, they are strictly fridge to mouth options only, as they melt into a gooey mess within half an hour of being out of the chilly environment.
Not so practical for the lunchbox or if you want to take travel snacks.