Healthy lifestyle tips
Here are 5 tips for a good digestive system and improved gut health which is the key to your general optimum health and well being. I subsitute oatcakes for bread when I’m craving a healthy carb fix, especially eaten with unpasteurized cheese (a healthy gut likes unpasteurised cheese and fermented foods as friendly bacteria and […]
My home-cooked meat-free veggie Bank Holiday weekend cooked breakfast
Eggs from the local farm shop chickens, seeded wholemeal bread from the Island Bakery with rather a generous spread of organic butter, wilted spinach, beef tomato slices, avocado and mushrooms. I always eat breakfast or brunch straight after working out, or doing any fitness or exercise. Healthy mix of carbs and protein and good fats. […]
A quick healthy Summer lunch inspo
Organic salmon fillet shallow-fried in organic butter so that the skin goes crispy (start flesh side down) will only take 5 minutes to cook. On a bed of leaves with avocado and cucumber. Eating at least 3 portions of oily fish gives you Omega3 fatty acids essential for a healthy brain, heart and eyes. . […]
A healthy breakfast worth waiting for
After a 12 hour overnight fast for a healthy gut. After a 16/18 hour overnight fast to lose weight. After exercise. Tomatoes, wilted spinach, mushrooms, poached eggs on sourdough toast with avocado and chillies and an espresso coffee. A yummy breakfast of protein, low carb and good fats. . . . .. .
Crab and courgette spaghetti with chilli and rocket
Crabmeat with spiralized or courgette strips with spaghetti, olive oil, lemon juice and chillies and rocket leaves. Mixing spaghetti with courgettes and leaves helps the dish become more nutritionally balanced and to last longer as fuel for your body. Courgettes and leaves are healthy low carb foods and crab is protein. Less heathy processed white […]
Thai king prawn Laksa curry lunch in the sun today at Phat Phuk noodle bar London
Low carb and protein Thai lunch on London’s Kings road Chelsea. My favourite little cafe with Thai street food. Yummy healthy and inexpensive. I always ask the rice noodles to be replaced with vegetables so they add extra broccoli and leaves. The base ingredient of a Laksa is coconut milk which has loads of health […]
Another protein and low carb breakfast idea
Scrambled eggs with spinach, avocado and tomatoes. You could leave a 12 hours interval before you eat your breakfast, after your last meal the eve before. This gives your digestion a chance to rest. 16-18 hours is an optimum gap if you’re on a weight loss journey. On 2 consecutive days for the best result. […]
Even the simplest of food looks more appetizing when presented prettily on the plate
Portion control is important when making how you eat a lifestyle choice not a diet. A smaller portion styled attractively on a small plate will make you feel you’ve still eaten well and satisfied. Parma ham with fresh figs and green pesto ( basil, pine nuts, garlic and olive oil) dressing and salad leaves.
A Thai Laksa prawn curry
When you fancy comforting warming carb-type food instead try a healthy version that nourishes with the warmth coming from chillies and spices rather than starchy or sugary carbs. This is a Thai prawn Laksa with broccoli, basil leaves, pal choi, a few rice noodles, big fat juicy prawns in a thick coconut broth flavoured with […]
Pad Thai dinner served up with a swan decoration made from apples
One of my favourite Thai dishes of rice noodles, bean shoots, chopped peanuts, king prawns, and lime juice, chillies, fish sauce, galangal, coriander, Thai basil and a tiny pinch of palm sugar to flavour.