Newsletter: April 2024

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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”

Socrates

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Did you know that 26th April is Stop Food Waste Day?

Let’s focus for one moment on the food we eat at our dinner table and store in our fridge. Let’s also remember the food we throw everyday into the bin because we have cooked too much of it or have not planned well our shopping list. April 26th, 2024 will bring awareness to this facet of our lives with Stop Food Waste Awareness Day. This awareness day brings attention to the value of our food at a global level and at its potential daily waste especially in our part of the world where food abounds. Let’s reflect together on our habits around eating and consuming food and also on how we can make eating and disposing of food more sustainable. Together we can make small acts of love to improve our environment and our health at a personal and global level.

Make sure this day is celebrated with sensitivity:

Compost all organic food either in your garden compost bin or dispose of it into an organic waste council bin;
Educate your family and children regarding this important issue;
Plan your shopping list and don’t buy things you won’t need or eat. You can always buy and freeze;
Donate to a foodbank for those who are in need in your community;
Use leftovers to make a soup or a salad for the next meal. Or to make a good home-made stock;
Learn new ways of preserving or storing food.
Always buy seasonable foods.

Check our our recipe for April (see below): Poached eggs in Savoy cabbage leaves! Cabbage is seasonable all year round or just about!

Become aware of your food intolerances so you do not buy foods you should not eat to improve your immune system and digestive health.

Why not treating yourself to a Food Intolerance Test this May, and take an advantage of the May offer (see above)?

Follow the link here: HERE!

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RECIPE OF THE MONTH: APRIL 2024

Poached eggs in savoy cabbage leaves

Serves 2 (for two eggs each)

Have you ever tried and failed in making a satisfactory poached egg? Perfect poached eggs are truthfully an hors d’oeuvre and one of my favourite ways to have a healthy breakfast or snack. But it took me quite a few shots to perfect them. Here, with the help of a savoy cabbage steamed leaf you can make perfect poached eggs in your oven, to add some of the wondeerful nutrients savoy cabbage has to offer for our gut lining integrity, liver health and gut immunity! Can I call it a superfood? Yes, to me it is! And to help even further, it is a super-easy recipe.

INGREDIENTS:

4 steamed leaves of savoy cabbage

4 eggs

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

salt and pepper to taste

Your choice of grated cheese (optional)

METHOD:

Preheat your oven at 180C. Use a cucpcake tin (large cups), oil the cups with one tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil. Place in each of the cups one 3/4-steamed savoy cabbage leaf and press well into the tin cups. Break one egg into leach leaf, add salt, pepper, the rest of the olive oil shared between the 4 eggs. (You can add a little grated cheese over the egg if you wish so, but this is totally optional and it depends whether you like cheese and you’re not intolerant to dairy). Wrap the leaf over the egg and fold into the cup to hold it in place. Bake for 15 minutes.

Et voila’!! Poached eggs parfaits and ready to eat for your breakfast or lunch! Enjoy…. 🙂

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Red Quinoa Bread

Red Quinoa Bread is super easy to mix and bake at home. You can make it both with quinoa flour or quinoa grains. All you need is Quinoa, water and salt. Some fermentation and an oven! 🙂

Red Quinoa Bread: I make this bread with other grains, also with rice, but my favourite is made with Quinoa. DE-LICIOUS!

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Irresistible n. 1 Chicory Latte

Why not recharging your midmorning with an anti-inflammatory drink full of tasty ingredients,

which will help you stay on top of your energy without you getting bloated?

Enjoy this recipe for an anti-inflammatory latte! No caffeine, no dairy,

great taste, detoxing and environment friendly. Easy to make and shake.

Often we do not know that some of the most staple ingredients are not our friends. We have eaten or drunk them for so many years with no adverse effects, and then suddenly one morning a simple Latte bloats us and we have no clue what it was: was it the caffeine? was it the milk? was it the sugar? Or the caramel syrup we like so much?

Our immune defence system simply can no longer tolerate some ingredients because we have saturated our system with them.

This chicory latte contains anti-inflammatory ingredients and it just tastes delicious. Try for yourself and see the results.

You can buy the agave syrup (preferably wholemeal – i.e. dark) and the vegetable milk in any supermarket (oats, almond, rice, coconut, according to the foods your digestive system can tolerate). Buy the chicory coffee in any good Healthy Food shop.

Buy a good hot drink shaker (Knoops sell a really good one with an expanding lid). And you’re ready to go!

Chicory Latte

Ingredients (serves 2):

400 ml oats, almond or wholemeal rice milk

1/4 teaspoon cinnamon

1 pinch of ground clove

1 teaspoon chicory soluble coffee

maple syrup or agave syrup to sweeten (optional)

Method:

– Warm up the milk in a small pan and take it off the fire before boiling point.

– Wisk the milk in a jug until frothy.

– add the spices and the coffee and whisk more.

– sweeten the latte with a small amount of maple or agave syrup (coconut milk and rice milk are already naturally sweet).

You can sprinkle the top of the milk with ground cinnamon or cloves, or bitter cocoa, to taste.

Enjoy!

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Paleo Beetroot Hummus

GOING PALEO for a while to detox from pulses and grains and generally sugars? January is the perfect month to start that. Buy a good Paleo Cookery Book and follow simple recipes to regain energy. Also, for your snacks try this Paleo Red Beet Hummus.

PALEO BEETROOT HUMMUS

INGREDIENTS: 4 fresh red beetroots, 5-6 spoons of coconut yogurt, 2 sprigs of thyme, 1 tsp milled coriander seeds, extra virgin olive oil, 3 garlic cloves.

METHOD: Peel the beetroots, slice them and place then in an oven dish. Add the thyme and the garlic cloves. Add 1⁄2 glass of wine and place in over at 180C for 35 minutes, until the beets are tender. Place them in a liquidiser once they have cooled with 5-6 spoons of coconut yogurt, and shelled hemp seeds. Use as hummus for your snacks, with oat biscuits or crudités.

29 September — World Heart Day

A LOWER CARBOHYDRATE DIET is recommended to balance blood sugar and therefore reduce insulin and blood glucose levels. Elevated insulin is a major risk factor for heart disease and promotes inflammation. You’re also likely will lose weight on a blood sugar balancing diet, and that in itself will reduce the risk for many chronic diseases, including heart disease and high blood pressure.

To help your hear health make sure you enrich your diet with plenty of: fibre, healthy fats, fruit and vegetables. Avoid at all costs processed foods and vegetable oils (except of course for Extra virgin olive oil, rapseed oil, linseed oil and coconut oil).

Love Your Heart!

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Increase your antioxidants

You need to stockpile those natural antioxidants (and not just the packets and tins of pulses!). When you supercharge this “antioxidant potential” you give your immune system a real boost. And, if you’re wondering ‘where have I heard about antioxidants before?’ they’re the things skincare companies tell you their anti-ageing moisturisers are full of so double win.

Why are antioxidants important?

Viruses and bacteria produce oxidants, which are reactive forms of oxygen that damage cells and age you faster. Simply, they are bad news. We’re also getting our fill of oxidants from eating chargrilled/ blackened foods or breathing polluted air, and maybe you’ve had a less than great diet over the years. Where you can end up is a situation in which you have too many oxidants and not enough antioxidants.

Revving up your antioxidant status at times like these is a really good idea. While vitamin C seems to get all the praise when it comes to immunity, there’s another molecule that is the under-recognised supporting actor who deserves the starring role – glutathione.

…more about glutathione tomorrow!

May 2024 OFFER

30% discount on Food Intolerance Testing online Consultations for all new clients!

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“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”

Socrates

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RECIPE OF THE MONTH: APRIL 2024

Poached eggs in savoy cabbage leaves

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