Friday, November 16, 2012

Super Charge your Smoothie

Banana, milk or yoghurt, berries, protein powder. These seem to be the standard ingredients to a Smoothie. It seems a shame to waste a good smoothie opportunity without taking the chance to load it up with goodies to give your day a super-charge start.

So here are some of my suggestions: if you can't have bananas or don't like them, choose another creamy fruit such as mango, papaya or pawpaw. If you can, substitute pasteurised milk for raw milk, nut milk, oat or rice milk, fruit juice or even plain old water. Any of these is a step up from shop milk which is mucus forming and will hinder your efforts to add some nutritional 'wham' to your day.

What other fruits have you got languishing in your fruit bowl or veggie drawer?. Have you got some left over apple you froze when your Little Darling had had enough? A bag of frozen berries, pineapple? Great; mix and match your flavours to suit your mood. blueberries for a pretty purple, strawberries for a gorgeous pink. Coconut, and pineapple for a Tropical sensation. Mango on its own for a wonderful taste; pretend you're in Fiji!

Boost with super food powders; maca, mesquite, chia, ground flax seed, probiotic etc. Oil is good: coconut oil is easily incorporated as is flax seed oil such as Waihi Bush.

So many choices...

Your blender can be your personal Smoothie laboratory. Go forth and create!

Morning-after Smoothie
I am a bit of a tea-totaller so this doesn't come from personal experience. However, it sounds so nice I might have it anyway. For those of you who would be interested in trying it sometime, here it is:

2 bananas, chopped and frozen
3 c almond milk
2 shots espresso, cooled
ground cinnamon to garnish

Blend the bananas and enough milk to a thick smoothie consistency. On medium speed, gradually add the remainder of the milk, then the coffee. Pour into two tall glasses and sprinkle with cinnamon. Serves two.

Do let me know if it makes you feel better, won't you?
(Eating for the Seasons, Janella Purcell)

Christine
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email: christine@gomoreraw.com

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Saturday, November 3, 2012

The Easiest Weight Loss Trick in the World

Of all the weight loss ideas I have heard, this one really takes the cake. In a good way, I mean. And it could be literally, too.

Cake? Weight loss? Confused? Read on...

Listening to a panel of blokes discuss weight loss, one of them said he'd heard the simplest method yet, which pretty much guaranteed results. Here it is: you don't eat anything if you haven't made it yourself.

I've been mulling over this in my spare mental-availability-moments, and I think there's a lot to be said for it. Want pasta, ready made sauce, chippies, cake? Make it yourself.


Fancy a salad with a lovely mayonnaise? Fine; but only if you make the dressing yourself.

You can have a tea or coffee but not a hot chocolate - unless you make the mix.

Mince or steak is fine but sausages are not. Pasta is out, rice is in. Weetbix is a no-no but porridge, eggs or homemade muesli is a 'yes'. And bread, of course: tut, tut; but if you have a bread maker: easy.

I figure that this means folks would take an easier food route because all that DIY takes time. You could do some but not all. That means you'd choose something much simpler that happens to be close to it's original state. Such as fruit for dessert with cream or maybe yoghurt but only...you got it...only if you made the yoghurt yourself.

I reckon you could have a day off a week and have a take-away, meal out or a home-cooked one made with ready-made ingredients. If it all seems too much to plan (and it is a big shopping and eating change for all of us) then try baby-stepping your way into it. Make one meal per day a DIY for a few days and then add the others in as soon as you can.

I think it could be quite an exciting and interesting process. Your purse will be heavier and you will be lighter. The multinational corporations will see their stock fall and so will the Golden Arches, BK and KFC. No tears there.

I can see how making your own cake and eating it could be the icing on the top. Sorry, I couldn't help myself!

Buying my Seven Day Program (and ignoring the Seven Day bit) would be a perfect tool to make this work for you. Recipes, shopping list, movies to show you how to make your healthy food from scratch. Get your recipe books out and add more recipes to your list.

I'm liking this challenge already. Tell me what you think!

Christine
www.gomoreraw.com
email: christine@gomoreraw.com

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