#healthy diet
Healthy sprouts in six days.
March 14th 2017
Bringing healthy food to the table, especially for the growing children, has never been this easy. We soak the seeds the first day for 24 hours. Then every morning and evening we fill the jars with water to do a shake and rinse. So, simply fill the jars, shake and pour the water out. once you’ve shaken the water out of the jars simply lay the jars on their side next to the sink. Keep them close and convenient. In six days you’ll have jars full of clean and organic sprouts for salads and sides. The nutritional value is exponentially higher when the beans open and the taproot grows. This is a great solution for anybody who feels they are too busy to grow their own healthy foods. With simple old-school methods no one has excuses and there is no light required. Moreover, the sweet and crunchy experience usually wins over the children.
From our experience, if you have an active lifestyle and need easily digestible foods that translate into quick and clean energy, this is definitely a route for you guys to explore.
I hope this message finds you guys excited about getting ready for the spring time.
Respectfully,
K
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Good morning world! ☘️
Recharging with some good old greens this morning. Made myself a creamy bowl of matcha wheatgrass smoothie topped off with frozen grapes, blueberries, kiwi wheels, almond granola bits and a delicious organic chocolate cookie sandwich courtesy of @annieshomegrown.
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Nothing like a smoothie dipped cookie sandwich!!
Green Recipe:
2 frozen bananas
1 tbsp of soy yogurt
A handful of frozen organic spinach
2 large frozen figs
Half a tsp of wheatgrass powder
1 tsp of matcha powder
A splash of vanilla almond milk
Blend and enjoy!
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A smoothie a day keeps the doctor away
This one was made with 1 frozen banana, mango, fresh mint, spinach, a dash of lemon and lime juice and 1 cup of coconut water and lets be real I poured it into a cup to drink after taking the photo
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Lunch ideas
These are actually amazing??? This can really help me eat more??? And are legit good and creative lunches??? THANK YOU IM AAAAAAAAA-
Good for spoonies who like to pre-prepare stuff when they do have some extra spoons
Lovely idee, everyone who can, go for it. Healthy food is super important!
Awareness note: number of those lunch boxes I can eat 0/16.
In the discussion about healthy food, how to change your diet and how to be more aware of what you eat in general, people by default forget those who suffer from food allergies.
We aren’t vegetarians, we aren’t vegans, we aren’t a loud minority. We are the silent minority who doesn’t want to inconvenience anyone, who gets funny looks because they don’t eat certain foods, who’d like to eat tons of stuff but simply can’t, who get excluded for something that isn’t our choice but a necessity.
I’m allergic to raw fruit and veggies. The only nuts I can eat are peanuts (which is a joke in itself given how dangerous peanut allergy is). I’m allergic to soy. I have to regulate my intake of sugar (highly), gluten (moderately), and cow milk (this includes specific kinds of cheese). I also shouldn’t consume processed food because the doctors think I react badly to food additives, which is code for “we have no idea what put you in the hospital, but we think it’s something you ate”.
I see 16 boxes of wonderful, delicious food here, that would all make me various kinds of sick.
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Recently, actually exactly one week ago, I received an email from Crate & Barrel: “Only 8 weeks until your wedding day! It’s not too late to add to your registry…” I made up the second sentence by assuming the content because I saw “8 weeks” and my heart dropped. EIGHT (now SEVEN) weeks until I get married. This is so exciting and so terrifying at the same time and I think this is what is considered “crunch time” - literally and figuratively.
That day I signed myself up for butt-kicking pilates classes and also happened to watch a documentary focusing on sugar in our diets.
Without adequate time to blog lately, I have missed to other side of the blogosphere as well - a wealth of knowledge (that must be filtered, of course) that encourages health and understanding. I love motivation to read the food labels, listen to my body, and exercise regularly.
For AT LEAST 7 weeks I am going to cut sugar out of my diet. Not completely, but the slashing has begun.
HOW I MODIFIED MY FRIDGE
- switched to plain nonfat Greek yogurt
- switched to reduced sugar vanilla almond milk (it’s a journey, I will get to original at some point)
- hunted for granola high in protein, low in sugar and free from unpronounceable ingredients
- ditched the sweetened white chocolate wonderful PB (though it has been my version of dessert for years) for plain peanut butter
- tossed most of my salad dressings containing sugar
- bought organic tomato sauce lower in sugar than others
- bought lots of fruits and vegetables to add natural sources of carbohydrates and sweetness to my life
Switching to the reduced-sugar almond milk was one of the harder transitions but as of today (three days later), it’s already getting easier to enjoy my morning latte without making a face after the first few sips.
This weekend I am going to Austin and am trying to plan for the best to hold strong in avoiding sugar. It will definitely be a challenge to avoid sugar and alcohol when surrounded by friends, but I’m just telling myself “7 weeks and I’m home free”… while in the back of my mind hoping that by at least four weeks in the lust for sugar will have mostly subsided anyways.
**ANY tips for cutting out sugar or additional information on why to avoid sugar are greatly appreciated. But please, if you believe “avoiding fruit” are two words that go together, this is not the place for you
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The Routine:
I’m giving away this basic diet plan that many dietitians give out and many athletes, such as Michael Phelps, use. I really don’t care if you do it or not - I can’t make you work hard, and once you adjust it isn’t hard work.
Talk to your Doctor:
If you’re reading this then chances are that you already have concerns regarding your diet. Be sensible. Especially if you have a known injury or condition that might impair your ability to exercise or eat properly.
The First Thing To Do:
Make sure that you are actually overweight. Females in particular tend to deem themselves overweight when they aren’t. Check your BMI. If you can’t read your BMI properly from a lack of know how, don’t Google it! This is something for you to ask your GP/Doctor/Nurse to check out. Keep in mind that nurses can only give advice and opinions. To my knowledge they aren’t qualified to give educated and fully informed advice to someone.
Step #1 - Moderation:
I can’t say anything more than moderation is the key to this diet. You need to limit how much you eat and how often you eat it. Not the things you eat.
Ideally you should be eating 3 small meals a day and 3 snacks throughout the day. But I can’t tell you how much you should eat. If you are around 95 kg then I would recommend about 15-20 grams of whatever you want for breakfast, to 30-40 grams of whatever you want for lunch and dinner.
You should be eating once every 2-3 hours. So if you wake up at 10AM you eat 15 grams of cereal and by 11AM, perhaps eat a snack (such as a banana) and by 1PM you should be eating 30 grams of lunch.
But it is all dependent on how much is actually best for you. You should figure out how much you eat and adjust it accordingly.
Youcan have things like McDonalds every now and again. Once a week isn’t even horrible. You have to stick to eating 30-40 grams of whatever you want and instead of ordering fizzy drinks you order the light/zero equivalent of them. If you order juice instead; that is better. But people tend to go full-pelt into their diets too fast and then just crash.
Step #2 - Exercise:
Exercise is the Yang to moderation’s Yin. You need balance in life.
The minimum anyone should really be exercising, in my opinion, is 4 times a week.
If your goal is weight loss you shouldn’t be hitting the weight bench. Lifting adds muscle, so just lifting weights is not ideal. Even if you mix in weight lifting with cardiovascular exercises such as running, it isn’t great because when you gain muscle it makes it difficult to determine how much weight you have actually lost.
I’d recommend you do four 30 minutes + (dependent on how fit you are) sessions of cardio a week. Running and swimming are both examples of cardio exercises.
I, personally, prefer swimming. When you have good swimming technique swimming is generally much better for your body, can burn higher rates of calories when you swim for the same amount of time you run (although this is dependent on how good of a runner or swimmer you are) and it is generally better for your metabolic system.
Step #3 - Hobbies:
A hobby can be really beneficial to getting in shape. It makes exercise fun for those who don’t think it is. Hobbies don’t have to be serious, here is a list of hobbies that are fun and are labelled on how intense of a sport it is. (Keep in mind this is my opinion on the sport’s intensity - it might vary in your experience):
- Longboarding/Skateboarding. (Light)
- Archery (Light)
- Tennis (Mild)
- Badminton (Mild)
- Surfing (Mild)
- Kickboxing/Thai Boxing (Intense)
- Judo (Intense)
- American Football/Rugby (Intense)
- Swimming (Light/Mild/Intense - Controllable)
Enjoy:
Feel free to use this, or not to use it. I hope it helps!
Nope
No no no no no
Sugar does not give you cancer or emphysema. Sugar does not negatively impact the health of the people around you. To compare cigarettes to sugar is a gross overstatement that has no basis in fact - These are apples and oranges.
This whole story of “lab rats preferred sugar over cocaine” is a myth in the science world that’s been so twisted and distorted that it is no longer representative of its actual findings. I highly recommend reading this comic about Rat Park in order to better understand it. This research doesn’t simply come down to “Rats found sugar to be more addictive than cocaine,” it’s far more complex than that.
Sugar has been shown to be addictive, yes. But so is caffeine. If we’re looking at behavior instead of the food itself, even “healthy” options can be addictive. Maintaining an addiction is not the best option, but it can remain part of a healthy, balanced diet for many people. For most, these is no reason to ever “detox” from sugar or completely cut it out. Such steps are only necessary in severe cases where a person’s doctor has deemed them at risk.
Considering that your body literally needs sugar in order to function, images like this are nothing more than a scare tactic. The fact that sugar causes your body to produce insulin? And can increase your fat storage? None of these things is inherently bad or scary! Your body is meant to behave that way! You need to do these things in order to live! To list “fat storage” as an effect that’s on par with cancer-causing cigarettes - I can’t even deal with that level of pettiness and hatefulness, it’s ridiculous.
There have been numerous criticisms published about the movie Fed Up, and I highlyrecommendreadingthem. This film doesn’t have all the answers, and it’s not going to cover everything about sugar. To take Fed Up as gospel without doing further research is a mistake.
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breakfast at its finest! maple pecan granola with berry compote and banana slices and soy yogurt.
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spelt cakes topped with coconut agave glaze, banana slices, strawberries and agave roasted coconut shreds. so delicious!
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cinnamon oatmeal topped with banana slices, fresh blueberries and maple coconut granola. pure perfection in a bowl*.*
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post workout lunch: zucchini pasta topped with steamed pumpkin, guacamole and roasted sesame seeds
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vanilla oatmeal topped with banana slices, raspberry compote and granola. Lovely warming breakfast on a freezing cold morning
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