Awesome roasted nuts and seeds

Nuts and seeds are great. But I noticed that I was not feeling very well after eating them straight from the bag. So I decided to find the way how to eat nuts and keep my tummy happy at the same time. Maybe this post will be helpful for you too!? Let me know what do you think!

4 signs that you are not processing nuts well:

• Heavy feeling in your lower stomach after eating nuts
• Stomach pain
• Heartburn
• You can literally see bits of them in your poo (SORRY! I have no idea how to write about this indirectly 🙂 )

I remembered that during my Nutritional Therapy lectures in BCNH we studied that nuts&seeds contain  lectins, phytates, and enzyme inhibitors (I will call this bunch LPEs), which may be one of the causes of the above mentioned conditions. I must mention, that “enzyme inhibitors” are good nature’s way of “protecting” them from heat, etc. before “right”conditions come (eg. rain) for the nuts to grow into trees.

By soaking nuts you can not only minimise the impact of LPEs, but also enhance the flavour of nuts!In a way, you are “tricking” the nature, by providing conditions when nuts&seeds may “relax” and start releasing all good minerals and micronutrients.

Also, you need to remember that roasted nuts from the shop are most likely not soaked first which means they still have LPEs. There are a few brands though which actually soak the nuts before they roast or dehydrate them, check out LivingRaw nuts, or Raw Ecstasy but they are not very cheap.

So, why not to try to prepare and “activate” your nuts yourself, it is super easy! Let me show it to you 🙂

 Easy process for soaking nuts

• Rinse nuts/seeds with fresh water (better purified water, not from the tap)
• Put them in a bowl (better in a glass or ceramic bowl)
• Cover nuts with water (2 cups water/ 1 cup nuts) and put smth breathable on top (paper towel or tea towel)
• Let them stand for a few hours (during the night/day/ or 24 hours). If you have time or you are around, change the water a few times. If not, don’t worry about it 🙂
• Drain the water (which will look very dirty)
• Rinse again with fresh water (the water contains all those LPE which are acidic to the body, so rinse well!)
• Dry your clean and beautiful nuts on a sheet of paper towel or dehydrator (if you have one)
• Put in a bag or a glass bowl and keep in refrigerator for 3-4 days

Check out timings for each type of nut/seed here. But! Just not to overcomplicate things too much, a few hours would be good. For example, arrange all in the morning and it is ready for the evening or make preparations in the evening and the nuts are ready for breakfast!

And finally a recipe!!! 🙂

Soaked and roasted walnuts and pumpkin seeds

• Soaked pumpkin seeds (I made them overnight)
• Soaked walnuts (I made them overnight)
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp rosmarin
• Pinch of dry basil
• Pinch of dry coriander
• Pinch of pepper
• Optional: 1 tbs bee polen

Preheat the oven for 200 C, mix all the spices and nuts in a dry bowl and put the mixture to the baking sheet. In 25-30 min the AWSOME nuts are ready to eat! 🙂

Note! It is better to add bee polen 10 min before the nuts are ready, so it doesn’t burn 🙂

Awesome Roasted nuts and seeds

 

Norice-salad “sushi”

Salads are awesome – a lot of vitamins, phytonutrients and fibre. But seriously, eating a salad every day CAN become boring. And then…and then you need to make Norice-salad sushi! 🙂

This is what I have done today to perk things up a bit:

Norice-salad sushi

-100g cucumber grated
-2 beetroots grated
-1 parsnip grated
-bunch of dill
-2 Yaki Nori sheets (bought in a Korean store)

In big bowl mix all ingredients and add any dressing (I have added: 1 tbs Extra virgin olive oil, 1 tsp apple vinegar, 1 tbs hemp oil). Prepare sushi mat (also could be bought in a Korean store) by putting 1 Yaki Nori sheet.

 

Then squeeze the juice from the salad – otherwise you are going to get a “sushi ocean” on your plate:)

Place the salad on the sheet, BUT make sure that you have left 2 cm (1 inch) from the top of the sheet – to avoid salad “jumping” from the sheet while you are rolling a sushi roll.

Roll and enjoy! SUPER easy and fast! :)…and OMGsoTASTY!!!! 🙂

Bananaaaaaaa

Yesterday i was making banana pancakes and in the evening i thought that it would be cool to have some sweets in the morning. The challenge was that I didn’t have a lot of ingredients at home…so had to be creative:)

And this is what I have ended up with, super simple and quick (as usual with all cooking that i do) and TASTY!

FROZEN BANANA BITES

1 ripe banana
1 tbs lucuma powder + 3 tbs water
1 ts cinnamon
1,5 tbs bee polen

Cut banana in a few pieces. Mix water, lucuma, cinnamon. Dip banana in lucuma mix and then roll it in bee pollen. Put on a baking sheet and place in a freezer overnight. Cut/Dip/Roll/Freeze – Simple!

Other dipping alternatives: nut or seed butter/chocolate/yogurt
Other rolling alternatives: nuts or seeds/crushed dry berries

This is quite sugary, but it is a treat, right?;)

 

 

 

 

Bananarama

Well well well, bananas! You never can get enough, they are SOOO TASTY!:) Today I was in a mood to buy some and guess what? I just got them absolutely for FREE, simply because they were quite spotty the store owner decided to give them away for free. Well, happy me!

 

And now I am thinking what to do with them….

Lets start with…pancakes!!! The first 3 of them were…well, not working at all. Stick to the pan, get all squashy…oh, I tried everything 🙂 Adding more egg, adding more flour…nope. It was not working:) So then i decided that I will simply bake the pancakes, as you can never go wrong with the oven:)

YAMMY BANANA PANCAKES (in the oven)

To make 11 pancakes (if you place them  in the oven and will not try to panfry them, or 8 pancakes if you will make an attempt and panfry the first 3…hehhe)

4 super ripe bananas
3 eggs (I used egg replacement)
1/2 cup flour (I used gluten free all-purpose flour)
Put coconut or olive oil on the baking sheet. In a big bowl crash bananas, add eggs, add flour and mix all. Take a table spoon and make little pancakes on a baking sheet. Put in the preheated oven, for 20 min, 200C. Then turn the pancakes super carefully on the other side and place in the oven for the next 5 min.

 

Put in the preheated oven, for 20 min, 200C. Then turn the pancakes super carefully on the other side and place in the oven for the next 5 min.

mmm…They are sweet and so fresh and so OMG so TASTY! But seriously after 3 of them you are totally full!

Enjoy! xx

 

 

Super Easy DETOX to make your LIVER happy!

Sometimes we feel like “aghhh….” like a broken machine, tired, feel bad after eating food, bloated, and the list can go on and on and on. What is the reason? Well, there could be many thyroid issues, gluten sensitivity, etc…

But you can NEVER go wrong with one thing – SUPPORT your LIVER to feel better.

Liver: It is your “factory” for processing all types of toxins and good nutrients in the body, which “arrive” to the liver via blood. Toxins could be as from food and also from environment, and even form the normal metabolic processes in the body. And nutrients come from the food you are eating. So liver, basically, can process both good staff (making it available for the whole body and your heart) and also can be part of the elimination process of the bad staff (toxins) that your body doesn’t need (yep, so you can pop/pee it). Interesting, that at the moment there is no artificial device which could match all the functions which your liver do! So its kinda very very very important to make sure that your liver works well.

So you can see now, that liver is constantly working and it is pretty easy for it to be slightly “clogged” or sometimes it is really in a bad state, which is called “fatty liver”, when the cells of the liver can not filter any more and then they become swollen with fat – which makes a situation pretty dangerous…ANYWAY.

Don’t worry and lets try to see if YOU need some liver support:)

First – some signs that you need a liver cleanse:

• abdominal bloating
• after eating you have acid reflux/heartburn
• pain or discomfort over the liver – (right upper abdominal area under the rib cage)
• abdominal bloating
• quite a big round belly
• trouble digesting fatty foods – your poo is yellowish and is floating
• you had your gallbladder removed
• dark spots on the skin (actually sometimes they are called “liver spots”)
• getting sweaty constantly
• acne/rosacea or itchy, blotchy skin
• unexplained weight gain and inability to lose weight even with calorie restriction
• fatigue
• mood swings and depression
• snoring
• fatty yellowish lumps around eyes.

Now, if you feel like OMG – this is MEEEE. Don’t worry – we can try to get it sorted naturally.

First – try to incorporate some cleansing foods in your diet for the next 2 weeks and try to eliminate environmental toxins (smoking) and some food related toxins (you know I am talking about alcohol and processed foods, right?:) ). Check out this video about 14 foods to clean your liver

Second – Try to go on this Detox for a 1-2 weeks.

Third – Get SLOWLY out of the detox. Introducing first fish for a week, then meat in the next week.

Hope this will make you with reducing your “ahhhhhh” state! xx

 

Easy Detox:

15 minutes before you are ready to eat breakfast, squeeze the juice of a lemon in a medium glass of hot water and drink it.

Breakfast: 

-Beetroot juice: 8 ounces. You can take more if you desire but make sure that you take 8 ounces at least.
-Low fat goats cheese: 5 level tablespoonful’s. No more – no less.
-Low sugar fresh fruit (e.g. berries): 1⁄2 pound. You may eat MORE but be sure to eat at least 1⁄2 pound. You can eat only one kind of fruit or you may mix/or you can have a vegetable salad
-Herb tea: 1 cup (if you want). May add a sweetener like  honey, maple syrup (I prefer to have the tea without…but its your choice)

Between breakfast and lunch you should drink all the vegetable juice you can hold. Also eat fresh raw vegetables and berry fruits. The more live food you put down – the more thorough will be the cleansing. Make up a lot of vegetable broth (see recipe). Drink lots of this broth. It is full of minerals.

Lunch:

-Vegetable broth: Drink 2 cups during the meal.
-Salad: Make a chopped salad of fresh raw vegetables. Use a dressing of fresh extra virgin olive oil, lemon juice and amino acids (you may add crushed garlic or apple cider vinegar). Eat at least 8 level tablespoonful’s of salad, more if you desire. Use 4 of the vegetables listed below: Artichokes, Asparagus, Beans, Beets, Brussels Sprouts, Broccoli, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Cucumbers, Celery, Dandelions, Dark Green Lettuce, Endive, Egg Plant, Fresh sweet Corn. Fresh Green peas, Green Peppers, Kale, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Lotus, Okra, Onions, Parsley, Parsnips, Pumpkin, Radishes, Spinach, Sprouts, Tomatoes, Turnips. (You may use the leaves or tops also).

Mid afternoon snack: Berry fruit dessert • Herb tea and water

Between lunch and dinner drink all the vegetable juice you desire. Eat all the fresh berry fruit and vegetables you want.

Dinner:

-Vegetable broth: Drink 2 cups during the meal, more if you desire.
-Cooked vegetables: Select 3 or more of the different kind listed above. Eat a generous helping of each. (No potatoes) You may add a tbs. of garlic with lemon or liquid aminos.

If you feel hungry after dinner, eat fresh berry fruits and drink vegetable juice – ALL YOU WANT.

VEGETABLE BROTH

-7 carrots
-1 small bunch of celery – cut fine.
-Big handfull Parsley
-Big handful spinach – cut fine
-3 litres (or slightly less) hot water

Place carrots and celery in water and simmer for 15 minutes. Add parsley and a large spinach. Simmer 10 minutes more. Drain off the juice or broth. Flavour with onion, green peppers or garlic, lemon, amino acids and cayenne. Store in refrigerator. You may add tomato or other vegetable juice for variety of flavour and texture. It can be used hot or cold. The purpose of this broth is to FLUSH. Drink lots of it during the 7 days. It is full of minerals from the vegetables.

When u need it FAST! Desserts under 10 min!

In my opinion The Best ever dessert should first of all:

1)look fab

2)taste great

3)make u feel good that you have eaten it 🙂 – thats kinda uncommon, but yeah this could be done

To be 100% clear, I am in NO WAY a super cook, so if “I” COULD DO it, that anywone could and do it even better 🙂

so try it and belive me u would be happily happy ever after:)

So here it comes…TA DAH! the first list of easy, speedy and tasty desserts I absolutly love:

1) 1 min microwave muffin

Key to have:
-any floor, egg white/egg, a bit of water
-small microwavable tin
Optional:
any spice, any flavour (cocoa/chocolate/vanilla/protein powder), crunchy staff (chia seeds/dry fruit if sweet/ cheese or veg if savoury)/any sweetener…play with it!

“Vanillllaaaa run to work” in a Mug

step 1 Mix dry ingridients:
– 1 tbs coconut floor
i like it, because vs plain floor it has less carbs and more fiber , which is nice:)
– 1/4 tbs baking powder
– 1 tbs vanilla protein powder
– cinnamon
step 2 Mix in wet ingridients
-egg white
step 3 And add a bit of water (1-2 tbs), so you end up with a dough which does not stick to the edges of the mug.
Put in the microwave. Wait 1 min (In the mean time drink some water with lemon – nice for morning vit C boost)…zin zin. Its ready – Grab it and ruuunnn.
Or: put some arty decor on top and enjoy:)

2) 6 min in the oven cookie
ZinZin…the unexpected guests have come….or you want to have a nice quick tasty snack but have nothing prepared?
Yes you have!

Key: some type of flaky oats, egg
Optional: anything 🙂 mix oats

step 1 Mix dry ingridients:
– 1 tbs coconut floor
i like it, because vs plain floor it has less carbs and more fiber , which is nice:)
– 1/4 tbs baking powder
– 1 tbs vanilla protein powder
– cinnamon
step 2 Mix in wet ingridients
-egg white
step 3 And add a bit of water (1-2 tbs), so you end up with a dough which does not stick to the edges of the mug.
Put in the microwave. Wait 1 min (In the mean time drink some water with lemon – nice for morning vit C boost)…zin zin. Its ready – Grab it and ruuunnn.
Or: put some arty decor on top and enjoy:)

and you want to have smth really nice as dessert but dont have

3) 3 min to assemle parfait

4) Icecream that doctor would approve:)

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