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How to cook sweet potatoes for a healthy weekend breakfast
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How to cook sweet potatoes for a healthy weekend breakfast

How to cook sweet potatoes for a healthy weekend breakfast Sweet potatoes are such an amazing ingredient. Nutritionally they are powerhouses and taste-wise they are so incredibly delicious that I try and eat them three to four times a week. Today I've made really simple hash browns out of sweet potatoes. The cumin in the patties matches so well with the earthiness of the sweet potatoes and onions. These are perfect eaten in the traditional way with eggs, or they also make a great addition to the top of a green salad. Sweet potato hash browns These are super easy to mix up, then you just [...]

Quinoa cranberry stuffed mini-pumpkins with shitake mushrooms
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Quinoa cranberry stuffed mini-pumpkins with shitake mushrooms

Quinoa cranberry stuffed mini-pumpkins with shitake mushrooms Autumn is my favorite time of year and one of the reasons is the masses of pumpkins available everywhere. Pumpkin is such a potent food for health. It can improve your love life, help you look younger, fight heart disease, and improve your eyesight among many other benefits. This year I vowed I wouldn't let pumpkin season go by without eating my fill of them. Besides being really cute, these mini pumpkins were crying out to be stuffed with something savoury. I had a flashback of an unforgettable lunch in Tuscany where the pumpkin gnocchi was gloriously doused [...]

Blueberry muffins for happy arteries
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Blueberry muffins for happy arteries

Blueberry muffins for happy arteries I used to think I loved those regular muffins you find at most local coffee shops. But man, once I started researching how to eat for optimal health, I realised they were causing my body to consistently gain weight and be hormonally out of whack. A few years ago I began to explore what was possible when baking using superfoods and incredibly heart-healthy ingredients. It's not muffins (as an art-form) that are bad, just a few of their ingredients. Suddenly a whole new world opened, and my baking was baaaack. These blueberry banana muffins [...]

Drink matcha tea for boundless energy, focus, and a healthy heart
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Drink matcha tea for boundless energy, focus, and a healthy heart

Drink matcha tea for boundless energy, focus, and a healthy heart Dr Sara Gottfried, whose work I absolutely love, has said that the number one issue that most of her patients come to her with are problems of energy. I don't doubt that at all. It's one of the most common refrains I hear from the busy women I know. I certainly know the feeling. Before I began my odyssey to discover a healthier lifestyle in 2011, energy was almost always front and centre in my mind. How can I get more of it? Why do I feel so tired today? When will I [...]

Top 10 green smoothie tips and recipes for the best health of your life
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Top 10 green smoothie tips and recipes for the best health of your life

Top 10 green smoothie tips and recipes for the best health of your life The habits this month have been fun, but can you believe it, we're almost done the first month of our challenge! How has your 2 green smoothies a day gone? Did you get a chance yet to do it? If not, read on... your life can still change awesomely. Mine was pretty good - I'd say it was about 85% successful. I missed a few days, but all in all, a lot more green stuff got ingested than usual. I am feeling really good. In case [...]