Sue Hardman

Nourish + Rejuvenate

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Eat Healthily Spend Less Time Cooking

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Eat Healthily – Try these meal prepping shortcuts

Are you eating real, whole food as much as you’d like? I have found that if you’re busy, stressed and have little spare time then the best possible way to live a healthy lifestyle and have healthy and delicious meals all week long is by meal prepping once for the whole week.

It saves you time, money, and stress, all the while allowing you to stay on track with eating healthily.

STEP 1: PLAN & SHOP 

You can begin meal planning by making a list of recipes and meals for the upcoming week. Create a list based on what you will have for breakfasts, lunches, snacks, and dinners. Use this as your weekly shopping guide.

STEP 2: PREPARE THE FOOD

When you get home from the store keep out the items you plan to use for your meal prep. Pull up your meal plans and get to washing and cooking!

Many of my breakfast recipes are great for mid-morning snacks, and/or if I am in need of a breakfast on-the-go. I also recommend having a smoothie for your breakfast.

You can prepare big batches of veggies.  Start with washing the greens, then set aside to dry and move onto slicing, dicing, and dividing veggies into containers for use in cooking and salads.

When a recipe calls for sautéed chicken or lean protein, cook it in big batches in your biggest pan or crock pot! That way, you’re only prepping chicken and/or lean meat once for all the recipes!  I store the extra chicken in the freezer for use later.

STEP 3: PUT EVERYTHING TOGETHER TO MAKE THE RECIPES

To keep it simple, you can make a large salad in advance and then add the extras when your ready to eat it.  If you’re on the go, divide it into containers.

For dinners, I typically make two favourite main dishes, which allows me to prepare and freeze in advance making it easy for during the week.

 STEP 4: PUT IT ALL AWAY! 

After all the food is prepped and the recipes are made, put everything in containers and place it in the fridge! That way, you’l have delicious, fresh, whole foods for all meals during the week in minutes.

If you are still scratching your head, don’t let it discourage you!!! It can take time to learn and get in the swing of things.

 

If you’re struggling with any kind of hormone imbalance, tiredness, low energy or wanting to lose your excess weight. I’ve  put together a FREE guide for you, so you can start to learn how and why specific foods, and drinks, can help you have more energy and lose weight naturally. 

You’ll find it is easy to add these ingredients into your diet on a daily basis – get your downloadable guide here

In fact, at the end, I’m going to share one simple recipe you can make in under five minutes that incorporates all of these foods.

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Get your copy of the FREE guide:
5 Foods that will help boost Your Energy Levels and Lose Weight Naturally.

 

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The Amazing Benefits of Turmeric

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You may already use turmeric root powder in your cooking, particularly if you like Indian-inspired dishes. It’s the key ingredient in your curry powder. Turmeric has been a staple of Indian food traditions for millennia and has a long history of healing use (over 4000 years) in Ayurvedic and Traditional Chinese medicinal traditions.

What is turmeric and what’s it’s secret?

Turmeric has a mellow flavor and is a bright yellow colour.

Turmeric may be the most effective natural supplement you could find as few others possess such a wide spectrum of qualities and medicinal uses.

Many recently published research studies are showing that it has major benefits for your body and brain.

Science has started to back up what ancient health traditions like Ayurveda & TCM have known for a long time, that it really does contain compounds with medicinal properties.

Curcumin is the main active ingredient in turmeric.

The latest research on Turmeric & Curcumin

  • A new study from universities in China confirmed the antidepressant effects.
  • Scientists have demonstrated that turmeric may be helpful in decreasing blood sugar levels associated insulin resistance.
  • Oxidative damage one of the mechanisms behind ageing and many diseases. Curcumin has powerful antioxidant effects.
  • Now researchers from The University of Nottingham and Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich have found that curcumin may help reduce inflammation associated with tendinitis.
  • Chronic inflammation is a contributor to many common diseases. Curcumin can inhibit many molecules known to play major roles in inflammation.
  • Both turmeric and curcumin have shown potential to prevent DNA damage and help DNA repair. That is good news for preventing disease and slowing the aging process.

What Ayurveda have known for 1000’s of years about turmeric

  • It is strengthening and warming to your whole body it will promote proper metabolism correcting both excesses and deficiencies.
  • Improves your digestion – balances gut flora, will cleanse and strengthen your liver.
  • You can use it topically in the prevention and treatment of skin diseases.
  • Relieves arthritis, swelling is applied to sprains, burns, cuts, bruises, insect bites and itches.
  • Is considered a blood purifier and and is antimicrobial.

What are the Incredible Health Benefits of Curcumin?

✓Reduces your response to inflammation
✓Boosts your joint flexibility and comfort
✓Supports a healthy heart
✓Helps keep your mood balanced
✓Increases your memory retention and clarity
✓Supports good liver health
✓Encourages optimum immune
✓Helps you maintain a healthy digestion

How to take your Turmeric or Curcumin

It’s great for infections or inflammation like achey joints.

It’s probably best to avoid the heat of a curry, when you have inflammation, and take the powder with water – 1/4 teaspoon 3-4 x per day depending on the severity. If the taste is unbearable get some capsules.

It also turns out that the piperine in black pepper enhances the bioavailability of the curcumin in turmeric by 2000% (Shoba et al. 1998), when you cook with turmeric be sure to add a little black pepper.

Whether by incorporating it into cooking or taking it as a powder or one of several herbs in a tea, turmeric is at the heart of many different remedies and continues to prove its value after thousands of years of use.

 If you want to get yourself some Turmeric – try this product made by Pukka

  • Wholistic Turmeric is a concentration of the finest parts of whole turmeric root gathered from fertile organic soils.
  • This broad-spectrum formula contains the highest organic grade, sustainably cultivated herbs, carefully selected to bring you the full potential of nature’s goodness.

 

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