We all know a clean diet is a must when wanting to get in shape, not only is exercise important to reach your goals, but also what you eat matters. It’s not about forbidding yourself from eating certain types of food, it’s about listening to your body and being a little creative when it comes to meal prep.
For a long time, we’ve had the misconception that eating healthy is boring and not tasty, but in fact, if you know how to mix your fruits and vegetables then why not add your favourite ingredients to a recipe which can then become a healthy and delicious option for your meals.
We know what you’re thinking… Sometimes that can be hard right? In all honestly it is hard to find the balance or think of good recipes, that’s why few months ago we started a new Weekly Post on our social media called #HEALTHYHUMPDAY. If you follow us on social media you would have already seen our #HHD posts which consist of lots of healthy, great, easy recipes.
Today we want to share some of them with you and have mapped out a whole day of healthy recipes just for you !
Breakfast
Banana Pancakes:
– 250g flour (e.g. oat flour)
– 2 teaspoon Baking Soda
– (1 teaspoon Cinnamon)
– 2 ripe Bananas
– (2 teaspoons maple syrup )
– 50ml Water
– 200ml Plant Milk
Add flour, baking soda and cinnamon into a bowl. Mix water and plant milk, mash the banana with a fork and add Everything plus the maple syrup, if you want it a little sweeter, to the flour mixture. Stir well and add some more water if needed. Heat a pan/ a waffle iron and wait until it’s really hot! Then just put the dough in it and… wait! Until the waffle/pancake is brown golden and ready to enjoy.
Lunch
Hummus Sandwich!
Ingredients:
– 2 slices of wholegrain bread
– hummus
– avocado
– (cherry) tomatoes
– baby spinach
– herbs & spices (basil/chives/oregano)
Toast the bread, then mash the avocado with a fork, put hummus on it, cut the tomatoes in slices. Wash the baby spinach (you can also take arugula). You can use any spices and herbs you want.
Snack
Cocoa Truffles
– 50 g of Cocoa powder
– 120 g of protein powder
– 50 g of Almond Flour
– 200 ml of almond milk
– Optional: Decorations
Preparation:
Put the protein powder in a bowl, then we add the cocoa powder and mix.
Add the almond flour and mix to get rid of lumps, and finally, we add the almond milk, preferably add it little by little and keep mixing.
Finally we make them in the form of little balls and add the decoration that can be chocolate chips, grated coconut or sprinkles.
JUST EAT and enjoy
Dinner
Veggie Wrap.
Ingredients:
– Wrap (e.g. wholegrain)
– 1/2 red capsicum
– 1/2 red onion
– Black beans (canned)
– Corn (canned)
– Tomato sauce
– Chilli sauce
– Some greens (e.g. baby spinach, avocado…)
Preparation:
Chop onions and the capsisum into small pieces. Heat a pan with some oil, add onions first and after about 2 minutes the capsicum on medium heat, wait until the veggies are well roasted. Then, add the black beans to warm them up and after one minute, add the tomato sauce and some spices like chili sauce, taco spices, salt, pepper. Then put you wrap onto a plate, add the veggie-sauce and top with some greens like baby spinach or mixed greens and add some corn if you like. Then just wrap it all up and cut in half if you like
Play around and have fun with the ingredients! You’ll find you can create delicious recipes you’ll enjoy with no guilt.
Eating healthy is not about depriving yourself from eating but to understand that it is a lifestyle. Your eating shouldn’t be a diet you’ll do for 3 months and then forget and go back to you old habits. It’s trying to make your eating lifestyle as natural as possible!
Obviously a ‘cheat meal’ here and there is perfectly ok (we are only human after all!)
Enjoy what you like the most, whether that’s dessert, a burger or pizza and try to make your diet 80% organic and 20% of what you enjoy eating the most- that way you are much more likely to keep this lifestyle and most importantly maintaining it!