Category Archives: Carbohydrates

Carbohydrates, vegetarian dishes

Primed Carbohydrates Friday – Roasted Squash, Carrots, Onion and Garlic

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The Primed Lifestyle allows you to do the following:

– Maintain constant blood sugar (and insulin) levels at an optimal range, as well as a consistently good mood.
– Decrease your inflammation, aches and pains, illnesses, potential for disease, stress levels and health issues.
– Increase your metabolism, digestive health, confidence, energy, mental clarity, brain power, skin quality, immune system, sleep quality and happiness.

Oh, you also get to eat real food with real flavors and get unreal health results.

I hope you like this simple Primed Carbohydrate recipe.

Ingredients

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Squash

Onions

Garlic

Carrots (optional)

Sweet Potato/Camote (optional)

Coconut Oil or Bacon Fat

Salt and pepper (turmeric optional)

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Chicken (optional)

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Lamb (optional)

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Primed Carbohydrates Thursday – Home-made Tomato Sauce

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One of the keys to maintaining your healthy, nutrient dense Primed Lifestyle is in the planning and preparation.

Simply make extra when the opportunity arises so you have great food in the fridge and freezer for tomorrow.

Here is another wonderful Primed Carbohydrate to always have in your fridge and freezer. So tasty and versatile.

Ingredients

Lots of tomatoes
Lots of garlic
Lots of onions
Salt and pepper
Coconut oil

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Method

1. Simply cut your tomatoes, onions and garlic into small pieces.

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2. Heat your pot, add your coconut oil then your onions and garlic and cook till soft. Then turn down your stove top heat and then add your chopped tomatoes and allow to simmer for 40 minutes or so.

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3. With this dish the more the merrier is a great principle to follow. Hence, make a big pot full of the Primed Home-Made Tomato Sauce and freeze what you will not use within the next 4 or 5 days.

Additional

Top 12 Ways to Enjoy Your Primed Home-Made Tomato Sauce

1. Add Malunggay to your Primed Home-made Tomato Sauce for extra nutrients to better fuel your mind and body.

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Carbohydrates, vegetarian dishes

Primed Carbohydrates Wednesday – Eggplant Salad (with optional Smashed Avocado)

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Here is another simple, tasty, nutrient dense Primed Carbohydrate for your weekly rotation.

Ingredients

Eggplant Salad

Eggplants

Tomatoes

Lots of chopped onion

Lots of chopped ginger

1/2 cup of Apple Cider Vinegar

Salt and pepper to taste

Avocado optional

Method

1. Boil your eggplants for 10 minutes.

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2. Chop your onions, ginger and tomatoes.

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Carbohydrates, vegetarian dishes

Great Carbohydrates Tuesday: Green Vegetables with Onion, Garlic and Ginger

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I am so very happy to have my first doctors going Primed. People young, old, athletes, non-athletes, male, female, rich and poor from all over the world are improving their lives by following the Primed Lifestyle.

Quality carbohydrates like the green vegetable recipe below gives your mind and body the essential vitamins, minerals and fatty acids it needs to build your immune system to better fight disease and stay healthy.

This easy Primed Green Vegetable recipe is ideal to have in your fridge at all times. It is also fun to shop at your local farmer’s market or grocery.

Ingredients:

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Great carbohydrates Monday – Primed Coconut Cream Cabbage with Mustard and Chili

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Primed involves no cheap and nasty Carbs like Bread, Pasta, Noodles, Rice, Crackers etc. These cheap carbs are all less than optimal nutrition, cause large spikes in your blood sugar levels and also cause inflammation in your body due to the excess sugars they are metabolized as. This then affects your immune system.

The Primed Lifestyle involves eating more healthy fats and quality Carbohydrates. This week I will highlight 7 quality Carbohydrate Recipes that are far superior in nutrients to any of the cheap carbs mentioned above.

Eat more quality carbohydrates, healthy fats and protein and you will reduce inflammation in your body (less aches and pains), bring your blood sugars down to a healthy level and stabilize them (better moods), and build your immune system so as to fight, not feed, disease.

Eat real food with real flavors and experience unreal results. You will get more energy, mental clarity and ailments will disappear or be reduced.

Ingredients:

1 or 2 cabbages
lots of onions, garlic and green and/or red chilis (optional)
coconut milk or quality full-fat cream (please never use chemically laden low-fat monstrosities)
salt and pepper
coconut oil
quality mustard like Dijon (without added sugars)
bacon or chicken thigh is optional as explained below

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Carbohydrates, DIY

Useful Food Hint Number #2: Malunggay thrives with a “Friend” & Music

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Useful food prep hint #2:

Give your Malunggay company. When drying Malunggay leaves to make Malunggay Tea ensure you play it music occasionally (Malunggay prefers Aussie hip hop like this song called Forever Young).

In addition, ENSURE you have some company in the form of a plant, like a cactus, so it is happy and thrives so as to be even more nutritious for you.

Malunggay is the Miracle Tree and you will be stronger and smarter if you have some everyday. It rocks big time.

Malunggay benefits

Malunggay, sometimes called Moringa, has small, rounded leaves that are packed with an incredible amount of nutrition: protein, calcium, beta carotene, vitamin C, potassium… you name it, its got it.

No wonder it’s been used medicinally (and as a food source) for at least 4,000 years.

From a digestive standpoint, Malunggay is high in fiber that, as the Epoch Times put it, “works like a mop in your intestines… to clean up any of that extra grunge left over from a greasy diet.”

Gut health

Also noteworthy are its isothiocyanates, which have anti-bacterial properties that may help to rid your body of H. pylori, a bacteria implicated in gastritis, ulcers, and gastric cancer.
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Primed Sweet Potato Fries are So Delicious

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Sweet Potato Fries are the bomb. They taste sensational, are good for you and go well with any dish. Especially bacon!

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Ingredients:

Sweet potatoes
Coconut oil
Salt

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Method:

1. Slice your sweet potatoes into thin strips.

2. Bring your coconut oil to a high heat in your pan.

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Carbohydrates, Lunch & Dinner Recipes, vegetarian dishes

Primed Chili Zucchini Noddle Stir Fry

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Zucchini is a great green vegetable that is very versatile and nutritious. We use it in our Primed Vegetable Sheets Lasagne. Here is an easy way to enjoy this vegetable on its own or with Turmeric Pepper Chicken Thigh.

I called it a noddle because it’s not quite a noodle!

Ingredients:

Zucchini noodles ingredients

2 zucchinis cut into thin strips
Chili flakes
spinach, kangkong or malunggay (quality, fresh greens)
onions
garlic
tablespoon coconut vinegar (splash)
tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
tablespoon of coconut oil
salt and pepper

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Method:

1. Simply steam your sliced zucchini for 5 minutes maximum. Steam longer if You have more ingredients.

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Top 11 Primed Food Recipes to Learn to Prepare for Healthier Living

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Cooking is fun. Yes it can be tiring, hot and you sometimes cut yourself, but IT IS FUN!

Cooking is also good exercise. In fact, you can exercise less and get fit simply by cooking and eating the right food. Primed food. My Primed Journey is proof of that.

Being in hospitality for 20 years, and having my own restaurant in Brisbane for 3 years, I learned to appreciate and love cooking. It means even more to me now as I know I am feeding my family well so they become healthier in body and mind.

It is never too late to learn/master a new skill and even if you don’t know how to boil, poach or scramble an egg you can learn. With our 200,000th visitor to soon visit Primed for your Life (from 125 different countries) I want to highlight our TOP 10 dishes learn to cook/prepare. They are not too hard, not too expensive and they TASTE awesome and have an AWESOME effect on your mind and body.

If you can master yourself you can master anything.

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Carbohydrates, Lunch & Dinner Recipes, vegetarian dishes

Filipino Fried Rice – The Primed Version for Longer Life

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I LOVE a great Fried Rice. With the right Primed ingredients it can be a meal in itself and something that powers your body and mind all day.

However, with the wrong ingredients and cooked using vegetable oil it will spike your blood sugar levels (and therefore insulin) and can have severe adverse health consequences.

Dr. Cate Shanahan (chief nutritional doctor of the L.A.Lakers and respected author of Deep Nutrition) surveyed hundreds of patients in New Zealand that were admitted to the hospital for a heart attack, and discovered that every single patient that just had a heart attack had consumed foods made with vegetable oils with their last meal before the heart attack…Scary huh! Information from this site.

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How about a healthy and nutritious Primed Filipino Fried Rice? One that you can add your own twist to by including local vegetables that suit your budget. Vegetables like Malunggay, Okra and Kangkong can all be used in this dish besides the ones mentioned. Imagine the nutritional value of this version with your Pork or Chicken instead of just plain white rice? Here, you are giving your mind and body high performance fuel.

Ingredients

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