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Primed Christmas Cake

Primed Christmas Cake

Christmas Cake is a tradition in many countries but the store bought one can often have an ingredients list as long as your arm. That would be fine if they were all Primed, quality foods that fueled your mind and body well.

Unfortunately these days food like substance manufacturers include substances to do the following:

(1) Enhance the shelf life of the product (means many added chemicals and other nasty substances);
(2) Try and get you addicted to their product (by adding sugar where it is not necessary is a classic ploy to dupe consumers);
(3) Try and stimulate your appetite so you eat more by including gluten where it is not necessary. Then you eat more of their product; and
(4) Make the product as cheaply as possible so they will use whichever supplier gives them the least price with no regard to how these products are farmed.

Bottom-line is that if you chose to buy any packaged goods you should check the ingredients list and avoid when you see MSG, gluten, sugar, fructose and any ingredients of which you do not know. Compare this to fruits and vegetables which do not need an ingredient list!

Please see our Primed Christmas Pudding made with only Primed ingredients so you will not inadvertently harm yourself or your family with nasty chemicals and other food like substances.

Ingredients:

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zest and juice of one orange and one lemon (we zest from our frozen peels as shown below)
2 cup raisins
1 cup dried apricots
15 dried prunes
4 ripe bananas

1 cup crushed walnuts
1 cups almond meal
1 and 1/2 cups of coconut flour (please click here to see how cheap and easy it is to do yourself)

6 eggs

1 cup red wine

2 teaspoons all spice mix
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon concentrated natural vanilla extract
salt pinch

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Method:

1. Soak all these ingredients in your red wine over night: zest and juice of one orange and one lemon, 2 cup raisins, 1 cup dried apricots and 15 dried prunes

2. After soaking your ingredients in your red wine over night transfer to a pot and bring to boil quickly before turning heat down and allowing to simmer for 8 minutes remembering to stir occasionally. Then set aside and allow to cool down.

3. Mash your bananas and then whisk in your eggs. Then add your spices to this mixture and stir in.

4. Add your stewed fruits into your egg, banana and spice mix.

5. Now add your coconut and almond flour as well as your crushed walnuts.

6. Grease a cake tin (or individual muffin trays) liberally with butter.

7. Set your oven to 350 degrees and once that temperature is reached place in your baking tray once all your combined ingredients have been lovingly placed inside.

8. Allow to cook for 20 minutes.

9. After 30 minutes remove from oven and once cooled remove from tin or muffin tray.

10. Serve with a nice heavy whipped cream (never the chemical laden light/lite one).

Additional

1. There are many other excellent Christmas Cake recipes with a favorite of my friend Ellen and I being www.wholefoodsimply.com

8 Days Till Christmas – Forgive

8. Forgive

The Wise Dalai Lama said it best with “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

Other Forgiveness Quotes

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“I’ve learned that no matter how good a friend someone is, they’re going to hurt you every once in awhile and you must forgive them for that.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” – Josh Billings
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Have Holiday Fun without Getting Fat

Have Holiday Fun Without Getting Fat

Holiday excess! Two words we do not like at all. We all usually come home with excess baggage around our butts and waistlines from our holiday excesses. This is a usual occurrence after a great vacation where we return heavier than we left due to over-eating and drinking, and not getting enough exercise and/or sleep.

Here are a few hints on how to have a great holiday that could leave you a little lighter in body, enriched in mind, and save you some cash as well.

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Avoid Brain Drain

10. Avoid Brain Drain

Before the New Year begins it is time to Recharge, Re-Program, Feed, Soothe, Nourish, Enrich, Challenge and Rest Your Mind.

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11 Reasons Why You Chose To Eat Healthily

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Of course, there are more benefits than just the 11 stated.

Here are some more benefits of adopting a Primed Lefestyle.

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12 Days Till Christmas – Fitness for Life

12. Fitness for Life

Exercise and overall fitness boosts your brainpower, clarity of thinking, and lowers stress, and increases your energy. If you exercise outdoors then you also get a hit of Vitamin D for added energy.

“Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.” – John F Kennedy

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Be Grateful

13. Be Grateful for your Food and Friends

When you eat your nutritious food be thankful for all the people who helped it get onto your plate.  Aid your digestion by taking your time and putting down your fork between mouthfuls as digestion begins in your mouth when your food comes into contact with your saliva.

“Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary.” Margaret Cousins,

Think of all your friends, colleagues and loved ones who have helped you to this point in your life.  Send them a text message, call them, send an email or visit them and let them know how you feel.  Sincerely express your gratitude for having them in your life.  You will make them feel great and will also feel great too.

“The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.” William James

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You Should Feel Great

14. You Should Feel Great

No matter your age, you should feel Primed for your Life and have sustained energy throughout your day. Then, once tired, sleep well for at least 7 hours and wake ready and re-charged for another great day. Is this how you feel? Do you feel great all day long?

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15 Days Till Christmas – Learn a New Recipe

15. Learn a New Recipe

Cooking can be very therapeutic as you get a little “me time” as you slice and dice your vegetables.  It can also be a way to bring families together as you all pitch in and help create a great dish to eat together later.

Why not challenge yourself and try a new recipe you haven’t done before?  You could try Ratatouille, Chef Cyrille’s wonderful Bouillabaise or even his exceedingly popular Primed Carbonara Pasta made with Squash (not pasta!).

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In the picture above Chef Cyrille is cooking another great dish, but for his family this time and not guests at his Greenhills located Brasserie CiCou.
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Elite Athletes are Saying Hi Fat Bye Carbs

Say Hi To Good Saturated Fats and Bye To Cheap Processed Carbs for better performance in your Sport, Work and Life

Cheap processed carbs can be extremely harmful for your body but complex carbohydrates are an excellent source of nutrition.

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Saturated fats like Coconut Oil are an ideal fuel for your mind and body.  Remember, your brain is 60% fat and mother’s milk is 50% fat.

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Watch and listen to former high carb proponent Professor Tim Noakes give his mea culpa on youtube here.
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