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
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
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!).
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.
Continue reading 15 Days Till Christmas – Learn a New Recipe
We love Lamb in our household. Either NZ (where I was born) our Aussie (where I mainly grew up) is great for us. Lamb is a great source of easily digestable high-quality protein that provide all the essential amino acids. Lamb is also high in Iron, Zinc, Vitamin B12 and Omega-3 Fatty Acids.
Serve your Lamb with delicious roasted vegetables and you have a nutritious meal for your family. We also love using the bones to make our bone broth soup.
Ingredients
Rack of Lamb
Squash (whole piece)
Garlic (lots)
Onions (lots)
Sweet Potato
Can also add Carrots if you wish.
Continue reading Primed Roast Lamb with Roast Squash and Garlic
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.
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.
Watch and listen to former high carb proponent Professor Tim Noakes give his mea culpa on youtube here.
Continue reading Elite Athletes are Saying Hi Fat Bye Carbs
17. Go Coco – 6 Great Uses of Coconut Oil
We love all things Coconut in our household and buy a lot of our Coconut products from Coco Wonder at the Legaspi Market on Sunday morning. We buy Coconut Flour – we generally make our own, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Coconut Sugar and Coconut Amino Sauce (great as a Soy Sauce substitute for Adobo and marinating chicken).
We also buy from Landmark. We buy Coconut Water without added sugar, cooking Coconut Oil, Coconut Milk and Coconut Cream Cream – always check the ingredients label.
18. Learn Something New
Whether it be attending a wine class, reading a book on nutrition like Grain Brain, hiring a singing coach, listening to an Running Podcast or watching a youtube video on how to make Kimchi (a great probiotic for improved gut health) the holiday season is a great time for self-improvement.
Continue reading 18 Days Till Christmas – Learn Something New
19. Visit Your Local Farmer’s Market – Ours is at Legaspi Village on Sunday
What’s better than sleeping in on Sunday morning, going for a drive and then walk to the Legaspi Sunday Market, having breakfast or brunch AND then getting ALL your fresh shopping produce done for the busy week ahead? For me nothing is better than that. I’ll even be there tomorrow after my Milo marathon from 3am in the morning!
Here are our Top 7 Reasons to go to the Legaspi Sunday Market
1. All Things Coconut Rock – Coco Wonder
Continue reading 19 Days Till Christmas – Visit Your Local Farmer’s Market
20. Learn from your Elders
The holiday season is a time for families to get together. Listen intently to your elders so you can learn from their experiences and appreciate them more.
Take kindly the counsel of the years,
gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Max Ehrmann, Desiderata, Copyright 1952.
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