The Paleo Breakfast Of Champions I’m sure you’ve heard people say that breakfast is the most important meal of the day , but do you really eat a quality breakfast to give yourself a kick-start every single day? I used to eat a big bowl of cereal each morning, followed by a couple of slices of toast… that is, until I found out how bad eating grains is for our bodies. The purpose of this post isn’t to go into details about what eating grains can do to your body, but more about giving you a better quality option to choose for breakfast. If you want to find out for yourself what eating Paleo is all about, there are some really good websites around like robbwolf.com and marksdailyapple.com that can explain further, plus I will have my own ebook available shortly which will talk about why you should avoid eating grains, among other things. A Paleo Breakfast Nope, today I just want to talk about one of my favourite ways to fuel up on energy after a big nights sleep, a big seafood and egg breakfast!  It’s full of essential omega-3 fatty acids, protein, calcium, magnesium, vitamin C, and plenty of other nutrients to satisfy your body’s needs for a great start to the day. The Importance Of Breakfast If you’re the sort of person who skips breakfast, or has a very light breakfast while rushing around early in the morning to get the kids off to school, and get yourself off to work, then I just want to briefly cover why you should eat a bigger breakfast

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Lately I’ve been eating a Paleo diet , which for those of you who don’t know what that is, I’ll be sharing plenty more information about very soon.  Basically it’s about eating like our hunter-gatherer ancestors , foods like meat, seafood, fruits, nuts and veggies, and cutting out grains and dairy. To a lot of people starting down this path, it can seem like it takes away a whole lot of your food options, particularly desserts.  I’m here today to tell you that this don’t necessarily need to be the case, you can still get some good sweet foods in if you desire. Antioxidant Power Of Dark Chocolate The trick is to cut way down on sugars, especially from packaged foods and complex carbohydrates, and using chocolate Easy Paleo Chocolate Mousse With Fresh Berries that is really high in cocoa content, minimum 45%, but use 70% if you can. It may seem a little bitter and hard to eat at first, but this Easy Paleo Chocolate Mousse Recipe that I’m sharing right now will show you how you can add a couple of other natural sweeteners like honey to make it really delicious, and most importantly, maintain the  rich dark chocolate benefits of high antioxidant levels with 70% cocoa mass.

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Easy Paleo Chocolate Mousse Recipe

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Fresh foods are full of nutrients and energy, so first of all remember that fresh foods are always best for your body. I’m sure you’ve seen the difference between a lettuce picked fresh out of the garden and one that has been sitting in the bottom of your fridge for a couple of weeks.  Frozen, canned, processed, reheated and leftover foods have much less ‘life’ than fresh foods – and organic food is free of chemicals. As you begin to appreciate the food you put in your body you might even feel inspired to grow your own herbs, fruits and vegetables in the garden! The Best Way To Satisfy Your Food Cravings Giving in to unhealthy cravings can sabotage your efforts.  If you experience cravings, it’s usually for sweet foods, and it shouldn’t be ignored. However you can make healthy choices from the ‘sweet’ family to satisfy your food cravings with more wholesome, healthy foods such as sweet fruits, whole grains and nuts. Eating well is a long-term healthy life choice , and there are some foods that can particularly help you to be a healthy weight and feel good about yourself.  Choose… Foods that are light, dry and warm; spicy, bitter and astringent (see the sense of taste chart for your health ).

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This is of course the new year period, and many people make New Year’s resolutions around this time, usually revolving around losing weight and getting fitter. In the previous post I talked a bit about Ayurveda’s 6 essential tastes of life, and how they can help you improve your health in everyday life, and today I just want to elaborate a little bit on that with a helpful chart of some specific healthy foods that you should be looking to incorporate into your everyday meals. It’s important that you don’t make choosing what to eat hard work.  Don’t worry if you get to the end of the day and realise you’ve missed out on one or more of the foods in a particular sense of taste – it will be a long-term lifestyle change that will balance out over time. You’ll feel so much better when you incorporate food from each sense of taste that you’ll actually find it easy and fun to adjust your diet to include them! Sense Of Taste Foods – Sweet Milk Butter Cream Wheat Ghee (clarified butter) Rice Maple Syrup Sesame Oil Apple Juice Coconut Milk Honey Raw Sugar Fresh Fruit Rolled Oats Raisins Cranberries Soy Milk Vanilla Extract Sense Of Taste – Salty Salt Pickles Salty Pretzels Tamari Soy Sauce Seaweed Sense Of Taste – Pungent (Hot And Spicy) Chilli Pepper Ginger Black Pepper Clove Mustard Radish Daikon Onions Thyme Oregano Salsa Asparagus Tomatoes Fresh Chillies Garlic Cinnamon Basil Rosemary Sense Of Taste – Sour Limes Lemon Citrus Fruit Yoghurt Mango Powder Many Immature Fruits Tamarind Plums Blueberries Raspberries Sense Of Taste – Bitter Green Vegetables Kale Broccoli Spinach Lettuce Turmeric Fenugreek Endive Chicory Sense Of Taste – Astringent (Dry And Light) Apples Apricots Beans Berries Cabbage Cauliflower Cherries Coriander Figs (dry) Grapes Green Tea Lentils Peaches Persimmons Pomegranates Prunes Strawberries Your Sense Of Taste Needs Variety Every Day There are foods that taste delicious to us, and those that don’t.  There is enough variety from this sense of taste chart for your health to provide options in a daily eating program that will not only taste good, but also be healthy for you

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When you are diagnosed with diabetes, there are several things that you’re going to have to do, the least of which is changing your diet to eat more diabetic recipes . Before you can change your diet, however, you are going to have to understand exactly what is that you are going through. Were you diagnosed with Type I or Type II diabetes? Is it gestational because you are pregnant

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Understanding Diabetes And Your Diet

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Today our local radio station, 96fm , launched a competition to find the ultimate breakfast pizza .  Naturally my mind straight away went into overdrive coming up with all sorts of ideas to try out.  After some debate, and discussion with colleagues, I’ve narrowed it down to 3 different breakfast pizza options to test.  It was quite busy tonight and I didn’t get a chance to make any of them, but over the next few days I will make them and post the results. In the meantime, here are the breakfast pizza ideas I came up with, please feel free to let me know your thoughts in the comments! Full Works Breakfast Pizza My initial thought was to put every kind of big breakfast ingredient together on the one pizza.  I mean really, what’s better than a big breakfast in the morning to start off your day anyway?! This will include a napoli sauce and cheese base, with pieces of bacon, slices of mushroom, slices of a nice spicy sausage like chorizo, and a few cherry tomato halves scattered around.  Add a few slices of par-cooked potato (to represent hash browns), crack a couple of eggs, and if you feel like it you could even dollop some baked beans around for good measure too! Egg And Bacon With Vegemite Breakfast Pizza To those uninitiated in the ways of the salty spreadable delight that is vegemite , this may sound quite strange as it is very much an acquired taste.  Even when I brought this up with other vegemite-loving Aussies, a slight look of bewilderment was noticeable. For a long time, I have been a happy little vegemite , growing up with the stuff from a very young age.  I remember my dad introducing me to eggs on toast for breakfast, with vegemite spread on the toast.  I don’t often hear of others going to such extremes to get their vegemite fix, but to this day if I eat eggs on toast without vegemite, it just seems like there is something missing. So this was my next breakfast pizza idea .  I have tried a vegemite and cheese pizza before, and it worked out wonderfully.  This time I plan to add eggs and bacon to the mix, and see if that will also live up to my high expectations Eggs Florentine/Eggs Benedict Breakfast Pizza Ok, so this definitely comes in at the more “gourmet” end of the spectrum.  I would probably like to make a half/half pizza and try both sides to see which I like better. Now, quite obviously there would need to be some hollandaise sauce on top, I’m just not sure if the hollandaise and the napoli sauce will work together, so I may end up trying both ways, with and without napoli sauce on the base

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Ice cream cakes can satisfy just about anybody’s sweet tooth but it looks like plenty of trouble to make. Fortunately, you can find easy dessert recipes for these sweets. Call it instant gratification, if you will. Here then is an easy recipe to show you how to make ice cream cakes your family will enjoy

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Lately you may have noticed that I’ve been doing quite a few posts on various pizza recipes , and there’s a very good reason for that.  For starters, working in a kitchen with a wood-fired pizza oven leads me to nights of creativity and experimentation at times, which I find very enjoyable. I also am planning something very exciting for you, my reader, to share all my knowledge and experience with you.  That’s all I can really say for now, there will be more updates when the time is right, but for now I just want to share with you a short article on why I think making pizza is fun… Why Making Pizza Is Fun Making Pizza Dough Cooking in the kitchen can be fun! That is true regardless of what you’re making, and includes creating pizza. Creating a pizza from scratch can be especially enjoyable. These are a number of the benefits of using a specific pizza recipe to make a do-it-yourself pizza: 1.

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Making Pizza Is Fun

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This is a fantastic appetizer. The combination of warm figs and melted cambozola cheese is just delicious.

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Warm Figs with Cambozola and Balsamic Recipe

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Cafe 101 in hollywood serves a brownie waffle sundae, which inspired this recipe. before i was vegan, my friend tom and i would drive out to hollywood in the middle of the night just to share a fresh-off-the-iron brownie waffle topped with a scoop of ice cream and drizzled with chocolate syrup.

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