FOOD!

Steph_2We all love food! It is just delightful!  Plus it is always there when you are happy, sad, stressed or pretty much any emotion on the spectrum. However, summer is coming up and we all want that rocken summer bod.

Summer is the time for salads, wraps, smoothies and frozen fruit juice. As the weather warms up we can move out of that stodgey winter comfort food and into freshness! I can feel some of you cringing already at the thought of eating greens but fear not I have some killer recipes.

Protein and omega 3 salad

Ingredients

  • Quinoa
  • Roast pumpkin cubes
  • Caramelised red onion
  • Fresh salad leaves (not lettuce!)
  • Beetroot
  • Tomato
  • Walnuts
  • Fetta
  • Balsamic vinegar
  • Olive oil

 Method

  1. Cook ¼ cup quinoa following packet directions
  2. Cut up ¼ of a medium sized pumpkin into cubes and spray lightly with oil, cook until softened
  3. Dice 1/3 of large red onion, lightly spray with oil and cook in oven until browning
  4. Lay salad leaves onto plate
  5. Lay Quinoa on top of salad
  6. Slice tomato and beetroot and put on salad
  7. Sprinkle pumpkin, fetta and walnuts on top
  8. Mix balsamic vinegar and olive oil in a bowl and drizzle over top sparingly (making sure it hits some quinoa)

Fruit Salad

Depending if you want to make bulk or just one serve depends on how much fruit you will use at one time. Easy to make bulk and put in a container in a fridge to last 2 days.

Ingredients

  • Cantaloupe
  • Honey dew
  • Strawberries
  • Grapes
  • Cherries
  • Peach
  • Watermelon
  • And whatever other fruit you want to put in your fruit salad.

Method

  1. Chop fruit into different shapes
  2. Mix together
  3. Serve with greek yoghurt sprinkled with rolled oates with honey drizzled in top

 Banana and strawberry milkshake

  • Place ½ cup ice into a blender
  • 1 banana
  • Around 8 medium sized strawberries
  • 3 big dobs of greek yoghurt
  • 1/3 cup of milk
  • 1Tsp Honey
  • Blend (serves 2)

~Steph

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