As part of holistic nutrition school, to be more exact: the herbal medicine course, we did a herb walk in September at Toronto Botanical gardens! šæš¾š²
An amazing experience including much needed tree hugging š¤š
I couldnāt believe Iāve never been to Toronto botanical gardens – theyāre right off Lawrence avenue east! Iām definitely coming back. Have you guys been?!
This is what witch hazel looks like – amazing for skin clarity since it is astringent and antibacterial.
Here comes the recipe for the mixed herb pesto pasta with peas and feta that you asked for.
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This is a hearty, comforting veggie Chili recipe!
I used to love my turkey chili recipe but having gone Pesceterian, I needed to adapt. I tried a few veggie chili recipes where you try and make your own mixture to replace the meat texture, and none of the carrot-walnut āmeat replacementā suggestions were cutting it for me, so for this one it had to be the @yvesveggiecuisine veggie ground. I donāt love using meat replacements all the time since they can be very processed and contain a lot of soy, but for this recipe I find itās worth it.
One serving has 300 calories, 1.3 g fat, 39g net carbs and a whopping 30g of protein.
You will need:
Fry onions in olive oil until translucent, add garlic cloves. Add cut up peppers, let them steam for about 5 mins. Add Yves veggie ground and add your beans and tomatoes. Bring to a boil, turn down to a simmer for 45 mins.
Enjoy!
My new favorite way to prepare potatoes. Youāre welcome. For these smashed potatoes, do this:
Frozen avocado mango no sugar added protein nice cream!
Itās low carb (23.4 g), high fat (23.8 g), high protein (28.2 g). Itās definitely enough for 2 at least. So you can half those numbers above if youāre sharing.
I came up with this randomly because I was craving something cooling, needed some healthy fats but didnāt feel like something sweet.
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My friend asked me for the recipe of this smoothie bowl when I posted it on my story this week, so I figured some of you might be interested as well! Especially if youāre a maracuja fan because the star of this one was the frozen maracuja pulp. Youāll need:
That should give you that creamy, smoothie bowl consistency and a refreshing hint of sour maracuja summer vibes.
I topped with some granola, half an Atatulfo mango and half a banana.
Happy Long weekend, friends!
I posted this on my instagram yesterday and you guys loved the recipe!
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These days, ginger and immune shots are all the rage. More and more people recognize them for their antioxidant,
Immune boosting properties, which is awesome. Iāve been enjoying one first thing in the morning over the last while.
In my home made shot weāll use Turmeric since it is also a great anti-inflammatory and I find it tastes a little better than ginger, not as harsh.
This is also a great way for me to get in an ša day. I find oranges yummy but way too annoying to peel š Itās messy and then I usually obsess about removing all the little white stuff from the flesh. Bottom line is it takes way too long – in this recipe I just roughy peel one, chug it in the blender and Iām done.
Lastly, Apple cider vinegar which helps the body kill pathogens including bacteria and also balances blood sugar. And some fresh, cracked black pepper to enhance the bio availability of the turmeric.
Here goes it:
I have to say after all you guys actually subscribed to my blog after I first launched it, I was a little nervous to write this next blog post!lol But I figured it might be fun to write about my experience, being back in school after a 7 year hiatus since I graduated from my bachelor of business administration in Germany, 2014. That same year I took a leap and moved to Canada, met some amazing people and started getting more and more curious around my health and how nutrition plays a part in it. Fast forward to 2020, pandemic year, where I spent a lot more time at home than ever – so I finally said to myself, hey, why donāt you use all this home time to study something youāre passionate about. So I started researching holistic nutrition programs I could do remotely in Toronto and it soon transpired that the institute of holistic nutrition is the most renowned institution in this field. I knew a few nutritionists I look up to and they all went to this school, so this had to be it! Researching the program, literally every single course sounded so, so interesting to me. And another great perk of this school is that it offers a part time evening program, so I can pursue my passion while still working in my day job, as Channel Marketing Manager. If youāre considering choosing this route as well and youāre not interested in part time, there is also a full time program where youāre able to complete the program in one year instead of 2 like myself.
So when the day finally came last week to participate in my first online school lecture (also not something I had ever done before!lol), I was a little anxious. And also very excited. I had to wave to everyone on zoom because I was the new one – along with one other woman and her name was also Debby!! Ha! Finally it came to the point where most people turn their cameras off and just follow along to the slides being presented- with sweaty armpits, off to the kitchen I went to grab a bag of āsmart sweetsā. Just to come back to the lecture and hearing our teacher say āwhen you donāt buy junk, you actually save moneyā – whoops. That was quite funny. Excellent timing. But Iāve come a long way and work around my sugar addiction with self compassion now. Sugar has been a major soother for me growing up, so Iāll probably always still eat sugar replacement things like smart sweets and probably never fully stop eating sugar – and thatās okay. But one can always hope, I would have never thought Iād ever give up coffee and here I am 6 years later, still only drinking green tea and matcha and feeling so much better for it.
The 3.5 hours of class actually just flew by, I liked our teacher right away, she is super authentic. Shout out to Eva from the institute of holistic nutrition! I did not get bored once, since Ayurveda, the first course Iām partaking in, is actually so super interesting. The āhomeworkā we got was something I was interested in doing anyways after having the intro to Ayurveda – determining our individual constitution according to the three tridoshas which are based on the five elements ether (space), air, water, earth and fire. The Vata Dosha is a combination of air and ether, the Pitta Dosha is comprised of fire and water and the Kapha Dosha is made up from earth and water. After doing all the tests in our workbook, I think I might be mostly Pitta or maybe Pitta-Kapha. Iām not sure yet!lol I looked at the nutrition recommendation for that type and I donāt like what Iām seeing, so I may have to do more tests!lol Iām just kidding. I will keep you guys posted on my Ayurvedic journey.
Oh, and to sum up what I meant to tell you all with this blog post: if you have a passion that you would like to pursue, find a way to make it happen. Just do it!! You will love learning about it and it will come to you easily because you care about the topic. And you can do this at any point in your life, any stage, any age, no matter what youāve been through. Because you are worthy of change and lifelong learning and thereās 100 billion cells in your brain that you can never possibly use up, so you better get on it! Love you xox Deb
Being someone who only discovered what a āPB & Jā sandwich is in 2014 thanks to my Canadian friends, I now canāt get enough of it.
So here goes one popular version of it in this household:
– make your favorite oats (for me it was theĀ Bob’s red mill quick steel cut oats)
– mix in a scoop of protein powder towards the end, when the oats are still a little more liquid than you want them to be so it absorbs it.
Top with:
– homemade jam (I heated a clam of organic raspberries with 2tsps of chia seeds)
– organic, unsweetened peanut butter.
You can replace the peanut butter with any other seed or nut butter as well. Enjoy!
