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How to: Make an Epic Healthy Platter

November 11, 2017 Danijela Unkovich
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How to make a delicious healthy grazing platter...

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How to: Make Almond Milk

July 2, 2015 Danijela Unkovich
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The logic as to how you'd possibly "milk" a nut may appear a little perplexing at first, but the whole process is actually surprisingly easy, and they really do make for an incredibly nourishing and delicious alternative...

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Hi, I'm Danijela! I'm a nutritionist from New Zealand. Welcome to my blog, a space I share healthy easy recipe ideas and wellness inspiration. 

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Summer berry cake with chia strawberry jam🍓🍰🎂 Cakes are such a happy food☺️ It's my baba's (grandmothers) birthday tonight and I'm charge of cake, and was told to keep it 'simple' - buuut it's hard not to be a little extra when you love food😅😂 So here's a simple sponge cake with a layer of fresh cream and chia jam, and topped with summer berries and pomegranate seeds. The chia jam recipe is over on my blog - search 'simple chia jam'. Food has such a big social component to it - we come together around a table to share food in celebration, happiness, sadness, with friends, family, work colleagues....and although it's not really about the food, it's something that brings us together and these moments are so special! Hopefully she'll like her cake💛☺️ #birthdaycakes #summerberries #strawberrycake #blueberriesnz #nutrition #nourish #yummy #cakelover #nzfoodie #cakesofinstagram #deliciousfood #desserts #dessertcake #chiajam
Friday lunch!🥕🌼 Avocado dunked in sesame seeds, smoked salmon, greens and edible flowers fresh from the garden, carrot, sliced cucumber and a big dollop of hummus with a sprinkle of smoked paprika! I love salmon - nutritionally it's packed with the essential fatty acid omega-3 which has epic anti-inflammatory properties (like a fire hose to a flame💦🔥), and so so so good for brain health and skin. These fats are deemed 'essential' as our body can't make them so we must get them from our diets. When I started incorporating more omega-3 into my diet the biggest change I noticed was my skin! Like an epically nourishing skin cream, they moisturise from the inside out. Other good sources of omega-3 are walnuts, chia seeds, other oily fish (like herring, mackerel, sardines) and flaxseeds👍. Happy Friday everyone! 💛 #lunchtime #saladbowl #healthysalad #healthyalwaysalad #avocados #avocadosalad #nutritious #nutritiousmeals #healthyrecipes #healthyrecipeideas #nzfood #nzfoodie
Sometimes the simplest of meals can also be the tastiest!🙏🏻💛 This totallllly hit the spot tonight - oven-grilled tomatoes, corn cobs sprinkled with paprika, a free-range egg, baby spinach and cress, sliced avo and a big dollop of pesto! I was so excited to have local fresh corn in my @foodboxnz delivery this week - loving the seasonal produce right now! Summer has the goods! I hope everyone had a good day🙏🏻 #dinnerideas #simplemeal #healthydinnerideas #nzfoodie #nzfood #healthydinner #wholefood #gardengoodness #eatyourgreens #tastyfood #easymeal #nutritious #nutritiousfood
Trio of toasts🤤 Which would you pick? 💛Top is peanut butter, banana, antioxidant-rich blueberries and coconut ❤️middle is beetroot hummus, sliced avocado and sesame seeds, and 💜bottom is smashed avocado, omega 3-rich @regalsalmonnz smoked salmon slices and coriander! I love them all, but I can never pass up salmon and avo😻 First day back at work for me! The holidays zoomed past, but excited to get stuck back into the work I love💞🙏🏻. #toastlover #toast #toasttoppers #avocadotoast #avocados #salmon #breakfast #breakfastidea #nutrition #nourish #wholesome #healthyfood #healthyfoodideas #healthybreakfastideas #tastyfood #nzfoodie
Heeello from up here!⛅️✨I've spent the NY in Wanaka in the South Island of NZ, which has some of the most beeeeautiful natural landscapes I've ever seen...the whole place is a dream!🙏🏻 Some friends and I decided to tackle Roy's Peak this morning which is a tough little hiking track up a mountain that takes about 5-6 hours😅😳 I don't often hike, and it was unrelentingly steep and tough to the top, AND it's the middle of NZ summer, but the views were breathtaking! If you're ever travelling through the area and are into your hiking then add this to the list. Two of my resolutions this year are to have more adventures and keep up exercise - this one ticked both the boxes🙏🏻💛 #royspeak #wanaka #southisland #nzzealand #nzmustdo #nz #wanakalake #holiday #summer #hike #exercise #abovetheclouds #fitness #movement #newyear
Happy New Year's Eve everyone!🥂✨ I hope you have an awesome eve welcoming in the new year. Here's to 2018, and all of the new experiences, growth, challenges, ups, downs and fun to come✨🙏🏻💛 One last food snap for the year - this is a bowlful of creamy coconut porridge topped with sliced banana, raspberries, blueberries and almonds. The coconut porridge is cooked in half water/half coconut milk (so delicious and creamy🤤). For a bit of extra sweetness you can add mashed banana while the porridge cooks, maple syrup or a little honey, otherwise just top with fruit🍓🍌👍Thanks for your love on my posts this last year, it makes me really happy to share my passion with you all💛 Now off to see the eve in with friends and loved ones! X #newyears #newyearseve #porridge #oats #nutrition #nourish #yum #breakfast #healthyrecipe #healthyrecipeidea #berries #seasonal #health #nzfood #nzfoodie
Snacks in the sun☀️ 🥑🥒🥕 Homemade guacamole, fresh tomato salsa, corn chips, carrots, capsicum and cucumber sticks. Did you knooow🤔certain vitamins are deemed 'fat-soluble' (vitamin A, D, K and E), as they require the presence of fat to be properly digested and absorbed, so we can take up all their lovely nutrients! So pairing your vitamin-A rich carrot sticks with healthy fat rich avocados, is one way of maximising your nutrient absorption💪 Thats one reason (aside from taste) to drizzle oil on your veggies before roasting them or on your salads as a dressing!🥗 We're not necessarily what we eat, but what we digest and absorb👌Anyway enough nerdy nutrition - I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas, filled with love and good food🎄 I'm on holiday and catching a plane tomorrow to the other side of New Zealand. So blissful being on holiday!✈️✈️ #guacamole #tomatosalsa #platter #healthyplatter #healthyfood #healthyfoodie #nutrition #nourish #holiday #nzfood #healthyeating #healthymeals #avocado #avocados #avocadolove #plantbased #plantbasedpower #eatarainbow #eatyourveggies
One last Christmas idea and my favourite - fancy chocolate dipped strawberries🍓🍫 I love these as they kind of look like little upside down Christmas trees!🌲💁 They taste incredible and are so simple to make - just melt down some good quality dark chocolate (aim for 85% cocoa or above for ALL the antioxidants), dunk in fresh strawberries, and then roll in the toppings of your choice - I love coconut, sesame seeds, pistachio, chopped peanuts or hazelnuts. Then leave to set in the fridge and enjoy! Deeeeelicious! Pretty healthy dessert idea too - fresh strawberries, antioxidant-rich dark chocolate, and healthy fats from the nut and seed toppings! Merry Christmas Eve friends - have fun , be merry and stay safe💛🎄Xx #christmas #christmasfood #christmasideas #merrychristmas #healthyfood #healthyeating #nutrition #nourish #chocolatelover #strawberry #strawberryseason #healthyrecipeidea #nzfood #eatmoreplants #summerfruit
Veggie-packed bowl for lunch today🥕 Loaded with oven-roasted chickpeas, cauliflower and carrots (I roasted them together on a tray with a little olive oil, honey and salt - so good🤤!), sliced radish, kale and hummus, and pistachios, pomegranate seeds and black sesame seeds for a little texture and crunch! Kale can be a little tough when eaten raw so make sure to massage it with a little olive oil before you eat it! Instead of just drizzling it with oil, reeeally massage it into the leaves - I know it sounds weird, but it softens it and totally transforms the texture💃 Try it! Today's my last day in the clinic and I'll be finishing up work tomorrow for the year🎄 Only four sleeps until Christmas😱Holidays are so close!💃 #lunch #lunchideas #saladbowl #saladlunch #healthyalwaysalad #vegetables #eatyourveggies #plantbasedfoods #nzfood #nutrition #healthyrecipes #healthylifestyle #nutrients #foodlover
Christmas gingerbread cookies🎄💛 Is there a better smell than warm sweet baking in the oven?! Debatable. I baked these little guys earlier, and attempted some cookie decorating - let's just say I need a little practise😂 Keeping to healthy habits over Christmas can be challenging - all of a sudden there's a million and one Christmas catch-up and end of year parties in the diary, work is crazy busy and there's tonnes to get done, annnnd of course there's delicious food EVERYWHERE! I think enjoying the silly season and it's glorious food is part and parcel with Christmas - but it's also important to strike some balance otherwise we can enter January feeling a little sluggish and 'blegh'. I've shared tips on the blog for keeping healthy over the silly season - head over for a read, link in my bio. And as for the recipe for the cookies - they're just a classic gingerbread cookie with royal icing😊 One of my Christmas favs! #christmasbaking #sillyseason #christmascookies #gingerbreadmen #gingerbreadcookies #nutrition #nourish #baking #health #christmas #nzfood #candycane
Christmas Caprese Salad🍅🇮🇹 Similar to a traditional caprese salad with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella, basil and olive oil, but this is with a base of fresh rocket leaves and with big dollops of pesto🤤🤤 Love this as a salad idea for Christmas as the green-red colour palette fits rigggght in with Christmas, but also because the salad is kind is shaped like a Christmas wreath!💃💛Remeber to keep eating your 5+ fruits and veggies a day over the (typically indulgent😅) Christmas period! @5adaynz have tonnes of epic recipes ideas on their website incorporating all the latest seasonal fruits and veggies🙏🏻 #5adaynz #capresesalad #nourish #nutrition #saladideas #saladidea #salads #christmas #christmaswreath #nzfood #delicious #recipeidea #tasty #wholefood #eatarainbow
Saturday lunch consists of a fridge clear out🍅🥑🍳Grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, asparagus; a fried egg with sautéed spinach; and then a little sauerkraut, my last heaped spoon of pesto😢 (aka the best condiment to ever walk this earth🤤) and avocado with a sprinkle of sesame seeds. Delicious! CHEATS TIP: for a nice crispy egg crack it into the pan when it's hot hot hot🔥. Happy Saturday friends💃 #lunchtime #avocado #nutrition #nourish #egg #nzfood #wellness #wholefood #healthyrecipe #healthyrecipes #eatrealfood #pesto
Summery breakfast - acai banana 'ice-cream', a nutty granola, fresh fruit and creamy thick yoghurt. The ice cream is just frozen banana blended with frozen acai pulp, and a splash of coconut milk - it has the texture of a creamy soft-serve! I whipped it up in my @thermomixnz TM5 - I was very fortunate to be set up with one by the Thermo team last month and I think I've used it almost every day since. It's a super compact appliance that essentially replaces 12 different tools in the kitchen - the way I can describe it is like basically like having another set of hands to help out, whether to blend, sauté, chop, measure out ingredients...it's very clever!👐 While I enjoy the process of cooking, it's fabulously speedy at cutting down time in the kitchen on eves when you're a little busier, and you can make incredible meals (like fragrant curries) from scratch at a fraction of the time. With summer though I've been using it lately to create lots of fresh sorbets and ice creams like this one :) Big fan💓 Another cool feature - @thermomixnz recently launched a 'Cook-key' which is a Wi-fi device that connects thousands of recipes to your machine, so you can essentially plug in a recipe and the machine will guide and promote you how to make it - isn't technology cool? Have any of you guys trialled/own a machine? They're very nifty!💃❤️ #thermomix #thermomixnz #breakfast #nicecream #bananaicecream #acaibowl #acai #summerbreakfast #nutrition #nourish
WIN ME!💛 It's time for a Christmas giveaway time💃 I have five of my favourite @skinbyecostore products to gift to two friends👫👭👬. This includes a gentle cleanser, hydrating day moisturiser, replenishing night moisturiser, multi-nutrient facial oil and hydrating masque, each. Allllll the goods to help keep your skin happy and healthy! To enter all you have to do is: 💛Tag a friend in the comments - feel free to tag as many friends as you'd like, I'll count each tag as a single entry 💛 Follow the @skinbyecostore Instagram page☝️Anndddd that's it! As an ambassador for SKIN by Ecostore I adore these wonderful products, and love the ethos of this company. True to Ecostore these products only contain ingredients safe for both us and the environment. These are my absolute favourite products from the line, and the ones I use daily - my skin has never been happier since using SKIN🙏🏻 This comp is open NZ-wide. A winner will be selected at random on Wednesday morning at 8am (NZ time). I'd like to acknowledge that this promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram. By entering, entrants confirm they are 16 years of age, release Instagram of responsibility and agree to instagram terms of use. Big love to @skinbyecostore 🙏🏻🙌
It's Friday! Wishing everyone good vibes into the weekend☀️☺️ Get some sun, some rest and make sure to do something you love!💃 The pictured (and world's happiest) doormat is by @dontbeadoormat 👍💛#collab #weekend #veggies #nutrition #nourish #eatyourveggies #eatyourvegetables #blooms #flowers
💙Who's a blueberry lover?👌😍 These have to be some of juiciest, biggest blueberries my mouth has ever had the fortune of eating! This beautiful fruit is officially in season and is ready to be sprinkled over oats, blitz into smoothies or eaten by the handful. Today at work was far more exciting than usual, as to celebrate the new @blueberriesnz season the super inspiring (and so lovely!) Olympic medalist @eliza_mac_ stopped in and delivered a picnic box full of blueberries (swipe right!). Such a treat! There's so much to love about blueberries - in particular, they're an incredibly rich source of antioxidants which help to fight free radical damage in the body (think of antioxidants as the police, and free radicals as the baddies!), helping to reduce inflammation and keep us healthy. Such a fab nourishing food! #fromoneblueberryfantoanother, #inseason #nzblueberryseason #blueberries
Meatballs and courgetti (courgette spaghetti💃) for dinner🍝with cherry tomatoes, asparagus, Parmesan and basil👌The meatballs are beef and lentil - lentils are an epic pair with beef as they take on flavours really well and have a similar kind of texture! They're also great inclusion on the menu to keep shopping costs down - I usually sub around 500g mince for a tin of brown lentils☺️ To make the veggie spaghetti you need a tool called a spiraliser, which kind of looks like a giant pencil sharpener, and turns your produce into faux noodles! Great if you're gluten-free, low-carb, or wanting something lighter instead of pasta😊 You can also use a veggie peeler, but your noodles will be a little wider and thicker🍝 Lots of beautiful fresh produce and inspiration in my @foodboxnz delivery this week for this dish👍 I love the little colourful rainbow cherry tomatoes! Here's the recipe for the beef and lentil meatballs: 🍝Ingredients: 500g prime beef mince 1x 390g tin brown lentils 1/2 brown onion 2 cloves garlic 1 free-range egg 1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped 1/2 tsp dried oregano 1/2 tsp salt 🍝Method: 1. If using oven to cook meatballs preheat to bake 180 degrees and line a baking dish with baking paper. If pan-frying then pop a pan on the stove top. 2. Open tin of lentils and pour contents into a sieve. Drain liquid, then rinse well with water. Keep aside. 3. Peel and finely dice the onion and garlic. 4. In a large bowl add the egg and whisk. Add all other ingredients. 5. Using hands evenly mix everything until perfectly combined. Roll even tablespoons of the mixture into balls. 6. Either pop meatballs into the baking dish and put in the oven to cook for 15 minutes, or oil up the pan and pan-fry meatballs until cooked. If cooking in a baking dish then you may get a little leakage out of the meatballs - this is totally fine. Then toss with pasta sauce and voila! Serve with pasta or courgetti, and veggies on the side. Yummmmm. #collab #yum #pasta #delicious #meatballs #dinner #healthydinneridea #nutrition #nourish
Hello Monday! Today marks exactly three more weeks until Christmas and summer holidays💃☀️Breakfast this morning is oats topped with kiwifruit, sliced banana, raspberries, pomegranate, pistachios and a sprinkle of bee pollen. Quite the warming bowlful considering the beaaaautiful summery weather in Auckland, but I refuse to put away the oat packet just yet☀️🙌P.s how pretty are pomegranate seeds - they kind of look like little red rubies❤️ #breakfast #porridge #oats #freshfruit #fruit #nutrition #nourish #nzfood #nutrients
Crispy kale chips🤤🍟 These are insanely addictive. I know what you're thinking, chips made out of kale, YOU'VE TAKEN IT TOO FAR WOMEN, but if you're not a fan of this virtuous vegetable already, then these will certainly convert you🌱🌱 Not only do they taste delicious, but their texture is incredible - they really do crisp in your mouth😍Here's the recipe: 💚Ingredients: 1 bunch of curly kale (5-6 leaves) 1/2 tbsp olive oil 1/4 tsp sea salt 💚Method: 1. Preheat oven to 150 degrees. Line an oven tray with baking paper. 2. Tear kale leaves off the tough middle steam and rip into similar sized pieces – this will help the kale to cook evenly. Discard the tough stems. 3. Place kale in a large bowl and drizzle over the olive oil and salt. Make sure to rub the oil over each kale leaf to coat evenly. 4. Arrange leaves on a lined baking tray, avoiding having them overlap. You may need an extra tray if making a big bunch. 5. Cook in oven for around 8-12 minutes (depending on the size of the chips), keeping a close eye from around the 8 minute mark. Remove from oven once crispy and dry. Make sure to remove before they burn - they turn very quickly, so keep an eye on them! 6. Let them sit for a few minutes and then enjoy! Happy Sunday! #kalechips #kaleadventures #notreallychips #yum #snacktime #healthysnack #delicious #greenchips #nutrition #nourish
Summer berry cake with chia strawberry jam🍓🍰🎂 Cakes are such a happy food☺️ It's my baba's (grandmothers) birthday tonight and I'm charge of cake, and was told to keep it 'simple' - buuut it's hard not to be a little extra when you love food😅😂 So here's a simple sponge cake with a layer of fresh cream and chia jam, and topped with summer berries and pomegranate seeds. The chia jam recipe is over on my blog - search 'simple chia jam'. Food has such a big social component to it - we come together around a table to share food in celebration, happiness, sadness, with friends, family, work colleagues....and although it's not really about the food, it's something that brings us together and these moments are so special! Hopefully she'll like her cake💛☺️ #birthdaycakes #summerberries #strawberrycake #blueberriesnz #nutrition #nourish #yummy #cakelover #nzfoodie #cakesofinstagram #deliciousfood #desserts #dessertcake #chiajam Friday lunch!🥕🌼 Avocado dunked in sesame seeds, smoked salmon, greens and edible flowers fresh from the garden, carrot, sliced cucumber and a big dollop of hummus with a sprinkle of smoked paprika! I love salmon - nutritionally it's packed with the essential fatty acid omega-3 which has epic anti-inflammatory properties (like a fire hose to a flame💦🔥), and so so so good for brain health and skin. These fats are deemed 'essential' as our body can't make them so we must get them from our diets. When I started incorporating more omega-3 into my diet the biggest change I noticed was my skin! Like an epically nourishing skin cream, they moisturise from the inside out. Other good sources of omega-3 are walnuts, chia seeds, other oily fish (like herring, mackerel, sardines) and flaxseeds👍. Happy Friday everyone! 💛 #lunchtime #saladbowl #healthysalad #healthyalwaysalad #avocados #avocadosalad #nutritious #nutritiousmeals #healthyrecipes #healthyrecipeideas #nzfood #nzfoodie Sometimes the simplest of meals can also be the tastiest!🙏🏻💛 This totallllly hit the spot tonight - oven-grilled tomatoes, corn cobs sprinkled with paprika, a free-range egg, baby spinach and cress, sliced avo and a big dollop of pesto! I was so excited to have local fresh corn in my @foodboxnz delivery this week - loving the seasonal produce right now! Summer has the goods! I hope everyone had a good day🙏🏻 #dinnerideas #simplemeal #healthydinnerideas #nzfoodie #nzfood #healthydinner #wholefood #gardengoodness #eatyourgreens #tastyfood #easymeal #nutritious #nutritiousfood Trio of toasts🤤 Which would you pick? 💛Top is peanut butter, banana, antioxidant-rich blueberries and coconut ❤️middle is beetroot hummus, sliced avocado and sesame seeds, and 💜bottom is smashed avocado, omega 3-rich @regalsalmonnz smoked salmon slices and coriander! I love them all, but I can never pass up salmon and avo😻 First day back at work for me! The holidays zoomed past, but excited to get stuck back into the work I love💞🙏🏻. #toastlover #toast #toasttoppers #avocadotoast #avocados #salmon #breakfast #breakfastidea #nutrition #nourish #wholesome #healthyfood #healthyfoodideas #healthybreakfastideas #tastyfood #nzfoodie Heeello from up here!⛅️✨I've spent the NY in Wanaka in the South Island of NZ, which has some of the most beeeeautiful natural landscapes I've ever seen...the whole place is a dream!🙏🏻 Some friends and I decided to tackle Roy's Peak this morning which is a tough little hiking track up a mountain that takes about 5-6 hours😅😳 I don't often hike, and it was unrelentingly steep and tough to the top, AND it's the middle of NZ summer, but the views were breathtaking! If you're ever travelling through the area and are into your hiking then add this to the list. Two of my resolutions this year are to have more adventures and keep up exercise - this one ticked both the boxes🙏🏻💛 #royspeak #wanaka #southisland #nzzealand #nzmustdo #nz #wanakalake #holiday #summer #hike #exercise #abovetheclouds #fitness #movement #newyear
Happy New Year's Eve everyone!🥂✨ I hope you have an awesome eve welcoming in the new year. Here's to 2018, and all of the new experiences, growth, challenges, ups, downs and fun to come✨🙏🏻💛 One last food snap for the year - this is a bowlful of creamy coconut porridge topped with sliced banana, raspberries, blueberries and almonds. The coconut porridge is cooked in half water/half coconut milk (so delicious and creamy🤤). For a bit of extra sweetness you can add mashed banana while the porridge cooks, maple syrup or a little honey, otherwise just top with fruit🍓🍌👍Thanks for your love on my posts this last year, it makes me really happy to share my passion with you all💛 Now off to see the eve in with friends and loved ones! X #newyears #newyearseve #porridge #oats #nutrition #nourish #yum #breakfast #healthyrecipe #healthyrecipeidea #berries #seasonal #health #nzfood #nzfoodie Snacks in the sun☀️ 🥑🥒🥕 Homemade guacamole, fresh tomato salsa, corn chips, carrots, capsicum and cucumber sticks. Did you knooow🤔certain vitamins are deemed 'fat-soluble' (vitamin A, D, K and E), as they require the presence of fat to be properly digested and absorbed, so we can take up all their lovely nutrients! So pairing your vitamin-A rich carrot sticks with healthy fat rich avocados, is one way of maximising your nutrient absorption💪 Thats one reason (aside from taste) to drizzle oil on your veggies before roasting them or on your salads as a dressing!🥗 We're not necessarily what we eat, but what we digest and absorb👌Anyway enough nerdy nutrition - I hope everyone had a fabulous Christmas, filled with love and good food🎄 I'm on holiday and catching a plane tomorrow to the other side of New Zealand. So blissful being on holiday!✈️✈️ #guacamole #tomatosalsa #platter #healthyplatter #healthyfood #healthyfoodie #nutrition #nourish #holiday #nzfood #healthyeating #healthymeals #avocado #avocados #avocadolove #plantbased #plantbasedpower #eatarainbow #eatyourveggies One last Christmas idea and my favourite - fancy chocolate dipped strawberries🍓🍫 I love these as they kind of look like little upside down Christmas trees!🌲💁 They taste incredible and are so simple to make - just melt down some good quality dark chocolate (aim for 85% cocoa or above for ALL the antioxidants), dunk in fresh strawberries, and then roll in the toppings of your choice - I love coconut, sesame seeds, pistachio, chopped peanuts or hazelnuts. Then leave to set in the fridge and enjoy! Deeeeelicious! Pretty healthy dessert idea too - fresh strawberries, antioxidant-rich dark chocolate, and healthy fats from the nut and seed toppings! Merry Christmas Eve friends - have fun , be merry and stay safe💛🎄Xx #christmas #christmasfood #christmasideas #merrychristmas #healthyfood #healthyeating #nutrition #nourish #chocolatelover #strawberry #strawberryseason #healthyrecipeidea #nzfood #eatmoreplants #summerfruit Veggie-packed bowl for lunch today🥕 Loaded with oven-roasted chickpeas, cauliflower and carrots (I roasted them together on a tray with a little olive oil, honey and salt - so good🤤!), sliced radish, kale and hummus, and pistachios, pomegranate seeds and black sesame seeds for a little texture and crunch! Kale can be a little tough when eaten raw so make sure to massage it with a little olive oil before you eat it! Instead of just drizzling it with oil, reeeally massage it into the leaves - I know it sounds weird, but it softens it and totally transforms the texture💃 Try it! Today's my last day in the clinic and I'll be finishing up work tomorrow for the year🎄 Only four sleeps until Christmas😱Holidays are so close!💃 #lunch #lunchideas #saladbowl #saladlunch #healthyalwaysalad #vegetables #eatyourveggies #plantbasedfoods #nzfood #nutrition #healthyrecipes #healthylifestyle #nutrients #foodlover Christmas gingerbread cookies🎄💛 Is there a better smell than warm sweet baking in the oven?! Debatable. I baked these little guys earlier, and attempted some cookie decorating - let's just say I need a little practise😂 Keeping to healthy habits over Christmas can be challenging - all of a sudden there's a million and one Christmas catch-up and end of year parties in the diary, work is crazy busy and there's tonnes to get done, annnnd of course there's delicious food EVERYWHERE! I think enjoying the silly season and it's glorious food is part and parcel with Christmas - but it's also important to strike some balance otherwise we can enter January feeling a little sluggish and 'blegh'. I've shared tips on the blog for keeping healthy over the silly season - head over for a read, link in my bio. And as for the recipe for the cookies - they're just a classic gingerbread cookie with royal icing😊 One of my Christmas favs! #christmasbaking #sillyseason #christmascookies #gingerbreadmen #gingerbreadcookies #nutrition #nourish #baking #health #christmas #nzfood #candycane Christmas Caprese Salad🍅🇮🇹 Similar to a traditional caprese salad with fresh tomatoes, mozzarella, basil and olive oil, but this is with a base of fresh rocket leaves and with big dollops of pesto🤤🤤 Love this as a salad idea for Christmas as the green-red colour palette fits rigggght in with Christmas, but also because the salad is kind is shaped like a Christmas wreath!💃💛Remeber to keep eating your 5+ fruits and veggies a day over the (typically indulgent😅) Christmas period! @5adaynz have tonnes of epic recipes ideas on their website incorporating all the latest seasonal fruits and veggies🙏🏻 #5adaynz #capresesalad #nourish #nutrition #saladideas #saladidea #salads #christmas #christmaswreath #nzfood #delicious #recipeidea #tasty #wholefood #eatarainbow Saturday lunch consists of a fridge clear out🍅🥑🍳Grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, asparagus; a fried egg with sautéed spinach; and then a little sauerkraut, my last heaped spoon of pesto😢 (aka the best condiment to ever walk this earth🤤) and avocado with a sprinkle of sesame seeds. Delicious! CHEATS TIP: for a nice crispy egg crack it into the pan when it's hot hot hot🔥. Happy Saturday friends💃 #lunchtime #avocado #nutrition #nourish #egg #nzfood #wellness #wholefood #healthyrecipe #healthyrecipes #eatrealfood #pesto Summery breakfast - acai banana 'ice-cream', a nutty granola, fresh fruit and creamy thick yoghurt. The ice cream is just frozen banana blended with frozen acai pulp, and a splash of coconut milk - it has the texture of a creamy soft-serve! I whipped it up in my @thermomixnz TM5 - I was very fortunate to be set up with one by the Thermo team last month and I think I've used it almost every day since. It's a super compact appliance that essentially replaces 12 different tools in the kitchen - the way I can describe it is like basically like having another set of hands to help out, whether to blend, sauté, chop, measure out ingredients...it's very clever!👐 While I enjoy the process of cooking, it's fabulously speedy at cutting down time in the kitchen on eves when you're a little busier, and you can make incredible meals (like fragrant curries) from scratch at a fraction of the time. With summer though I've been using it lately to create lots of fresh sorbets and ice creams like this one :) Big fan💓 Another cool feature - @thermomixnz recently launched a 'Cook-key' which is a Wi-fi device that connects thousands of recipes to your machine, so you can essentially plug in a recipe and the machine will guide and promote you how to make it - isn't technology cool? Have any of you guys trialled/own a machine? They're very nifty!💃❤️ #thermomix #thermomixnz #breakfast #nicecream #bananaicecream #acaibowl #acai #summerbreakfast #nutrition #nourish WIN ME!💛 It's time for a Christmas giveaway time💃 I have five of my favourite @skinbyecostore products to gift to two friends👫👭👬. This includes a gentle cleanser, hydrating day moisturiser, replenishing night moisturiser, multi-nutrient facial oil and hydrating masque, each. Allllll the goods to help keep your skin happy and healthy! To enter all you have to do is: 💛Tag a friend in the comments - feel free to tag as many friends as you'd like, I'll count each tag as a single entry 💛 Follow the @skinbyecostore Instagram page☝️Anndddd that's it! As an ambassador for SKIN by Ecostore I adore these wonderful products, and love the ethos of this company. True to Ecostore these products only contain ingredients safe for both us and the environment. These are my absolute favourite products from the line, and the ones I use daily - my skin has never been happier since using SKIN🙏🏻 This comp is open NZ-wide. A winner will be selected at random on Wednesday morning at 8am (NZ time). I'd like to acknowledge that this promotion is in no way sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with, Instagram. By entering, entrants confirm they are 16 years of age, release Instagram of responsibility and agree to instagram terms of use. Big love to @skinbyecostore 🙏🏻🙌 It's Friday! Wishing everyone good vibes into the weekend☀️☺️ Get some sun, some rest and make sure to do something you love!💃 The pictured (and world's happiest) doormat is by @dontbeadoormat 👍💛#collab #weekend #veggies #nutrition #nourish #eatyourveggies #eatyourvegetables #blooms #flowers 💙Who's a blueberry lover?👌😍 These have to be some of juiciest, biggest blueberries my mouth has ever had the fortune of eating! This beautiful fruit is officially in season and is ready to be sprinkled over oats, blitz into smoothies or eaten by the handful. Today at work was far more exciting than usual, as to celebrate the new @blueberriesnz season the super inspiring (and so lovely!) Olympic medalist @eliza_mac_ stopped in and delivered a picnic box full of blueberries (swipe right!). Such a treat! There's so much to love about blueberries - in particular, they're an incredibly rich source of antioxidants which help to fight free radical damage in the body (think of antioxidants as the police, and free radicals as the baddies!), helping to reduce inflammation and keep us healthy. Such a fab nourishing food! #fromoneblueberryfantoanother, #inseason #nzblueberryseason #blueberries Meatballs and courgetti (courgette spaghetti💃) for dinner🍝with cherry tomatoes, asparagus, Parmesan and basil👌The meatballs are beef and lentil - lentils are an epic pair with beef as they take on flavours really well and have a similar kind of texture! They're also great inclusion on the menu to keep shopping costs down - I usually sub around 500g mince for a tin of brown lentils☺️ To make the veggie spaghetti you need a tool called a spiraliser, which kind of looks like a giant pencil sharpener, and turns your produce into faux noodles! Great if you're gluten-free, low-carb, or wanting something lighter instead of pasta😊 You can also use a veggie peeler, but your noodles will be a little wider and thicker🍝 Lots of beautiful fresh produce and inspiration in my @foodboxnz delivery this week for this dish👍 I love the little colourful rainbow cherry tomatoes! Here's the recipe for the beef and lentil meatballs: 🍝Ingredients: 500g prime beef mince 1x 390g tin brown lentils 1/2 brown onion 2 cloves garlic 1 free-range egg 1/4 cup parsley, finely chopped 1/2 tsp dried oregano 1/2 tsp salt 🍝Method: 1. If using oven to cook meatballs preheat to bake 180 degrees and line a baking dish with baking paper. If pan-frying then pop a pan on the stove top. 2. Open tin of lentils and pour contents into a sieve. Drain liquid, then rinse well with water. Keep aside. 3. Peel and finely dice the onion and garlic. 4. In a large bowl add the egg and whisk. Add all other ingredients. 5. Using hands evenly mix everything until perfectly combined. Roll even tablespoons of the mixture into balls. 6. Either pop meatballs into the baking dish and put in the oven to cook for 15 minutes, or oil up the pan and pan-fry meatballs until cooked. If cooking in a baking dish then you may get a little leakage out of the meatballs - this is totally fine. Then toss with pasta sauce and voila! Serve with pasta or courgetti, and veggies on the side. Yummmmm. #collab #yum #pasta #delicious #meatballs #dinner #healthydinneridea #nutrition #nourish Hello Monday! Today marks exactly three more weeks until Christmas and summer holidays💃☀️Breakfast this morning is oats topped with kiwifruit, sliced banana, raspberries, pomegranate, pistachios and a sprinkle of bee pollen. Quite the warming bowlful considering the beaaaautiful summery weather in Auckland, but I refuse to put away the oat packet just yet☀️🙌P.s how pretty are pomegranate seeds - they kind of look like little red rubies❤️ #breakfast #porridge #oats #freshfruit #fruit #nutrition #nourish #nzfood #nutrients Crispy kale chips🤤🍟 These are insanely addictive. I know what you're thinking, chips made out of kale, YOU'VE TAKEN IT TOO FAR WOMEN, but if you're not a fan of this virtuous vegetable already, then these will certainly convert you🌱🌱 Not only do they taste delicious, but their texture is incredible - they really do crisp in your mouth😍Here's the recipe: 💚Ingredients: 1 bunch of curly kale (5-6 leaves) 1/2 tbsp olive oil 1/4 tsp sea salt 💚Method: 1. Preheat oven to 150 degrees. Line an oven tray with baking paper. 2. Tear kale leaves off the tough middle steam and rip into similar sized pieces – this will help the kale to cook evenly. Discard the tough stems. 3. Place kale in a large bowl and drizzle over the olive oil and salt. Make sure to rub the oil over each kale leaf to coat evenly. 4. Arrange leaves on a lined baking tray, avoiding having them overlap. You may need an extra tray if making a big bunch. 5. Cook in oven for around 8-12 minutes (depending on the size of the chips), keeping a close eye from around the 8 minute mark. Remove from oven once crispy and dry. Make sure to remove before they burn - they turn very quickly, so keep an eye on them! 6. Let them sit for a few minutes and then enjoy! Happy Sunday! #kalechips #kaleadventures #notreallychips #yum #snacktime #healthysnack #delicious #greenchips #nutrition #nourish

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