A great winter warmer and as you will see, very few ingredients but a hearty and great tasting recipe. I really love making seasonal appropriate meals and this one hits the spot at this time of year. Check it out. Ingredients 1 onion, finely sliced2 tsp olive oil3 garlic cloves, sliced2 carrots, scrubbed and diced85g red lentils1 vegetable stock cube2 tbsp chopped … [Read more...] about Carrot and lentil soup
Nutrition
The wonderful world of Friday night food prepping
This idea came to me the weekend we broke up for the school holidays. I rushed home from my day job as a special needs teaching assistant and got to work in the kitchen after searching for a tasty recipe from the blog. I'm loving chilli based recipes at this time of year to feel warmer inside and help to stave off seasonal illnesses. There are very few delicious … [Read more...] about The wonderful world of Friday night food prepping
Here’s a quick guide to my current nutrition plan
I weigh 80kg and I want to GAIN weight. Basically I’m looking to gain lean muscle on the lifting program inside the online studio. To do this I need to eat a calorie surplus every day (eat more calories than my body needs to function). Plus I need to workout at home four times a week using dumbbells for the first section of the workouts and then do a quick HIIT section … [Read more...] about Here’s a quick guide to my current nutrition plan
What kind of BS nutritional advice is this?
I know it's only a proposal but the idea that snacking should be banned on public transport is beyond a joke. Sometimes when I'm scrolling Twitter I do despair at the state of society in general. I get it that the obesity epidemic that has hit western nations is a massive concern but banning people from snacking on public transport? Like that's going to work. I can … [Read more...] about What kind of BS nutritional advice is this?
Nutrition: it’s all in the food prep
I used to think that food/meal prepping meant half of my Sunday would be spent chopping, cooking and boxing pre planned meals into containers for the rest of the week. Thing is I like to do as little as possible on Sundays (which rarely happens). The reality is that as a family we use Sundays as a ‘reset day’ before the working week begins. Laundry, a little meal … [Read more...] about Nutrition: it’s all in the food prep