Being as we are having a bit of a raw food theme this week, I thought it would be a good idea to continue with it, so today it’s a slight twist by having some green smoothie recipes.

These are a great way to get your greens if you don’t like eating vegetables, or your children aren’t that keen either on eating them. The great thing about making smoothies is you can add different ingredients to alter the taste and it makes experimenting more fun, after all food should be fun and not a chore.

Green Smoothie Recipes

Kale and pear

Ingredients

1x cup of green grapes

1x large orange

1x pear

1x large banana

1x cup of kale

1x cup of water

1x 4 ice cubes

Method blend all ingredients on a low speed for a minute if you have a variable speed blender and then blend on high speed. Serve in a glass with a slice of lemon and a leaf of mint.

Green smoothie

Ingredients

1x two bananas

1x 3 oranges peeled and quatered

1x lettuce

1x 4 cups of cold water

Method put all the ingredients in a blender and serve with a piece of orange.

Mango surprise

Ingredients

1x apple

1x champagne mango

1x pineapple chunks

1x half a cup of some water

1x three ice cubes

Method

Combine all the above with a blender add the icecubes lastly.

Apple surprise

Ingredients

1x gala apple or any you have available

1x pear

1x cup of some spinach

1x banana

1x cup of walnut milk

Method

Empty all the ingredients into your blender and serve

Cool cucumber

Ingredients

1x half a large cucumber

1x banana

1x apple

1x cup of cale

1x cup of some fresh orange juice

Method

Combine the above in your blender add ice to add a bit of chill if needed

more coming up tomorrow…..

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Being as this is a slightly different way of eating I thought it would be a good idea to do some more on this topic so here goes.

Breakfast

Upon rising have a glass of hot lemon juice, or dandelion tea,

or coffee.

Fruit salad

Ingredients

1 x apple
1x pear
1x juiced lemon
1x banana
1x orange

Method

Most fruit that will have been spayed with pesticides will tend to have the residue on the skin so you can either wash it or, take the skin off. Chop the apple and pear into chunks and peel the banana you can slice this if it is better for you, cut the orange into four segments, add all the fruit to a cereal bowl and add the lemon juice coating all the fruit and serve.

Mid morning snack

Small bag of walnuts and a peach or nectarine

Lunch

Poached eggs and potatoes mashed or thinly sliced potatoes

Ingredients

1x potato either normal potato or a sweet potato, sweet potatoes contain more nutrition so would be better
2x free range eggs or non free range
1x olive oil
1x vegetable stock or you can use water
1x some salt and black pepper

Method

Dice the potato until soft and then mash it until it’s nice and fluffy, add a small amount of olive oil add the stock and or water until you have a good consistency, add some seasoning to add taste to it.

Poach the eggs in a egg poacher or you can poach them in a saucepan with water, serve the mash potato on a plate and add the two poached eggs on top add some black pepper this is optional some people may not like black pepper.

Afternoon snack

Have a cup of dandelion tea or coffee with a orange

Late supper or tea

Spanish omelette

You can make a plain omelette or use this particular recipe

Ingredients

1x six eggs
1x teaspoon of olive oil
1x onion chopped fine
1x green and red bell peppers
1x three cooked potatoes which will need top be diced
1x assorted vegetables if you have any to add more flavour

Method

Heat up some olive oil up and fry the onions and add the bell peppers sliced if you prefer, and cook these until there quite soft. Add to this the potatoes which need to be diced beforehand, add more vegetables if you have them and stir.

Get a bowl or container and beat the eggs together with a whisk, until the mixture is yellow, season this and now pour this over the vegetables, and stir so they become covered in the mixture, leave to cook for a while on a low heat so it doesn’t burn.

When its cooked beneath turn it over gently, and cook the other side and serve it with the potatoes or rice preferably brown if you have some.

Have a drink of hot lemon or peppermint tea

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Hi healthy lunchers here is todays healthy lunch day four of seven, which is roasted tomatoes with thyme.

Today’s healthy lunch is quite a simplistic one indeed,and is great served on crusty bread which is toasted or if you prefer it you can add it to pizza instead, all you need to do with this particular lunch is cut the tomatoes in half.

Get two cloves of garlic and which are peeled and chopped,one tablespoon of fresh thyme leaves, three tablespoons of olive oil,and 12 slices of crusty bread to serve it on.

But the tomato halves on a baking tray with the thyme on top and the garlic as well, add a teaspoonful of oil and cook in the oven for one hour approximately.

Lightly drizzle the bread with two tablespoonsof all oil and lightly season this with some black pepper. Griddle the bread or toast it whichever you prefer for two minutes on each side, and top this with the tomatoes to finish it off.

If you want to you could add some low-fat grated cheese just to add a bit more flavour but not too much.

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Hello healthy lunchers and welcome to day three of seven healthy lunches.

I Hope you like day three’s offering.

This one is a simplistic vegetable salad, based around a few ingredients but nevertheless full of good nutrition, low in calories which is what we are aiming for with this particular series of healthy lunches.

Tomato and Mint salad

The best kind of tomatoes to use for this particular recipe are vine tomatoes.

Chop a pack of tomatoes and, and toss this with 25 grams of mint leaves finely chopped, and half a red onion.
Mix together two tablespoons of olive oil and one tablespoon of white wine sugar. Season with some salt and freshly ground black pepper and drizzle this over salad, this is great served with a bit of grilled meat or fish or or a small piece of chicken. Or if you prefer a piece of salmon but not too much.

See you on day four.

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