So recently I had a good talk with a friend about food and eating. The birth of the diva goddess manifesto: Let’s set a goal to focus our attention on ourselves and our health. We will relish in it daily! We will eat the most amazingly delicious fresh, local, healthy foods. Because we are diva goddesses, we will strive to live to be old, strong sages of our community. We will nourish our families, friends, children, spouses, neighbors with the nutrients that abound around us. We will be divine creatures and cure ourselves of the evils of a corporate fast food nation. We will be the heros to rescue ourselves and our loved ones from the diseases and illnesses caused by the greed that is poisoning us and our planet. Let’s be revolutionaries together. It’s all about what we eat!
So for breakfast, wouldn’t it be great to slice up some strawberries (if only we grew them ourselves), apple, walnuts, hemp seeds, and lemon juice. Even better with some mint leaves from your backyard. Compost the stems or feed them to your chickens:>)
So does anyone else feel this way? Here’s my recipe modification from an earlier posting…
The Best and Healthiest Chocolates you’ll ever eat:
1 cup coconut oil
1 cup raw cacao powder (or just chocolate powder)
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup coconut
1/2 cup flax or hemp seeds
1 t salt (to taste… salt in nice in chocolate)
1 cup nuts of your choice (I used raw mixed nuts from Trader Joe’s or Walnuts)
Nuts, coconut oil, and honey are all pretty cheap at Trader Joe’s. I bought the raw cacao powder at New Seasons. Melt the coconut oil in a double boiler (I just put a medal bowl on top of a pot of boiling water, or you can put the whole container of coconut oil with the lid off into a pot of boiling water since it’s hard at room temperature). In a large mixing bowl, whisk together oil, honey, and cacao powder. Then add coconut and flax seeds and/or hemp seeds and salt. You can use cupcake liners and line cupcake pans. I use the small ones in the regular size cupcake pan, but you can make them larger with regular size liners. Add about 5 nuts to each cup. Spoon in about 2 teaspoons in small cup liners or 3 teaspoons into the regular liners. Place in the freezer. Makes about 24 or so. Each one is one serving. Enjoy! I made a ton of them and my roommate said I could sell them for $5 each. Let me know if you want to buy one to try! The pictured version was in small cups, with walnuts on top and hemp seeds and coconut inside. The ones I made a ton of recently have just ground hazelnuts. Switch it up and get creative. Let me know what you put in yours!
I’ve been trying to bring my own lunch wherever I go, because 1) it’s cheaper, 2) it’s healthier, 3) it’s hard to find good healthy food out there. So just about every week I try to make some kind of soup or pot of beans. One of my favorite is lentil soup. Here’s my recipe. Unlike other bean, lentils don’t have to be soaked, although my roommate just told me if you do it makes them sprout and be more alive and quicker to cook. Plus, I’ve heard that lentils have the most protein of any bean. I make a huge pot and then heat it up and take it with me in my Stanley stainless steel thermos (that thing is invaluable! I want another one!) It has a wide mouth, perfect for soup.
1 onion, chopped
3 celery stalks, chopped
3 carrots, chopped
1 – 14 oz container tomato sauce
1 T Better Than Bullion Vegetable Base Stock
2 cups french lentils, rinsed (I like them best cause they are smaller and firmer than other kinds)
Dash of balsamic vinegar
Cut up onion and saute in a dash of olive oil. Cut up other veggies (you could add others, but I don’t like to use potato because if you overcook it, it makes the soup mealy, in my opinion). Add 8 cups of water, tomato sauce, bullion, and 2 cups of lentils. Boil for about 1 hour until cooked. If you wanted to throw in some chopped greens, such as, kale you could do that at the end or when re-heating. You could also add some other spices, perhaps chili powder or curry or cumin. My favorite seasoning is to add a dash of balsamic vinegar when I reheat it and put it in my canteen. Come on, how easy was that?! Now you’re good to go! Yum!
This is my favorite smoothie. I used to use a regular blender from the 70s which did a fine job, but now I’m using my roommates fancy Vitamix. The nice thing about that is you can use whole vegetables and it will puree them. Here’s some delicious options:
4 leaves of kale (with the stem), rinse them and put them in whole
1/2 frozen or fresh banana
1 whole apples, but in the chunks
5-10 frozen berries (strawberries and raspberries are nice)
1/4 of a whole pineapple cut into chunks, my friend told me recently that the core is where all the best nutrients are, so I’m going to keep it in from now on
1 tablespoon of orange juice concentrate
1 tablespoon hemp protein powder
1 tablespoon flax oil
1-2 cup or so water or enough to get it blending.
Icecubes
Blend it up until smooth! Drink it up! Yum!
So my new roommate said she doesn’t like to cook and is afraid to cook fish. I made her fish tacos and she fell in love and said it was so easy, even she could make it herself. This is one of my favorite meals ever! It’s so quick and easy to prepare. Three simple steps.
1. Slaw: Cut up a cabbage finely. Place it in a bowl and dress it with crushed garlic, cilantro, lime juice, olive oil and salt to taste. I love garlic, so I put in about 4-6 cloves for 1 whole cabbage, plus about 1 bunch cilantro, 1-2 limes juiced, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1-2 tablespoon olive oil. I’ve added shredded carrot and daikon radish in the past too. The slaw will last a few days in the fridge, so don’t worry if you make too much.
2. Fish: I buy frozen Tilapia at New Seasons. Recently, I couldn’t find it frozen so I bought fresh for about $10 for 4 filets (it was $9.99 per pound). The filets are small, so I made about 2 per person. Put defrosted fish in a pan with olive oil, lemon juice and salt. Saute on medium until done. I break the fish up a bit while it cooks. Sometimes it gets a little browned, which is nice. I also sprinkle with Seaweed Gomasio, which you can find in asian food section. It’s just a sprinkle of salt, seaweed, and sesame seeds.
3. Corn Tortillas: I like to saute them in a pan lightly in a little olive oil.
Now assembly it by putting cooked fish on tortilla, load it up with the slaw and top with your favorite hot sauce. I love Cholula! See, quick, easy and did I mention, DELICIOUS!
My mom always said breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Paisley agrees and told us all recently to stop being a jerk and eat breakfast. At our Tuesday workout another client requested meals that don’t require cooking, so I figured breakfast was a good place to start. I even started a new category on the blog called breakfast. I love to cook, but it’s also nice to have some things handy that you can make for a quick meal. I like to buy a whole pineapple and cut it up for kale smoothies (recipes to come soon). I haven’t done the math, but I figure it must be cheaper to cut it up myself and it’s less disposable plastic. I told Paisley I ate this for breakfast recently and her reply was a resounding nice, so it’s a nearly instant HonestPT approved breakfast. Let’s all stop being jerks and eat our breakfast! What did you have for breakfast? Please post a picture or comments sharing your delicious breakfast creations. Breakfast: our delicious first meal at the start of a new day to set intentions and start fresh on our healing journey.
Just about every week I like to make a bunch of bean or a soup from scratch. I soaked dried black beans overnight, rinsed them and cooked them with onion, garlic, and kombu (a sea vegetable I bought in bulk at People’s Food Coop). I boiled them for about 2 hours on the stove. Now I am eating them with everything this week.
I bought a bag of polenta from Bob’s Red Mill that is gluten free. Last night I added one cup of polenta to 3 cups boiling and salted water. I cooked it for about 5 minutes (instructions on package). I put it into a glass bowl and put it in the fridge overnight.
This morning I cut up some of the polenta, added the black beans and sauteed that all together until hot and then fried up two eggs on the side. It might have been nice to add some green into the mix too, but instead I had it with my homemade kimchi (recipe coming soon). YUM!
LET ME INTRODUCE….. my friend and client Micki Josi!
Micki will be sharing some of her amazing, healthy, Honestpt approved recipes with us via the Honestpt blog/facebook!!! So pumped!! Thanks so much Micki! Here is her intro….
Hi everyone. Allow me to introduce myself. I’m Micki Josi. I was the winner of Paisley’s February Flat Belly Challenge. Now as you can see from my picture I don’t actually have a flat belly. But with Paisley’s help, I’m working on it. One thing that Paisley and I have in common is our love for healthy food. Probably a large reason for me winning the contest was my competitive spirit, goal setting, and FOOD. I love to cook and I make a lot of super healthy and delicious food. Because we have talked so much about food, she as asked me to do her food blog.
Paisley: Let me just add in here and give Micki the SHOut OUT she deserves!!! She lost 14.4 lbs!! And 2inches off her belly! in 29 DAYS! This is not with any starvation technics but only eating the Honestpt way! EAting real food! Thanks Micki! You are an inspiration to u all! So happy to have you in my life and in the Honestpt Fam!
My journey with food started in my mid to late 20s when I realized I knew nothing about how to eat healthy and found myself having acid reflux everyday. It was so bad I couldn’t sleep at night. Ouch! Yuck! Later, I was diagnosed with PCOS (Poly Cystic Ovarian Syndrome). So I started reading a lot of books on health and nutrition and have quite a large library of cookbooks. Through all the books and help from nutritionists, I have been cured of both conditions. But I’m not perfect and have a lot more healing to do! I am learning more all the time. I am so excited to do the food blog to share my ideas with you and get your feedback. By sharing what I’m eating, I hope to hear back from you all about what you are eating too and hopefully we can all get inspired by each other.
Food is a huge part of all of our lives because we all have to eat everyday, just about. So I’m going to be telling you what I’m excited about cooking and eating and I want to hear about what you are eating too. Look out for my posts about what’s on my plate and let me know what’s on yours! Cheers to our health! Let’s continue our healing journey together!!
With greek yogurt, Chalula (hot sauce), and homemade kimchi.
1. To make the quinoa first rinse and strain quinoa a few time by putting quinoa in a pot of water and swish it around a few times. You will notice it gets a bit frothy. Then strain it through a fine mesh strainer. Put quinoa back into the pot with the proportions 1 cup quinoa to 2 cups water. You can add things to make it flavorful like spices, salt, or substitute broth for water. Get creative: I added dried mushrooms this time. Bring to boil then turn down to a low simmer and cover. Cook for 15 minutes… pow, done! Fluff it with a fork.
2. Open a can of organic black bean or make your own.
3. Saute an onion and some garlic in a pan, add beans and quinoa and spices. I used cumin, coriander, salt and pepper.
4. You could even throw in some kale while it’s all cooking. I put some greek yogurt on top and homemade kimchi from a recipe in Nourishing Traditions (let me know if you want to see that post recipe!) Enjoy! YUMMMMMMM!!!!!
It’s not your fault. It’s your 10,000-Yr-Old-BoD working against u!
Imagine 10,000 years ago, yes ladies, loin clothes and bare chested men, I know I wish I could have been there too. Our bodies… and appetite really are not that different. Circa 10,000 years ago: If you came across a bush of berries you ate them all because you wouldn’t know when you would run into them again! Circa now: You’re at a BBQ and there is potato chips and dip all around you…. you wanna eat it all! Same diff!
Ancient humans used all their energy to just stay alive, today our bodies fight to hold onto every calorie of energy we take in, because that’s how we’re programmed. We are designed to store and conserve energy. Our storage system is INCREDIBLE, and is our most crucial survival mechanism! It provides a virtually unlimited store house to keep us alive!
Now it’s soooo easy to get food… tOO easy. And it takes no energy to get. AND the foods we are eating are often VERY calorie dense, and portions sizes are WAY TOO big.
See! It’s not your fault! So stop with the “I suck and have no willpower” inner dialogue!
“It’s not your fault that you were born in a time of unparalleled plenty and physical ease, with a body that stores and conserves energy like a champ” It’s not your fault that you’re confronted by food that’s more plentiful and addictive than any time in history, with a day to day lifestyle that usually looks like sitting in front of a computer or TV.
You are not powerless!!! You do not have a willpower prob! You have a conflict between 2 real desires: the desire to achieve your health goals, and the desire to satisfy your instincts.
So what to do?
1. Keep moving… come workout with Honestpt.
2. Awareness. Now that you have this awareness about the conflict we ALL face, you can understand how to make the better choice.
3. Make the majority food that surrounds you high fiber veggies like KALE, high fiber fruits like BERRIES and lean proteins.
4. Don’t put yourself in a environment that you will be tempted. ;)
5. Oh! Don’t be a “clean plate kid”… in other words you DON’t have to eat everything on your plate! Save it. Eat it later. I know there are starving kids in Africa… but your body is not a garbage disposal, there are other ways to help the kids in Africa that don’t include
P.S. It is still bring a friend to your Honestpt workout month! So call your bros, peeps, fam, and tribe and get them to workout with you! It’s really fun to impress your people with your mad workout skillz!
P.S.S. Would anyone be interested in a 6am outdoor bootcamp this summer? :D
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