Saturday 1 October 2016

Apricot Strudel (Recipe)

Apricot Strudel

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15 minutes preparation + 25 minutes cooking
7 serves of fruit in this recipe
800g can apricots, drained
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon cinnamon
½ cup dates, chopped
4 sheets filo pastry (27cm x 47cm)
Olive or canola oil spray
2 tablespoons almonds, flaked
Preheat oven to 200 °C. Combine apricots, honey, cinnamon and dates in a small bowl. Lightly spray pastry with oil. Lay pastry sheets on top of each other then spoon apricot mixture along the centre length. Fold pastry to encase, tucking neatly into a roll. Spray top with oil and sprinkle with almond flakes. Bake for 20–25 minutes until golden brown and crispy. Serves 6.
HintAlways choose fruit canned in ‘natural’ juice or pie apples as these do not have ‘added sugar’.
Variation
Canned peaches or apples could replace the apricots.

Apricot Lassi (Recipe)

Apricot Lassi


Lassi is a very popular drink from India, sometimes called a yoghurt drink.
5 minutes preparation
2 serves of fruit in this recipe
2 cups canned apricot, with juice
1 teaspoon honey
1 cup low-fat yoghurt, natural or vanilla
6 ice cubes
Blend all ingredients in a food processor until foamy. Serve immediately.

Serves 2.
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Baked Apples Recipe

Baked Apples Recipe


5 minutes preparation + 8 minutes cooking
7 serves of fruit in this recipe
4 Granny Smith apples, washed and cored
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1 tablespoon honey
30g walnuts, chopped
50g dried mix fruit
1 teaspoon cinnamon
Run a knife around the middle of the apples to pierce the skin. Combine remaining ingredients in a small bowl. Spoon into apple cavities, leaving a little excess on top of each apple. Microwave on HIGH (100%) for 8 minutes or until apples are tender. Serve with extra sauce from the bottom of the dish. Serves 4.
Hint
Scoring around the middle of the apple ensures the apple doesn’t burst out of its skin during cooking.
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Apple Scroll Recipe

Apple Scroll Recipe


Ingredients
1½ cups wholemeal SR flour
1½ cups white SR flour
45 g margarine
1 cup low-fat milk
2 large apples
1 cup sultanas
2 teaspoons mixed spice
1 tablespoon extra milk
1 teaspoon sugar
Utensils
Sifter
1 large mixing bowl
1 medium mixing bowl
Wooden spoon
Measuring cups and spoons
Rolling pin
Chopping board and knife
25 cm pie dish, round cake tin or oven tray
Non-stick cooking spray
Method
1. Turn oven to 190°C. Sift flours into a large bowl
2. Rub margarine into the flour until it looks like breadcrumbs.
3. Add milk gradually and mix into a soft dough.
4. Roll dough into a rectangle about 30cm x 23cm (put some extra flour under the dough).
5. Peel and core the apples. Chop apples into 1cm cubes.
6. Mix apples in a bowl with sultanas and spice.
7. Sprinkle dough evenly with apple and sultana mixture.
8. Roll up lengthwise, sealing the join with a little water. Brush roll with extra milk.
9. Cut into 12 circles and lay around in a pie plate that is sprayed with cooking spray.
10. Bake for 25-30 minutes. Remove and brush with extra milk. Sprinkle with 1 teaspoon of sugar. Bake another 5 minutes.

Apple Jaffle Recipe

Apple Jaffle Recipe



Ingredients
1 green apple 
125 g container low-fat ricotta cheese 
1 tablespoon sunflower seeds 
2 tablespoons currants 
¼ teaspoon cinnamon 
8 slices sultana bread


Utensils 
Peeler 
Grater 
Measuring spoons 
Bowl 
Wooden spoon 
Sandwich maker or jaffle iron 
Non-stick cooking spray


Method
1. Peel and grate apples. 
2. Put apple, ricotta cheese, sunflower seeds, currants and cinnamon in a bowl. Stir well. 
3. Spray the surface of the sandwich maker or jaffle iron with non-stick spray. 
4. Place the slices of bread in the sandwich maker to form the sandwich bottom. 
5. Top with apple mixture and cover with another slice of bread. 
6. Toast for 2-3 minutes or until golden brown.

Apple & Banana Hot Cakes

Apple & Banana Hot Cakes 

Preparation

10 minutes preparation + 20 minutes cooking
7 serves of fruit in this recipe

2 eggs 
2 teaspoons margarine, melted
2½ cups low-fat milk
2 cups self-raising flour
2 tablespoons sugar
3 medium apples, peeled, cored and grated
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
4 ripe bananas, sliced
1 tablespoon honey

In a large bowl beat eggs, margarine and milk. In a separate bowl mix flour and sugar and gradually stir into wet mixture until smooth. Fold in apple. Heat oil in a non-stick pan over medium heat. Add 2-3 tablespoons of mixture, flip when bubbles appear in the centre of the hotcake and cook until golden brown. Serve with banana and drizzled honey. Makes 10.
Variation
Add ¼ cup sultanas to dry mixture.

Aloe Vera Juice for Weight Loss – how to use it effectively

Aloe Vera Juice for Weight Loss – how to use it effectively


Aloe Vera
Aloe vera contains powerful antioxidants and polysaccharides, which help boost the body’s immune system and prevent free radicals from damaging cells and tissues. These things are essential for a healthy weight loss. This is also the reason why the process of taking aloe vera for improved health is called Aloe Cleanse.

​Antioxidants

This plant improves your metabolism by inducing antioxidants to your gastrointestinal system. A regular aloe juice intake can help boost your metabolic rate by addressing common issues like ulcers, and acid reflux. This process allows your body to burn calories faster, helping you achieve your weight loss goals in no time.

​Laxative

Aloe vera is also known to be a natural laxative, which means daily consumption of this powerful plant could improve your digestion. A healthy digestive system means having a properly functioning large intestine, and a clean colon. If you have been having trouble with your bowel movement, then regular intake of aloe vera will ease your worries.

​Energy and Muscle Boost

This medicinal plant produces sufficient amounts of collagen and protein. This will help your muscles develop faster, and provide you ample energy to burn more calories. You can easily kickstart your day by consuming a glass of aloe water or juice, and reap the benefits immediately.

​Reduce Sugar Intake

If you have issues with your blood sugar levels, then aloe vera is capable of providing you a long-term solution. Aloe vera can lower your glucose levels and prevent fat accumulation by reducing your sugar absorption rate. That said, you will feel full longer, and avoid binge eating. All of these help promote a gradual, but healthy weight loss.

​Vitamine Boost

Treat yourself to essential vitamins and minerals, fatty acids, and amino acids to improve your overall health. Its Vitamin B content, for example, plays a significant role in boosting your metabolism, curbing appetite, and preventing fat build up. Taking aloe vera regularly will make weight loss easier.

Aloe Vera Juice for Weight Loss

aloe vera juice
The recommended dose for aloe vera juice is between 2 and 8 ounces per day for at least three months to achieve maximum results. If you incorporate it into your daily routine, then you will enjoy the many aloe vera juice benefits in a few months and feel better than ever. Below are some easy ways to make aloe vera juice and consume it regularly as part of your weight loss journey.

1. Aloe Vera and Fruit Juice

You can start by shaving the sharp edges of your aloe vera leaf. Cut it open lengthwise, and scoop its gel out using a spoon. Mix it with your favorite fruit juice to complete your day.

2. Plain Aloe Vera Juice

Bring out a fresh aloe vera leaf and have it thoroughly cleaned. You need to peel away the leaf’s outer skin, or grind it to make juice. You have the option to filter the juice and place it in the refrigerator for daily consumption.
Simply drink a half cup of aloe vera in the morning, as well as 15 minutes before every meal. You can keep on drinking this juice for about a week or two.

3. Aloe Vera-Lemon Juice

Thoroughly clean a fresh aloe vera leaf and cut if lengthwise before squeezing out the juice. Take out a lemon and juice it, so you can mix it with the aloe vera gel and water. Stir the drink for two to three minutes. You can also add a sweetener to improve the taste.

4. Aloe Vera Smoothie

If you want to add variety to your daily aloe vera intake, then you can choose to make a yummy smoothie. Take out your blender and place the following ingredients:
  • A handful of baby spinach (make sure to wash it thoroughly);
  • 2 celery stalks, peeled and trimmed;
  • 1 chunk of fresh aloe vera leaf;
  • 1/2 peeled cucumber;
  • Spring parsley (remove the stems);
  • 1 cup of chopped mango or pineapple;
  • 2 peeled oranges;
  • 1/2 lime (juiced);
  • 3/4 cup of coconut water;
  • 1/2 teaspoon of Spirulina powder;
  • 5 to 6 ice cubes
Blend all the ingredients until the texture becomes smooth to drink. You can consume this smoothie up to three times a day.

5. Aloe Vera Crystals

You can choose to buy them or make them by applying cold compress on your fresh aloe vera gel. You can take two to four ounces for up to four times per day. Daily consumption of aloe vera crystals can be gradually increased, according to your needs. You can also choose to add aloe vera crystals to your drinking water, vegetable drink, or fruit drink. Make sure to consume it before every meal.

Aloe Vera for a Fit and Healthy Body

Aloe vera is an effective weight loss solution. It does not only help you lose the unwanted weight, but also improves your blood circulation, immune system, blood sugar levels, and more. For best results, you need to consume your aloe vera juice within 30 minutes of exercise up to five times per week. You can increase your weight loss progress by incorporating regular strength training and cardio exercise several times a week.
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Cinnamon and Honey for Weight Loss! (Quick Recipe for the Ultimate Detox Drink with Botox Effects)

Cinnamon and Honey for Weight Loss! (Quick Recipe for the Ultimate Detox Drink with Botox Effects) 


honey cinnamon recipe
Honey and cinnamon is in many ways effective, and practical to use and available all over the world. For centuries, honey has been used as a wound healer and as a natural antibiotic. As antibiotic resistance and superbugs are increasingly common scientist are busy looking for alternatives, and honey seems to come up again and again. So try my super easy recipe, and enjoy it with your friends ðŸ™‚
Do not add anything else to this recipe. No lime, vinegar or lemon. Drink this twice a day on an empty stomach in the morning and at night. Through this drink you will lose weight. This weight loss does stop eventually. This is because the cleansing effect of the cinnamon and honey will have removed all impurities from your body. So while the cinnamon-honey drink will help you lose weight fast, you will have to combine it with other measures like exercise and healthy eating.

7 Super Fat Loss Tips: Lose 10 pounds in 3 weeks (without exercising)

7 Super Fat Loss Tips: Lose 10 pounds in 3 weeks (without exercising) 

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Losing 10 pounds does not need to be so difficult, it's just important that you know exactly what to do. Aside from connecting with your body in order to practice mindful eating, there are some practical things you can change in your daily life, to lose those pounds fast.

Lose Weight: Nutrition or Exercise?

losing weight
Losing weight is 70% nutrition and 30% exercise. You can lose weight by eating healthily and not exercise, but it’s highly unlikely for you to lose weight through unhealthy eating and a lot of sports.
Sports such as sprinting and weightlifting certainly won’t hurt, but you can lose weight without exercise. This is ideal if you are going through a period where you’re too busy to workout.
For your general health (and therefore weight loss), it is important that you move at least 30 minutes per day. This can be done for example by walking, cycling or swimming. Most of us are busy, but 30 minutes of moving should be achievable by anyone!
Here’s how you can lose 10 pounds by just changing your nutritional diet:

How To Lose 10 Pounds in 3 Weeks

1. What To Eat to Lose 10 Pounds

The best way to lose weight fast is to eat the right types of foods. you really can lose three pounds in ten weeks if you know the right type of foods to speed up your metabolism.
We eat to get energy, this energy you need to move and survive. You can take in energy in three different ways: through carbohydrates, proteins, and fats. Each of these sources is digested in a different way in your body.
The different digestion of carbohydrates, proteins and fats has great influence on the speed of your fat burning and ultimately on your body weight.
Carbohydrates provide a laborious fat burning, so you will gain weight quicker. Fats and proteins stimulate fat burning, so you lose weight easily.



2. Why It's Difficult to Lose Weight on Carbohydrates

A low carbohydrate diet is crucial to help you lose 10 pounds in 3 weeks.

Examples of carbohydrates are sugar, cereals, starch, lactose and alcohol. All carbohydrates are converted in the body into sugars (monosaccharides: glucose and fructose).
Uptake of glucose in your blood causes your insulin level rises. Due to the high insulin level the enzyme that can burn body fat (Hormone-sensitive Lipase, HSL) is blocked.
Carbohydrates make it very hard for your body to burn fat. You can do as much running or exercising if you want, but as long as you eat carbs, burning fat is going to be tough.

3. Lose Weight Easier with Protein and Healthy Fats

Healthy protein and fats are essential to fast weight loss. THey help provide your body with nutrient and the right type of energy.
Proteins and (healthy) fats will not make your insulin level rise so fast and so high. As a result, it is easier to burn body fat.
Examples of protein and healthy fats are: fish, meat, eggs, nuts, seeds, kernels, natural oils and some vegetables. If you eat these types of food and burn more energy than you consume, you will burn your body fat very fast..
This is obviously a simplification of your very complex digestive system. In reality there are thousands of different substances, hormones and enzymes that have to deal with this process. But it is not necessary to understand exactly how your body works to just lose 10 pounds. All you need to remember is: carbohydrates make you fatter and proteins and healthy fats help you lose weight.
One more note about proteins though! Proteins stimulate growth in your body, but growth means aging. Several studies have shown too much protein shortens the lifespan. Proteins are incredibly healthy and you really need them, but do not eat too much them.
So: Eat enough carbohydrates, enough (but not too much) protein and a lot of healthy fats. The tips below will help you immensely with this.

4. The Seven Super Fast Fat Loss Tips

If you follow these tips you will lose 10 pounds in 3 weeks:
Tip 1: Cook from Scratch
Tip 2: Remove sugar and grains from your house
Tip 3: Get Juicing
Tip 4: Snack Raw
Tip 5: Weigh Once a Week
Tip 6: Tell Friends and Colleagues
Tip 7: Start Immediately

Tip 1: Cook from Scratch

cooking lean
By that I mean actually "prepare meals" because you do not always need to cook your food. By preparing your own food you are in control of what goes into it. This means that you can supply the best possible nutrition for your body.
If you do decide to eat out, make sure you previously have eaten a healthy meal. Once in the restaurant, you can have a salad (without dressing) for fun.
Also take a homemade lunch to work, because unfortunately most company cafeterias are focused on bread or other carbohydrates.

Tip 2: Remove cereals, grains and sugar from your house

bread
If they are not there you can’t eat them too.
It is also important that when you are on the go or at work you are not tempted to eat carbohydrates. Do you have the habit to stop by a fast food restaurant after work? Take a different route. Do you have the habit to grab something from the vending machine or soda machine? Do not take coins with you. Be creative and try to prevent every opportunity.

Tip 3: Get Juicing

juicing weightloss
By drinking vegetable juice, your body will take in all the vitamins and other healthy nutrients very quickly. The juice contains almost no calories, but it will easily still your hunger.
Make a liter of vegetable juice in the morning and drink it throughout the rest of the day, between your meals. In the beginning the taste needs getting used to, but once you've juiced for a few weeks, you will want nothing else.

Tip 4: Snack raw

raw snack
Snacking is perhaps the main cause of your overweight. Around 4 pm or after dinner, you often crave something sweet or something filling. Ignoring this feeling of “hunger” is very difficult.
What you can do to satisfy your craving is to take a raw snack. By this I mean, do not eat anything cooked, fried or processed. Carrots, green celery, nuts or a piece of fruit, are ideal snacks.

Tip 5: Weigh once a week

weighing
Many people who are trying to lose weight, weigh themselves every day. But they often are unaware that aspects such as weather, your activity, time of day, time of the month and a lot of other aspects affect your weight.
It may happen that you are suddenly half a pound heavier or lighter from one day to another. In the latter case, you can become very demotivated and be more likely to eat something unhealthy that day (because "it still does not work").
If you weigh yourself every week, you will find that you lose between 1.0 to 2.5 pounds. Do not worry if this doesn’t happen one week. Just keep eating healthy and you will automatically burn all your excess body fat.

Tip 6: Inform friends and colleagues

friends dinner
Let your friends, family and colleagues know that you are going to eat fewer carbohydrates for the next 30 days. Now you won’t have to explain yourself every time you won’t take a piece of cake.
Most people will support you during the process. In addition, through the social pressure it creates it will be easier to repel tasty snacks (since you have promised to your friends that you wouldn’t do that).

Tip 7: Start immediately - 3 weeks will pass ANYWAY

motivation fat loss
We all know the effect of procrastination. And with losing weight procrastination is often the big problem. A lot of people are keen to do something, but do not have the courage to start.
People abide by their obesity. They do this because they think it is too daunting a task or even that it is impossible. Nothing is more wrong! You too can lose excess weight, provided you choose the right approach. And starting with these tips is an amazing start.
Good luck

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