Enjoy!
Simple breakfast
Easy. full of protein and great taste
Servings: 1
Cost: £2
Ingredients
- Crunchy peanut butter
- Sourdough bread
- Banana slices
Fresh spinach, beet and bean salad
This is my go to salad. Easy to make, packed with nutrients and really tasty! This salad makes a great lunch to take on the go.
Fresh Spinach, Beet and Bean Salad
Servings: 2 people
Cost: £5
Ingredients
- 1 bag spinach
- 1 cooked beets
- 1/2 red onion
- 1 large tomato
- 1/2 cucumber
- 1 can kidney beans
- 1 lemon (juice)
- 1 tsp dill
- 2 pinch salt
Instructions
- Chop onion and squeeze in lemon to soften the onion
- Add a pinch of salt to onion and lemon
- Clean and chop all other vegetables
- Add to a large bowl.
- Top with beans, onion mixture and dill
Instant Pot Vegan Corn & Red Potato Soup
I love making soup in my Instant pot. It took a while for me to get used to using the different settings and figure out how to create the food I enjoy, but once I did there was no going back. With the instant pot I can create flavourful, quick meals that are also very healthy. The instant pot requires little or no oil when cooking enhancing the healthiness of your dish. Unlike making a soup on the stove top I can put ingredients into the instant pot, set the timer and walk away! A great way to cook a nutritious meal on a busy night!
Instant Pot Vegan Corn & Red Potato Soup
Easy, warming vegan soup
Servings: 4
Cost: £5
Ingredients
- 3 cobs Fresh corn with corn kernels removed (reserve a small amount for garnish)
- 3 small red potatoes
- 1 medium onion (sliced)
- 4 cups vegetable broth
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp Tabasco (or other hot sauce)
- salt (to taste)
- pepper (to taste)
- 2 tbsp nutritional yeast to add cheese-like flavour (OPTIONAL)
Instructions
- Put corn, onion, potatoes, vegetable stock and seasoning (except for nutritional yeast) into an instant pot.
- Close and seal the lid and set for 4 minutes on manual (high pressure)
- When done release steam manually (open the vent and let steam escape) add nutritional yeast and adjust seasonings
- For garnish, sliced salad onion and reserved corn kernels
- Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Vegan French Toast
Delicious for a lazy day brunch. Extra yummy 😋 when topped with berries, soy Greek yogurt, and pure maple 🍁 syrup. This French toast is quite is easy to make and quantaties can easily be increased to feed a larger crowd.
Vegan French Toast
Delicious breakfast to start the day
Servings: 1
Cost: £3
Equipment
- Frying pan
Ingredients
- 2 slices seeded sourdough bread
- 1 cup nut milk (I use unsweetened almond milk)
- 1/2 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 pinch cinnamon powder
- 1 pinch salt
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients together (except for the bread) and let it sit for 10-20 minutes to thicken slightly
- Heat up a pan
- Add a teaspoon of vegan butter to the pan
- Dip bread into mixture for a few seconds and put onto hot pan.
- Cook until golden and crispy
Enjoy 😊!!
Guilt-free Butter Coffee
How to make butter coffee a nice and guilt-free treat to sip on
When my friend first told me about butter coffee a few months ago I wanted to choke. My instinctual reaction was immediate horror.
Butter, in coffee? I thought to myself. Ewww gross!
“No, I swear it’s not that bad,” my friend said when he saw the look on my face.
Intrigued, I watched as my friend stuck a metal spoon in a jar of coconut oil. He stirred around the coconut oil and then took the spoon back out. I briefly saw shimmering coconut oil within the spoon before my friend twisted the spoon and dumped the oil into steaming hot coffee.
He now swirled the coffee that was now mixed with coconut oil. The oil floated to the top of the hot coffee and made little shiny tan bubbles. My friend withdrew the metal spoon out of the hot coffee. The hot coffee had made the metal spoon hot.
My friend then took the hot metal spoon and put the tip of the spoon on the top corner of a stick of butter. He sliced downward with the spoon, cleanly slicing the corner of the butter stick.
He then plopped the small piece of butter in the coffee which was steaming and whisked the coffee with the spoon. After a minute of whisking, my friend asked me if I would like to try it, and I said I would.
I sipped on it.
Not bad.
Butter coffee is nice, but not a game changer
After my friend left, I became very intrigued with butter coffee. I found a few good articles online for both the pro’s and con’s of butter coffee. Here’s an interesting article about some of the purported scientific benefits of butter coffee.
- Slower caffeine absorption means less jitters
- Extra taste
- Good gut bacteria
On the other hand, I also found a few potential downsides. If you are curious about butter coffee, I’d suggest reading those two articles to get a balanced perspective.
Here are my thoughts
Butter coffee can be a nice guilt-free treat. At first I was worried about calories, but after some experimentation I feel totally fine because the number of calories is minimal.
Sure, some articles online recommend 1-2 tablespoons of butter, or around 200 calories. But to me this amount is excessive. Two tablespoons of butter simply doesn’t taste that much better. When I add butter to my coffee, I use around half a tablespoon, or around 50 calories.
For the coconut oil in terms of calories I use one small spoonful, which comes at around 25-50 calories. So total amount of calories is about 75-100.
Not bad.
A little treat here and there is fine.
This is the main reason I’d recommend butter coffee – because a little treat here and there is fine. As a bonus, this little treat happens to feel decadent and luxurious too.
All I know is that when I sip butter coffee it feels like I immediately just want to savor the drink. Admittedly, sometimes I splash in a bit of coffee creamer for additional flavor too. Yet just the butter and oil are fine by themselves too.
What about the seemingly magical benefits of butter coffee?
If you read some of these articles about butter coffee you might hear all sorts of things:
I don’t know about all those things. I would not recommend butter coffee as some sort of enhanced Coffee 2.0.
The only thing I notice is that butter coffee starts to impact me slower – which might lend itself to less jitters.
When I normally drink coffee, I start noticing the effects of energy and focus about 30 minutes after I finish my cup. With butter coffee, I notice the effects later maybe around 60 minutes after I drink.
I feel like the effects of butter coffee are more subdued and spread out over time. My focus, for example when on butter coffee, seems to last a bit longer when drinking butter coffee versus regular coffee.
But honestly the differences between coffee and butter coffee are minuscule. They affect me both pretty much the same.
But I love exploring food related themes so even if minuscule, it’s the exploration and discovery that counts! This idea about the journey and exploration and discovery is why I started blogging about food in the first place.
Overall, there are other drinks out there that might surprise you, like a nutritious kefir drink.
Go ahead and try butter coffee just for the heck of it!
Guilt-free Butter Coffee
Ingredients
- 1 cup hot coffee
- 1 tsp. organic coconut oil
- 1 tab unsalted butter
Instructions
- Start with hot coffee, coconut oil, and butter. I am using grass-fed unsalted butter and organic coconut oil.
- Take a teaspoon full of coconut oil and put it in the coffee. Stir it around. You’ll see some glimmering bubbles from the oil.
- Then use the hot spoon to slice off a tab of butter. Stir it all together.
Optional:
- Instead of using a spoon to blend the oil, butter and coffee together you can also use a food processor. This is what I usually do. If you use a food processor, the spinning blades will mix in more air and oxygen. There will be more froth.
Good Morning Green Smoothie
Looking for a healthy way to kickstart your morning? There is nothing better than a tasty. easy to make nutrient packed smoothie to get you out the door ready to face whatever your day entails! This smoothie is easily adaptable to make use of what ingredients you may have on hand hand. No chia? add a spoonful of nut butter, no pineapple? freeze a banana the night before and throw it in! The recipe below is my go to smoothie when I am looking for a quick source of sustainable energy and don’t have the time to prepare a cooked breakfast.
Good Morning Green Smoothie
Fresh tasting, healthy smoothie to kick start your day
Servings: 1
Equipment
- Blender
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups raw spinach, cleaned well
- 1 tbsp chia seeds
- 1 tbsp flax seed
- 1/2 cup almond milk or milk of choice
- 1/2 cup fresh or frozen pineapple
Instructions
- Add 1.5 cups of fresh spinach
- Add 1 tablespoon of chia seeds
- Add 1 tablespoon of flax seeds
- Add 1/2 cup of almond milk
- Add 1/2 cup of fresh or frozen pineapple
- Blend to desired consistency. I like my blended very smooth.
- Drink right away, if not the smoothie will thicken a bit due to the chia seeds but can still be consumed. If you waited to drink it and it has thickened you can use a spoon!
