Healthy Eats #2 - Healthy Breakfasts

Hey everyone, so today's post is the second installment of my Healthy Eats series and I thought I'd show three of my favourite healthy breakfast recipes.

Strawberry smoothie 

Ingredients: 

5 strawberries 

1 teaspoon of vanilla essence 

Approx 1 cup of vanilla or natural pouring yoghurt 

• First prepare the strawberries so cut the leaves off and wash them. 
• Put the strawberries yoghurt and vanilla essence into a blender.
• Blend until smooth and enjoy! 

 Healthier Toast with Green Tea

Ingredients:

2 slices of wholemeal bread
Low fat unsalted butter
Nutella
Banana
Green Tea

• Toast your slices of bread
• Spread with butter and nutella
• Cut your banana and lay it on top
• Serve with green tea and enjoy!

Granola with yoghurt and berries

Ingredients:
Plain Granola
Pouring yoghurt (I particularly like Onken vanilla)
Summer berries

• Pour your granola into a bowl
• Add your pouring yoghurt
• Sprinkle with berries and voila! A healthier alternative to cereal.

Thank you ever so much for reading, recently I planned all my blogposts for the summer and I'm super excited for some of them! I also added new tabs to my blog so be sure to check them out!

Ella x

Healthy Eats #1 - Avacado Recipes

Hey Everyone, so I've decided that I want to start posting some series on my blog and I really wanted to do a healthy eats series. I've decided that to start off with I want to post this series once a week for 5 weeks and then if this series turns out well I will then carry on this series but monthly. So the first episode in this Healthy Eats series is Avocado Recipes! I love Avocado and I think it is fantastic because you can eat it in so many different ways. Lets have a look at the recipes...

Avocado and Poached Egg
I love this lunch idea its delicious, really healthy and the perfect size for lunch. All you need is an Avocado and 2 eggs, take the stone and skin off your avocado and cut it in half. You poach your two eggs separately and put your eggs in the dip where the stone was and there you go an easy, quick and healthy lunch.

Creamy Avocado and Rocket Pasta
This pasta looks absolutely gorgeous and its sounds like it would taste soo good. You can see the full recipe here: http://www.amuse-your-bouche.com/creamy-avocado-and-rocket-pasta/

Avocado on toast
All you need is to toast your bread and whilst it's toasting mash up your avocado. When your toast is ready spread the avocado on it and season with some salt and pepper and eat!

Avocado wrapped in prosciutto ham
All you need to do is cut your avocado into slices, put goats cheese in the dip and wrap the slices in prosciutto ham. This snack is so simple but it looks so fancy so it would be perfect to make for a party. For a more detailed explanation and recipe click here: http://domesticfits.com/2011/10/10/halloween-recipe-avocado-witches-fingers/

Here are just a few easy avocado recipes, for more fantastic ideas click here: http://www.cosmopolitan.co.uk/body/diet-nutrition/how-to/g3922/easy-avocado-recipes/?slide=8

See you next time,
Ella x

The Perfect Fruit Smoothie ❤

Hi all, so today I'm going to share with you my favourite fruit smoothie! This recipe is my own and it tastes super sweet and super delicious! What I love about this recipe is that most of the ingredients included I never actually eat as they are, so this smoothie means I eat a wider variety of fruit. This recipe makes about 2 servings and after drinking it you are definitely well on your way to 5 a day! Lets get started...

(Sorry for the shocking photography, I'm not an expert photographer yet)

Ingredients:

1 large handful of spinach

1/6 of a melon

2 peach halves

A handful of strawberries (5, 6 or 7)

A handful of raspberries (4 or 5)

A small amount of water

Optional: Peach syrup

The first thing you need to do is gather all of your ingredients and put the into your blender. The melon should be chopped into cube shapes with no seeds and no skin. When I make this recipe I use tinned peach halves in syrup, so I use 2 of these peach halves and I chop them up, I will also use a very small amount of the peach syrup that they come in. The strawberries will just need there tops chopped of and the raspberries and spinach will just need to be washed. 

You may be a bit surprised that Spinach is in the recipe but once finished you can't even taste it. So why add it in? I hear you say. Well spinach is very high in vitamins K, A and C and it is also very high in Iron and folic acid.                                             Once you have washed and chopped (where applicable) the ingredients, all you need to do is pour in some cold water so it nearly covers the fruit and blend! Then you can enjoy this sweet sensation! Please don't be put off if it comes out as an ugly colour, it still tastes amazing and you can't judge a book by it's cover! If you were wondering, the blender I use is the NutriBullet. It is so so easy to use and super quick, I would deffo recommend.

 

I hope you enjoyed this recipe, what is your favourite fruit?

Ella

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