Easy Chocolate Love Slice

So called due to the featured rose petals which lend a mild fragrance and subtle chew. They will happily be made without these but certainly make and share with love Base Ingredients: 1 cup hazelnut meal (almond meal works well too) tbsp honey 1/4cup melted coconut oil Next layer: 1/4 cup Date paste which can beContinue reading “Easy Chocolate Love Slice”

After the workout, eat right for you goals

The correct nutrition will see you through to better performance, recovery and results. Our body is a pretty incredible and sophisticated machine and a bit of strategy can go a long way. How does a workout affect your body?During the workout– The rate of ATP turnover goes up (what your body uses for fuel). AsContinue reading “After the workout, eat right for you goals”

Reasons you ate when you weren’t actually hungry…

You felt triggered or disappointed by an email, text or remark You felt stressed You had just checked your phone It was just “there” It was late at night And what to do instead…. Keep a journal, noting down things that disappoint or trigger you and unpacking why they did so to increase your resilienceContinue reading “Reasons you ate when you weren’t actually hungry…”

Shakshuka W Roasted Red Pepper Pesto

Cold morning, crunchy toast, warm bowl, gooey eggs. We love a good smelling kitchen, we love a kitchen that is transfused with spicy tomato, smokey red pepper pesto and sweet roasted pumpkin. This is a classic that delivers to the senses. Dip your toast in the gooey goodness, get messy and enjoy. Base Ingredients: 4 eggsContinue reading “Shakshuka W Roasted Red Pepper Pesto”

Sumac Salmon With Avocado Cucumber Salad

I would call it 10 minutes max of traversing your local market to find all ingredients needed. Of course you’d want to take longer than that, the fishmonger might have tails to share. Ingredients: 2 salmon fillets (200g uncooked) 1 avocado 1 cucumber sumac dill salt and pepper to taste top with lemon slices andContinue reading “Sumac Salmon With Avocado Cucumber Salad”

Seaweed Saltbush Scramble

A saline slipperiness rubs into your fingers, a mild saltiness on your tongue, a gentle seasoning to your food. Saltbush is excellent and dried saltbush can have many uses. Brewed in a tea, a garnish on salads as well as desserts, mixed with other spices and used as a meat or vegetable rub. Here IContinue reading “Seaweed Saltbush Scramble”

Setting New Year’s Goals

…Is super fun and motivating when you first do it, when you are caught in that intoxicating New Year’s rush, new love or new ambition. Often, after a while it can become a bit of a grind and you can forget why you started. So find your why. Find that most salient reason that youContinue reading “Setting New Year’s Goals”

Enjoying balance in the Silly Season

Take joy in time with loved ones.100% that is what life’s about. Not your lifts, not your body fat % Try new foods you don’t usually get to eat.With an open mind and freedom of guilt. Set boundaries with your work commitments.The work will be there when you get back. You don’t have to stickContinue reading “Enjoying balance in the Silly Season”

Things you shouldn’t worry about when planning a holiday

How will I get all my work outs in? Will I even be able to find a good gym, should I try pick up some more bands? How will I stick to my macro split? How will I track my calories? How will I look when I come back? I wish I hadn’t worried soContinue reading “Things you shouldn’t worry about when planning a holiday”

Rest Times; a game changing variable in your program

Long rest times(2-4 minuets) Facilitate recovery for absolute strength and power lifts. Are good for performance in that moment. Shorter rest times(10-120 seconds) Increase metabolic demand/ strain for fat mobilisation & muscle growth. Boost testosterone and human growth hormone release. What extended rest periods do: Allows the removal of waste products and lactate diminishing theContinue reading “Rest Times; a game changing variable in your program”