Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label healthy. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Making A Power Packed Training Muffin

Making power packed training muffins are just that easy and they are fresh! The house smells like the best bakery in the world and you can add whatever you like from your list of purchased healthy protein options. I simply heat up the oven to 400 and get out my silicone baking tray and use liners if I have them around and then mix my quaker low fat muffin mix (oatmeal) BAM!
Then I add my favourites like dark chocolate chips 50% or higher then I add Qia, shredded coconut, pumpkin seeds, hemp seeds and sometimes I add sunflower seeds and walnuts! Bake it, freeze what you don't need now and bring a few in the vehicle! I like to bake a dozen and then take a few in the car for the kids. It's always a treat and you save on going to fast food places that never really fill you up but add lots of sodium and cholesterol. The great thing is you can buy little bags of organic mixed seeds etc and just add those to your muffins for a change up, or add honey to the muffins halfway through your baking process. Glaze it beautifully!

Friday, 15 April 2016

Making Something New

One of my favourite things to do when cooking is making something new with whatever is in the kitchen, just going off of what I have in the fridge and making a great soup! The challenge I always have is making something that is gluten free because my wife has celiacs disease and it's a serious issue and so no gluten can touch the ingredients or contaminate anything pertaining to the recipe in any degree, not even the cutting board or the utensils. Today I'm making a beef stew and right off the bat I'm going to add water and salt to taste, I find that tasting the saltiness of a stew before adding the main ingredients is a fantastic way to set the rest up for a home run in a tasty meal!




After setting up the taste of the soup base then I progress to adding a teaspoon of garlic powder (or to taste) and then I grind some pepper (depends on how much pepper your family likes) then I throw in fried onions and six small potatoes chopped up into halves and I throw in half a cup of gluten free wild rice and a cup of chopped baby organic carrots and one stem of rosemary. After all that is done I do two swirls of gluten free mustard and then throw in two handfuls of chopped stew beef (preferably organic) then I let it stew for a few hours on minimum. After two hours you have yourself the most amazing stew!



Thursday, 31 March 2016

When You Reach For A Goal


Training is all about reaching plateaus, finding what your body thinks is the farthest it can go and then you break that barrier, you reach for another and another...

Without proper food a person will fail miserably, you can have all the determination you wish but without fueling that determination you will miss out on the benefits. For me, when I had my stroke, I looked at every food possible that fed my brain, that brought me to the optimum potential for recuperation and triumph and I believe breakfast is the beginning of that great journey in a potential victory! Being diligent, constantly learning and flowing, bending and changing, adapting to new things and seeing what works and shedding all the stuff that has no purpose. The ultimate idea is truly cutting the fat in thinking, bad habits and reaching for new and healthier ones. Supplying your body the optimum foods is paramount in the challenge and embracing the difference.

Here is favourite meal I make in the morning!


I began my journey with learning how to read, write, walk and talking again and now I've just accomplished my first 1,000 vertical strike on my left hand and 1,000 vertical strike on my right hand. I also did parkour and jkd in the same day. Your energy level stays consistent and of course what you eat after is crucial for recovery!