Back to the kitchen

Good Morning Friends,

Do you know if you wanna eat healthy, one thing you must be ready to do is COOK. If you can't, there's almost no point trying to eat healthy. 

When you cook your food, you can regulate what you put in it. The kind and amount of oil you use,how you prepare and cook your vegetables etc.

Most restaurants are more concerned about their profit than your health. They want you to come back for more so they cook with ingredients that are cheap and enhance flavor, most of which are detrimental to your health.

Here are some tips to make cooking more fun

1. Keep it simple: Don't try to be a chef if you're not one. use 2-3 ingredients, max 4-5

 2. Cook once, eat many times: You can cook a large batch over the weekend and divide into portions to keep in the refrigerator. So you just bring out to heat when you're ready

3. Use different spices to enhance flavour: Cinnamon, ginger, garlic, curry powder, thyme, tumeric etc

4. Try new reciepes

5. Eat what you love (that is healthy o): If you can't eat Celery, Broccoli, Cauliflower, Brussels sprouts etc that you've read about their benefits to the body. Then don't torture yourself by forcing them down your throat. Eat the Ugwu, water leaf, shoko, tete etc that you know and love (but prepare in a way to preserve the nutrients). You can get your broccolli and all those other super foods you've read about  by taking Trevo   www.trevocorporate.com/coach/Funmialao

6. Mistakes are ok: You can burn the food the first few times. Practice makes perfection

7. Ask others for help

8. Understand the ways you enjoy eating: Alone, with others, fancy plates and cutlery etc... Do it your way

9. Avoid self criticism: Don't point out flaws in the food. You bring people's attention to what they may not have noticed in the first play

10. Commercial produce is ok, but organic is better. If you can't afford or find organic, don't let that stop you from trying to eat healthy

11. Canned and frozen is ok, but fresh is better. (look out for what is used in preserving the canned produce. Avoid those in sugar, syrup, oil etc)

12 Eat everything you feel like, but prepare using natural healthy ingredients e.g Stevia vs refined sugar, coconut oil vs heavily processed vegetable oil, coconut/almond flour vs white flour etc

13. Avoid processed foods the way you avoid Ebola

Have a lovely week

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ADVICE OF THE DAY: Make a habit of nurturing your body