Super Booster Green Smoothie Recipe

Hello health-nuggets! 

How about we put some GREEN in 2013? I happen to know the most yummy, super-healthy green smoothie recipe that I wanted to share with you. I try to drink a huge glass of it at least 3x/week for lunch. It is amazing how some of my colleagues will drink coffee and complain 2 hours later how sleepy and tired they are, while I will sip on my green goodness and feel full of energy hours later! 

What you will need:

• a blender (and a juicer, if you have one)
• handful of frozen broccoli
• handful of fresh or frozen spinach
• a bunch of fresh mint
• 1 ripe banana
• handful of frozen strawberries (any other berries will do the job too)
• juice of 3 big apples (if you do not have a juicer then just use some 200ml of store-bought freshly-squeezed apple juice

What you will do:

- juice the apples

- in a blender mix the apple juice together with the rest of the ingredients, and voila - the most delicious green smoothie is ready!

- serve it with some fresh berries, if desire :)

Yummy & Healthy Banana Bread Recipe

Hi everybody! 

Valentine's day is over, and I imagine most of us enjoyed it with some quality chocolates and extra wine last night. Tick tock - it is time to jump right back to healthy eating again! One of the best ways to do that is to cut out all dairy, wheat and sugar from your diet for a couple of days. But that does not necessarily mean that you have to be boring and eat only bunny food.

I have come up with a sugar-free, dairy-free AND gluten-free banana bread recipe that is super healthy, juicy and has a ton of vitamins and nutrients.

What you will need:

- rectangular loaf bread baking tray that you usually use for baking breads or making lazania
- baking paper


- 100 g chopped walnuts or pecans
- 100 g dried cranberries (you can also add other dried berries and fruits like dried blackcurrants, goji berries, dried plums etc.)


wet ingredients:
- a little bit of oil (olive, sunflower or any other nut/vegetable oil)
- 4 ripe bananas
- 1 teaspoon organic vanilla extract
- 4 eggs

dry ingredients:
- 1 1/2 cups almond flour (or quinoa flour)
- 1/2 cup coconut flour (or rice flour)
- 1 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon sea salt
- a ton of cinnamon (I used like 1/2 a pack)
- 1 teaspoon freshly grinded muscat (and other spices of your preference)

Recipe:

1) pre-heat your oven to 175-180 degrees Celsius
2) in a bowl mix together all of the dry ingredients
3) in a separate bowl mix together all of the wet ingredients (mash the bananas with a fork, add the eggs, vanilla extract and 5-6 tablespoons of oil)
4) mix together the wet ingredients and dry ingredients; stir in the chopped walnuts and cranberries
5) place the baking paper inside of the loaf baking tray and grease it with a tiny bit of olive oil; with a big spoon carefully put in the dough
6) bake it for 50-55 minutes or until nice and golden brown7) eat it with fresh berries or soy pudding. You can eat it for 3-4 days and toast it little bit to make it nice, warm and crispy later on :)