My Journey to Health – Unislim

So if you haven’t read ‘My Journey to Health – Yoga’ I suggest that you do as this will bring this next stage in context.

I moved out of home last year and moved in with the other half. Seen I finish work before him it now became my duty to cook the dinner. THE DREAD! I never had to cook dinner, the other half is so much better. So I knew I could put on ready meals etc do unhealthy food. This was not what I wanted – I wanted healthy but tasty food. So I decided to join Unislim in Naas. This would kill two birds with one stone. I would become healthy and would also learn to cook.

Annmarie is our class rep! She is realistic and down to earth! I can’t praise her enough she so understands with making changes to your life for the better and that we are working people with other commitments to our lives. She helps you in every way she can. Her Facebook page gives inspiring ideas in what to eat and every Friday I get an inspiring text message to keep you motivated.

Life is for living and Unislim doesn’t stop that! I have never felt that I have sacrificed my food! I am able to eat what I want! For example I want a pizza and yes this is a high calorie really not healthy dinner/lunch, so I have a fakeaway pizza. All within plan and still get to eat what I want – Check out some of my Food Reviews under ‘Unislim’ to get some delicious ideas.

I have had amazing results with Annmarie and am happy with the way I eat now! Unislim is not a fad diet it is a way of life. It was a lifestyle change that I needed to make!

Hells Bells

Xxxx

Links; Unislim, Unislim for Kildare/Wicklow Area, Hells Bells Unislim Food Recipes

Discalimer: I was not paid to speak about this service/products.

My Journey to Health

Hi All,

This is going to be short and sweet.

I am going to give you a road map of My Journey to Health.

Due to my back difficulties (I won’t be going into detail) I found that I wasn’t able to be as active as I had once been. This led to a lack of fitness and bad habits.

I since had back surgery and due to this eye opening event in my life, I took a new outlook to life and started a new journey.

I will be posting up blogs on the changes I made to my life.

Enjoy!

Hells Bells

Xxx

 

Afternoon Tea in the Westbury

Enjoying Afternoon Tea is one of life’s accomplishments.

I was delighted that my friend chose the Westbury for Afternoon Tea. Walking into town on a lovely hot sunny early afternoon was the start of an amazing day.

The layout and presentation was amazing. It truly is such a girly experience. The Westbury was so busy with so many people (aka ladies of leisure) having Afternoon Tea. It set a tone that we too were born for this type of life – to be served and every delight to be met.

Seen we had never done Afternoon Tea in the Westbury before the lady that showed us to our Sofa went through the selection on the menu. When we had time to think (when our waiter came over to ask for our order we had to stop talking) and so we ordered Pink Champagne (Moet – of course) to start with.

Our waiter would come back for us to choose what else we required. We went through the menu to choose from the selection of coffees and teas.  I’m not a coffee drinker but love my tea – I like trying new flavours so for my first I went for peach. To my surprise it came out really pink but it was so delicious.

If you have any allergies etc, the selection of cakes, pastries and sandwiches can be changed to cater for your need. We were told that the selection was seasonal so we were still in Spring and decided that we would go for the surprise and guess what we were eating.

Overall, the experience was truly amazing and cannot wait to go for afternoon tea again

Hells Bells

xxxx

Links; Westbury – Afternoon Tea

 

My Indie Spice

So I had a taste in my mouth I wanted something bold – or so I thought!

I decided to make my own Indie Spice Dinner so obviously it’s with a twist. It’s all made from scratch with healthy ingredients.

I wanted something baked like Tandoori Chicken, Bombay Potatoes, and Rajita (as my dip).

So I decided on a cocunut curry Turkey bake as these are the ingredients that I had.

What you need:
1. The bake
•Turkey
•Soya Cocunut yougart
•Curry powder
•Garlic Powder
•Garam Masala spice
•Ginger
•Chilli powder
•Lemon grass powder

2. Bombay Potatoes
•Potatoes
•Tomatoe puree
•Basil
•Garlic powder
•Chilli powder

3. Rajita
•Natural yougart
•Mint
•Cucumber

The how:
1. The bake
•Mix all the powder ingredients together for your spice mix in a large bowl
•Add your coconut yougart in
•Add your turkey steaks/pieces (or whatever meat/poultry you decide on)
•Ensure turkey is fully covered
•Put cling film over the bowl and refrigerate for min. 3 hours if you can leave overnight the marinade will be better

•Pre-heat your oven
•Place your turkey onto your baking tray
•Cook at 180ºC for 35 mins

2. Bombay Potatoes
•Chop up potatoes into cube shapes
•Par-boil them
•Mix all spice ingredients together with the Tomatoe puree
•Mix the par-boiled potatoes with the paste
•Put into Pre-heat oven for 20 mins at 180ºC

3. Rajita
•Pour natural yougart into mixi ng bowl
•Add approx. 3 teaspoons of mint (or to taste)
•Slice a few slices of cucumber and dice

•Mix all together
•Refrigerate until ready to serve

Enjoy with some pompadoms!

Hells Bells
Xxx

Healthy Bars

When it comes to healthy I am not one to eat food that lacks taste including my treat food.

But I understand to eat healthy you are required to try alternatives.

My recommendations are;
•Crownfield Muesli Bars (from Lidl)
•Fibre One (can be purchased in any normal supermarket)
•Harverst Morn Benefit bars (from Aldi)

The Crownfield and Benefit bars are much the same as they are both a crap bar but get you over that sweet craving.

The Fibre one bars are like little cake packages. I honestly don’t feel like these are healthy but sinful as in a REAL GOOD TREAT. They just look so yummy too!

Hells Bells
Xxx

Links; Tesco, Aldi, Lidl

Marinated Pork Chops

Sometimes food can be very boring so to add some flavour I marinated these pork chops.

What you need:
•Pork Chops

For marinade –
•1 Tbsp white vinegar
•1 tsp of honey
•1 tsp of smoked paprika
•1 tsp of chilli powder
•Dash of light soy sauce
•Dash of worshtichuire sauce

The how:
•Mix all your ingredients together for the marinade in a bowl
•Add your chops ensure covered by marinade
•Cling film or put tin foil over the bowl and place in fridge for 2-3 hrs (if you have the time leave over night)

You can either bake,  grill or fry them – I decided to go with fried on a grill pan with some fry light.

You can serve pretty much what ever you want – chips, peas,  roasted veg. I decided to go with a baked potato (a bit of philadephia) and some turnip & carrots (my mashing skills are not up to scratch).

Enjoy!

Hells Bells
Xxx

Apple and Berry Crumble

Wanting something healthy and sweet can be tricky, try my spin on my apple/berry crumble.

What you need:
•1 Cooking apple
•Rasberries (half a punnet)
•Blueberries (half a punnet)
•1 tbsp of cinnamon
•4 Macadamia Nuts
•15g of Porridge Oats
•15g of Alpen no added sugar muesli
•Powdered Sweetner

The how:
•Remove skin from apple and slice around the core
•Place sliced apples into oven friendly dish
•Sprinkle Powdered Sweetner over apples
•Add berries
•In a bowl add Porridge, muesli and cinnamon, mix well
•Pour over apples and berries
•Chop up macadamia nuts abs sprinkle
•Cook at 160°C (fan oven) for 50 mins

This will make your crumble nice and crispy.

And serve, optional to add some fromage frais or just have it plain.

Hells Bells
Xxx

Detox anyone?

After stuffing myself with lovely Christmas food, reality kicks in that I’ve over indulged and now is time to get back on track.

I’ve decided to try a DETOX tea.

With all the controversy over the detox teas, I really did my research to ensure that I wouldn’t be buying a product that would give me any side effects. I found ‘Miss Skinny Fit Tea‘ (14 day detox).

I was plesently surprised of the look of the tea leaves when I opened the packaging. As the packaging was so modern I was really expecting such a normal looking combination, as in brown tea leaves.

I read the instructions and allowed for the tea leaves to infuse for 5 minutes. When I tasted the tea I thought to myself I thought detox’s were horriblely unpleasant drinking green goop and was relieved I was tasting something so delicious.

Will you be detoxing after Christmas too? Any recommendations?

Hells Bells

Xxxx

Link; Miss Skinny Fit Tea