New Year, New You
Presents are unwrapped, food has been eaten, loved ones are heading home, and other festive clichés have come to an end. One can simultaneously be left with a hangover and a feeling of blankness. Where to begin? What to resolve?
No more lamenting the headache that could be doomed to signify the rest of the year. As a belated New Year/Christmas gift, I give to you a lovingly crafted plan for a healthy, delicious and affordable start to two thousand and sixteen.
Shopping list:
sweet potatoes
carrots
mushrooms
eggs
avocados
spinach
cottage cheese
smoked salmon
hummus
milk
yoghurt
bananas
blueberries
peanut butter
green pesto
tinned tomatoes
spices
garlic
olive oil
oats
multiseed loaf
brown rice
wholewheat pasta
herbal tea that you like
1.
Banana on toast w. peanut butter
Baked sweet pot, hummus & spinach
2 egg omelette w. avocado
2.
Banana porridge with peanut butter
Roasted sweet pot sandwich with grated carrot & hummus
Brown rice with sauteéd garlic mushrooms, avocado and poached egg, wilted spinach
3.
Toast with cottage cheese & smoked salmon
Poached egg, garlic mushrooms & wilted spinach with carrot sticks
Pasta & pesto
4.
Banana porridge and peanut butter
Avocado toast with olive oil & flaked almonds
Baked sweet potato with cottage cheese and spinach
5.
Porridge w. yoghurt & blueberries
Salmon, spinach & cottage cheese sandwich
Baked eggs in spiced tomato sauce with carrot sticks & hummus
6.
Poached eggs with mushrooms & spinach
Pasta with spinach & pesto
Carrot & coriander soup, toast
7.
Banana pancakes (2 eggs + 1 banana) with blueberries, peanut butter & greek yoghurt
Roast sweet pot with cottage cheese, hummus, carrot sticks & brown rice
Omelette with garlic mushrooms, avocado & spinach
Snacks:
- carrot & hummus
- fruit
- dark chocolate
- yoghurt & berries w. peanut butter
- toast/bread & olive oil
- boiled egg & spinach
Other New Year's resolutions are to practice Spanish every day, meditate, and trill more. Rrrrrrrum punch.
Disclaimer: guidlines not rules