Category: Recipes (Page 2 of 2)

I’ve been reading, watching TV programmes and listening to podcasts about the gut microbiome quite a bit recently and I’m becomming increasingly interested in doing what I can to make mine healthy (particularly after having a bowel cancer scare 18 months ago). After a couple of friends told me about their home made kefir, I decided to give it a go and I’m obsessed!

I have used the Kefir Company starter cultures which are so easy to use! I will have a go at using some live grains at some point but, for now, this is so easy.

I blend the prepared kefir with what ever soft fruit I have got around and then pour it over oats, leave it in the fridge overnight and have some delicious over night oats for breakfast every day. I usually add some grapes, a chopped up pear or what ever fruit takes my fancy.

Before I add the extra fruit, the overnight oats with home made fruity kefir comes in around 10g of protein and 5g of fibre so a great start to the day!

There’s lots of information about the health benefits of kefir on the internet but I’m not an expert so I’m not going to say which sources are the most accurate. It’s worth having a google though if you’re interested!

My favourite low calorie breakfast at the moment. 0% fat yoghurt (I have about 100g) and fruit. This one worked out at less than 150 calories! The protein in the yoghurt keeps me full all morning – in fact I had this and a bag of 44 calorie popcorn then ran 13.65 km before I needed to eat again!

I’ve been eating a lot of salad recently and this is one of my go to favourite quick dressings! You can scale the ingredients up to make more but this works for one meal and is around 69 calories per serving (it works without the oil if you want to reduct the calories)

Ingredients:
1 tsp Lime Juice
1 tsp Rice Vinegar
1 tsp Peanut Oil
1 tsp Soy Sauce
0.5 tsp Peanut Butter
0.5 tsp Honey

Method:
Mix it all together!