Beccy's Mmmm's of Nutrition - Healthy, Tasty Meal Inspiration

22/03/2025

This week's random food p**n!

Can you spot:

The meals that my daughter Beth made? Very proud of her!

The healthy curry we made at the church cooking class?

The anti-stress balls we made at Speak Up sessions where we did a quiz about foods that reduce stress?

Our PRE drink Greek kebabs?

Our conscious naughtiness - free tasters at Heald Green?

And finally... The bridge sign we thought it would be quite amusing to take a selfie with 🤣

19/03/2025

Yesterday's recipes 😋

It was a busy day! We did a quiz about foods to reduce stress, too...

05/02/2025

Fancy Chinese?

But don't want the:

Expense
Calories
MSG
Seed oils
Wait time???

Tonight's dinner cost 99p by my reckoning! 😁👛

It took 6 minutes to make including prepping and cooking.

There's only 1 pan and a wooden spoon to wash and the ingredients are mega versatile that I use them for tonnes of other dishes.

Pack of chopped stir fry veg cooked with a spoonful of ghee.

Seasoned with soy sauce or similar, pink salt, pepper and 5 spice.

Cracked in 2 eggs, stirred until cooked and topped with sesame seeds.

Delicious, nutritious and hits the spot without leaving me over stuffed. Result!

30/01/2025

Yesterday was all about the carrots! I had them for breakfast, tea and used them in my meal prep too!

My soup was using up veg to create my lunches:

Full bag of wonky parsnips
1 onion
3 garlic cloves
K**b of organic butter
Chicken stock
½ tsp Ground cumin
Sea salt with herbs + black pepper

I added some veggies steamed in olive oil to put the texture back in (essential to keep blood sugars steady and keep us feeling full). Delicious! And ready in the time it took me to make our tea...

25/01/2025

Happy weekend, folks!

What deliciousness have you been cooking up today?

I had a bit of a wake up call yesterday.

I got the kind of cramps and bloating that I used to suffer with for decades before I healed my stress and my gut.

The kind of pain that used to leave me writhing and sobbing on the bathroom floor and even sent me to A&E (I am not joking: it was far worse than labour pains and I didn't get the joy of delivering a beautiful baby, afterwards (no. It was definitely not pretty 🙊💩🤣)

It was one of those messages from my body (my belly barometer) that makes me sit up and take action (or in this case, lie down for 13 hours, because even sitting compressed my poor, tender tummy too much 😞).

So today, after being a tad hypocritical and eating a full packet of coconut rings in 3 days (my favourite biscuit and I haven't had them in over 10 years!), I've been shaken back to a kinder way of eating...

So today, we're having delicious warming, healing soup and I'm making some healthier desserts to satisfy the sugary cravings that started last week...

Below is the soup recipe that went down a storm at the cookery class and at home!

And all the ladies who came to my Infinite Women talk on Blood Sugars and Thyroid got a free bag of goodies to take with them to make it!

Peanut Butter Protein Balls

These Peanut Butter Protein Balls will help satisfy your peanut butter chocolate cravings while providing 5 grams of protein per ball.
Gluten Free, Kid Friendly, Oil Free, Soy Free, Vegan
Servings: 15 Prep Time: 10 minutes
Passive Time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

1 cup peanut butter or your favorite nut butter
3/4 cup maple syrup or agave
1/2 cup Arbonne vanilla protein powder
3/4 cup Arbonne chocolate protein powder
2 scoops Arbonne fiber boost
1 cup rolled oats

Instructions:

Mix peanut butter and maple syrup in a microwavable mixing bowl.
Heat on high for 45 to 60 seconds to soften. Mix well.
Add protein powder and fiber powder. Mix well.
Add oatmeal. Mix gently.
Use your hands to form small balls, about 1" in diameter. Place on a plate and cover with plastic wrap.
Refrigerate for 1 hour or longer to harden before eating.

10/01/2025

Tonight I built a tasty Chinese fakeaway - delicious!

I set the curry to simmer and forgot to put a timer on! I got carried away with Duolingo, safe in the knowledge that the timer would alert me to start the wholegrain egg fried rice 🙊

Oopsie

It was easily salvaged with a bit of extra water, though. And it was gorgeous!

What epic cooking fails have you had?!

I've had a fair few over the years!

29/12/2024

Ever fancy a big, dirty kebab?

But don't want the bad stuff, price tag or wait time?!

Here's what we made tonight:
BIG CLEAN KEBABS!

They took 15 minutes to make from start to finish (Paul marinated the chicken for an hour to add extra flavour but that's not essential) ⏱️

It would cost around £24 here to get 3 kebabs delivered and probably about an hour, at least...

These cost:

30p for ⅓ organic cucumber

10p for iceberg lettuce (or choose darker leaves for better nutrition)

50p for "posh tomatoes"! This salad essential is sadly often tasteless if we choose the cheapest option at the supermarket...

£2 for chicken breasts (choose chicken thighs to keep costs down or invest in organic, free range to get better quality)

40p for full fat Greek yoghurt

8p for ½ a white onion

30p for fresh corriander

£2 for Lebanese flat bread

Less than £1 for garam marsala, garlic puree, ginger paste, Himalayan salt, tikka spice mix and chilli.

£6.68 to feed 3 people in a fraction of the time. All the ingredients readily available at the local supermarket and area versatile enough to be used in soooo many dishes and most of them keep for ages.

What are your favourite fake aways? What takeaways would you like to find healthy alternatives to?

10/12/2024

https://youtu.be/MrhadmHccDw?si=rNLk643iTrocwcZN

I'll probably make a few little adjustments (I prefer gluten free alternatives to couscous and 3 of our office team are gluten sensitive) but this is what I'm thinking for one of the salads I'm making for our office Christmas party 😋🎄

One of my new team mates is vegan so it's great to be able to offer something she can have, too, and she suggested checking out Bosh!

How delicious does it look?!

This delicious couscous is delicious, healthy and ridiculously easy to make. Use it as meal prep for the week, it stores really well in tupperwares :) Or use...