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melania.healthylife

- Macrobiotic, plant based chef for retreats & gatherings
- Cooking classes & recipes

10/09/2025

Introducing our handcrafted herbal tea blends. Perfect for the upcoming autumn season 🍁
Grown organically in our own gardens, each plant has been nurtured with love, care, and connection to the rhythms of nature.

Every sip carries the essence of the earth straight into your cup.

🌼 Three blends, each with its own intention:

Belly bloom🌿 – a soothing mix to support your belly and bring lightness after meals.

Night whisper 🌙 – a calming infusion to guide you gently into rest and deep sleep.

Floral Softness 🌸 – a feminine, heart-opening blend for relaxation, softness, and connection.

Why you’ll love them:

100% natural, only pure botanicals, no additives or pesticides.

Homegrown & handpicked, from or garden to your teapot, crafted with love and care.

Rooted in nature, respecting the earth, regenerating the soil.

📬 To order, just send .healthylife a DM .

Let’s bring the beauty of the earth into your home, one cup at a time.

Love & Gratitude.

25/08/2025

✨ Indian Summer .barn ✨
This golden season between summer and autumn feels like a gentle pause, a time when the earth still offers warmth, sweetness, and abundance before the quiet of winter arrives.

As I walk among the flowers and gather the last fruits of the garden, I am reminded of the cycles of life.
What we plant with care, we later harvest with gratitude.
Each blossom and each seed carries the story of how it was nurtured.

In Chinese medicine, this time of the year belongs to the Earth element, the center, the nourisher, the place that gives us stability.

This Indian Summer reminds me to slow down, to celebrate the abundance that is here, and to welcome the quiet wisdom that comes with transition.

May we keep harvesting not only fruits and flowers, but also lessons, gratitude, and trust.

Meli.

11/08/2025

Flowers 🌺 are my Love language.
From the garden into my hands, into an offering, into my house as a reminder that life is colorful and joyful.
Flowers speak the language of my soul ✨
Each bloom is a joyful gift , each color a prayer, each fragrance and shape a reminder of the divine energy around.

Love
Meli.

22/07/2025

BEETROOT BROWNIE Recipe

🌼Ingredients
Flax mix: 2 tablespoon ground flax seeds, 60 ml water
Chocolate: 100 g dark chocolate, broken into pieces and 80 g coconut oil
Dry Ingredients:
150 g ground almonds
80 g coconut sugar
50 g gluten-free plain flour blend, (or oat flour)
40 g cacao powder
1 teaspoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon fine salt, (I use Himalayan pink salt)
Wet Ingredients:
140 ml oat milk (or any plant-based milk)
120 g well cooked soft beetroot, grated
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
🌼 Instructions:
- Mix the flax seeds and water and set aside for 10 minutes while you start the rest of the recipe.
- Melt the dark chocolate and mix with the coconut oil
- Whizz the dry ingredients in a food processor briefly until well combined with no lumps. Put aside.
- Whizz the wet ingredients (including the grated beetroot), the flax mixture and the melted chocolate and oil mixture until smooth.
- Add the dry ingredients back into the food processor with the wet ingredients. Whizz together briefly until the ingredients are all combined.
- Pour the mixture into the prepared tin and put it in the oven. Bake for around 30-40 minutes at 180°C.

🌼 Topping: Beetroot cream made with soaked cashews, dates, grated beetroot, orange zest.

Enjoy!

07/07/2025

Herbal Summer Flower Water
A sip of nature's beauty to cool, soothe, and brighten your days.

Yesterday I infused a beautiful garden bouquet into water…
Melissa, basil, calendula, bougainvillea, verbena, rose petals, and mint.

💧 How to Make It
In a large jar, infuse:
🌿 A handful of fresh Melissa officinalis (lemon balm)
🌿 A few leaves of basil
🌼 A few calendula flowers
🌸 A small handful of bougainvillea petals (unsprayed, chemical-free)
🍃 A few leaves of lemon verbena
🌹 Organic rose petals
🌱 A few leaves of mint

Cover with fresh spring or filtered water. Let it sit for a few hours in the shade or infuse overnight in the fridge. Strain and enjoy cool or at room temperature.

💛 Why it's more than just pretty water:
— Melissa: calming for the nervous system, uplifting for the heart
— Basil: brings clarity, supports digestion
— Calendula: anti-inflammatory, skin-loving, connected to the sun
— Bougainvillea: gently detoxifying, opens the chest
— Verbena: mood booster, great for stress
— Rose: heart opener, cooling and soothing
— Mint: refreshing, digestive, awakening

Would you try this in your garden kitchen?
Tell me your favorite herbs to infuse 💬👇

Meli

01/07/2025

Join me for a regenerative summer culinary workshop
A nourishing day rooted in the vibrant energy of the season, held at our permaculture project near Ericeira.barn

Guided by macrobiotic principles and Chinese medicine, this experience invites you to cook with joy, presence, and connection , in rhythm with nature's summer abundance.

Summer is the season of expansion, lightness, and vitality , and our cooking will reflect that. We'll work with fresh, colorful, sun-ripened ingredients that support heart energy and emotional expression.

🌻 What you’ll experience:
- Introduction to Macrobiotic philosophy & seasonal living
- Chinese Medicine insights for summer wellbeing
- How to cook with fresh, vibrant wholefoods
- Create a light, energizing, summer-inspired menu
- Explore the fire element: joy, expression, connection
- Sugar-free tips & summer-friendly sweet alternatives
- Macrobiotic tools, recipes & materials to take home
- Inspiration to bring more seasonal balance into your daily meals

Let’s cook, connect, and celebrate the beauty of this season together.
Expect bright flavors, intuitive cooking, colorful flowers and a gentle slowing down, even in the warmth of summer.

📅 Date: Sunday 6th July
⏰ Time: 10am – 3pm
📍 Location: (15 min north of Ericeira)
💬 DM to reserve your spot or for more info
💲 Contribution: 40 euros (lunch included)

Limited spaces available – cnnect with me to save your spot!

With love,
Melania

28/06/2025

Embracing the summer sun with open hearts and wide smiles. 🌞
Surrounded by the beauty of flowers, love, and light.
Let the season of warmth and joy begin.
Surrendering to the power of the heart.
The openess, the creation and expansion energies of this season.

For the recipe of this cake check my last video !
Love Meli

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