http://www.kindnessyoga.com en-gb kindnessyoga.com 2011-1-24T00:00:00Z kindnessyoga.com http://www.kindnessyoga.com/page13.htm#85328 One fairly effortless way to increase your veg quota is to eat soup. By making your own you avoid the large quantities of salt that are often found in shop bought varieties. This tasty soup is has earthy notes of coriander and cumin with the zing of ginger. 2 medium sized sweet potatoes 3 carrots 2 medium sized onions diced 1tsp ground cumin 2tsp ground coriander 2 bay leaves 2inch knob of fresh ginger 1tbsp olive oil vegetable stock I used 2 tsp Marigold Bouillon fresh coriander leaves and spring onions to garnish Dice the onions and soften them in the olive oil in a heavybottomed pan. Add the ground cumin and ground coriander best practice would be to grind the whole spices yourself but Im welloverdue a visit to Drummond Street and had to use ground.Chop the sweet potato and carrots into similar sized chunks and add to the onions. Cover with around 750ml water and cook until tenderAdd the veg stock and blitz with a handheld blender or in a food processor until... 2011-1-24 09:43:52 http://www.kindnessyoga.com/page13.htm#85097 At the start of the year I mentioned that increasing fruit and veg in the diet can have quite farreaching effects on your overall health. Easier said than done as life often gets in the way and by the time you know it the day is almost through and youre nowhere near your 5aday. Over the next few weeks Ill be thinking up some easy ways to sneak as many tasty fruit and veggies into your diet as possible. For now think about adding fruit to cereal bananas go well with porridge granola muesli as do antioxidantrich berries. Banana and peanut butter on wholegrain toast is a treat too and can be bought from any ol sandwich shop if youre short of time. 2011-1-20 19:37:39 http://www.kindnessyoga.com/page13.htm#84493 The lurgeys at large and people are dropping like flies. Its pretty hard to avoid particularly when some people are so dead set on spreading their germs. Ive got a real thing about people not covering mouths after some cretin sneezed in my face on the Paris metro. Yes you read correctly. In. My. Face. Every time I recall the incident Im overcome by the urge to run screaming to the nearest sink.Anyway I digress. My throat started to feel a bit woolly yesterday so this morning I reached for some ginger root. I grated a thumbsized knob of ginger added it to my teapot poured hot water on it and squeezed in a lemon. I sweetened the gingery concoction with a little honey. Ginger can provide some much needed immune support in these germy times. Add to stir fries soups or make tea to get your quota. 2011-1-12 23:30:01 http://www.kindnessyoga.com/page13.htm#84115 This granola is sweetened with apple juice. I made it this morning and almost immediately after Id placed it in the oven the flat was filled with the warming scent of cinnamon. Perfect on such a rainy miserable day. The cinnamon is optional but is thought to balance blood sugar and reduce cravings. This granola never lasts long in our house as we tend to snack on it as well as having it for breakfast. Dry ingredients4 cups oats I used glutenfree oats1 cup of whole almonds1 cup of pumpkin seeds1 cup dessicated coconut1 cup walnut pieces1 tsp cinnamonWet ingredients1 cup apple juice4 tbsp sunflower oilHeat oven to 160186C 325 F. Add dry ingredients to a large bowl and mix thoroughly.Whisk apple juice and the sunflower oil together add to the dry ingredients and mix thoroughly. Pour evenly onto baking trays. Bake for 45 mins 1hr. Give the granola the occasional stir so that it cooks evenly and if you have a slightly stroppy oven like mine swap the trays from one shelf to the other... 2011-1-7 16:14:03 http://www.kindnessyoga.com/page13.htm#84002 Youd have to be extremely obtuse or live in a cave to have missed the fact that it was the start of a New Year. The parks and gyms are full of earnest resolution keepers running off the festive bloat. The odds however are stacked against them as only around 20 of New Years runners and gym goers actually maintain their resolve. Depressed by my doom mongering statistics Dont be. One way to move towards becoming the shinier happier healthier version of yourself is to set bitesized realistic and achievable goals. Rather than declaring that in 2011 you will drop to a size zero run the marathon and swim the English channel why not get to the heart of what it is you want to make happen. A common issue is weight management. Your weight may have gradually crept up over the last year or so eventually leaving you to alternate between waves of anguish disgust and desperation lets face it most of us have been there at some point. Firstly accept that if it took a while for your weight to creep up i... 2011-1-6 09:40:24