Category: Recipes

Gorilla Gains – Slimming Vanilla Ice Cream

September 24th, 2017
Gorilla Gains

Slimming Vanilla Ice Cream

All the money in the world can’t buy you back good health. -Reba McEntire

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Ingredients

200g Soy Yogurt
2 frozen bananas
1 tablespoon chia seeds
1 bourbon vanilla bean

Preparation

Combine the frozen bananas and greek yogurt in the bowl of your food processor and blend for about 3 minutes until smooth.

Take a knife and lengthwise cut the Bourbon vanilla bean open. Use the back of your knife to sharpen the seeds out. Then add to your mixture and blend one more minute. Safe the bean for decoration.

Cover the top layer of ice cream with chia seeds before you enjoy this lovely slimming ice cream.

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Aya’s Notes:

Make sure to cut the bananas in smaller chunks before you freeze them.

You can use full-fat Greek yogurt or any percentage of fat, however the more fat, the creamier the frozen yogurt will be.

This Greek frozen yogurt will last up to 1 month when stored properly in an airtight container in the freezer.

This recipe makes four servings of Gorilla Gains Ice Cream.

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Eat up! 🙂

Chia is a Superfood. These tiny little seeds are the highest combined plant source of omega-3, fibre and protein. They help support your body’s natural detoxification pathways, repair your cells, reduce inflammation and support a healthy digestive system. They are about 14% protein, which is high compared to most plants! A diet higher in protein has been shown to help reduce appetite, improve muscle repair, and even curb nighttime snacking by 50%, which makes them a great addition to your diet if you’re trying to maintain or lose weight.

Vanilla is an aphrodisiac food and good for your libido, but also at enhancing hormones in the body (oxytocin, dopamine) that are associated with love and happiness. These make you feel happy, lighthearted, and in love with all things in life. Vanilla adds a warming, sweet, and rounded flavor that compliments just about any sweet treat it’s added to.

Bananas, vanilla beans and chia seed are also rich in potassium. It’s needed for healthy blood pressure levels, and assists with water regulation in the body, proper heart contractions, and helps balance the body’s electrolytes. Good for your mood, it can help you to relax and reduces stress and tension.

One serving of Gorilla Gains Ice Cream has only 93,5 calories. Due to the fact that it provides 22% protein, feel free to enjoy it after your workout or simply when you feel like having sweet delicious ice cream!

Sending my love, Aya.
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Grannies Granola

August 28th, 2017
#YouGotYoghurt

“Every human being is the author of its own health or desease.” – Buddha

Grannies Granola

Ingredients

100g Vegan Yoghurt
2 tablespoons oats
1 tablespoon mixed seeds
(sunflower, poppy, pumpkin, sesame)
1 tablespoon of mixed nuts
1 teaspoon coconut oil
Pinch of cinnamon
Small handful of fruit

Preparation

Take a pan and put it on a stove on a medium heat. Add coconut oil, the oats, mixed seeds, nuts along with cinnamon. Stir well. Put the lid on and let it roast for 2 minutes then stir again. Turn off the heat and let it rest on the hot stove while you prepare the rest.

While it is slowly roasting chop up some fruit. Pour greek yoghurt in the middle of a plait, then add your fresh granola and the fruit.

To make a super healthy breakfast enjoy your granola with a matcha latte!

Eat up! 🙂

The long list of health benefits is amazing. Granola is a superfood. In combination with fruit and yoghurt it is a complete meal full of vitamins, minerals, and other essential nutrients, along with fibers, sodium, potassium, zinc, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium, vitamin-E, vitamin-C, niacin, vitamin E, iron, and thiamin which will boost your health immensly.

Dietary fiber is a beneficial part of anyone’s eating habits because it regulates digestion of food. It adds bulk and weight to bowel movements, making them more solid and easier to pass along the digestive tract.

Also it prevents overeating, which makes it a good weight loss food. One serving of Grannies Granola has 289 calories. Due to the fact that it is homemade, feel free to invite friends over for breakfast, share the recipe and tell me if everyone liked it!

Love, Aya.
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My experience with veganism.

August 22nd, 2017
I always hated dieting. Especially if I have to eat something, I don’t like. For example, white foods, like cheese or mayonnaise or even olives I despise to this day. Being a picky eater for all I can remember, the only choice I had is to get into good habits. My lifestyle change into veganism unsealed the access into a new world; I still find myself living and hoping in.

Back then I struggled a lot with health issues, which were the beginning reason for me of changing my diet, but I am going to write about that another time. Counting three years back I got introduced to veganism by “Freelee“. Her diet, called “RawTill4”, a high carbohydrate, low fat, low protein program, allows you to eat an unlimited amount of fruit until 4 pm, followed by a cooked dinner. The cooking was effortless. Freelee’s Diet consists only of carbs. Now you got interested? I was too! 🙂

A day in the life

For breakfast I usually had half a melon, followed by a bunch of nectarines or other fruits and of course lots of bananas to keep me satisfied. Not to forget, dried fruit as a snack. I ate as I felt hungry with no limitations, as long as it was fruit. For dinner, I loved French fries, Curries or Sushi. You can find the recipe for the original Rawtill4 French fries here.

What made my age go backwards.

The good thing of it was, that I was not only detoxing, but I was losing a lot of weight! As my blood fat decreased, my metabolism was able to burn the excess simple sugars in a process called dietary thermogenesis. Over the period of 3 months strictly eating Rawtill4, and a moderate amount of sport, for example hiking, I lost 5 kg, and my skin looked two years younger. I was fully hydrated, provided with all vital nutrients, was energiesed, always positive and I got a believer.

The downside

I had to get rid of salt and oils. For dinner, I just needed some rice, potatoes and vegetables. I loved to make curries and soups. The philosophy is to keep it very simple and whole foods. Sometimes, when nothing was in the house, I ate plain rice with some strawberry jam for dinner.

Even though I eat differently now, I still love fruit in the morning and am still vegan. This diet hydrates and fuels my body with simple sugars that my brain and system needs to function at its best AND I am saving the lives of innocent animals and their families.

Much love, Aya.
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#YGY – Berries Sweet Bump

August 19th, 2017
#YouGotYoghurt

“To keep the body in good health is a duty. Otherwise we shall not be able to keep the mind strong and clear.” – Buddha

Berries Sweet Bump

Ingredients

100ml Plain Yogurt
Small handful of fresh berries
Half of a banana
Flaxseeds, grounded
Honey
Cinnamon

Preparation

Get a bowl and pour the plain yogurt in. Add a teaspoon of flaxseeds and half a banana. Take a fork and mash it up until their are no bigger chunks.

Wash the berries and then cover the top of the bowl with your lovely berry bumps.

To make it super delicious, drizzle honey on top and finish it with a pinch of cinnamon.

*ENJOY* 🙂

Berries and banana will benefit hair, skin, and nails with vital nutrients such as a healthy dose of B and C vitamins necessary for healthy growth. Also it adds fiber, potassium, and enough density to satisfy an after-workout appetite.

Yogurt provides Probiotics are “friendly bacteria” that are naturally present in the digestive system. While more research needs to be done, there’s some evidence that some strains of probiotics can help boost the immune system and promote a healthy digestive tract.

The combination of honey and cinnamon has been used for centuries in both traditional Chinese and Ayurveda, a system of healing founded 5000 years ago in India. Cinnamon’s essential oils and honey’s enzyme that produces hydrogen peroxide qualify the two “anti-microbial” foods with the ability to help stop the growth of bacteria as well as fungi.

Low in calories (220kcal per serving) it is a delicious, energy boosting breakfast or snack.

Love, Aya.
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