Nelland Living

Eating Plan For Beltane

It has been a habit of mine to make eating plans for each Sabbat. It just makes life so much easier. This is my newest plan for the next six weeks or so, until Litha draws near.

I am a lazy cook, and dread each minute spent in the kitchen. But dining out or on conveniece food is not an option, they just don´t provide the same freshness and nutrition as home made food does. So there is no way around cooking, but there are shortcuts! This Beltane I try to skip all the fuzz in the kitchen, but still eat lean and healthy.

 

A breakfast: rice cakes topped with super easy, healthy, raw chocolate spread.

The recipe:

1 banana, mashed

1 tsp dark cocoa powder

Mix and spread over rice cakes.

(Not quite the real thing, but a great substitute.  =)

 

 

The dynamic duo

For each meal I now choose only two ingredients (and as ingredients I count foods that I can eat a stomach full of, so for example mustard would not do ).

Two foods does not sound like much, but the amount is unlimited, and the variety is great when chosen different foods for each meal. Most often we eat the same stuff over and over anyway, so I actually predict this will increase the variety in my diet.

The dynamic duo in a nutshell: grains and raw veggies.

Examples of grains/starches:

fresh veggie juice

cucumber sticks

wholegrain rice

oven baked potato wedges

corn

oatmeal

quinoa

wholegrain spelt bread

wholegrain, low sugar, breakfast cereal

Wild drink:

A handful of stinging nettle

1 Granny Smith apple

½ inch piece fresh ginger

water

Blend in a high-speed blender. Add enough water to make 2 cups.

Examples of proteins:

peas

tofu

lentils

chickpeas

textured vegetable protein

butter beans

All the above can be mixed and matched freely, and eaten when and how much desired. That´s when you can rely on the wisdom of your body, it´s intuition. I believe that as long as healthy foods, low in sugar, salt, and fat, are eaten, your body will tell you when it has had enough. You will not desire more than is needed.

It is easier for me to surf through the day with super healthy foods, when I know that in the evening I can have one decadent dessert. That is chocolate. No matter how much I have tried, I have not yet found an equally satisfying substitute. I figure it is better to a smaller amount of store-bought chocolate than chow down substitutes by the gallon…

An example of a day´s food choices:

Breakfast: 2 cups green tea with soymilk + rice cakes with banana

Lunch: 2 cups wild green drink + rice + mushrooms

Afternoon: 2 cups green tea with soymilk + wholegrain bread + cucumber

Evening: 2 oz. favorite chocolate

This plan uses whole, fresh, almost all vegan, foods to enable high nutrition. I reserve all my sugar for the evening, when I enjoy the dessert of the day. It is difficult to keep the daily amount of sugar below the recommended (WHO: under an ounce /25 grams), but with that in mind, I indulge in my chocolate. Besides, healthy food requires unhealthy desserts to keep yin and yang in balance! =)

Happy and healthy Belatane!