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How to make Busy-Bee Kimchi (And Why)

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This one is a Busy Bee Favourite. Kimchi is easy to make and delicious. It'll also keep about a week and it's an incredibly healthy snack or side dish. The health benefits are plenty (as with all fermented food). The most important of them are: healthy bacteria that'll help your gut (especially digestion) and vitamin overload. Kimchi has a ridiculous amount of vitamins such as C and A. It also has fiber and useful minerals. In the Busy-Bee version you only need a few ingredients. Chinese Cabbage Salt Sriracha Garlic cloves Onion (white) Fish Sauce Red Pepper Flakes 2 Radishes 3 Carrots 1. The first thing you do is to cut the cabbages into bite-sized pieces (or however you want them). While you cut you can (not a must) put the already-cut pieces into a bowl with cold water to make them open up for the salt in the second step. 2. The second thing you do is to salt the cabbage pieces. You want the water out. Put the cabbage pieces into an enormous bowl (
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Busy Bee Meal Prep Sunday (17.02.2019)

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It's been two weeks since the last meal prep was posted so let's dive right in. The reason I didn't post last week is simple. I made the same food as the week before - and a little bit less of it all because we were still eating those (frozen) boxes from the week before then. All right. Here is this week's shopping bounty: As you can see it's a lot of the 'regular' stuff (staples) but with some variety (a lot of mushrooms and a bit of cheese). The breakdown is as follows: Vegetables: carrots, cabbage, parsley, sweet potato, broccoli, tomatoes, potatoes, onions, red onions, spinach, paprika, cucumber, zucchini, various mushrooms Proteins: minced meat (500g used) and two pork schnitzel as well as six pieces of cod (four frozen and two fresh). Also: brown lentils (about 150g). Carbohydrates (non-vegetables): a 75g bag of quinoa and about 200g of brown rice (not pictured). Three handfuls of whole wheat penne. About 200g of whole wheat flour to ma
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Busy Bee Meal Prep Monday (04.02.2019)

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It's Tuesday this time! I'm sorry I couldn't post on Monday. Because we made so much food last week, we actually had enough until Monday lunch, which means we only made a new batch on Monday after the last of the food had been eaten. Without much further ado, here's the shopping for this week: The ingredients: Vegetables : a lot of paprika (mostly red with some yellow), orange sweet potatoes, one and a half zucchini (half from last week still), celery (also from last week's batch), brussel sprouts, broccoli, tomatoes, green beans, carrots, shiitake mushrooms, tomato puree (red box to the right), and two cans of tomato blocks (top right of picture). Proteins : fish (codfish as always!), eggs (used three), minced meat (1kg - but we only used 500g, the rest is frozen), chickpeas (glass jar with the purple lid). Carbohydrates (non-vegetable) : brown rice, spaghetti, a little bit of white rice What is not shown : a package of vegetarian (tofu)
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The Most Important Nutrients

A very brief overview of the most important nutrients As we have learned before , nutrients are very important. They help your body regenerate itself and keep your brain sharp. This will be a general guideline on the best foods to eat. If you want the science behind it, this is not the place, as I'm trying to keep the information practical rather than obscure, and I'm not a chemist, but there are a few good sources in the recommendation section you can check out to see what I'm basing my generalizations on. The three most important nutrient groups (Yes, there are five actually, but we'll deal with the vitamin groups and minerals later): Protein Protein can generally be sorted into two types: 1. Animal 'Complete' Protein (all animal products) 2. Plant-based 'Incomplete' Protein (beans, legumes, pulses) The difference between the two is simple to explain: The human body needs the amino acids found in protein-rich foods. Animal protein is ca
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Busy Bee Breakfast

What does a busy bee eat for breakfast? I believe breakfast is important... but not very. Sure, it gives you energy to start the day, but you have plenty of energy stored in your body, and if you're not hungry (I am often not during breakfast times) at 5/6/7 AM, then you shouldn't eat. If you're hungry, then you should eat, even if it's just a little snack. I'm not going to advocate healthy smoothies or all that jazz. Who, in a busy life, has time to prepare all the ingredients, wait for the blender or the pan to fry it, and try to drink/eat it while getting ready? (Plus, meal prep doesn't really work for smoothies, because you want fresh food in it.) What should you do then? A warm meal . This has been one of my staples for breakfast for years. I never was big on oatmeal (I only enjoy it occasionally) and while I tried smoothies, eggs, omlettes, and everything else those healthy eating websites recommend, it hasn't worked. If I eat oatmeal, I'
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Busy Bee Meal Prep Sunday (27. January 2019)

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It's Monday again! I had a lot of fun doing meal prep yesterday... so without much ado let's start. Here are the ingredients: We have: Vegetables : coleslaw (pictures but unused), celery sticks, green beans, spinach, paprika, broccoli, carrots, green onions, pumpkin, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, sweet potatoes, potatoes, and 2 cans of corn. Proteins : 2 pieces of salmon (150g each), 4 pieces of codfish (100g each), 500g chicken mince, 500g mixed pork/beef mince, 500g marinated chicken (teriyaki marinade). We also have: 2 cans of beans Carbohydrates : rice and quinoa What is not pictured : pureed tomato (I forgot. This is such a staple in almost every quick and healthy food I often forget to put it on pictures...) And here is the food these ingredients made: The foods from top left to - wait hold on this doesn't make sense - let's just start with the soup pot. The soup is a chicken pot pie soup with lots of veggies (4 portions). To the r
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Busy Bee Health Essentials 2: The Importance of Exercise

The Importance of Exercise A lot of busy bees don't really have the time to exercise for two hours every day. Often, you simply can't take the time off or wake up earlier or even justify why you should strain so heavily in the morning or evening when you've already given your all at work. That's understandable. However exercise is a truly important component of a busy bee's health . Without exercise your body will suffer over time. The older you get, the more frequent and persistent this suffering becomes. What used to be a crick in your neck or stiff joints when you got up from your desk will turn into a constant nagging pain, and a few years after that, you'll feel stiff enough you won't be able to move without pain at all. What is exercise? Let's first take a brief look : Is it the daily walking you do from the train station to the place you work at? It could be. Is it the few minutes you spend walking to the cafeteria instead of eating at
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