Busy Bee Health

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...

The Importance of Nutrition 1. What are nutrients? (The basics in short): nutrients are the building blocks your body needs to function well. There are five important nutrient categories: protein, carbohydrates, fat, vitamins, minerals. A sixth might be considered as well. This is water (however: water = minerals). Why is nutrition so important? I believe we all know it but don't have the time or consciously take the time to consider what it means to eat healthily or take care of your body's nutritional requirement. I'll try to make it short. 1. The correct nutrition is important to keep your body healthy. Hint! Healthy might sound a bit vague considering how much information is available on the internet. So let's clarify what healthy means. Healthy = your body is working to the best of its ability. It's working at 100%. It's working the best it can and efficiently to help you achieve your goals. You don't hurt anywhere. You don't forge...

It's Monday! Let's get started with a quick overview of what yesterday's meal prep looked like! An explanation first: I have more time in the weekend (and more help) then during the week. This means Sunday it's meal prep day at my house. We usually start about 16:00 and are done by 18:00 - 18:30. This means two hours of cooking and we'll have food for the rest of the week. How easy and simple can it get! I'm going to show you part of my haul of groceries (unfortunately the rest didn't fit this time but I promise to make it fit the next!): As you can see there's a bit of minced meat (both chick and mixed pork/beef) and some fish (the brownish thing in the top middle). These are almost all the animal proteins we used. I also added plant protein in the form of red lentils (not shown on this picture) to one dish. The rest are all the vegetables (minus one hiding cauliflower that I couldn't find at the time). All that's missing here are ...

The 4 Horsement (Most Essential Ingredients) of Good Health In order to be healthy or lose weight there are really only two things you need to do regularly. Two things - and you still get to eat sweets (although you should cut it down if you eat them every day). These two most-important things are: Nutrition and Exercise You probably didn't want to read the last part, but let me tell you, there is no shortcut. In short (ha.ha.), if you don't exercise, you will be more prone to diseases (especially everything to do with the heart) in later life. And by later life I don't mean when you're 90 and consider yourself to be half-dead anyway, but this starts in your late 20s already. An elevator will fail, you'll be forced to take the stairs, huff up two flights of them, and feel like you're dying, and your heart will be racing like shit - did you just run a marathon or what? Nutrition is equally important. If you don't nutrite enough, you'll get g...