Eighth Day Organic Vegetarian Recipes
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Healthy Eating Issues
The orgaincs4u team welcome our guest writer, Barbara Louvrou, a nutrutionist and weight-loss consultant from The Well Works
Hello, I will be discussing issues about the healthy foods we could and should be eating. Sometimes we don't know why or what and that can make it hard to make the right choices. So I am hoping that I can make this as interesting and informative as possible. And of course fun!!!
FOOD AND EATING SHOULD BE FUN AND AN ENJOYABLE EXPERIENCE!!!
Otherwise why do it? other than the obvious. I will try and cover lots of aspects of foods that can be ordered on the site and any interesting topics and stories I come across along the way.I will also be treating you to a recipe of the month using the delicious products you can buy on the site.
So here goes:
Those of you that already use the site already know the advantages of buying organic food It tastes better and it is better for you and that’s enough for most of us but let’s look at other benefits of organic food brought from your organics supplier:
It doesn’t contain the pesticides and fertilizers normal fruit and vegetables contain. We all know that fruit and veg on holiday tastes Sooo….. Delicious why it has plenty of sun and grows in a less chemical environment And it is picked and cooked within hours or at the most a couple of days!!! (As it is with Organics-4U)
The fruit and veg in our so called “friendly” supermarket has been lying around for months and even years yes YEARS in darkened containers and coolers How fresh is that? - The advertising is more appealing than the actual taste and guess what - that’s what they count on.
We live in a society that likes to be organized and uniform. Our clothes have to match, our furniture has to match and guess what? - We like our fruit and veg to match too. Uniform in shape, size and colour - its pleasing to the eye, easy to pack, easy to display and Easy to sell. But do you know that you are getting an extra 33 CHEMICALS in the bargain Yeuch…. do we really want to be feeding our bodies with MORE than we bargained for! The fruit and veg abroad can be ugly and unappealing to look at but the taste ….WOW…. is absolutely tantalizing. There is something to be said about beauty being only skin deep, and never judging a book by its cover
One more question Is organic all the same? Surprisingly not quite would
be the answer. Supermarket produce may be grown organically. But there the
similarity probably stops. After it is picked it’s treated exactly the same
as the rest. Picked un-ripened, stored in dark coolers for a great period
of time. It is even well traveled. It is sometimes picked locally but then
sent to some far flung country to be packed where’s the logic and sustainability
in that I ask? And to top it all it is packed in plastic making the vegetables
susceptible to all the chemicals they can absorb from it and I absorb them
with my vegetables!
So next time before you reject that dirty carrot or the deformed tomato
take heed It’s not what it looks like, but how fresh it is and how good
it tastes.
One thought till next time
Have you ever thought about how your food tastes No I mean Really tastes.
Till then ENJOY,
Barbara
This month’s recipe:
Sweet Potato, Roasted peppers and Goats cheese
Ingredients
2 large sweet potatoes2 table spoons of Greek yoghurt
Ground black pepper
2 -3 cloves of garlic in skins (optional)
2- 3 large red pepper deseeded and cut into 6 ths
Crushed garlic
Black pepper
Chevre goat’s cheese
Method
Turn oven on at 200C or Gas Mark 6Rub garlic over the pieces of peppers
Put in oven proof dish or baking tin and roast for 45 minutes turning once or twice till soft and starting to colour.
Put potatoes with skins and unpeeled garlic in a pan and boil till soft. This may take about 30 to 40 minutes depending on size.
When cooked peel the potatoes and mash adding pepper and yoghurt.
Serve potatoes on a plate.
Arrange peppers on top of potatoes.
Top with goats cheese and put under grill to melt cheese.
Serve with lettuce leaves and sliced cucumber topped with a yoghurt dressing
(Yoghurt dressing: mix a couple of table spoons of yoghurt with a teaspoon of olive oil and some water to dilute consistency. Add some pepper and herbs of your liking such as chives or mint.)
Serve immediately