Top 5 gut-healing foods you need in your life
Unless you’ve spent the past few years hibernating on a deserted island, you’ve most probably heard about how much of our overall health depends on the health of our gut. If not, this blog post is especially for you! Since 70-80 percent of our immune system is located in our gut microbiome, a complex community of trillions of bacteria, parasites, fungi and yeasts that live in our digestive tracts, it’s no coincidence that a long list of health conditions start there and why gut health is such a hot topic these days. As a certified Integrative Nutrition health coach, one...
Learn To Read Your Food Labels
We’ve all seen them. You’ve probably read one or two. People tell you to read them, but let’s be honest; what are we looking for exactly? You might be already reading your labels. Here’s the question. Are you reading them correctly? That’s right, it’s not enough to just glance at your food labels, you need to read and understand the information. There’s a lot more to food labels then energy, fat, cholesterol, and sodium. Many so-called, “healthy” foods can have some pretty terrible ingredients. You need to be informed to know what to look for. And if you have food allergies, then...
Recipe: Chocolate Avocado Cookies
We have been trying to make these cookies for a while and we are abnormally excited about them! Avocado is such a great thing to be adding to your Spirit Lifters Cookie mix as it makes them more fudge-like and strangely enough taste 100x richer. These chocolate avocado cookies are so simple and easy to make and they are filled with healthy fats and not much sugar so it won't give you a sugar spike. WHAT YOU NEED Avocado Superfood Bakery Spirit Lifters cookie mix Egg Honey/Agave/Maple Syrup Vegetable oil Optional: chocolate chips/ nuts INSTRUCTIONS Preheat oven to 170C degrees Combine the finely mashed avocado,...
What Is It Really Like to Be Gluten-Free?
If you’ve always been curious what it’s like to eat and live gluten-free, this post is for you. While you might think that going gluten-free means that your diet is now boring and limited, that’s not the case at all. We’re passionate about the foods you can eat as well as the health benefits of a gluten-free diet. Food Philosophy Our food philosophy is to eat real, natural and nourishing whole food. Produce that comes out of the ground is incredibly good for you as it's nutritiously richer. Plus, so much of it is gluten-free. You can eat as many fruits...
Gluten-Free Baking: A Beginners Guide
Are you new to the gluten-free lifestyle and wondering if you have to give up cookies, bread, and muffins for the rest of your life? Don’t be silly! Of course, you can still eat your favourite baked goods, you just have to look at food a little differently. How do you get started in this new world of baking? Choose Your Flour Unless you’re always using our gluten-free mixes, which use buckwheat flour, tapioca flour, brown rice flour, and more, you’re going to need to purchase your own gluten-free flour. We suggest starting with an all-purpose flour blend that’s specially formulated...
Cookie HIIT Workout
We are so proud to have built a community of friends from all over the UK who are just as passionate about healthy lifestyle and yummy foods as we are! In this blog post we want to introduce you to a fantastic NATALIE CROSSLEY who is a qualified personal trainer with a background in gymnastics, crossfit and wellbeing. She will tell you how you can squeeze a workout while your Cookies are baking! Sometimes it can be a struggle to fit everything in, but when you can combine baking your favourite snack from Superfood Bakery with your workout it’s a win/win! I have created a...