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Hey you all.

Finally I am back on the blog.

The reasons for my absence:

1. been to Vienna

2. caught a bad, bad flu in Vienna and was ill in bed

This was not pretty I tell you. Fever, shivering, severe muscle pain and headaches. The first day I couldn’t eat anything at all and just stayed in my dark bedroom, slept and drank lots of water. Luckily on the next day I felt a little better and prepare myself some very healthy stuff for a quick recovery. That meant a lot of fresh squeezes juices and smoothies and soups.

My new favorite germ fighting Smoothie is this one from Angela Liddons Blog “Oh She Glows“.

It is so creamy and healthy and tastes amazing. Oh this clementines are soooo yummy.

You can find the whole recipe here.

Source: ohsheglows.com via Amber on Pinterest

It really worked wonders for me and I am very, very glad and thankful for feeling so much better this week.

So take good care of yourself. Winter is almost over and so is Flu season.

We nearly made it.

xoxo

No food journals from the last week, sorry. It was just to busy.

Also I bumped my head very badly and had awful neck and shoulder pain from it. But luckily I am feeling a lot better today. But what I realized was that when I don’t feel well, my eating habits go a little crazy. I couldn’t stay away from some nasty stuff, what bothered me, but I cannot change it anyway.

I can only learn for the future and try my best. You shouldn’t be so strict with yourself anyway, but I just notice immediately now, when I ate food that is bad for me. I get stomach pain or reflux and stuff. So that shows me even more, I was on the right track of Eating and I should stay there.

Today was really crazy, so I am planning just Smoothies and Juices for tomorrow to get the body back in balance. That is the most important thing: even if there are days where you are dragged to nasty foods and overeat, it is much easier to get rebalanced when you know which foods are good for you. And I know which ones are.

For today I want to leave you with a lovely recipe from canadian nutritionista Meghan Telpner. She has a wonderful website and educates people about healthy eating. I stumbled over her Tempeh recipe and wanted to give it a try and I have to say it was so, so good!

Actually my first experience with tempeh wasn’t a good one. I ordered it in a indonesian restaurant and it had almost no taste at all. I was very disappointed.

But because I always read about the wonderful benefits of tempeh, I wanted to give it another try.

What is tempeh anyway?

It is made of fermented soybeans (so a probiotic food actually, which is always great for your gut) and it is a complete protein, which means it contains all of the essential amino acids (my veggie heart says hurray!).

You can buy it in whole food shops and I would always recommend to buy soy products organic, because soy can be so genetically modified. Don’t be repelled by the looks. It doesn’t look very pretty.

Like with tofu and many other things, tempeh gets great when you do the right stuff with it, like marinating it in a yummy sauce.

And that’s where Meghans brilliant recipe comes in. The marinade is sooooo amazing, I couldn’t believe it.

It is made with balsamic vinegar, maple syrup, olive oil, tamari and thyme. Addictive!

So get yourself some tempeh and bring it on! Here you find the original recipe.

I served mine with brown rice, broccoli and sprouts. Super healthy.

And I tell you, even hardcore meat eaters can be satisfied with this. Promise!

xoxo

So, as you know, on Friday I ended the Raw Food Challenge.

But I can tell you, I luckily didn’t fell in bad old habits, which I am quite proud of.

Although we went out to eat on Friday and Saturday, I ate healthy options, resisted white flour in form of delicious looking Pizza Bread, that was served to us prior to our Meals on Friday and I didn’t have any alcohol, no glass of wine, nothing.

I really wanted to keep this “clean” feeling I achieved over the last weeks. So now here is my food journal from the last days:

Friday I had:

Green Smoothie

Banana

Baby Spinach Salad

Potatoes with Rosemary

On Saturday there was:

Banana

Two Apples

Handful of nuts

Veggie Red Curry with Rice at MoschMosch – soooo good! Here is a pic:

The sauce is just divine! And the great thing about the MoschMosch restaurants is that they have so many veggie options and even a lot of vegan ones. This is not common here. Thumbs up!

On Sunday I enjoyed:

Green Smoothie

Veggie Soup with Cauliflower

Sushi Salad

two raw chai cookies

The Sushi Salad was inspired by this recipe from the Green Kitchen Stories blog. I made some changes: I skipped the Tofu and had marinated oyster mushrooms and added broccoli, red onions, avocado and nori to it, served on brown rice. This was awesome.

The Green Kitchen Stories blog is totally worth a visit. I always find inspirations there for recipes.

It is written by David and Louise, a super cool couple from Sweden. They put so much love and effort in every post and make beautiful pictures as well.

On Monday I munched on:

Green Smoothie

Salad with Avocado, Sauerkraut, Cucumber, Tomato, kalamata olives and Tahini

three slices Quinoa bread with nut butter

half a salad bowl with cucumber, cashews, red onions and black olives and maple vinaigrette

And yesterday I had:

Green Smoothie

Salad with tomatoes, olives, cucumbers, avocado and Tahini

Gluten-free Pasta with Tomato & Olive Pesto and steamed Broccoli and Zucchini

So you can see, the raw food still is very present in my daily meals. On weekdays I hope I can make it up to 70-80% raw.

That would be great.

xoxo