Today I'd like to share some food porn of my favourite healthy snacks and breakfast with you.
I would like to stress out that the fact that I define them as 'healthy' doesn't mean you can go ahead and stuff yourself with that, thinking it's good for you. Know that all things labelled 'healthy' are okay, unless you eat a lot of them. Balance is the key to everything in life, especially food. I've mentioned it before, you can eat almost anything, but not in too big quantities.
So, let's start with my favourite breakfast!
Porridge with Red Berries and Coffee:
1 sachet of porridge, any favourite brand without pre-made dried out fruits or nuts inside.
Please use water to make your porridge, not milk. Reason being it becomes VERY high in calories if you use milk. It's too heavy for a breakfast.
1/2 cup of red berries. Raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, cherries. You can add bananas if you'd like.
1 spoon of honey (optional). Please don't do that every day. I only use the honey on weekends.
The best thing about porridge is that you can customize it however you like. This is my personal preference of perfect yummy porridge, you may do something different. Some people add cinnamon, or just have bananas inside or sometimes add nuts.
Coffee:
Black is best. No added sugar. I have Cappuccino on the photo, but that's once again, not every day. Or Americano with a little bit of milk, if you can't have black coffee. Once again, reason being, this only adds up to the calories you eat per day. Most people just count the big meals - breakfast, lunch and dinner. But all these little things like nuts, coffee and snacks count as well and people usually don't realise how much they end up adding on top of the daily meals.
Here's also my favourite afternoon snack, which is more or less in the same style of my porridge:
Greek Yoghurt with fruits (and optional nuts):
1/2 cup greek style yoghurt, the thicker - the better.
1/4 cup chopped fruits - anything can do, really. I personally like having blueberries, kiwi, apricot, cherries, strawberries. I say 1/4 cup, which is little amount. There should be more yoghurt than fruits. Especially if you put extra fruits in the porridge in the morning, we don't want a sugar overdose.
Chill in the freezer for 10 minutes before eating.
I wouldn't have this more than 3 times a week. Keep in mind that bananas are one of the highest in sugar fruits. Here is a very nifty guide of sugar in fruits and daily sugar guide. The 30g per day thing is EXTREMELY low, considering most things we eat have at least 10g sugar in them. Some juices, smoothies and soft drinks have in fact more than 30g sugar in them. Even in small packages.
Optional Nuts: This is only for people who don't eat nuts as snack outside of this snack. Nuts are very good for you and high in fiber, BUT they're also very high in calorie. For someone who's trying to bulk up and gain weight this is wonderful, but for someone who's trying to stay on track and lose weight this means no more than 10 nuts a day, especially if they're walnuts. I personally always have a bag of mixed nuts on my desk and munch every once in a while, but always keep track of how many I have. Don't just pour them down your throat, eat slowly with small breaks and you'll realise that they're actually quite filling. That goes for any food, really. We all have this terrible habit of eating so fast, that we don't realise when we're already full. There's nothing wrong with taking your time to eat your meal. Especially if you eat out quite often, as most portions served in restaurants are in fact more than people should/can eat. Especially in the UK and USA. I always enjoy the few places where they give you a small moderate portion of everything you need. Sadly, usually those places are in fact more expensive. Logic.
Those are my healthy snacks this Caturday!
I would also like to share with you a 'making of' photos of my newest obsession - NANOBLOCKS
Why hello there, Twitter!
I have to admit, the guide is pretty vague and not very helpful. Or maybe the problem was in me...
Nifty small packages with all the different pieces.
I may or may not have an ocd. Doing this gave me a lot of pleasure.
OMG it's Twitter!!!
Mandatory dramatic shot with Instagram filter.
I actually have a lot of leftover pieces from this bird, which is quite unusual. I guess people assume that I may lose A LOT of pieces while trying to build this. Which I didn't. Thanks to my tidiness. So now I have spare parts to do something with! What should I build next? Feel free to suggest what I should build next in the comments below~
Aww thanks Kotryna!
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