I wasn't here for a while. My idea was to show you shortly and clearly what are the most important rules of leading healthy life style and healthy eating, but because I am not a dietician I struggled having that in mind . In my opinion it is vital to be aware how important are all this small details and basic stuff we do every day, and what impact eating healthy has in our life. And although leading healthy lifestyle, being fit etc became almost fashion, I found out plenty of people not having basic knowledge - one example might be (many!) women who want to loose weight using sweeteners instead of sugar, while this is 'smaller evil', but still evil... From my point of view there is bigger awareness of, basically knowledge about what to eat, why, how and when in Poland than here. Well, nothing really strange, I am sure that some big role plays economy in this field - that's not motivating, when sweets are cheaper than vegetables. I struggle avoiding sweets, because I can have everything for a pound!
So - what makes you doing better choices - awareness... As I mentioned I'm not the best person to teach you about proteins, carbohydrates, metabolism and impact food on your health. I can only share with you what I have heard, read and tried out. I will encourage you to look for the information everywhere you can, but sometimes I will share some basic information about vegetable, product a.s.o.
So, in summary... when I was thinking how could I pass to you all this knowledge I do and don't have I got frustrated - cause it would take me ages to prepare it all, translate, design etc. And my main purpose and dream was to share with you same recipes I know...so I just decided to start with that straight away.
Today I want to show you recipe for home-made Rhubarb Granola :-) It's season for rhubarb and I can see how much you like it - every time I go to supermarket is sold out ! I believe you will like this recipe... ;-)
Quickly about granola - it's baked muesli with anything you want to add to it. Why I encourage you to do it - because these in shops are fullllllllllllllllll..... of sugar .... and other colourings... in this granola you have natural products only - and I guarantee, a few spoons of this granola with milk/natural joghurt will give you energy for a good few hours! Anybody wants to try?
I got about 2 kg of granola from this recipe.
Ingredients :
- porridge oats - 4 glasses
- sunflower seeds - 8 tbs
- coconut shredds - 4 tbs
- dried figs (finely chopped) - 8 tbs
- raisins - 4 tbs
- dactyls - 300 g
- rhubarb - 600 g
- water - 10 tbs
Preparation:
- Chop rhubarb in about 1 cm slices, chop dactyls.
- Put it to the pan with water and cook it to get rhubarb mousse.
- Add the rest of ingredients and stir it accurately.
- Put it to the baking tray covered with baking paper.
- Bake in 180˚C for 30 minutes or shorter, until granola will be dry. Stir it from time to time.
- Store it in airtight jar/box up to two weeks time.
- Serve with natural joghurt, milk, soya drink, almond/hazelnut/rye milk and favourite fruits.
