My first year with Superfoods!

I am super excited! I have now been taking Superfoods* for well over a year and I wanted to share my experience with you.

*Superfoods to me means any food that goes above and beyond normal nutritional values eg, plants that have high percentage of protein, rich in vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and polyphenols.

When I first started taking Superfoods I took them in tablet form. I steadily increased my dose until I found that tablets were just a bit frustrating. So I changed to powdered form. This enabled me to get both a higher quality of superfood plus I could now increase my dose much easier.

When I switched to powder form I bought a really gorgeous high speed blender. Since then I have been having a superfood smoothie every morning. As soon as I wake up I have a slice of lemon, fresh ginger or fresh nettles in hot water (depending on the time of year) and then after around half an hour to an hour later, I have my smoothie.

I cannot recommend having a superfood smoothie every morning enough!
There are SO many benefits. Here are my top 3:

1- Ease. Put everything in the blender, whizz for 20 seconds, drink, rinse out glass and blender - 10 minute breakfast - done.

2- Digestion. Superfoods are often high in protein and this protein (and all the other good stuff too!) gets absorbed into your bloodstream super-fast, unlike the slow amount of time that meat protein takes to digest.Because of this quick apsorption rate you'll feel energised, so superfood smoothies are great energy boosters too!

3- Optimum Nutrition. Your Superfood smoothies are so loaded with vitamins and minerals that you're unlikely to find a higher nutrition based meal than a smoothie first thing in the morning (compared to eggs, toast, muffins, cereals and other common breakfast foods).

There are plenty of other good reasons too! Improved memory, stronger nails, skin and hair, improved circulation, anti-ageing, boosts immune system, reduces allergies, anti-inflammatory, hormone balancing....oh, the list goes on and on! You can also SEE the difference in my face - the photo with me in the orange scarf on the left was taken 18 months ago. The one on the right was taken a month ago.

BEFORE SUPERFOODS

AFTER A YEAR WITH SUPERFOODS

 

My Superfood Smoothies are always water based, although adding rice, oat, hemp or almond milk can be really tasty, depending on what flavours you want to mix together. This is what I love about Superfoods, you try all these new tastes and then you get to experiment with them to find the combinations that taste great and feel great for you! 

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My favourite Superfood without a doubt is Spirulina and is the one I have been taking right from the start of my 'detox lifestyle'.

 My current favourite Superfood smoothie recipe is this:

- 2 tall glasses filtered water
-1 tbspoon Spirulina
- 2 tbspoons shelled Hemp seeds
-1 tbspoon Barleygrass
- 1 banana and
- 2 slices of honeydew melon.

Blitz in a high speed blender for 20 seconds. Drink and enjoy!

If you are going to give this a go, I recommend that you start off with teaspoons instead of tablespoons, increasing the dose after around 30 days and maybe even put a little natural sweetener in there too such as melted honey or dried fruit (choose dried fruit with no added vegetable oil or preservatives).

There are SO many fab Superfoods that I am going to write a blog post on my favourite Superfoods over the next few weeks.

I look forward to sharing with you the wonderful world of Superfoods!

With much love



Leona x
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