This recipe creates a delicious, light and cold salad – perfect for a lunch or dinner on warm summer days! Chickpeas are the hearty and filling base of this salad, the cucumber creates a light feeling, the mixed salad adds extra vitamins and the dried tomatoes an interesting extra flavor! Ingredients for 2: 500 g…
Chickpea Salad
Banana Ice Cream
Who does not love ice cream? In summer and winter and to be honest just always! 😄 Original ice cream mainly consists of heavy cream and sugar, which is not very healthy. Banana ice cream is just made out of frozen bananas and a splash of milk or yoghurt. It is often also referred to…
Quick Pasta
This recipe is a more tasty and still healthier twist on the typical student -meal: white pasta with tomato sauce!It literally takes like 15 minutes and is perfect for midweek dinners or simple lunches.As I explain in this article chickpea pasta is a great substitute for regular pasta adding more proteins, vitamins and fiber to…
Breakfast Smoothie
Usually I’m not a fan of having a smoothie for breakfast and do not think it is a very healthy way to start the day as I explain in this article.Recently I got my wisdom teeth removed and I could not eat anything solid for a week so I created a sweet and filling breakfast…
Huckleberry Bakery & Café
Huckleberry Café is a well deserved famous restaurant in Santa Monica and one of my favorite breakfast / brunch / lunch spots. It is quite well known for its delicious pastries, salads and cooked breakfasts and therefore always pretty crowded on the weekends, but during the week you are likely to get a table.Be sure…
Road biking
As a cardio exercise there are many wonderful options and I tried out a lot: dancing, running, horseback riding but I would have never thought I would start road biking one day. Now it is one of my favorite (summer) activities! A couple of years ago I started to have knee problems from running to…
Red beet hummus
Hummus is a healthy oriental side that goes with many dishes. Originally, hummus is made out of chickpeas only (recipe here) and in this variation we add red beet roots. The taste becomes sweeter, beetroot hummus has a lovely pink color, is packed with extra vitamins and slightly lighter which is perfect for summer! I…
Macronutrient diets
Low Carb – High Carb? Food consists of the three macronutrients fats, proteins and carbohydrates. Each food consists of a different ratio of these macronutrients. Examples: Banana (100g): 22 g carbohydrates, 1.1 g proteins, 0.3 g fats Red Lentils (100 g): 49 g carbohydrates, 26 g proteins, 1.4 g fats Walnuts (100 g): 11 g…
Pasta Possibilities
Pasta is one of the most popular dishes around the world and basically Italy’s national dish besides pizza. Traditional Italian pasta is made from wheat flour with water or eggs and therefore has a very light color which isn’t unhealthy per se but “normal“ pasta mainly contains simple carbohydrates, a low amount of complex carbohydrates…
Spring Breakfast Bowl
As spring has arrived I would like to share my new go to sweet breakfast. I’m totally obsessed with this food combination at the moment – it literally tastes like summer to me, is very easily put together and very satisfying! The base to this bowl are mixed oats, I like to create a mixture…