Invitation for our next Healthy Living Support Group meeting!

I would like to invite you all to our next Healthy Living Support Group meeting!

Date:  14 March 2015,Saturday!

Time: 10am until 12.30pm

Address: Arabian Homes; Andulus Village at The Greenhouse Café.

Directions - Prince Sultan Street,at the Fist-Round-about; Across from Noble Book Store; next to Salama Centre,Dark Blue Sun Screen at first security gate and you need to pass the second security gate after(parking on your left).
Under Willandra Le Corre,12B Cadiz.

Payment: SR25 per hour per person.

RSVP: Before 8pm,12 March 2015 with your full name and Iqama nr.

Subjects:

• How to make your own mosquito trap and dealing with bugs and ants in a natural way.
• How to make your own natural cleaning products.
• How to make your own natural cosmetics.
• Benefits of Essential oils.
• We talk about the effect of chemicals in food,house cleaning products and cosmetics on your health. I provide a list.
• Travel,food allergies and preparation of your snacks on holiday.
• Time for everybody to share any subject or questions in mind and some recipe sharing!
• We will make a list of products you would like to see being sold in Danube. I will submit our group requests early next week to Danube and Carrefour management. Make your list!
• And much more...depends on the group. Get your questions ready!

Please bring a pen and writing pad with.

If you did the ImuPro300 allergy test lately or long ago,please bring the complete results. Not just the list of allergies,but the number values of every food being tested.

Yummy gluten free paleo waffles recipe

Now, every time I meet another person joining the support group...the first panic attack comes when I told them to cut out ALL gluten (the hidden one's too) and that means BREAD!!!! This is like a stab in the heart! How can we live without BREAD? What am I going to eat? Then they found in Danube the Gluten Free BREAD and I burst their bubble again...they are full of preservatives and nasty baking powders that affect the intestines and you still have problems with bloating and collic ext. I felt the same 1 year and 4 months ago. What am I going to feed my family if I have to cut out BREAD? No more sandwiches in the car back from the horse riding (my husband was happy, cause we kind of really had a full messy picnic in the car:):) Then I found this waffle recipe...tried it maybe 20 times before I got it right and added and take away and substitute like crazy. Now I make it in different flavors and play with it...it can be sweet or salty, breakfast, snack or main meal. It is lactose, sugar cane, egg/not, gluten free!

PALEO WAFFLES:

Preparation: 10min.
Baking: 3-5min. for dubble waffle pan.
Make about 12 small waffles.

You need a waffle pan. I have a Mollinex. Bought it for SR280 in Bin Dawood. You need a fast and strong one...think you have to check the watt's.

You can also bake a few of these and freeze them for up to 2 months. Just take out of freezer and put in warm oven for 10min. and ready to eat!

Ingredients: Sweet Potato or Butternut Pumpkin: Sweet version!

Make sure you steam cooked 2 cups of skinless Pink Sweet Potato/Butternut Pumpkin and mashed it before you decide to make this recipe. I always keep ready sweet potato and or pumpkin I can just defrost in the freezer.
 

• 2 cups of Mashed Sweet Potato and or Butternut Pumpkin.
• 1 cup Almond Flour(You can buy an expensive product now at Danube Heraa/or a cheaper ready floured packet where you find the nuts or you can buy the skinless white almonds and make your own flour in the processor....not too long then it becomes butter and not too short then it is almond meal)
• 1/2 cup Topioca Flour(You can find this at Panda and or at any Indonisian shop)
• 1/2 cup Red Mill's Gluten Free All Purpose Flour(buy at GNC)
• 2 tbsp of Palm/Coconut Sugar(You find it in Danube Heraa - powder or in an Indonisian Shop - sticky pieces)
• 1 tsp Baking Soda
• 2 Tbsp Grapefruit juice/Manderine juice/Orange juice/Apple Cider Vinegar/Lemon juice
• 1/4 tsp Sea Salt or 1/8 tsp Himalayan Salt.
• 1 egg or replace it with 1/4 cup of Flax Substitute(Take flax seeds(buy at Manuelle at the spices area per kilo),make fine in processor. 1 cup of fax seed meal in 3 cups of boiling water in a flat pan,stir,simmer for 10-15min. until you see the texture becomes like the white of an egg. Let it cool down and put in a glass container with sealed lit in the fridge for up to 1 week...1/4 = 1 egg substitute)
• 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp Mild Flavoured Oil. I use Hazelnut/Almond Oil( You find it in Danube,sometimes the SR79 bottle at the organic section or cheaper now at the oils...wonder about quality and if cold pressed,but have to work for now)
• 1/2 cup Coconut Oil

Method:

1. Mix first all the dry ingredients together and then stir in the sweet potato/pumpkin...mix well and then the rest of the wet ingredients. Make sure you let the sticky palm sugar mix and dissolve well. It should not be too dry and not too runny dow.
2. Let it rest for a while, while you switch your waffle pan on. Put a few drops of coconut oil on each waffle plate if the pan is new. After that no need.
3. 1 and 1/2 tbsp in a little heap in the middle of each iron if you do not want it too big and or 2 tbsps if you need it bigger...just take care that it does not run out of the pan if you press the lit close.
4. Bake for 3 minutes. Do not lift the lit too soon, then you will have a waffle half broken. I like it crisp so I leave mine in a bit longer to become almost dark brown, but some people likes it less cooked. You will know later. I can eat it hot or cold.

Now this you can eat with honey drizzle/maple syrup drizzle/or just like that. You can also drizzle a few drops of melted 70-85% dark chocolate on it. Remember about your 15gr of Fructose per day!!!!!

Ingredients for the salty/plain/spicy version:

You use all the same ingredients except!

No pumpkin/Sweet Potato/Palm sugar.

You can replace the Hazelnut or other nutty oils with Avocado oil.

You can add 1/8th more of salt.

You can play with 1-1/2 tsp of garlic powder/paprica/basilic/parseley/black pepper or even chilly powder.

You can make it just plain and really use it like bread and eat it with cheese/salad and or raw veggies or with tuna/salmon ext. fruit mixes with a bit of natural yogurt.

I make the garlic/paprika/salt one and dish it up with yummy mince meat (a recipe for another day)...and you can eat it with your hand!

Now keep in mind that without the pumpkin/sweet potato + palm sugar it will be much crispier and it will stay fairly light brown. Be careful not to bake it too long...might just be 2 minutes in pan.

If you have a lot of guests you can bake a little in advance and just keep the others open in a plate(do not stack on top of each other or cover with tin foil, then you will have "flappy Jacks") in the warm oven.

When I make the recipe double I put the rest of the mixture in a tight lit class bowl in the fridge for not more than 2 days. Make sure you stir well after you take it out of the fridge, before baking.

MMMM!
Feel a bit less stressed over the NO BREAD?

I love this recipe and it saved my family many a times from "not be able to wait for supper" and mom is running late or no idea what to feed them now so fast or need to stretch the left over foods I have ready!

coconut flour biscotti recipe gluten free

I find with Paleo recipes that you have to do exactly what they say...I know I did too...just get to the ingredients and steam forward, just to throw all in the bin and start all over again after I read all the little notes and always best to read the "Method" first, cause many recipes maybe needs a period in the fridge or cool time or again after a while in the oven and then you might not have the snack ready on time. Other thing about Paleo/allergy free recipes, they are in small quantities cause you are supposed to rotate your food and not always eat the same. I always try the recipe first in small and then if my family nibble it up in a few seconds...I go for 4 times the ingredients and keep it in the fridge or freezer.

The success of living healthy is always in your planning...plan your grocery shopping/food ahead for 1 week, 4-6 small meals a day. It is also cheaper and you waist less. Start today and look up on Internet for 10 recipes in different categories...yes we always mostly eat the same stuff in rotation. You can just type in Paleo and then what are you looking for gluten, egg, lactose, sugar cane, nuts free ext. There is Paleomama, Wellnessmama, mommypopotamis...a million other blogs. I will share as we go along. Rack full of recipe books are just clutter in my opinion. Keep it small and every now and then add something new you surprise yourself, friends or family with. Take one day and prepare what you can. I do not believe in cooking veggies and stuff for the week...kill all those nutrients, but your snacks, why not. 

COCONUT FLOUR BISCOTTI:

Prep: 15min.     Cook: 50min. 3X12pieces

I make this recipe dubble or 4 times....family loves it!

 Ingredients:

 1/4 cup Psyllium Husk(Buy at GNC in Jeddah. You cannot replace this ingredient)

1/2 cup of Water

2/3 cup of Palm/coconut sugar (You can find the pieces at a Indonisian shop (have to great it and let it stand to melt) or at Danube the fine cranules)

6 tbsp coconut oil (find at Danube SR25 for small bottle)

2 tsp of Vanilla extract (Make sure it is not vanilla sugar. You can also replace it with Maple Syrup)

1 cup of Rice Flour/Red Mills's All Purpose Gluten Free flour (You can buy this at GNC)

1/2 cup of Coconut Flour (You can find this at Danube or see on Internet how to make your own)

2 tbsp of Potato Starch/Corn Starch/Arrowroot (Kuzu (Arrowroot) SR50 for very small packet in Danube)

2 tsp of Baking powder/1 tsp of Sodium Bicarbonate and 2 tbsp of a juiced grapefruit, manderine, orange or apple cider vinegar. (I do not use baking powder - it has an effect on the stomach and overall health)

1/4 tsp of Sea salt or 1/8 tsp of Hymalayan Salt. (Do not use table salt - too many chemicals to keep the humidity out...read up)

1/2 cup of any dried fruits (Remember to cup it in small pieces and the you cannot use whole raisons or berries, they puff up in the cooking process and taste burned or just fall off)

 Method:

 1. Preheat oven 375F and when you put your biscotti in turn oven to 350F. You will need a baking sheet. Not wax paper.

2. Bowl 1 - Psyllium Husk + Water + Coconut Sugar/Palm Sugar + Coconut Oil + Vanilla Extract - Blend well on low speed with hand mixer. Rest for 5minutes.

3. Bowl 2 - Rice Flour/Red Mills Flour + Coconut Flour + Potato starch + Salt + Baking powder/replacements.

4. Add Bowl 1 to Bowl 2 and mix well with your hands, otherwise you end up with white starch blops after you baked it or palm sugar burned spots. Then mix in Dried Fruits...that is so you really mix it well! Divide your mixture in 1/2's.

5. Press each half with wet fingers on the baking sheet. If you have these rusk squares it works out perfect. 2 X rectangles (10" x 3". Space 3" apart. Take a long and very sharp knife and just press through with one even press to already make your sizes of your biscotti's. Do not separate pieces.

6. Bake 23-26 min. until gold and set in the middle. I bake mine just 18minutes,cause I have a very old, cheap, temperamental oven and you do not want too dark and bitter biscotti's at the end of the dry out process. Let it cool for a while and then place the separate pieces on a wire rack for 15minutes. Keep your baking paper and pan ready again for the dry out process.

7. Oven lower than 250F. Put all the pieces cut-side down on the baking sheet again. Bake 25minutes. I dry it out in less time and see that it just become crisp or slightly darker than golden brown, other wise butter and burned taste. But it has to be nice and crispy and not still humid. Cool for 1 minute on wire rack and then store it in a air tight holder.

You are what you eat!"

I get daily questions around different subjects and health issues and how did I changed the health status of my family and myself around. I am a busy house wife, but love to read and discover different subjects about health in total....the evolution in many day to day issues. I realize how many mothers/fathers have such busy lives and do not have the leisure of reading about different issues. It would be lovely to share information on different subjects, with a group and in this way reach more people that would like to live more healthy and make different life choices and take control of their freedom around their health. My vision is not just to talk about food/exercise, but also about issues concerning our children, we as mothers and fathers ext. Total Family health!

It is time consuming to share a lot of details or help people every day bits and pieces and sometimes it is not clear since I do not have always time to explain everything just in a split second somewhere in the street/bus or e-mails ext. I can also not keep track of what you already know and what you still need to know and or for sure you know something I do not know. To live with optimal health and to make chances is a process that starts by point A: "You are what you eat" and from there it connects with different important subjects. A support group would benefit the children as well, because children that live/eat "differently" feels sometimes excluded and lost.

We changed our lifestyle Oct. 2013 and I gained a lot of knowledge and meet a lot of people in this year and it is so exciting to see the influence of these changes on our lives in TOTAL. I know there is many other people that made these changes long before we did and have much more information to share and I would like to learn more as well. For sure we can stay in contact through ways of technology, but I plan different subjects and we are going to cook as well and prepare some recipes!!! My experience is that people tend to give up and panic if they do not have physical contact and be able to feel that they are not alone and to know that there is others that also do not know or how to start from scratch.

If you would like to join my support group, please let me know what days and times would be possible for you? I plan on starting the meetings just 2 times a month for 2 hours starting in December 2014, before the Christmas Holidays. Meetings for the beginning would be held at Andulus Village,Arabian Homes, Prince Sultan Street(compound across from the "fist-roundabout") in the hall next to the security gate.

Healthy living support: Everything starts with a mother

Now, I do not like or have the time and level of concentration to sit and read for too long. Even if I am addicted to reading. Too much information at once have me totally messed up and let m lie awake at night to try to make sense of it all. So! I would like to take you on a journey. Little of my story, little of my experiences and what I have read about. Give you enough time to read, digest, read up and share your own info with all of us.

"We should have time to take a step back and look for the connections between things"

I am not a medical Dr. Was a nurse working in different ICU's. Passionate about healthy living and personalized medicine. I do not make diagnosis or recommend medical treatment. I share Information, either read about or personal experiences or share an opinion. My support is not profitable and I do not advertise any product or try to promote their financial benefits. I give an opinion and you make of it what you want to. I love a well-constructed debate. I respect all cultures, believes, age and gender.

Everybody has a story to tell. His/her own unique story, living uniquely, experienced uniquely and from outside it looks like an easy life or too hard life according to the people looking into  this story, but it is how the people lived his own story. We all have to respect it. I disagree with the fact that people tells you that you should stop moaning, cause there is people worse off than you. I share my story with you, not because I want you to know me better or let you pry into my personal life or to bring up the past and highlight the faults of the past or accuse anybody for the wrong.

I would like you to read between the lines. I would like to wake up something in you to look at your own story. I want you to see the irony, the reasons, the causes, the symptoms, what should make sense, the treatment, where you need more knowledge and ask more questions, thin about changes and different choices. Maybe come to the realization that life in total has changed.

My goal: I would like to help people of all walks of life. Make the "load" lighter and help them to find direction, where to search for causes and find solutions. Not to panic when illness strikes and not to just go for a quick fix solution. Be prepared! Let people feel that there is other people in the same situation or with past experience. I would like people to dig deeper. Making friends all over the world in different walks of life, because somewhere, someone know something you did not know.

My dream: To support people, in gaining knowledge. To prevent being sick and weak. TO LIVE LIFE IN TOTAL. To not just except diagnosis/treatment, but to ask questions and make sure the causes got treated and not just a quick fix around the symptoms. Debate around newly found research. Ensure people make their own unique choices around medicine and healthy living in general. To get closer and more personal with your own being. To understand the concept: "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT"! Then maybe spread the word to more corporate worlds to get better products easily available.

I want you today to think where do you come from? Where did all of YOU start?

My story: Everything for me started with MY MOTHER. Inside her body I was conceived. Her hormonal changes secured my total development. Her per-pregnant lifestyle/body became my home for 9 months. A home that was not ready and prepared, not perfect, because she did not know better then. What she ate, drank, inhale, and rubbed on her skin, her total lifestyle....everything reached me in her womb through the umbilical cord. Her food allergies became partly mine. Foods ext. that stressed her body, stressed mine. Yes, I did not forget the part of my father, DNA and genetics.

Why do I believe this? History and the present just made sense to me, stimulated by the newest research. I look at my mother's life/health, at my own and now at my little 8 year old girl. It just make sense! "YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!"...then your baby will be what you ate and she will be what she ate. 

Finding out what our food allergies was through the 

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