Filed under: Food, Online shop, Superfood | Tags: chocolate, Food, Raw chocolate, superfoods
Raw chocolate, cacao; the bean, or nib of the bean, in its natural state – not cooked, over-processed or mixed with cheap filler ingredients. It is mixed with with cocoa butter or agave syrup, berries and nuts to create delicious chocolate treats. Cacao is said to be richer in antioxidant flavanols than green tea, red wine or acai, and contains protein, fats, calcium, iron, carotene, thiamine and riboflavin.
A delicious treat that contains only healthy ingredients. Check out raw chocolate recipes here. Raw chocolate taster kits are now available to buy at Hector’s Farm, providing everything you need to get started in making your own chocolates. The kit contains enough ingredients to make around 30 chocolates, or 3 bars, it also contains a recipe booklet.
Filed under: Food, Personal, Superfood | Tags: Energy, high vibrational foods, Recipes, superfoods
There is a vibration to everything we eat, high-vibration foods carry a natural positive, uplifting energy that some people can feel as the vibration transfers to themselves. As part of our travels on the road to Hector’s Farm we are gradually moving to a more healthy way of living. We occasionally stumble off track, but on the whole we are pleased with the changes we have made. Mainly eating more fresh whole organic foods which are considered to be of a higher vibration. One day we hope to be producing some of these foods via Hector’s Farm.
Why not try eating high vibration foods? We have felt subtle changes in ourselves, definitely for the better. You may feel a positive change in your energy levels, mood, concentration, your ability to stay grounded, present and centered.
You can start by eating lots of fresh vegetables and fruits, ideally whole and organic. Take notice how you feel after you eat something. Introduce superfoods into your diet, such as goji berries, bee pollen, beetroot or blueberries. Superfoods contain a higher nutrient content, but it is important to eat a range of foods. Start by including 60% vegetables in each meal and aim to include 3 – 5 different colour foods on your plate (5 we have found a challenge at times).
Please pass on any recipes which will help us to stay on track, we’d love to hear from you.
Filed under: Books, Food, Recipes, Superfood | Tags: basil, Detox, flax, Food, greens, hemp, herbs, lemon, Liver, nutrients, pesto, Recipe, spinach, Superfood, watercress
A recipe found in Patrick Holfords - The Holford 9-Day Liver Detox.
A pesto style mix of green leaves and herbs, perfect addition to a vegetable and quinoa/rice/pasta dish. Also a fantastic way of increasing these vitamin C rich ingredients in one meal.
This mix can be changed by adding avocado (vitamin E and protein), or cucumber, garlic, olives, pepper, pine nuts for example.
Ingredients: – 1/4 bag of watercress, 1/4 bag of baby leaf spinach, handful of basil leaves, 1tbsp extra virgin olive oil or hemp oil or flax seed oil, squeeze of lemon juice.
Blend all the ingredients together then add the oil.
Surprisingly tasty.
Filed under: Food, Recipes, Superfood | Tags: antioxidant, Food, lycopheme, protein, quinoa, Recipe, salad, Superfood, vitamin E, zinc
Superfood Salad
Serves 2
1 small sweet potato, skin left on and cubed, 1 small red onion roughly chopped, 1 red pepper chopped, 1 small courgette chopped, 2 garlic cloves thinly sliced, 200g cherry tomatoes, 1tsp marigold reduced salt vegetable boullion powder, 2 heaped tbsp pumpkin seeds, 2 portions of the super green mix posted earlier, drizzle of olive oil.
Preheat the oven to 200C. Place the chopped vegetables and garlic in a roasting tin, drizzle the oil, stir to coat them and cook for 40 minutes.
Add the whole cherry tomatoes and return to the oven for another 15 minutes, until the tomatoe skins split and the sweet potatoes are soft when pierced.
Meanwhile, place the quinoa and bouillon powder in a pan and cover with boiling water (2 parts water to 1 part quinoa). Bring to the boil and simmer for 12-15 minutes until the liquid is absorbed and the grains are fluffy.
5 minutes before the vegetables are ready place the pumkin seeds on a baking tray and toast them in the oven.
Stir the roast vegetables and the Super Green Mix into the quinoa, sprinkle the pumkin seeds ontop, ready to eat.
Our favourate at the moment.
