Staying Healthy when working from Home
We’ve all heard the phrase, breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so why not kick start your day in a healthy way with a healthy breakfast packed full of nutrients and flavour!
MOMA has a great range of different gluten-free flavoured oats, you can find coconut and chia, cranberry and raisin, golden syrup, super seeds and of course original. You can top up your porridge with all sorts of fruit and seeded goodness.
A little bored of the supermarket standard breakfast seeds? then venture into the nuts and seeds from Boundless, with their unsual and tantalising flavours. You can find: Tamari and Aleppo, orange ginger and maple, and turmeric and smoked paprika.
Top it off with fruit of your choice and MOMA oat milk and you have a breakfast bowl perfect to kick start your morning.
MOMA – https://www.momafoods.co.uk
Boundless – https://weareboundless.co.uk
You can also get yourself gluten-free porridge oats from nairns. But they offer much much more than porridge oats. In need of a smaller breakfast? Try out the biscuit breaks, buttery and flavoursome. They only contain 46 calories per biscuit, which is ideal for anyone looking to cut down on calories. You can see the full range by visiting: https://www.nairns-oatcakes.com
KIND also offers up delicious breakfast bars. They recently launched three delicious soft-baked bars. Blueberry almond, peanut butter and honey oat. They are high in fibre, gluten free and they feature a nutritious base of five whole grains; oats, millet, buckwheat, amaranth and quinoa.
Lunching at home means you have the luxury of spending more time in the kitchen to make some yummy recipes which is great, if you are looking for something light which doesn’t take too much time and effort, you can try making summer rolls. Where to start I hear you cry…
Kaleido sells salad roll paper, they are gluten free and has only 30 calories per sheet Win-Win! You can fill kaleido salad rolls with whatever you fancy, vegetables found at home or get yourself some yummy vegetables from the supermarket and go to town in creating a rainbow of colours! Lunch just got exciting!
They cost £3.95 per pack and can be purchased from www.kaleidorolls.com
Lockdown has caused a lot of us to put on unwanted weight, which let’s be honest can be hard to loose, for some, gyms aren’t as desirable as they once were and we are moving less and less while working from home. Cutting down on calories can be easier when trying out the Balance with Everymoon, a new vegan, food replacement. Balance by Everymoon, is made from natural ingredients including pea protein, pumpkin seed powder, coconut medium chain triglycerides and an extract from the leaves of a South American shrub. It also contains evening primrose oil and folic acid. Two scoops and 400ml of water or milk, give it a shake and you are good to go!
There are two options to choose from Vanilla or chocolate at £29.50 or £49.50 for the duo-pack bundle – www.everymoon.co.uk
Herbal tea is great in relieving anxiety and helping you to relax while lounging on the sofa after a long day at work, but it can also keep you relaxed while working on your computer throughout the day. SULTAN tea is an online shop with a range of Moroccan blends, to suit any mood.
Verbana tea is therapeutic and calming, the green tea with jasmine offers the cleansing and destressing qualities of green tea while pairing it with the antioxidants and anti-inflammatories that come with the inclusion of rich jasmine. The list could go on and on, and we can’t get enough!
View the full range here: www.sultantea.com
After a full day of work, its easy to crack open a bottle of fizz to unwind with, however one to many and it can have an effect on our bodies. There are some great non-alcoholic aperitifs on the market which are delicious, refreshing and doesn’t include a hangover the next day.
Everleaf is bright and full of bittersweet complexity designed to be mixed with soda water or tonic to create a refreshingly summertime spritz. Everleaf is created with natural plant ingredients working together to create a balance of flavour and texture. Want the perfect refreshing summer drink, go for: 1 part Everleaf, 3 parts light tonic, garnished with an orange wedge and you can drink untill your heart is content!
Everleaf is available for £18 at www.everleafdrinks.com, Amazon, and in Sainsbury’s.
