These Paleo Muffins are an old favourite. Back in the day when I was competing in marathons, triathlons and Ironman events, I was always looking for healthy snacks to eat. These Paleo muffins were high on my list and a batch of 10 would never last long.
These muffins are loaded with bananas, shredded carrots, and walnuts. These easy muffins have NO added sugar – they’re sweetened entirely with bananas! They’re the perfect on-the-go snack.
As the saying goes “men are from Mars, and women are from Venus.” So should we eat a different diet? It’s not that simple, but there are some valid reasons why specific diets have different gender outcomes. Body image and social pressure affect both men and women in terms of health and happiness. Unfortunately, many health and fitness professionals make the problem worse by encouraging unrealistic goals that can have detrimental impacts on the wellbeing of their clients. This is especially true for female clients as their hormones can be easily disrupted by the wrong diet or training methods.
Is there a nutrition secret to going harder, faster, stronger, and longer? There is a whole mythology built up around “eating to perform": protein powders, carbohydrate back-loading, intermittent fasting, post-workout macronutrient ratios, etc. We've been told that carbohydrates are bad for us? But don’t we need carbohydrates to fuel our high-intensity training sessions? One of my teachers used to say, “most people don’t deserve carbohydrates, you can have carbohydrates in your diet, but they have to be clean carbohydrates.” The best way to determine if it’s a clean carbohydrate is to ask the questions, “did a caveman have access to it?”
I often use sweet potato instead of butternut, cavolo nero or chard instead of spinach. Also, the recipe was originally vegetarian. I like to add diced veil/beef/pork depending on what I have at hand so I don’t have to worry about preparing proteins on the side. I often use bone broth instead of vegetable stock, again depending on what I have.
Bone broth is one of the richest sources of proteins (collagen and gelatin that can’t be found in muscle meat), amino acids (such as glycine, proline, glutamine) and minerals (calcium, magnesium, copper, iron, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, sodium, zinc). It can improve gut and cardiovascular system functions, skin health, bones joints and muscles, liver and kidney function, brain and eye health, immune system function and sleep quality.
This recipe was created by our friend Alessia Beltrame. She has been working as a chef for years, has a background in pastry and is extremely passionate about food. Most of her recipes feature potatoes in a way or another, an ingredient that’s very popular in her home region in the North-East of Italy.
Another dish that’s traditional in my hometown. It’s mostly cooked in Summer (July and August) when peppers are (used to be?) at their best. Don’t be tempted to use chicken breasts instead of thighs because the fatty meat makes all the difference. What I like the most about this dish is the pepper-favoured juice that I would normally mop up with plenty of sourdough… Not this month!
