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"Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all."
Harriot Van Horne
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Tomato Lentil Dahl
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Louise trained as a Nutritional Adviser as a result of the death of her father from bowel cancer. Whilst living in Thailand she was introduced to fasting for health and spiritual development. She discovered that fasting not only cleaned out the body, creating increased energy but also allowed the mind to become incredibly clear. Having been a chef for 15 years, she experimented with various health food disciplines including Vegan, Low GL, Macrobiotics and Raw Food Preparation. She continued her Healthy Eating education with The Holistic Cooking School In Totnes and Daphne Lambert of Green Cuisine.
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Raw Carrot Cake
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Louise offers Nutritional and Kitchen Clean Up Consultations. She is also a Zest4life Practitioner and assists clients to lose weight through understanding how to incorporate a healthy eating and exercise plan into their lives.
Louise teaches Healthy Eating workshops on retreats with Jiva Healing and The Lifestyle Retreat and currently teaches Nutrition and Vegetarian Cooking workshops in Balham.
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| Nutritional Consultations |
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Nutritional Consultation - First Session 2 Hours
This includes nutritional advice based on a health questionnaire and food diary that you fill out.
Nutritional information on the best way to eat in order to have safe, long term weight loss.
A Tanita scales analysis on weight including fat %, water content, muscle mass, viscerol fat, metabollic age, metabollic rate.
An action plan of what changes need to happen to your diet and how you are going to incorporate them.
Nutritional handouts about Low GL eating including menu examples.
Following this, you can choose to have additional one off support sessions or book in for 6/12 week course of support sessions including unlimited email/phone support.
The follow up sessions are designed to support you with whatever issues come up for you. They may include looking at sabotage patterns, making time available, recipe ideas, increasing confidence and self esteem, food allergies, detox.
Kitchen Clean Up Consultation – Consists of 2 x 2 Hour consultations
Includes
- Nutritional Consultation
- PLUS
- Kitchen rescue…we will go through your food cupboards and identify the nasties.
- Discuss suitable alternatives to them.
- Make a shopping list of necessary food basics and equipment if required.
- Create a weeks menu made up of your favourite healthy foods taking into consideration time available and cooking skills.
- Discuss your lifestyle, work and exercise programme and provide workable strategies for improving energy, immune system and quality of life.
For Health and Weightloss Coaching click here |
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| Teaching Philosophy |
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In the nutritional consultations and kitchen workshops I will share with you my knowledge and experience of cooking healthy food in order to maximise energy levels, reduce digestive problems and maintain a healthy weight.. I also encourage the same principles as we learn in yoga.
To stay open to new experiences and tastes, to be willing to make changes where necessary. To be consistent but not rigid in the practice of healthy eating. To have more awareness of what we put into our bodies and greater mindfulness of the way we do this. To accept that there is no single way and that it is through experimentation, inquiry and persistence that we find the individual path.
When I cook, I am inspired by the never ending possibilities offered in recipe books but it is when I cook without a set recipe that I enter a meditative space where the creative juices can truly flow! I have also found that cooking with joy truly makes the food taste better!!
It is no myth that the energy of the cook enters the food that is being prepared.
My emphasis is on a light hearted approach to eating. I do not believe in calorie counting. Food preparation should be fun and creative. Eating should be a blissful experience !
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| Yogic Eating |
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"One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating."
Luciano Pavarotti
The Ancient Yogis were responsible for developing a concept of a balanced whole foods diet and an eating philosophy alongside the physical practice. The powerful combination of balanced nutrition and yoga asana practice helps in maintaining a strong and healthy body, a stress-free mind and a positive attitude towards life. A balanced wholefood diet ensures that all the faculties of digestion work smoothly - absorption, assimilation and elimination.
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It is extremely important that all these aspects work well together. Processed foods which are high in sugar, salt and saturated fats create conditions that disturb this balance leading to health problems such as constipation, indigestion, irritable bowel, allergies and cancer.
The purpose of eating is to supply the body with Prana or life force energy which allows physical and mental efficiency. Dull or Tamasic foods not only have a detrimental effect on the body, they block Spiritual awareness.
Healthy eating keeps the body light and supple and the mind calm and clear.
A healthy diet is based as much as possible on natural organic foods. ie foods in their natural state, straight from mother nature, grown in fertile soil without processing, packaging or chemicals.
Good nutrition results from the correct proportions and types of proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. Foods retain more of their nutrients when eaten raw or lightly cooked. A Yogic diet consists of a pure, simple diet of wholefoods which are easily digestable and assimilated in order to sustain the body and promote health by keeping the immune system strong.
The philosophy of Yogic Eating includes eating in moderation, eating only when hungry and eating with mindfulness.
Unhealthy habits occur when we do not give these aspects consideration. Often our attitudes towards food are linked to childhood experiences .We sometimes tend to eat when we are upset, using food as a comfort for the emptiness that we feel. Poor eating habits will cause our senses to be dull so that we are not even able to notice how much we eat or how it tastes.
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| Recipe Gallery |
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Wake Up Smoothie
- 2 Ripe Peach, stone removed
- 2 Tbsp Oats
- 2 Tbsp Almonds
- 2 Tbsp Hemp Seeds
- 1 Cup Fresh Carrot/Apple Juice
- 1 Cup Water
- Maple Syrup to Sweeten if necessary
Combine in a Blender
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Almond Butter Spinach
Dressing
- 4 tbsp Almond Butter
- 1 Clove Garlic crushed
- 1 tbsp Tamari
- 1tbsp Lemon Juice
Combine dressing ingredients in a food processor add 250g spinach and blend until almost smooth. This can also be made by hand by finely chopping the spinach.
Pumpkin and Coconut Chickpea soup
Dressing
- 450g/1lb Butternut Squash peeled and diced
- 1 Tsp Coconut Oil
- 1 onion peeled and diced
- 2 Cloves garlic peeled and crushed
- 2 tsp Thai Red curry paste (optional- for more spice!)
- 6 oz cooked chickpeas
- 1 Tin Coconut milk
- 200 ml/7floz water
- 2 tsp Marigold Vegetable Stock Powder
- Juice 1 lime
- Seasalt
Saute the onion and garlic in coconut oil for 5 minutes. Add the Butternut squash and the curry paste (if using) and a pinch of seasalt and continue to cook with the lid on the pan for another 5 minutes, adding a dash of water to prevent it sticking to the bottom of the pan. Add the coconut milk, chickpeas, water and stock powder. Bring to the boil and simmer for 10-15 minutes until the pumpkin is cooked then remove from the heat. Puree in a blender and add the lime juice. Check the seasoning. Add more water for a thinner soup. Serve with a sprinkle of fresh coriander.
Scarlet Quinoa Salad
- 1 ½ Cups Quinoa soaked
- 2 Beetroot , peeled or scrubbed and diced
- Rind of ½ lemon
- 2 cups Vegetable Stock
Dressing – 2tbsp ex V Olive Oil, 2tbsp lemon Juice, 2tbsp Chopped Chives, SP
- 100g Feta cheese diced
- handful Pumpkin Seeds
Place first 4 ingredients in a saucepan. Simmer until liquid absorbed and Quinoa soft, approx 8 mins Remove from pan and add dressing. Serve warm or cold sprinkled with Feta and Pumpkin Seeds
Healthy Chocolate Truffles
- 100g Brazil/Pecan/walnuts Nuts soaked for 2 hours(choose your favourite!)
- 50g Soaked Dates.
- 1 tbsp Organic Cocoa Powder ( plus 2tbsp extra)
- 1 tbsp Coconut Butter (optional)
Blend and form into balls, roll in the extra cocoa powder if desired, chill, eat !
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