primal cavewife

• Preheat oven to 200C.
• Line baking tray with baking paper and set aside.
• Mix all the ingredients together with a fork or your hands.
• Roll the mix into balls and place them on the tray.
• Bake in the oven at 200C for 25-30 minutes.

• Slice the sweet potato really thinly. The thinner it is, the crispier they become when you fry them.
• In a frying pan, heat up the coconut oil and place a layer of thinly sliced sweet potato.
• Sprinkle the cinnamon powder over the sweet potato and flip them over once the bottom is golden brown. Once both sides have turned golden brown and let it set for a couple minutes before serving so they turn crispy.

• Make sure the spinach is washed because they get quite sandy.
• Once all fruits and vege have been laid out, turn the juicer on and juice away!
• For best results, place spinach and parsley between two apples or pears so you get more juice out of them or else they just go through the juicer.
• Enjoy!

This is my second interval of intermittent fasting. I say second, but really it’s probably my third or fourth try. But this is my second successful week. Though successful, it was not a very good one. I have chia seeds in the day and dinner. My dinners consist of mostly take away rice noodles and ice-cream. It has been a naughty fast, but I haven’t been feeling hungry during the day when I’m fasting. Even though I have been naughty and have been eating ice-cream and bad carbs, my stomach has shrunk. It’s not completely flat – I’ve never had a flat belly. But it is definitely flatter. I can’t really compare it to my previous fast because I didn’t notice it so much. But this fast I definitely noticed some changes. I look in the mirror and my legs, belly and arms look slimmer. I weighed myself a couple days ago and have lost a kilo. Last fast I lost about 2-3kg. I may weigh myself tonight if I remember and hopefully I have lost at least another kilo or two, though I can’t be too sure as I have been eating naughty food. Crossing my fingers and see how it goes.

I have recently been addicted to coconut water. It’s got heaps of health benefits, it’s sweet and refreshing. DE-LICIOUS! Unfortunately it’s super expensive to get them in Australia. It’s about $2-$3 for a coconut and that gives you a lot of water and you get to eat the meat as well! But it’s very difficult to cut one open yourself. Alternatively you could get the bottled ones which are $3-$4 for about 330ml. And they just don’t really taste the same as the ones you get from coconuts even if they say its 100% coconut water.

My boyfriend loves documentaries. That is pretty much all he watches. That and youtube videos. This is one of the first few I watched on healthy. It's called Eat, Fast and Live Longer.

It's about how intermittent fasting can be very beneficial to our health. It's a very interesting concept so I decided to give it a go.

What I did:

I would try to fast for at least 16 hours a day. So I would have dinner early and finish before 7pm. I would then begin my fast and break it at around 12pm the next day. I did this for about a week and lost approximately 2kg and have managed to keep the weight off 2 weeks later without fasting.

Sometimes I would set 2-3 days of the week aside where I only have dinner.

I won't lie. It is hard the first couple of days. You'll be thinking about food all the time, especially if you work in an office. It's hard not to be munching on something. But after the first couple of days, it gets easier. You feel cleansed and will understand your body much better. You will begin to realise that you do not have to put food in your mouth every few minutes and only do so when you feel hungry. But to be honest, you don't feel hunger pangs when you're on the diet anyway.

Give it a go and let me know what your intermittent fasting routine is and if it worked for you!

My boyfriend brought home bags of sweet potatoes one day from a friend's house so I had to come up with some ways to cook them all so they don't go to waste. This morning I made sweet potato hash browns (with bacon and eggs and mushrooms) and he loved it!

Ingredients:
2 cups sweet potatoes, grated
1 egg
salt
pepper
cinnamon

• Beat the egg and mix it with the grated sweet potatoes.
• Add salt, pepper and cinnamon to taste.
• On a frying pan, heat coconut oil over medium heat.
• Place a forkful of sweet potato mix onto the frying pan and press it down to form a cake. Repeat until you have enough of little hash browns covering your frying pan.
• Cook for about 5 minutes or until the bottom is golden brown before you flip it over.
• When both sides have turned golden brown, it is ready to be served with whatever you want for breakfast!