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Are you one of those who rush through breakfast or maybe skip it all together?

I know a lot of people who hate eating breakfast (and some who loves it maybe a little bit too much..).

But I do have a really good and healthy recipe you could try in the morning if you are one of those who find it a bit hard eating when you just woke up.

This is a recipe for a really tasty smoothie:

1 dl of frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, maybe a mix of both. Use what you like the best=) )

1 dl yoghurt

1 dl of fruit juice (preferably use one that contains a healthy bacterial culture, but this is not necessary, but good for your stomach)

Sprinkle some wheat bran and fruit sugar over this.

Now mix everything together in a mixer, and drink it.

One of these drinks contain about 150 Calories, depending on what ingredients you use. So maybe you need to eat something more so you won’t get hungry before lunch (and risk the possibility of treating yourself with a snack meanwhile..).

I hope you will enjoy it!

All the best!

Tove

Fancy something sweet for the weekend?
Here are some tips on healthy substitute for this weekend’s gluttony:

Ice cream:
Buy a creamy Greek yogurt, or yogurt with vanilla flavor and put in the freezer for a while.
It almost tastes like ice cream!
Sprinkle with some raspberries or blueberries maybe and your dessert is served!

Candy:
Try dried fruit. It is a great way to get rid of the worst cravings for sweets. It is also good for those of us who likes to watch a movie and eat during the whole film (as I do).

Crisps/potato chips?
Well, the chips is hard to find a good substitute for if you don’t buy chips made of root vegetables, but I cannot say whether they are tasty or not, I have never tried them. But I will do so if I happen to stumble across a few soon.

Dip
I don’t know how this works in other countries, but I usually buy a bag of flavor mix that I mix with some yoghurt. Then just put it in the fridge for 15 minutes and it’s ready. Chop some cucumber and carrots into sticks and use them as dip-devices. Yum!

Have a nice weekend everyone!

To begin with, I would like to apologize for this blog post. I do not really know why I necessarily had to post it.
It all started out with a pretty nice thought. I pondered over how hard it can be to decide what to eat for lunch or dinner.
And therefore I thought that I perhaps could share a salad recipe with you, as a lunch-tip.
Now you should know that I’m terribly bad at cooking. No, I do not think you understand to what degree I can mess things up in the kitchen.

Ok, now, here’s my tuna salad (a recipe I think relatively few people can fail to prepare).

1. Start by boiling a few eggs. A relatively easy task.

Here you may begin to suspect that I am not star in the kitchen, the egg cracked and everything started to resemble some sort of cross between boiled eggs and scrambled eggs. (These are the eggs that got out of the saucepan in a fairly good condition.)

2. Chop vegetables while the eggs boil.
Mmm, here you might think that I cut myself or something like that. But that actually happens surprisingly rarely (mostly due to my very blunt knife).
So, put in all the vegetables you like.
Yep, I only had cucumber and a jar of corn at home. (Obviously I also lack talent in shopping groceries.) Well … moving on.

3. Boil some pasta. Success, nothing went wrong. It even got cooked in a perfect amount of time.

4. While pasta is boiling, add a jar of tuna to your salad.

5.  Nope, sorry, add 2 (since my salad lacks almost every ingredient, I needed to fill it up with something!)

6. Add the eggs and pasta when it has cooled off, and mix everything around.
7. Enjoy the salad with some cottage cheese, and perhaps a glass of sparkling water.

Again, so sorry for this post, do not prepare this food! Taste horrible.
No, actually it was pretty good, but by the look of it …. I do not blame you for doubting me

Ok, well, that’s that. Hope you are looking forward to my next recipe tip I been thinking about sharing with you!
No, but seriously, wouldn’t it be nice with a recipe blog, with someone who actually can cook? Perhaps he/she could give tips on good and healthy food, etc and how to prepare it. (Even for those of us who are really bad at cooking, but still like to learn and eat healthy!)
Maybe something for the future, or what do you think?