RBH Happy Café Hapus - Fitness Blog: Food Suggestions and Workout Ideas

In line with other posts of ways to eat a healthy diet and a twist on how to plan your meals for the day – here is purple. Enjoy!

Breakfast – Pancakes made with protein flour if poss. (use bread flour if you can’t source) and for those of you who want more protein, you can even make it with your protein shake and have a chocolate or strawberry flavoured one – top with blueberries – either cold with some Greek yogurt or heat with a small amount of maple syrup until the berries pop (about 2 mins). Or blackberries, pumpkin seeds with Greek yogurt, or two soft boiled eggs with some purple asparagus to dip in.

Mid Morning Snack – Acai and Greek yogurt (use blueberries if you can’t get these) – top with toasted sunflower seeds. Or a handful or raisin and Brazil nuts or two figs with a handful of almonds

Lunch – Steamed purple sprouting broccoli with salmon, or salad with some crunchy red cabbage, beetroot and feta cheese, or vegetarian chilli with brown rice

Mid Afternoon snack - Wholemeal Pitta bread stuffed with tuna (tinned with water drained) add some red onion and red vinegar, or a handful of black seedless grapes and nuts or 2 slices of soreen bread

Evening Meal – Roasted Aubergines with a box of cheery tomatoes, rosemary and mint, add some feta cheese and brown basmati rice Or, oven baked spicy red cabbage (layer, red cabbage, red onion and apples with cumin seed and some chilli, add a tablespoon of red vinegar a small amount of butter, s plash of water, cover with foil and oven bake) with chicken breast and greens Or puy (or green) lentils roasted with rosemary and served with healthy sausages and greens 0 http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3026/purple-sprouting-broccoli-with-parmesan-and-herbed

Or this lovely recipe from Jamie - http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fish-recipes/pan-roasted-salmon-with-purple-sprouting-broccoli-and-anchovy-rosemary-sauce/

Late evening snack – shredded wheat with skimmed milk and black grapes or porridge with a spoonful of blackcurrant jam

Drinks – any purple smoothy! Blackcurrant or liquorice tea

http://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fruit-recipes/super-smoothies/#WsOGCYvWuJgfMO0W.97

Exercise – yep, get a purple face day. So interval training here we go:

Outdoors – walk for 5 mins then pick a hill. Run 10 steps, walk 10. Repeat 4 times. Run 20 steps walk 10 repeat 4 times, finally run 30 steps walk 10. Repeat 4 times – if where you live is flat, then do this carrying a weight anywhere between 20 – 40% of your bodyweight, so think about carrying a breeze block a small child (! Could be fun) or weights.