How to Bring Conscious Cooking into Your Kitchen

What we eat builds the foundations of our health, and yet so many of us have such a complicated relationship with food. If you are willing to work on that relationship, you can develop a healthier attitude and learn to listen to your body’s natural cues.
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Having an awareness of what you eat, the beliefs you hold around food and thinking about what you are putting into your body can help to promote healthy habits that encourage both mental and physical wellness.  Controlling your eating and making healthy choices doesn’t have to mean bland, you can feel excited about food changes and not restricted. 

With the festive season just around the corner, why not bring a little conscious cooking into your kitchen. See the real benefit that incorporating herbs and spices into your food can make, such as food being more exciting/flavoursome without added calories as well as being a great substitute for salt, sugar and saturated fat.

Why not try some of the following herbs and spices in your cooking:

• Basil and chives can be eaten in salads, soups, with fish or chicken and are great for lowering blood pressure

• Adding Coriander to your cooking can help with high cholesterol.

• Nutmeg has natural pain-relieving qualities and can help to improve sleep. Why not try a little pinch of nutmeg in warm milk before bed.

• Vitamin B3 helps in reducing cholesterol and can be naturally be found in turkey, chicken and mushrooms.

• Rosemary can be added to potatoes, to season meats or sauces and is good for the heart, relives stress, lifts the mood and is a multivitamin herb.

• Parsley is good with fish, in sauces or with vegetables and is a high source of antioxidants and helps strengthen the immune system.

• Mustard leaves can liven up a salad or in cooked foods, it’s a good source of selenium, omega fatty acids and importantly dietary fibre.

• Garlic can be added during cooking or in sauces as it contains Allium and has potent medicinal properties, including the positive effect on the cardiovascular system and helps the body to maintain healthy blood pressure and good cholesterol.

• Cinnamon is particulary good for those who have IBS flare ups, adding cinnamon to both savory and sweet foods can help.

If possible try to use herbs in their fresh form and if cooking add when the food is almost finished cooking to retain the flavour and aroma.

*Please be mindful of any allergies you may have when selecting herbs and spices. 

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