The festive season is all about connection, joy, and coming together around the table. At Eat Burn Sleep, we believe food is so much more than fuel; it’s social, emotional, and deeply human. Sharing meals helps lower stress, support mental wellbeing, and calm the nervous system, all of which play an essential role in keeping chronic inflammation in check. This is why enjoyment and togetherness are just as important as what’s on your plate.
That’s where our 80/20 lifestyle truly shines. Instead of aiming for perfection, we focus on balance. When around 80% of your choices nourish your body with anti-inflammatory, gut-friendly foods, there’s plenty of room for festive favourites, flexibility, and traditions you love, without guilt or restriction. This gentle, sustainable approach supports hormone balance, digestion, and long-term health, while still letting you fully enjoy the season.
Below, you’ll find a festive recipe collection created to help you feel your best while celebrating, because looking after your health and enjoying special moments should always go hand in hand.
Recipes marked with * are public. Full anti-inflammatory guidance, education, and seasonal support are available inside the Eat Burn Sleep Membership.
As you enjoy these festive recipes, remember that health isn’t about restriction or missing out on moments that matter. The Eat Burn Sleep 80/20 lifestyle is about nourishing your body most of the time, and wholeheartedly enjoying food, connection, and celebration when it counts.
Cooking, sharing meals, and gathering around a table bring people together in ways that support digestion, reduce stress, and naturally lower inflammation. Food is joy, tradition, and community. Listen to your body, savour each bite, and trust that its consistency over time, not one meal or one week, that creates lasting health and balance.
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Festive Recipes for Gut Health
The holiday season is a time to gather, celebrate, and indulge in delicious meals. However, traditional festive foods can sometimes leave us feeling heavy or inflamed due to excess sugar, refined carbs, and saturated fats. This can affect not just our overall wellness but also our gut health.
A happy gut is key to reducing inflammation, improving digestion, and boosting energy—so why not make it a focus this festive season?
Not only are these dishes nourishing, but they’re also bursting with festive flavors to keep everyone at your table satisfied and glowing from the inside out.
Additionally, incorporating gut-friendly ingredients—such as low-sugar, grain-free, and dairy-free options—can make holiday recipes more inclusive for those with specific dietary needs. By prioritizing gut health during the festive season, these recipes not only accommodate various preferences but also promote overall well-being, ensuring that holiday meals are both enjoyable and nourishing.
Festive Gut Friendly Recipes- Nourish, Celebrate, Thrive!
In this article, I will share some delicious and nutritious recipes that will satisfy your taste buds and support a healthy gut.
During the holiday season, our digestive system often faces challenges due to the consumption of alcohol and rich foods, leading to frequent indigestion. This year, consider incorporating gut-friendly ingredients such as miso, sauerkraut, and coconut yogurt into your diet. These foods are rich in beneficial bacteria and probiotics, supporting the optimal functioning of your gut and digestive system.
Adding these recipes to your festive menu will not only delight your guests but also support your overall well-being.
This simple and easy-to-make hot chocolate is a perfect alternative to shop-bought ones and is not only comforting and nourishing but anti-inflammatory, too. Indulge in the rich and creamy goodness of this delightful treat.
My Moroccan spiced coffee is fantastic as it contains cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and clove. These warming spices have incredible anti-inflammatory properties that help stabilize your blood sugar levels and offset some of the adverse effects of caffeine. See how easy it is and perfect for the season. I cannot wait for you to try it.
Devilled eggs are a classic festive dish that never fails to impress. With their creamy, tangy filling and beautiful presentation, they are sure to be a hit at any festive gathering.
These little bites of goodness are a crowd-pleaser and a great way to kick off any meal or gathering. These crackers are perfectly gut-friendly healthy snacks with a wonderfully satisfying crunch.
This would work perfectly with the salmon spread for festive, gut-friendly nibbles. You can also serve it on its own with crudites. This guacamole contains no raw onions, which can be hard to digest sometimes, so I hope you all enjoy it!
This salad would work great as a starter or served with crackers. Packed with omega-3 rich salmon and crab, this vibrant salad supports digestive health while offering a burst of flavor and color to impress your guests.
Christmas Chicken with bacon, a delectable twist on the traditional turkey! This mouthwatering dish will inspire you to create a memorable holiday feast. Succulent chicken, perfectly seasoned and roasted to perfection, wrapped in crispy, smoky bacon. The combination of flavors is simply irresistible.
Carrots are incredibly nutritious and are a fantastic prebiotic for your microbiota, reducing inflammation and taking care of your immune system. They are excellent for skin, hair, nails, and eyes and are anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant. Paired with parsnips, this dish makes a warming side dish to your traditional roast dinner. Especially with the fantastic rich, earthy, warm, and citrus of cumin, the anti-inflammatory spice!
This is a wonderful way of preparing this superfood – that will support and protect your gut. This is all you need to do to enjoy sweet potato’s nutrition and taste. Make it in advance and reheat it on the day of serving.
Packed with fiber, vitamins, and minerals, this dish gentle on the digestive system and helps support a healthy gut microbiome. Make it in advance and reheat it on the day of serving.
You have to try this cranberry sauce recipe! It’s caramelized, tangy, woody, and slightly tart, with a deep berry flavor and a slight spice of heady cinnamon.
If you are looking for a cookie recipe to make during the Christmas holidays and enjoy with the kids, this is for you! They are grain-free, dairy-free & gluten-free, and they taste delicious! They are perfectly seasoned with a combination of spices. All spices used possess anti-inflammatory properties and offer excellent nutritional benefits!
This anti-inflammatory pie tastes like a delicious traditional dessert, but it is refined sugar-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, grain-free, and GUILT-free! It will leave you feeling satisfied without the symptoms of bloating or overindulgence.
What better way to celebrate the season than with the delightful aroma of cinnamon oranges filling the air? Cinnamon oranges are a classic holiday treat that brings a touch of magic to any gathering. The sweet citrus scent combined with the comforting spice of cinnamon creates a symphony of flavors that instantly transports us to a place of happiness and nostalgia.
A spectacular speculoos biscuit recipe: the healthy version of the traditional recipe, which means that your gut microbiota will love them, too! The warming, sweet, aromatic, creamy, citrus, peppery, and spicy flavors make these biscuits incredible.
This chocolate mousse is easy to make, delicious, and simple. You can use nice glasses for individual portions and garnish them with nuts, berries, or cacao nibs.
Christmas is a time of celebration and indulgence, but that doesn’t mean we have to compromise our health. All recipes on the Eat Burn Sleep platform are designed to satisfy your taste buds while keeping your gut happy.
Delight your friends, family, and loved ones with flavorful recipes that are easy on your digestive system so you can enjoy your holiday feast comfortably and confidently.
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Festive Gut-Friendly Recipes
Gut-friendly recipes play a crucial role in promoting overall health, especially during the holidays when indulgent food is abundant. These recipes focus on incorporating ingredients that support gut health, such as fiber-rich vegetables and low-sugar options. For a delicious and healthy Christmas salad, one can mix fresh ingredients like pumpkin and coconut yogurt, creating a gut-friendly dish that is both tasty and nourishing. Additionally, incorporating gut-friendly ingredients, like low-sugar, grain-free and dairy-free options, can make holiday recipes more suitable for those with specific dietary needs. By being mindful of gut health during the holiday season, these recipes ensure that festive meals contribute positively to overall well-being.
Festive Gut Friendly Recipes- Nourish, Celebrate, Thrive!
In this article, I will share some delicious and nutritious recipes that will satisfy your taste buds and support a healthy gut.
During the holiday season, our digestive system often faces challenges due to the consumption of alcohol and rich foods, leading to frequent indigestion. This year, consider incorporating gut-friendly ingredients such as miso, sauerkraut, and coconut yogurt into your diet. These foods are rich in beneficial bacteria and probiotics, supporting the optimal functioning of your gut and digestive system.
Incorporating these recipes into your festive season menu will impress your guests and support your overall well-being.
This simple and easy-to-make hot chocolate is a perfect alternative to shop-bought ones and is not only comforting and nourishing but anti-inflammatory, too. Indulge in the rich and creamy goodness of this delightful treat.
My Moroccan spiced coffee is fantastic as it contains cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and clove. These warming spices have incredible anti-inflammatory properties that help stabilize your blood sugar levels and offset some of the adverse effects of caffeine. See how easy it is and perfect for the season. I cannot wait for you to try it.
Devilled eggs are a classic festive dish that never fails to impress. With their creamy, tangy filling and beautiful presentation, they are sure to be a hit at any festive gathering.
These little bites of goodness are a crowd-pleaser and a great way to kick off any meal or gathering. These crackers are perfectly gut-friendly healthy snacks with a wonderfully satisfying crunch.
This would work perfectly with the salmon spread for festive, gut-friendly nibbles. You can also serve it on its own with crudites. This guacamole contains no raw onions, which can be hard to digest sometimes, so I hope you all enjoy it!
Christmas Chicken with bacon, a delectable twist on the traditional turkey! This mouthwatering dish will inspire you to create a memorable holiday feast. Succulent chicken, perfectly seasoned and roasted to perfection, wrapped in crispy, smoky bacon. The combination of flavors is simply irresistible.
Carrots are incredibly nutritious and are a fantastic prebiotic for your microbiota, reducing inflammation and taking care of your immune system. They are excellent for skin, hair, nails, and eyes and are anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant. Paired with parsnips, this dish makes a warming side dish to your traditional roast dinner. Especially with the fantastic rich, earthy, warm, and citrus of cumin, the anti-inflammatory spice!
This is a wonderful way of preparing this superfood – that will support and protect your gut. This is all you need to do to enjoy sweet potato’s nutrition and taste. Make it in advance and reheat it on the day of serving.
You have to try this cranberry sauce recipe! It’s caramelized, tangy, woody, and slightly tart, with a deep berry flavor and a slight spice of heady cinnamon.
If you are looking for a cookie recipe to make during the Christmas holidays and enjoy with the kids, this is for you! They are grain-free, dairy-free & gluten-free, and they taste delicious! They are perfectly seasoned with a combination of spices. All spices used possess anti-inflammatory properties and offer excellent nutritional benefits!
This anti-inflammatory pie tastes like a delicious traditional dessert, but it is refined sugar-free, gluten-free, dairy-free, grain-free, and GUILT-free! It will leave you feeling satisfied without the symptoms of bloating or overindulgence.
What better way to celebrate the season than with the delightful aroma of cinnamon oranges filling the air? Cinnamon oranges are a classic holiday treat that brings a touch of magic to any gathering. The sweet citrus scent combined with the comforting spice of cinnamon creates a symphony of flavors that instantly transports us to a place of happiness and nostalgia.
A spectacular speculoos biscuit recipe: the healthy version of the traditional recipe, which means that your gut microbiota will love them, too! The warming, sweet, aromatic, creamy, citrus, peppery, and spicy flavors make these biscuits incredible.
These little chocolate bombs are easy to make, delicious, and simple. You can use nice glasses for individual portions and garnish them with nuts, berries, or cacao nibs.
Christmas is a time of celebration and indulgence, but that doesn’t mean we have to compromise our health. All recipes on the Eat Burn Sleep platform are designed to satisfy your taste buds while keeping your gut happy.
Indulge in mouthwatering dishes that are not only festive but also beneficial for your gut health and overall wellness. Impress your friends, family, and loved ones while being gentle on your digestive system, ensuring you can enjoy your holiday feast without any discomfort.
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Anti-inflammatory Appetizers Menu
Best Appetizer Recipes to Suit Everyone
Hello Everyone! For this post, I have put a list of anti-inflammatory appetizers together to make it easy for you. You can quickly adapt it and add some of our amazing salads and mains if you want more than appetizers.
When you have friends and family coming over for drinks and appetizers, what do you serve? You may be very busy, but you want to wow everyone and have to consider everyone’s conditions. Someone may have a digestive issue (unfortunately, so many people do), a few people may be trying to lose weight, someone has chronic inflammation or autoimmune disease, and there are kids, etc.
This list of easy anti-inflammatory appetizers will suit everyone, from those who have to watch what they eat to the ones who don’t! Plus, nobody will feel bloated or uncomfortable afterward. I have even added easy-to-make delicious desserts. Kids love Eat Burn Sleep recipes, too! Enjoy!
Each recipe will tell you about quantities and whether you can make them ahead of time.
Our anti-inflammatory, non-fattening recipes are good for weight loss and are delicious and nutritious.
(Rather than focusing on calories, we focus on gut health at Eat Burn Sleep. It’s much more efficient for losing weight, and you get to eat more and feel satisfied for longer).
Also, all of these anti-inflammatory recipes will make everyone happier (if they eat anti-inflammatory foods every day, that is)! Not just because they all taste incredible but scientifically.
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November 27, 2022
5 Acid Reflux-friendly Dessert Recipes
Happy, Heartburn-free Holidays!
Hello Everyone! I decided to post some GERD-friendly, easily digestible dessert recipes for this post, following on from GERD Awareness Week.
Firstly, studies show that more and more people suffer from gastrointestinal discomforts like acid reflux, heartburn, and non-cardiac chest pain after eating.
Secondly, many people bake more around holiday times and look for amazing-tasting healthy dessert recipes.
Thirdly, baking is a beautiful, de-stressing, focused, and creative activity that ultimately will contribute to easing GERD symptoms like digestion and stomach acid production.
So, if you have GERD, acid reflux, or heartburn, baking these will not only be an activity that will help your condition – but you will be able to eat your creations with pleasure and confidence that you won’t be suffering afterward.
If you are an Eat Burn Sleep member, using all of the optimum health tools, follow the Personalized Advice section for GERD, GORD, and Acid Reflux. You will benefit from treating the source, reducing symptoms daily, calming the system down, absorbing nutrients more efficiently, creating a balanced microbiota, and enjoying settled digestion.
Of course, this is a helpful acid-reflux-friendly dessert recipe list to keep throughout the year. Since we are all unique, double-check that there aren’t any triggers personal to you in the ingredients.
Avoiding triggers is okay temporarily but not for long-term healing or reducing inflammatory cytokines and oxidative stress. Gerd is a chronic disease, as is IBD and Obesity, which can often run alongside acid reflux sufferers, which too are treated on the EBS lifestyle.
You could be enjoying life more and with a wide variety of amazing meals that you would be surprised about. Plus, the anti-inflammatory recipes are loved by everyone, including children, are packed with nutrition – and can be very addictive!
Here are 5 of Eat Burn Sleep’s popular GERD-friendly dessert recipes, especially for you.
I hope you enjoy making them, eating them, and savoring the taste and mouthfeel of your creations. The good news is that you won’t need to lie down after these desserts, which aids digestion even further!
I wish you a heartwarming, heartburn-free upcoming holiday full of joy and ease and a wonderful day today!
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October 30, 2022
Gut-healthy Thanksgiving Recipes
Enjoy an Eat Burn Sleep Thanksgiving!
Hi Everyone! Here’s your inflammation-reducing (rather than inducing) Thanksgiving Menu to make planning one of the season’s festivities easier since everyone can eat these recipes.
It’s grain-free, dairy-free, gluten-free, indigestion-free, and guilt-free!
These anti-inflammatory Thanksgiving recipes are delicious and indulgent (without the symptoms of overindulgence). I can’t tell you how often I have been told that the pecan pie is more delicious than the classic recipe.
I have included two different options than the traditional turkey (which I presume you already know how you like roasted and stuffed, and your gravy recipe is under your belt, using the juices). Members can check the food lists and adapt. Ensure you use anti-inflammatory ingredients so you don’t undo the good work.
Also, turkey gets Eat Burn Sleep approval since the combination of B vitamins, selenium, and tryptophan balances blood sugar levels, avoiding hypoglycemia. Which also boosts mental well-being and calms nerves.
Turkey also has an immune-enhancing effect and aids efficient thyroid functions, as well as combatting oxidative stress caused by free radicals. (The darker meat contains more iron, zinc, and B vitamins).
If you have any vegans/vegetarians among your guests, they will be delighted to know that they have a delicious main, two starters, three sides, and three/six desserts to choose from.
Each dish contains nutrients that are off the charts, promoting good gut health, immune health, and ‘feel good’ neurotransmitters. Most can be made ahead of time. I have starred the ones that can be.
I haven’t forgotten the traditional cranberry sauce. It’s just healthier than the classic recipe (and super tasty). There’s also a recipe for easily digestible bread rolls since many people love some bread on the table at Thanksgiving.
A Thanksgiving menu that your body will thank you for!
Thanksgiving Starters:
Delicious and nourishing soup and salad with beneficial nutrients!
No ingredients to irritate your system. Just to soothe and heal your body and reduce inflammation.
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March 17, 2022
A Recipe Creation for Poosh
The Anti-cravings Shake Recipe
Hello Everyone!
I was delighted to be asked to create a weight loss recipe for Poosh recently.
Why Did I Create a Recipe to Curb Cravings for Poosh?
I went with a shake recipe to curb cravings because, based on my experience, so many people state that they have serious sweet cravings late morning or mid-afternoon that are hard to ignore.
When members have switched to my shakes, they have lost weight, gained mental clarity and new energy, managed their sugar levels, cleared up their skin conditions, and so on.
Poosh’s audience will appreciate how powerful the shake works.
How Does the Anti-cravings Shake Work?
Not only does it do exactly what it is meant to, and that staves off intense cravings, but it was created for its nutritious value and taste!
As well as benefitting from the compound-rich ingredients that will fill people up longer, there’s skin and tissue-loving collagen and anti-inflammatory cacao and flax seeds, amongst other powerhouse ingredients, in it.
Cacao is a favorite of mine since it contributes wonderfully to shakes like these and is nutritionally dense.
It is rich in iron, magnesium, potassium, protein, fiber, calcium, zinc, copper, and selenium – excellent for protecting your heart, lowering inflammation, and balancing mental health and hormones.
There are so many benefits to drinking an anti-cravings shake!
I stay clear of shop-bought nut milk, as they are packed with emulsifiers, thickeners, and additives, which are linked to gut dysbiosis, chronic inflammation, obesity, psoriasis, alopecia, multiple sclerosis, chronic fatigue, and metabolic syndrome.
Many ready-made kinds of milk contain so many additives. Make sure to look at the ingredients before buying ready-made nut milk.
Also, if there is an extended date on the package, there will no doubt be some preservatives in there.
Always look at the ingredients even if you are in a ‘health food’ shop. You will be surprised. Please don’t take it for granted that you are eating healthy food from a healthy food store! Inflammatory ingredients are in most things.
Our nut milk recipe is the base of Poosh’s anti-cravings shake recipe.
There are many cravings hacks on the Eat Burn Sleep program and a plethora of shakes and smoothies – all with brain and gut in mind and lowering inflammation, which can lead to real life-changing benefits.
And – definitely taste! As many of you know, I love good food, and I love creating anti-inflammatory recipes that do you good!
I hope that you like the Poosh recipe feature.
Kourtney Kardashian seems to like the recipe, as she was captured in the press after sharing the anti-cravings shake on Instagram.
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March 11, 2022
Gut Healthy Recipes for Sell-by Date
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I was interviewed recently by the Daily Mail. It was about the recent call-to-action from the charity Wrap to supermarkets. They are urging supermarkets to ditch the sell-by dates on packaging.
All in the effort to promote less waste, and I absolutely support it.
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Growing up in Morocco, we didn’t have supermarkets until I was 12, and dates on the packaging didn’t exist. We bought produce from markets regularly or picked it up from my grandfather’s farm for the day we needed it.
The food was fresh, and we ate it soon after it was bought. Unless it was yogurt, which we kept longer for the healthy bacteria to occur. Waste didn’t happen.
I know that many people have busy lives and shopping this way is not always possible but becoming more tuned to our foods is good practice.
It’s time to stop relying on sell-by dates and ditching foods that are perfectly fine to eat.
Trust your judgment
This move will undoubtedly encourage more people to think about their food. To look at the color and skin, feel and smell the produce, check the consistency and appearance – and generally be more connected.
Does the produce look, smell, and feel good to eat? These thoughts will become second nature.
Ultimately this practice will reduce waste, save money, and, more likely, more nutrients will be ingested.
Crunchy vegetables, for instance, get softer. So, initially, you would use them for a salad or steamed lightly, then as they age, you could use them in soup or roast them.
Or prepare them and add a sprinkling of salt for a quick healthy snack!
Also, when buying a bunch of organic green bananas for next week’s lunch box, buy extra for the next week too. When they are browning, smoothies are taken care of, for instance.
Or use it to make my nutritious banana bread!
Meat should be cooked soon after purchase, as well as fish.
Smells and appearance are a huge indication that they are past their best, and getting a second opinion if you are not sure, is wise.
Even if you already do this practice, planning meals and shopping for the ingredients you need for the week is often a good idea. A little time spent focusing on this can save money and waste.
I know from feedback that these are appreciated because knowing exactly what to eat, if there are health concerns for optimum results, takes the stress away. I love creating them.
Using up food before they go over is so satisfying.
Prepared in moments, this cleansing soup, with each ingredient chosen for its unique healing properties, will boost gut and mental health. This will alleviate chronic inflammation symptoms, strengthen the immune system, and promote cell DNA repair.
You could freeze it and add the coconut milk at a later date!
Members, I know that my version of Shakshuka is one of your favorites because it’s a crowd-pleasing comfort food.
Kids love it, too. (I have always had to consider children when creating the recipe since I have two!).
If there are hungry people around you, eggs that need to be used up, and a batch of my delicious and versatile tomato sauce at the ready, consider this quick and easy dish.
The shopping lists will ensure that you have the other anti-inflammatory ingredients. Through Wrap’s campaign urging supermarkets to ditch the sell-by date, I am hoping that more people will see positive results from being more connected to the food they consume.
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Gut-friendly Festive Recipes
Gut-friendly Holiday Recipes
Hello everyone! It’s the festive season, and I have decided to cheer you more with these microbiota-loving recipes.
With these delicious, gut-friendly, anti-inflammatory recipes, you can enjoy everything you look forward to doing with the knowledge that you won’t suffer from any digestive issues.
A Festive Menu That Is Gentle on the Stomach
These Eat Burn Sleep recipes are not just for people seeking low-inflammation and gut-friendly foods or their chronic inflammatory condition at Christmas – everyone loves them. I have created over 300 gut-friendly recipes, and this unique selection won’t disappoint you or your guests during the holidays.
Moroccan Spiced Coffee: My Moroccan spiced coffee is fantastic as it contains cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and clove. These warming spices have incredible anti-inflammatory properties that help stabilize your blood sugar levels and offset some of the adverse effects of caffeine. See how easy it is and perfect for the season. I cannot wait for you to try it.
Wild Salmon Spread: Perfect as a dip with crudites such as carrots, celery, or fennel sticks. Wild salmon is packed with anti-inflammatory omega-3 acids, making this recipe easy to make.
Italian Chicken Salad could be perfect for a nice salad with turkey leftovers on the 26th of December.
My Guacamole would work perfectly with the salmon spread for festive, gut-friendly nibbles. You can also serve it on its own with crudites. This guacamole contains no raw onions, which can be hard to digest sometimes, so I hope you all enjoy it!
Roasted Carrots & Parsnips With Cumin Seeds: This great source of healthy carbohydrates makes an excellent side for your Christmas dinner or any meal! It is easy to make, and you can use oil or goose fat.
Roast Christmas Chicken: Enjoy this amazing Christmas classic alternative for turkey without worrying that it will turn out dry!
Healthy Cranberry Sauce: You have to try this cranberry sauce recipe! It’s caramelized, tangy, woody, and slightly tart, with a deep berry flavor and a slight spice of heady cinnamon.
Brussel Sprouts, Chicken, and Bacon Skillet: This is a great, easy, and delicious dish to serve on a cold winter’s day. You can use chicken or turkey leftovers to prepare it!
Brussels Sprouts With Pancetta & Sage: This dish will make a great side and is easy and quick to prepare. I love to make it around this time of the year!
Caramelized Apple & Cinnamon Crumble: I love this recipe with a side of coconut yogurt. It is delicious and uses simple ingredients. Apple and cinnamon are always a winning combo!
2-ingredient Dark Chocolate Mousse Pot: These little chocolate bombs are so easy to make, delicious, and simple. You can use nice glasses for individual portions and garnish them with nuts, berries, or cacao nibs.
Paleo Energy Bars: Let me warn you, these are totally addictive! You can cut them into small squares, and they make a wonderful and absolutely delicious alternative to chocolates. They keep well in the fridge and freeze well, too, so you can save half for later if you wish to do so.
Mandarin & Almond Cake: Mandarins and oranges are in season, so make sure to try this delicious and very popular recipe! It is incredibly light and uses very few ingredients without added fat!
Sea Salt & Chocolate Brownies: Absolutely decadent but still ok by my book! Many of you find them tastier than regular brownies, so if you haven’t made them, go for it!
Coconut & Chocolate Macaroons: I created this recipe for Easter, and these mouthfuls of deliciousness work perfectly for the Christmas season, too!
Chocolate Fudge Cake: This is one of my gut-friendly recipes that nobody believes is dairy-free, gluten-free, grain-free, and nut-free! It’s so rich! My children love it so much that I keep remaking it for them.
Chocolate Soft Cake: This beauty is fluffy, light, and not very sweet. Perfect chocolate cake alternative!
I hope you enjoy these recipes! Have a wonderful, safe, festive time. Feel free to navigate the website for more low-inflammation and gut-friendly recipes for all seasons and reasons!
Yalda x
Oh, so you know, my Immune-boosting Energy Balls are perfect for keeping you in tip-top form when you feel a little dip and fancy something sweet at this hectic time. They are packed with protein and taste, and they are portable. Perfect!
Another name I can’t stop following is Yalda Alaoui, half Moroccan, half Iranian, living in London. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics Finance and is about to complete her naturopathic nutrition specialization. She publishes her years of work to control autoimmune disorders on the www.eatburnsleep.com platform. It recommends an anti-inflammatory lifestyle to strengthen the immune system. She has a membership system and blog where she shares her six-week menu, exercises, and meditations. She has live chats on different topics on her Instagram account every week. She shows the food preparations for her children and the product selection and details for grocery shopping with videos. My favorites are şakşuka eggs spiced with cumin and cinnamon, banana-based ice creams, and chicken tajines prepared in a Moroccan slow cooker.
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June 09, 2018
Fight Inflammation Naturally
My Interview with Nedi: Fighting Inflammation
This is an interview about fighting chronic inflammation with a dear friend of mine – Nedi.
We covered quite a bit, but here’s some snippets:
Why An Anti-inflammatory Lifestyle?
For over 10 years, I tried and tested many diets and lifestyle changes. All in order to heal my autoimmune issues, ulcerative colitis, and auto-immune hemolytic anemia. An anti-inflammatory lifestyle turned out to be the answer to my issues and, in fact, to most health issues. Indeed, a full array of diseases stem from inflammation: heart attacks, cancer, diabetes, neurological diseases, auto-immune diseases, Alzheimer’s, arthritis, etc.
I told Nedi what my typical day entailed and included some anti-inflammatory meals. Here are some more recommended anti-inflammatory recipes from Eat Burn Sleep:
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