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- Hey Health Nuts, it's Nikole from HealthNut Nutrition
and today I'm gonna be sharing a What I Eat In A Day video.
I know you guys love these videos,
I love filming them.
I love watching them,
it's so fun to see into other people's lives
of what they eat every day.
Cause everyone has different taste buds
and different preferences
and like their go-to staples.
And for this one,
I really wanted to share some really healthy recipes
that you can incorporate for the new year
that will hopefully align with your healthy habits
and goals for this year.
And when I eat these foods, I feel really good,
I feel energized and healthy.
So hopefully it inspires you guys to eat more veggies
and just fuel your body with some awesome food
that makes you feel good.
So without further ado, let's hop right into the video
and I will share with you guys everything I ate on this day.
First thing I do in the morning is of course,
I drink a ton of water.
This is some important, I talk about this all time.
You're sleeping for like eight hours,
not drinking anything, so it's so important to hydrate.
Sometimes I drink just straight up water,
and sometimes it's lemon water,
but they key is to hydrate.
And then I'm just peeking at Instagram,
I try not to just jump to my phone
right away in the morning, but it's hard sometimes.
I usually like to just start out with liquids in the morning
so I'm gonna making my herbal coffee.
So I'm just putting in some herbal coffee into this thermos.
I mentioned this like thermos cup in my 2017 Favorites,
it's amazing, it keeps your drinks hot all morning long
so you can sip your coffee or tea as you like.
And I just add in a tiny bit of coconut sugar,
fill it up with some hot water
and this coconut creamer I really love.
And then I give it a stir and pop the lid on.
And I'm telling you this is gonna stay hot
until I finish drinking it, which I love.
I'll usually just sip on that while I catch up on emails
and start my day.
Okay, so now it's time for my daily green smoothie.
My smoothie has evolved into like this crazy concoction
filled with so many superfoods,
and I feel like it's a multivitamin in a glass,
I really look forward to this in the mornings.
And I kinda just sip on this all the way up until lunch.
So I'm packing it full of greens, chopping in some cucumber.
I like to peel mine if I'm not using organic,
but totally optional.
I'm also throwing in some steamed and frozen cauliflower,
hemp hearts, and strawberries.
Hemp oil, frozen banana,
and for powders I have some protein powder,
I mentioned this one in my Family Meal Prep video,
I'm obsessed with it.
It tastes like instant vanilla pudding, it's really good.
Adding in some of my collagen.
Some chia seeds for fiber,
and cinnamon to balance out all the sugars in it.
As you can see, I only really put half a banana
and just a couple of strawberries.
My smoothies tend to be low sugar,
which I really like so it doesn't spike my blood sugar.
I'll usually make a smoothie for Matt too
if he's in the mood,
but I definitely try to drink a smoothie every single day.
Top it up with some metal straws
and I'm ready to sip.
Alright, for lunch time we got this
delicious sourdough bread from the farmer's market.
So I'm just cutting up some slices.
I don't eat bread every single day,
but if I do eat bread,
I like to eat some nice quality sourdough
or some multigrain bread.
I'm just gonna pop those into the toaster,
and then I just heated up some of my leek and potato soup
that I meal prepped earlier on in the week.
I like to meal prep soups and chilis and stews
cause then I can just have them throughout the week,
especially at lunch when I'm working from home.
I'll link this recipe down below,
it's honestly one of my favorites
and it's actually one of the most popular recipes
on the blog.
Now that my toast is toasted,
I'm gonna just take some ripe avocado
and mash it up on there.
It's always a good feeling when you open up an avocado
and it's actually perfectly ripe.
So I'm just gonna mash that up on there with a fork.
This is gonna help fill me up
cause the soup alone doesn't fill me up so I like to have
like the carbs and the healthy fats from the avocado.
Sprinkle on some pink sea salt, pepper,
and some nutritional yeast,
or nooch as some people like to call it.
And then I'm also just gonna add some pepper
to my soup as well and some paprika.
So creamy, so delicious,
this is like the perfect thing to have right now
because winter is here guys,
it is the coldest winter we've had in years in Toronto.
So all I'm craving is like warm soothing foods like soup.
And you just can't go wrong with avocado toast, right?
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Usually around like 3:00 p.m.
I like to make myself a little drink and a snack.
So since it's been really cold outside
and I've been feeling a little sniffley here and there,
I thought I would make myself an immune-boosting tonic.
So I'm just grating up some ginger
and then taking the pulp
and squeezing it in between my fingers to release the juice.
Adding in some lemon juice,
some tumeric powder, along with some local honey.
And then I'm filling it up with some warm water.
This is such a great drink to have if you have a sore throat
or you just want like an immune-boosting drink.
It's really soothing around this time of the year.
And then for my snack,
I actually decided to bake some muffins.
I've been obsessed with making banana bread muffins
and adding different toppings in them
like carob chips and blueberries
and it's just like a really nice warming baked good
to have in the afternoon.
And way better for you than like a chocolate bar
or chips, or any other type of junk food.
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So for dinner today, I decided to just have a huge salad.
And I love using my mandolin,
I will link this one down below.
They're so handy, you can slice up all your veggies
and everything just kinda mixes really well in salads
when it's all thinly sliced.
And like I don't have time to thinly slice it by hand,
so I love this slicer.
And I'm actually making my beauty detox salad,
it's made with a ton of crunchy veggies, butter lettuce,
and a delicious creamy ginger lemon dressing,
which I will also link the recipe down below.
And then I'm just slicing up some radishes,
which I feel like I don't eat enough,
but I really love them in salads,
they give it a really nice crunch.
And sometimes they have a little bit of
like heat to them as well.
Chopping up some green onion,
and throwing that in there as well.
Some cilantro, which is really good for detoxification,
really good for kind of removing heavy metals from the body.
I just love it, I know some people don't like cilantro,
but I'm definitely on the cilantro team.
And then a trick for slicing up your kale nice and thin
is you kinda just roll it up.
There is a name for this, I can't remember it right now.
But you just roll it up really tight,
and then just slice it and get really nice finely shredded
kale or lettuce, whatever you're doing this with.
I like doing this with salads,
cause it's just easier to eat heartier greens like kale.
So I just washed up all of my butter lettuce,
drying it with a tea towel.
I keep telling Matt I need to get a salad spinner,
I keep forgetting.
When your lettuce is dry,
the dressing actually sticks to it better
instead of just going all the way to the bottom of the bowl.
Adding that into my bowl,
and then just kinda tossing everything up really gently.
For my dressing, I'm adding into a blender some water,
apple cider vinegar, fresh lemon juice,
some local raw honey,
this is so good for this time of year right now,
it's really immune-boosting and antibacterial.
I'm adding in some good quality olive oil,
tumeric, sea salt, tahini,
which I don't know why I've been so obsessed with tahini,
I've been adding it into like everything.
And then I'm just gonna blend this up
until everything's nice and smooth.
I will link the blender I'm using down below,
I honestly think this is like
the best investment for your health.
I use it for everything, smoothies, salad dressings,
not sponsored, but I do really like my blender.
Gonna drizzle that on right over top.
If I know I'm not gonna eat my whole salad,
then I won't put the dressing on,
I'll just do it on my plate
so I can store any leftover salad back in the fridge.
But I was gonna eat the whole thing today.
I threw on some pomegranate seeds,
I love adding some fruit into my salads,
it just adds like a really nice sweetness to it.
I'm gonna set this aside while I prepare my fish.
So I'm just gonna heat up some olive oil on a skillet here,
and I'm gonna cook up some rainbow trout.
I'm gonna season it with some organic spice blends
that I have, sea salt, black pepper, herbs,
and cook it for about three to five minutes on each side.
I was struggling here a little bit,
I think I needed a bigger spatula.
But yeah, I'm just gonna sear it on both sides
and this is like my favorite way to cook fish.
I think it's really simple and easy.
So as you can see, most of my plate is greens
and then I have the fish on the side.
This was like a little bit of a lighter dinner for me,
but it was a pretty big salad for Matt and I,
so I just went back for seconds if I was still hungry.
And then of course you can always have things
you know like olives, carrots and humus on the side
if you're still hungry.
I really like to eat until I'm full,
so as much as I think it's important
to portion control for certain foods,
for dinner I just wanna fill myself up
and not go to bed hungry.
And then for my drink tonight,
I decided just to squeeze in some fresh lime
into sparkling water.
This is like one of my favorite things to do,
it's really refreshing and the lime almost makes it sweet,
like it's pop, but it's not.
And it's just really good and hydrating,
and it pairs really well with some fish.
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And that was my dinner,
super light and fresh,
and perfect for the start of a new year.
And there you go, that was everything I ate today.
Really warm, soothing foods that kept me full all day.
Alright guys, that's everything I ate in today's video.
Hopefully you guys enjoyed it.
Hopefully it inspired you guys to like eat new things,
maybe foods you haven't tried before,
incorporate more vegetables into your diet,
I know that's always a struggle for a lot of people.
But I promise you when you start to do it,
you will crave greens and hearty vegetables
and soups and smoothies, and all that good stuff.
It comes with practice, I promise.
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