If you're struggling with morning sickness you have to try my homemade
ginger tea. You're just going to love it!
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Hi my name is Melanie McGrice and I'm a fertility and prenatal dietitian.
So today I want to show you how to make my homemade ginger tea. So I'm sure that you
all have heard that ginger is fantastic when it comes to morning sickness
but what I find is that most people tend to turn to capsules or maybe a ginger
tea off the shelf. Whereas you can actually make your own it's going to
save you money and it's going to be much fresher and you're actually going to get
more of those natural antioxidants that make all of the difference when it comes
to decreasing your nausea.
So it's super simple, all you need is a saucepan, some water,
some ginger and some lime. To start off for every cup of ginger tea
that you want to make you literally need 1 cup of water into your
saucepan now although you could just make one cup for now I'd actually
recommend making a couple of cups because it actually goes quite well into
the refrigerator, so I'm going to make two cups today. There we go
popping my second cup of water. And that way you've got some for later
rather than needing to make it absolutely fresh this very minute.
So once we've got our two cups of water there or you could even do three or four
cups if you want to. Now the recommendations is I probably wouldn't
have any more than probably three cups a day of this as a maximum and you want to
make sure that you spread them throughout the day to get the maximum
ginger benefits or anti nausea benefits. So once we've got our water we literally
want to cut up our ginger. Now with ginger you can buy this fresh from all
over the place these days so from any supermarket or maybe an Asian grocer or
something along those lines. Now you do want to.. ah it smells so good! So we do want to
just cut and get rid of the skin. Now you can
use a spoon or something to do that if you want to. I'm just cutting it off and
because it's quicker and easier to be honest. So I'm just going to cut this off.
And then what we want to do is that we want to make sure that we cut it
up as finely as possible and that's why I've got the grater here is you can
actually grate it if you prefer or you can finely cut it whichever is going to
be easiest for you. This just smells so yummy! Alright, now in terms of portion
size, basically you want about one tablespoon per cup of water so from one
standard ginger root usually you'll get about two tablespoons. So you can see
here I'm just going to slice it up really thinly. As thin as I can.
So basically the thinner that you slice it the more surface area you're going to
have and therefore the faster it's going to cook. So just slice that up there
And then, simply pop it into our saucepan and then
we want to just put it onto the boil and then simmer it usually for about I would
say about 20 minutes. The longer that you simmer it the more of the nutrients that
you're going to get out of the ginger so the better. But obviously you
need to be careful that you are simmering and that you're
not actually boiling it over and that you're not boiling it dry as well.
So simmer that and then when it's ready, it's simply a matter of pouring it into
your mug. Now the other little tip that I want to give you is
some fresh lime. Now the benefit of the fresh lime, so really we just need a
couple of lime slices. So I probably would recommend about three slices per
cup and once you've got it all heat it up so 2 to 3 per cup I'm
just going to do 2 for today so I'm gonna go put this on the stove though
we'll come back to the lime and I'll be with you in just a tick.
Great! It has been simmering now for about 20 minutes so now what we want to do is
strain it out. Now you can use a proper strainer or you can be a slacker like me
and I'm just going to pour it straight into my mug.
This smells so yummy!
You'll find that even the smell of it will help to alleviate your nausea. Then
I'm just going to pop in my couple of slices of lime. Now you'll be pleased to
know that lime has got three benefits for our ginger tea. So one is that it
will add a bit of sweetness to our ginger tea because
obviously ginger is not that sweet so in terms of taste the lime will really help there.
Secondly the antioxidants are great for
pregnancy. Thirdly even the smell of lime actually helps to
alleviate nausea in and of itself, so the lime itself will help with your nausea as well.
So just pop that in and then you've got your lovely cup of ginger tea.
Enjoy!
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