Our food 2021
You are what you eat! This is what your cells are built from.
Jan and I have dedicated our lives to feeling good in our body, mind and soul. We have grown up with very unhealthy nutrition and both at some points in our lives, drastically stopped this unconscious eating and started a journey to discover what the foods are that keep us in balance and at good health.
We tried everything (both long time before we knew each other) from vegan to paleo, keto and carnivor, cooked and raw. Also different ways of fasting, detoxing and cleansing we have explored. I personally have very disciplined led a food diary for exactly six months to understand my food intolerances.
This journey brought us both back to our instincts for our individual needs.
We are just humans, we don´t do this 100% (we both had to for a few years to heal from chronic disease) and it´s nice to be surrounded nowadays with a tiny but lovely community of people who also value healthy eating (everyone in their own interpretation of course).
Here I write a bit more in detail about our nutrition.
The whole January we had the pleasure of having the young Italian Giulio living with us and cooking for us after Jan´s accident 
Delicious Italian Gnocchis by Giulio 
Pumpkin Risotto by Giulio 
Ravioli filled with pumpkin purée by Giulio 
Ravioli filled with pumpkin purée by Giulio 
With a butter-herb sauce 
Here we got some freshly caught fish from a fisherman friend 
Homemade sourdough rice bread with fresh pesto, salad and butter and goat cheese. 
Spring rolls in rice paper 
Filled with veggies and sea food 
A good piece of pastured beef with lots of garden veggies and young potatos 
Love goes through the stomach, we say in Germany. Jan making fried potatos 
A fresh salad with grated carrots and parsnips and fresh mung bean sprouts 
So happy to have found some gluten free couscous! We also get one made from lentils and chickpeas here. 
Gluten free couscous salad 
An other couscous salad 
Jan making tender fish filets 
Just melting in your mouth 
Our eating-wellness zone 
This is gonna be a carrot soup with ginger, turmeric and garlic (plus coconut milk) 
Salad with guavas and cactus fruits 
An other salad 
A fresh green juice 
Gluten free dumplings 
Jan´s first German dumplings^^ 
Gluten free spätzle with bone broth 
Omelette with potatos 
Salad with dandelion flowers and strawberries from the garden 
Sprout salad 
An other sprout salad 
Banana ice cream with mint 
A glimpse in our fridge; we mostly have it for the butter. Meat is frozen and the rest comes freshly from the garden 
A display of the fats that we use 
Porridge with banana, hemp seeds, bee pollen and coconut milk 
Some salad with kale and Malabar spinach. We keep the consumption of things like spinach and chard (mangold) low though, to keep the oxalic acid intake low. 
Beautiful beet root 
So lovely, a lunch in boat Henrietta! 
Food making together 
Lots of beans 
Pumpkin red beet soup with safflower petals 
Gluten-free waffle (eggs and sweet potato flour) with beetroot ice cream and bee pollen 
Pumpkin flowers in dough (rice flour, sea salt and eggs), filled with goat cheese 
Pumpkin flowers in dough (rice flour, sea salt and eggs), filled with goat cheese, fried in butter 
Literally everything from the own garden! The late summer is just an amazing time here. 
Frittata: Eggs, rice flour, sea salt and lots of cubed and grated veggies 
Veggie – Quinoa. I recommend to soak the Quinoa over night to deactivate phytates and other antinutrients and make all the good minerals bioavailable 
A bread made from oats, psyllium husk and lots of seeds, soaked over night before baked. 
Gluten free waffle with banana ice cream, topped with a home made marmelade from blackberries and figs (no added sugar anywhere) 
Jan found good use for his grandmother´s grinder! It tastes really good and is easily digestible, breaks open the cell walls. 
Adding some banana was genius! 
More banana ice cream with Graciosa Spirulina 
I made cubes out of a blend of herbs, turmeric and some olive oil 
I have them in the freezer and can easily pop one out and into a pan I make, so I don´t have to always run in the garden for fresh herbs 
A purée made from Aracas 
Fruit salad with Aracas and pineapple from the garden and a araca purée with coconut milk and shredded coconut 
Muffins made from eggs, boiled sweet potatos and bananas blended together, all from the garden 
We both love to eat octopus 
Omelette with our own first bell peppers 
Always good, a warming, nourishing and regenerating bone broth 
Cake made out of eggs, almond flour and sugar free choco drops 
Peanuts from the own garden 
Roasted peanuts in pumpkin soup 
Nice and crunchy Yacon 
Gluten free Lasagna with goat cheese 
Béchamel sauce made with butter and rice flour for the Lasagna on the wood stove 
Gluten free Lasagna with goat cheese 
Christmas dinner, Bone broth and roasted butternut squash 
For desert banana icecream with Maca and baked apple crusted with grated almond and coconut sugar
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