Sandra
For the next six weeks these four people will engage in a programme that will change the way they think about food, exercise and, most importantly, themselves...
Sandra
Chelene
Michael
Claire
Operation Bare Food is a new programme from us – the people behind the north east’s premier healthy eating café. We’re searching for four leaders who are going to have their lives transformed by following practicing healthy eating and spending a lot of time exercising.
But this is the good part – we want you join in! Starting today, every week we’ll be sharing each week’s shopping list, meal and exercise plan so you can follow along too!
Here’s to making Drogheda and beyond a healthier place!
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Day 2:
Day 3:
Day 4:
Day 5:
Day 6:
Day 7:
Here’s your shopping list…
Fresh produce
Storecupboard goods
Vegetables and fruits
Of course not forgetting your exercises. If you’re unfamiliar with some of the exercises we recommend you look them up on YouTube!
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Day 2
Day 3
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Day 6:
Day 7:
Recipes (if you want to use them)
Banana Pancakes
1 Banana
2 Eggs
½ teaspoon cinnamon
Coconut oil
Whisk eggs, mash banana, add both to a bowl with the cinnamon. Mix well and pour onto a hot pan with coconut oil to cook the underside. Place under the grill until the top is golden brown.
Homemade Hummus
1 carton/tin chickpeas (reserve the liquid)
2 tsp tahini
1 garlic cloves, crushed
Pinch of salt
3 tbsp quality extra virgin olive oil
1.5 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice
Paprika (optional)
Coriander or parsley leaves (optional)
Rinse the chickpeas in cold water and tip into the food processor. Add the tahini, crushed garlic, salt, lemon juice and 3-4 tablespoons of the reserved liquid from the chickpeas. Turn on the food processor and slowly pour in the oil while it runs.
When the mixture is fully combined and smooth, tip it into a serving dish. Sprinkle with paprika and finely chopped coriander or parsley leaves, for colour.
Here’s your shopping list…
Fresh produce
Storecupboard goods
Vegetables and fruits
Of course not forgetting your exercises. If you’re unfamiliar with some of the exercises we recommend you look them up on YouTube!
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 1
Breakfast : Baked Oatmeal with Greek yogurt and berries (see recipe below)
Snack: Fresh green juice
Lunch: Bare Food Curry
Snack: Vegetable crudités with salsa
Dinner: Homemade Beef Burgers with guacamole and roasted carrots and parsnips
Day 2
Breakfast: Wholegrain toast, bacon and poached eggs
Snack: Bare Food Night Vision Juice
Lunch: Vegetable and red lentil soup
Snack: Celery sticks filled with cottage or cream cheese
Dinner: Homemade beef burgers with sweet potato and carrot mash and sautéed garlicky kale
Day 3
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with onion and herbs and half an avocado
Snack: 2 oatcakes with hummus and sliced cherry tomato
Lunch: Bare Food Chicken Kebab
Snack: 2 squares of 85% chocolate
Dinner: Turkey curry with brown basmati rice
Day 4
Breakfast: Baked Oatmeal
Snack: Apple slices spread with almond butter
Lunch: Bare Food Soup of the Day and Seasonal Salad
Snack: Hummus with cucumber and celery sticks
Dinner: Baked cod with sweet potato wedges and green vegetables
Day 5
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs and turkey rashers
Snack: Chia Seed Pudding (see recipe below)
Lunch: Bare Super Salad with chicken
Snack: Punnet of fresh raspberries
Dinner: Marinated Salmon Fillet roasted with butternut squash, peppers and cherry tomatoes
Day 6
Breakfast: Barefood Buckwheat Porridge
Snack: A handful of blueberries
Lunch: Spinach, feta and sweet potato frittata with salad (see recipe below)
Snack :Apple slices spread with almond or hazelnut butter
Dinner: Chicken and vegetable stir fry with rice noodles
Day 7
Breakfast: Green Smoothie with avocado
Snack: Oatcakes with hummus
Lunch: Bare Food TLT
Snack: Slice of melon
Dinner: Warm chicken and quinoa salad
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Recipes:
Baked Oatmeal
2.5 cup oatmeal
Half cup ground oat flour or oat bran
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
2 bananas sliced
1 cup blueberries
Half cup raspberries
2 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 tbsp melted coconut oil
1 cup milk
Place oatmeal, oat flour, baking powder, and cinnamon in a large bowl. Mix. Then, add in all of the wet ingredients, minus the coconut oil and mix. Add melted coconut oil and mix again. Add about ¾ cup blueberries into the mixture and leave the rest to sprinkle on top.
Spray a baking dish with coconut oil spray. Then, slice a whole banana and cover the bottom of the dish with it. On top of the banana, pour on oat mixture. Then, top with more sliced banana, blueberries, and raspberries.
Bake at 180º for 40 minutes or until it’s baked all the way through and is firm like muffin.
Spinach, Feta and Sweet Potato Frittata
3 tbsp olive oil
1 medium to large sweet potato, peeled and chopped into 1cm dice
8 medium eggs
200g feta (a packet)
1 tbsp grated parmesan (optional)
Freshly ground pepper
Half bag baby leaf spinach
Heat grill at its highest setting. Heat 2 tbsp of oil in large frying pan over medium to high heat and gently fry the sweet potato for about 10-15 minutes or until tender and golden all over. Remove from heat.
Break eggs into a bowl, add the remaining tbsp oil and whisk. Crumble the feta into eggs and stir in the parmesan if using. Season with pepper.
Return the sweet potatoes to the heat and add the spinach to the pan in handfuls stirring through each time until just wilting. Pour over the egg mixture, stir quickly to distribute ingredients evenly and cook undisturbed for 5/10 mins or until eggs start to set. Place pan under grill until eggs are golden and cooked throughout.
Serve warm or at room temp for brunch, dinner or lunch. No need to add salt as feta is salty enough.
Chia Seed Pudding
2 cups coconut milk or almond milk
½ cup chia seeds
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
¼ cup (or less) maple syrup
Optional: ¼ teaspoon cinnamon powder
Put all ingredients into a bowl and mix together well.
Pour mixture into a jar or glass container and place in the refrigerator for at least 4 hours or overnight to let it gel.
Mix up the Flavor
Chocolate: Add 1/4 cup cocoa powder to this recipe for a chocolate version.
Berry: Add 1/2 chopped fresh chopped or blended strawberries or raspberries.
Chai: Add 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon powder and a pinch of cardamon and cloves for a chai flavour.
Here is your Shopping List…
Fresh Produce
Storecupboard Goods
Vegetables and Fruits
Of course not forgetting your exercises. If you’re unfamiliar with some of the exercises we recommend you look them up on YouTube!
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 1
Breakfast : Sourdough toast topped with mashed avocado and 2 poached eggs
Snack: Small handful of toasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds
Lunch: Bare Food Curry
Snack: Olives and feta cheese
Dinner: Salmon and puy lentils (see recipe below)
Day 2
Breakfast: Quinoa porridge with blueberries
Snack: Mug of vegetable or chicken broth
Lunch: Bare Food Super Salad
Snack: Oatcakes with cashew butter and cacao nibs
Dinner: Pesto crusted salmon with baby boiled potatoes, roasted cherry tomatoes and rocket
Day 3
Breakfast: Baked oatmeal with plain yogurt
Snack: Bare Food Clean and Green Juice
Lunch: Stuffed Peppers with salad
Snack: Carrot sticks and pesto
Dinner: Veggie and Bean Chilli (see recipe below)
Day 4
Breakfast: Scrambled eggs with sautéed tomato, mushroom and spinach
Snack: Apple slices spread with almond butter
Lunch: Greek salad with avocado
Snack: Hummus with cucumber and celery sticks
Dinner: Bare Food Smoked Cod
Day 5
Breakfast: Bare Food Granola
Snack: Bare Food Night Vision Juice
Lunch: Tuna Salad
Snack: Oatcakes with pate
Dinner: Teriyaki chicken with stir-fried vegetables and brown rice
Day 6
Breakfast: Quinoa porridge with diced pear
Snack: Smoked salmon on oatcakes
Lunch: Bare Food Stir Fry
Snack: Palmful of walnuts
Dinner: Halloumi and Chicken Salad with sweet potato wedges
Day 7
Breakfast: Bare Breakfast
Snack: Bare Food Just Bee Smoothie
Lunch: Carrot and coriander soup
Snack: Rye crispbread with cream cheese and cucumber
Dinner: Chicken fillet with cauliflower and broccoli cheese and sautéed kale
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Recipes:
Salmon and Puy Lentils
115g puy lentils, well rinsed
2 tsp bouillon powder
2 leeks, finely sliced
2 salmon fillets
2 tbsp tomato puree
Splash of water
Squeeze of lemon juice
Freshly ground black pepper
2 portions of homemade pesto
Place the lentils in a pan and cover with double the amount of water. Add the bouillon powder. Bring to the boil then cover and simmer for 20-25 minutes until the lentils are al dente, adding the leeks to the pan halfway through cooking. The lentils will absorb most of the liquid during cooking.
Put the salmon in a steamer pan and steam for about 15 minutes or until cooked – the flesh should flake easily when pressed. If you don’t have a steamer, put the fish in a shallow pan, cover with water and simmer gently until the flesh flakes when pressed.
Stir the tomato puree into the lentil mixture along with a splash of water and a squeeze of lemon to loosen the consistency and produce a thick stew.
Either serve the salmon on a bed of stew and scatter the pesto over the top or fold the pesto mixture into the stew before topping with the fish. Sprinkle with freshly ground black pepper.
Veggie and Bean Chilli
2 tbsp olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
1 clove of garlic
2 courgettes, halved lengthways, sliced
2 large carrots, halved lengthways, sliced
1 red chilli, deseeded and thinly sliced
4 fresh tomatoes, roughly chopped or a tin of tomatoes
2 tbsp tomato purée
½ tsp turmeric
300 ml vegetable stock
400g tin chickpeas, rinsed and drained
400g tin kidney beans, rinsed and drained
6 tbsp chopped coriander leaves (optional)
Heat the oil in a large saucepan and cook the onion for 2-3 minutes until beginning to soften. Add courgettes, carrots and chilli and cook for 5 minutes more, stirring until softened and beginning to turn golden. Add tomatoes and cook for 5 minutes, stirring until softened. Add stock and beans, then season well to taste. Bring to the boil, cover, then reduce the heat and simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add the coriander and cook for a further 5 minutes, then serve.
Here is your Shopping List…
Fresh Produce
Storecupboard Goods
Vegetables and Fruits
Of course not forgetting your exercises. If you’re unfamiliar with some of the exercises we recommend you look them up on YouTube!
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 1
Breakfast: Mexican Eggs (see recipe)
Snack: 5 or 6 strawberries
Lunch: Bare Food Smoked Cod
Snack: Carrot and cucumber batons and hummus
Dinner: Turkey burger with salad
Day 2
Breakfast: Quinoa porridge with blueberries
Snack: Rye cracker with peanut butter
Lunch: Bare Food Steak Salad
Snack: 2 kiwi fruits
Dinner: Baked chicken fillets stuffed with goats cheese and roast vegetables
Day 3
Breakfast: Bare Food Tropical Muesli
Snack: Bare Food Clean and Green
Lunch: Fish cakes with salad
Snack: Carrot sticks and red pesto
Dinner: Veggie and Bean Chilli
Day 4
Breakfast: Mexican eggs
Snack: Flaxseed crackers with mashed avocado
Lunch: Chicken soup with sourdough bread
Snack: Handful of blackberries
Dinner: Bare Food Stir Fry
Day 5
Breakfast: Bare Food Porridge
Snack: The Beetnik
Lunch: Chickpea and tuna salad
Snack: Pear and a few almonds
Dinner: Fish Kedgeree (see recipe)
Day 6
Breakfast: Bare Food Pancakes
Snack: Oatcakes with cottage cheese
Lunch: Homemade bean burger with salad
Snack: Parma ham and melon
Dinner: Steak and sweet potato wedges with vegetables.
Day 7
Breakfast: Bare Food Power Omelette
Snack: Handful of blueberries
Lunch: Chicken salad
Snack: Oatcakes with hummus
Dinner: Turkey burgers with sweet potato and carrot mash and green veg.
Recipes
Mexican Eggs
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 large onion, chopped
8 ripe tomatoes, chopped
5-6 scallions, chopped
1 chilli, chopped
2 cloves garlic, chopped
½ teaspoon ground cumin
Freshly ground black pepper
4 eggs
A tablespoon coriander chopped
Serves 4
Heat the olive oil in a frying pan.
Sauté the onion until golden. Add the tomatoes, scallions, and chilli and cook gently for 5-6 minutes. Then add the garlic and cumin. Season.
Break an egg in each quarter of the pan.
Continue cooking until the eggs are done.
Sprinkle with the chopped coriander
Fish Kedgeree
175g haddock filleted and skinned
75g brown rice
30ml plain, live yogurt (ideally organic)
Half a green pepper deseeded and chopped
1 onion, finely chopped
Sprig of parsley, chopped
Freshly ground black pepper
2 slices of lemon to garnish
Serves 4
Cover the fish with water in a shallow pan. Heat gently and poach for about 8-10 minutes. Remove the fish and flake.
Boil the rice in the poaching water left in the pan according to the instructions on the pack. You may need to add extra water. Drain the rice, stir in the fish, yogurt, green pepper, onion, parsley and mix well.
Heat gently, stirring all the time.
Season with pepper and serve garnished with lemon.
Shopping List
Fresh Produce
Chicken
Turkey mince
Haddock fillets
Salmon
Steak
Eggs
Goat’s cheese
Cottage cheese
Hummus
Peanut butter
Parma ham
Sourdough bread
Natural yogurt
Storecupboard Goods
Quinoa flakes
Rye crispbread
Brown rice
Flaxseed crackers
Almonds
Tinned tuna
Oatcakes
Olive oil
Vegetable bouillon
Tinned tomatoes
Chickpeas
Red kidney beans
Tomato puree
Turmeric
Coriander
Cumin
Vegetables and Fruits
Sweet potatoes
Carrots
Variety of salad leaves
Radishes
Spring onion
Cucumber
Celery
Leeks
Onions
Courgettes
Coloured bell peppers
Chilli peppers
Garlic
Peas
Broccoli
Tomatoes
Cauliflower
Baby leaf spinach
Mushrooms
Avocado
Strawberries
Blackberries
Blueberries
Pears
Melon
Kiwi
Day 1
Breakfast: Spinach, mushroom and red pepper omelette
Snack: Bare Food Clean and Green
Lunch: Quinoa salad
Snack: Handful of pumpkin seeds and dried fruit
Dinner: Chilli con Carne with brown rice (see recipe)
Day 2
Breakfast: Bare Food Yogurt Pot
Snack: 2 oatcakes with nut butter
Lunch: A wedge of spinach, sweet potato and feta frittata with a mixed salad
Snack: Hummus with cucumber and celery sticks
Dinner: Chickpea and vegetable curry
Day 3
Breakfast: Granola Layer – layer homemade granola with yogurt and stewed apple and berries
Snack: Bare Food Night Vision
Lunch: Bare Food Honey Chicken Sandwich
Snack: Hummus with cucumber and celery sticks
Dinner: Marinated salmon with broccoli and cauliflower mash
Day 4
Breakfast: Banana and walnut yogurt pot – 1 banana with Greek yogurt and topped with walnuts.
Snack: A boiled egg
Lunch: Bare Food Veggie Sandwich
Snack: Punnet of fresh raspberries
Dinner: Chicken or Beef stir fry with mixed vegetables and rice noodles
Day 5
Breakfast: Bare Breakfast
Snack: A handful of blueberries
Lunch: Tuna salad
Snack: Apple slices spread with almond or hazelnut butter
Dinner: Veggie and bean chilli
Day 6
Breakfast: 2 poached eggs on a bed of spinach with smoked salmon
Snack: Handful berries
Lunch: Bare Food Bare Burger
Snack: Mackerel pate on oatcakes (see recipe)
Dinner: Chicken salad with wholegrain bread
Day 7
Breakfast: Rob’s Poached Eggs
Snack: An apple
Lunch: Chicken and vegetable soup
Snack: Celery sticks filled with cottage or cream cheese
Dinner: Homemade beef burgers with sweet potato and carrot mash and sautéed garlicky kale
Recipes
Chilli con Carne
450g (1lb) lean beef mince
2 tsp coconut oil or olive oil
1 onion, diced
2 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 red pepper, diced
2 tsp ground cumin
1 tsp chilli powder
1-2 tsp crushed chilli flakes (according to taste)
250g (9oz) mushrooms, cleaned and sliced
1 x 400g can of chopped tomatoes
3 tbsp tomato purée
4 tsp reduced salt vegetable bouillon powder
1 x 410g can of kidney beans, rinsed and drained
Freshly ground black pepper
Cook the mince in a large frying pan until it starts to turn brown. Set aside.
Heat the oil in a separate pan and fry the onion, garlic and pepper for a couple of minutes.
Add the cumin, chilli powder and chilli flakes to the pan with the vegetables and cook for 10 minutes or so.
Add the mushrooms to the pan and cook for a further 5 minutes until soft.
Add the mince together with the chopped tomatoes, tomato purée, bouillon powder and kidney beans. Cover and simmer for 10 to 15 minutes, until the vegetables are soft and the flavours have mingled. Season with black pepper.
Mackerel Pate
Blend together about 50g of smoked mackerel fillets with 75g some organic plain live yogurt, a tablespoon of lemon juice, grated lemon rind and black pepper to taste.
Shopping List
Fresh Produce
Chicken
Minced beef
Salmon fillets
Smoked salmon
Smoked mackerel
Eggs
Feta cheese
Greek yogurt
Organic hummus
Nut butter
Storecupboard goods
Oatcakes
Brown basmati rice
Quinoa
Rice noodles
Olive oil
Carton or canned tomatoes
Tomato puree
Vegetable bouillon
Oregano
Chilli powder
Cumin
Coriander
Kidney beans
Chickpeas
Dried fruit
Pumpkin seeds
Tinned tuna
Vegetables and fruits
Sweet potatoes
Salad leaves
Spring onion
Cucumber
Celery
Onions
Coloured bell peppers
Garlic
Peas
Broccoli
Tomatoes
Mushrooms
Cauliflower
Baby leaf spinach
Carrots
Avocado
Lemons
Fresh and frozen berries
Bananas
Apples
Mandarin oranges