Healthy Pumpkin Recipes Inspired By Nigerian Dishes... Happy Halloween!

Hi!

So today is Halloween (31st October), exciting stuff *dripping with sarcasm*

A good thing about this is - it's Pumpkin season. Loads and loads in the supermarkets to be carved... Speaking of carving, I saw this ugly, uncreative, disgusting looking carving at the gym yesterday.

If you're too lazy to carve, don't bother!

Anyway enough of my usual Wednesday grumpiness, I finally bought a Pumpkin and tried out a few recipes. I would have done more but I just didn't have the time!

1. Roasted Pumpkin Seeds with Suya Pepper
   Well, this was the initial idea but my suya pepper stash is running LOW. I used chilli flakes which were spicy enough.
2. Boiled Pumpkin and EggsBoiled yam and eggs <-- regular breakfast when I was growing up.  Pumpkins contain much less carbs than yam so I decided to try boiling it. I'll be honest, its obvious it's much lower in carbs as it barely has a taste. If you want to try this, I'd suggest boiling in homemade stock. I would have done this but I had none available.



3. Pumpkin 'Asaro'
   'Asaro' is a Nigerian dish, made with yam. As you can tell, I used pumpkin as a low carb substitute.This was my favourite of the three because leaving the pumpkin to cook in the tomatoes added so much flavour to it! Definitely try this if you can!

Let me know if you try any of the above. Do you have any favourite pumpkin recipes?

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Food Haul: What I Bought (And Cooked) This Week

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Hope you had a nice weekend. Here's this week's video showing you what I bought this week, and also the meals I prepared for the week.

• I shopped on a budget this week. I bought healthy, fresh food and didn't break the bank :)
• I took a break from the usual supermarkets and went to the local market. I've lived in this area for 6 years and didn't know about the massive market minutes away from my house!!!
• As I had a small budget and also wanted to stick to healthy food, I planned my meals as I shopped.

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How To Resist The Temptation of Unhealthy Food (#3)

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I started a mini video series a few weeks ago inspired by some blog posts here. I'll be sharing tips that show that healthy eating is achievable no matter how many temptations are out there... Lol, yes I'm still talking about food ;)

Here's the third installment in this series.

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Yummy Food, Yummy Masks!

Fatima sent this picture of her 'Jollof Quinoa' and in her exact words "Jollof Quinoa with chicken frankfurters and bacon! It's YUM":

Looks yummier than mine, I want some!

So, if you try any recipes from my Blog or YouTube Channel, please send me pictures :)

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And now that my skin is finaly back to normal mainly because I'm eating much better than I did for a while... I decided to treat myself to a yummy face mask :) I have to admit - I tasted this... a few times ;)

My skin feels deeply cleansed and moisturised :)

1. Fullers Earth face mask (for 15 minutes) for a deep cleanse
   Steps in this video (minus the honey):



2. Mash 1/4 of an Avocado & mix with 1tbsp extra virgin olive oil and 1tbsp honey. 
3. Apply to face and leave on (for 15 minutes) for a moisturising treatment 
4. Rinse off with warm water. Soak a face towel in warm - hot water, squeeze excess water out. Towel on face for thirty seconds, wipe. Repeat. 
5. Final rinse with cold water. 
6. Lightly moisturise.
   
    DONE :)