From Susie and Leanne on The Nutrition Couch this episode:
- We share our thoughts on how your exercise routine might be affected by working from home and the winter cold.
- We share our favourite cheeses available in your local supermarket.
- Susie shares her recipe for Breakfast Sweet Potato Hash.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Do you get enough cardio winter? Is it too cold,
too wet, too hard to actually work out in winter? Well,
it is for a lot of our clients. So on
today's Midweek a motivational episode of The Nutrition Couch, Susie
and I discussed the pros and cons of winter cardio,
and we discuss if you're using your job and your
family as an excuse to sit down a whole lot
(00:21):
more in winter. Hi, I'm LeAnn Wood and I'm Cuss Burrow,
and every week we bring you The Nutrition Couch, the
biweekly podcast that keeps you up to date on everything
that you need to know in the world of nutrition,
as well as the downside of winter cardio. Susi shares
her favorite supermarket cheese and our weekly recipe for winter
is a warming, savory breakfast option. But to kick us off, Susie,
(00:43):
we love to chat real life client case studies, and
in the past week you and I have both given
our clients a bit of a kick up the push
in terms of winter cardio, because I feel like lately
it's been cold, it's been rainy, it's been very dark,
and I'm not gonna lie, it's hard to get up.
What it's pitch black outside at five am when you
finished work at six pm and actually go for a
little bit of a walk. But for the modern average
(01:04):
Australium who has a desk job, we are simply not
moving enough. And so if the goal is fat loss,
we have to move a little bit more. So I
sort of read the Ride Act to a couple of
my clients this week and I said, all right, if
you're not going to go out, if it's too cold,
if it's too hard, if it's rating, if you're too
tired after work, we've got to do something. So I
made two of my clients susy rent pieces of exercise equipment.
(01:25):
So one of them rented a treadmill and the other
one's got bad knees, and she rented an exercise bike
because that's what her visio recommended, was a good piece
of cardio equipment for her. And they're actually really cost effective,
Like I want to say, one of my clients picked
it up for like thirty dollars a month or something.
They came to a house, they set it up. They said,
let us know when you want this description to end
and we'll come pick it up. So she's not going
to use it forever. It's really just in these middle
(01:46):
winter period months where it is stark outside, it is
cold outside, it has been rating a little bit lately,
and the last thing she wants to do after finishing
work or getting up at five am in the morning
is actually head out for some cardio because it's too cold.
So we got it to rent a treadmill, and I
must say she smashed it. Every single day last week.
She was able to walk for at least fifteen minutes,
if not forty forty five minutes spread throughout the day,
(02:07):
so she might have done ten fifteen minutes in the morning,
and then another sort of like twenty minutes after she
put the kids to bed. So I think a lot
of us are using winter as a little bit of
an excuse not to move as much. But we know
when the goal is fat loss, or even when it's not,
when the goal is just health. Really we need to
move a little bit more because we sit down far
too much. And I remember reading an article probably years
(02:29):
ago now, and it was basically saying sitting is the
new smoking, like the public health epidemic, that we're.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Just not moving enough.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So I think it's really important it's beautiful in summer,
we get up, we go for an early morning walk,
it's lovely, but in winter it is one hundred times harder.
So perhaps consider actually renting a piece of cardio equipment
like a treadmill or like an exercise bike, because it
can really really be helpful if you're not someone that
wants to brave the how many sub zero degrees it
is in your country or you know, between zero and
(02:57):
ten degrees in parts of Australia in the morning to
actually get up in your cardio.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, and I think it is getting closer to spring,
so this issue will resolve. So that's one thing, but
it is something that comes up constantly for me as
well that clients who are perhaps working at home a
lot more, you know that you're losing that two three
thousand incidental amount of steps. And I'll have many clients
(03:21):
who'll come and say, oh, but I'm going to the
gym and I've got pilates, but when we check the steps,
it's far far less than ten thousand.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
And in my experience, if people are doing less than eight.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Ten thousand a day, you just won't lose it alone
maintain because bodies are meant to move, there has to
be a certain level of acceptance around it. And I
do find a tendency to use work as an excuse.
You know, I'll have many clients say it's end a
financial year, I'm really under the stack. I'm working over time,
and you know, without being too challenging, because obviously people
(03:52):
have to have a job and maintain that, but I
will also say that, you know, if you start to
question some of those beliefs, you know, how many hours
do you get paid for each day? Are you taking
a lunch break? You know, that can be twenty forty minutes.
That can all be all that you need. If someone's
sitting down at eight o'clock and still at the desk
at five or six, they're working far longer, And I
would argue does the office know or is it you
(04:14):
actually using work as an excuse? And whilst there may
be times where you have a day or two a
week which are under the pump and you can't move,
that still leaves five. So it's about starting where you
can and building and saying right, well, without an excuse,
every weekend, I'm going to move, and then two or
three days a week I will make sure I prioritize
that movement through the day. I love the treadmill option.
I've had great success with that too, And what I
(04:36):
would say is, if you're looking at exercise equipment, you
are much better to hire before you buy, because then
you can make sure you do use it. You're better
to spend the money on something that's electric and easy.
If you buy a roller or a bike, you won't
do it. The treadmill means that you can move at
a reasonable pace no matter what. Or you know, make
friends with someone who has one. Use the gym in
your building, use the gym at work. You know, many
(04:58):
people have got exercise equipment. Constantly shocked when I ask
clients that they've got a gym on site yet never
use it. But for me, it's about that acceptance that
it's not good enough to say I couldn't fit it in.
Today we have a responsibility with our bodies to move
every day. Like it's just like brushing your teeth, going
to the toilet. You've got to move. So a level
of acceptance and even just building over time, start when
you know you're going to do it. Do it with
(05:20):
a friend each day. If you're on a phone call,
put your headset on and go for a walk and
just start with ten or twenty minutes so you don't
even have to get changed. But it's not acceptable to
be saying I just couldn't fit it in, you know.
It's just something we all have to do, and particularly
if your goal is weight loss, you know, you will
at some point need to move if you want to
preserve the health of your body and just functional movement,
you know, as we get olderly and you want to travel,
(05:41):
you want to be fit with the kids. So without
a doubt, I do see and have seen a lot
lately people using their work as an excuse, and it's
putting the blame then on work as opposed to breaking
down the day and saying what I can't get up
one hour and five minutes, or I can't schedule a
phone call with a walk, or I can't take my
lunch break even if it's ten or twenty minutes. Come on,
that's really taking you know, really making a bit of
(06:03):
a joke of it.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Really, it's a responsibility. We've all got to move through
the day.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So setting some healthy boundaries in our.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Lives well, not using work as an excuse, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And I've heard a lot of that, and sure that
might happen occasionally, but it's certainly not something that holds
true when you really challenge it. All Right, Well, Leanne,
I want to talk about cheese because I am constantly
upset that cheese is so expensive in the supermarket, Like
how can I block of cheese be like eight dollars?
Like it's exorbitant amount of prices. So I wanted to
talk about a couple of cheeses that I do use,
(06:33):
and I find there much more cost effective examples. So
the one that I've liked, and I think I've actually
spoken about this before, but I wanted to come back
to it is the marinated fetters that you can find
in both coals and woolies, the name brand ones now
I used to well, I still like them because I
find them much more cost effective than yellow block cheese.
Because we've spoken before about this. If I buy a block,
(06:55):
it just gets eaten so quickly. At home, I tend
to buy grated and use it as a flavor top
of pastas or in a salad or with sandwich. I
find that goes much further and people just don't hack
at it. But I've used the marinated fetters for a
while because they used to be five point thirty for
the three hundred grams. Now they've gone up to between
six and six thirty, so they've got up about a
dollar each.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
And both coals and wilies have one. Now.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I like it because I think you use less because
you can crumble the fetter, you can spread it, and
you still get all the flavor. Now, the coals one
is it's fifty percent in the container, so admittedly the
overall amounts much smaller. It is got oil, and the
coals one does have palm oil in there.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I drain the oil itself.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I just use the cheese and then the woolies one
is slightly better. When you look at the ingredient list,
it's it's got Conola oil base and extra version olive
oil rather than palm oil in it. So that's probably
my preference. But the thing with the fetters, and in
particular this marinated Danish fetter, it's about twenty five percent
less fat than regular cheddar. It comes into about twenty
five percent fat, so it's slightly healthier as well. So
(07:56):
I'm a big fan of those, and just think that
if you're missing your cheese or not over the cost effective.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I find that that.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Container lasts me at least two weeks, and that sort
of three dollars a week versus the five eight dollar
blocks that tend to be smashed, or even the sliced cheese,
which is ridiculously expensive. But the other one that I like,
which is more of a personal like more than anything nutritious,
the Audi spreadable goats cheese, which retails for four dollars
a container, is a really nice product as well. Now
(08:25):
it's not low fat, it's just delicious. So I just
wanted to talk about that in terms of some cheese alternatives,
because I know at the moment it's not always a
really affordable product to be adding in. The other ones
that I find quite helpful, particularly if you're using cheese
as a snack, is things like the baby Bells. Baby
Bells a great portion control size, It can be a
great kids snack or addition to a lunch box, and
a great sort of piece that you can take at
(08:47):
twenty grams and have with your crackers in the afternoon,
and again works out a bit more cost effective than
blocks at the moment. So that's just a couple of
my little cheese chips, because yeah, I'm sort of continually
shocked at how expensive it is.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm just kind of down the days sometime I'm allowed
to eat brea again.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Ah, Yeah, I have a big block of that's true.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But no, I like your tip about goats cheese because
that's something I've been using regularly for me actually, in
terms of she just likes a little bit of toast
and avocado for breakfast that I've been putting a little
bit of goats cheese on there as well, and then
just sprinkling a little bit like hemp seeds or something
on there as well for her. So goats cheese I
find is really great for kids particularly you've got like
a nice like crunchy baguette or you know, a nice
piece of sald or. I find goats cheese goes down
(09:26):
a real treat. Then you can just sprinkle a little
bit of some sort of seasoning on top of that
as well. It goes down really really nicely. With a
little bit of fried mushrooms or something in some extraversion
all the world, it's a beautiful breakfast.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, you get a lot more taste for a much
smaller volume, and that is a great way to control
calories and fat while still getting the flavor, Whereas I
find the blocks you buy and you eat a slice,
two slices, and you've had all this money and calories,
and it doesn't give you the satisfaction overly anyway. So
the other trick actually with cheese, if you're buying it
in a block, is to shave it, because you'll use
a lot less if you shave it too. But yeah,
(09:57):
I'm definitely going for those white cheeses or even palmes
in it small amounts than buying blocks of cheese, which
I just can't believe are so expensive. All rightly, and well,
to finish it off, today, I have had a lot
of clients winging to me that they're bored with their breakfast. Now,
you know, if I'm in a good mood, I might
humor them, but if I'm not, I'll be like, well,
you've got cereal, you've got eggs, Like, there's certain breakfast foods,
but I've got a nice breakfast recipe that might give
(10:20):
some people some exciting inspiration around their breakfast if they're
sick of eggs in.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
The morning in particular.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And I find it's actually quite quick and easy as well,
and it's a really great way to get some veggies
into your breakfast. So we'll put it up on our Instagram.
I call it my sweet Potato Breakfast hash. So it's
just basically some extra virgin olive oil, some sweet potato,
some Spanish onions, uchini grated, and some parsley and I
just stick that into the pan, heat it up, and
then top that hash with a poached egg. And because
(10:49):
the sweet potato is so creamy and rich, it's a
nice alternative to toast. It is a great actual lunch
as well. It's warming, it's delicious. You could sprinkle some
of that marinated fetter on the top, and you're basically
ticking the box of carb and protein with some veggies
for breakfast. So if you are feeling a little bit
bored with your breakfast and want something hot and quite
easy to cook as well, the sweet Potato breakfast hash
(11:11):
is a winner and a lot of people really like that.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, that sounds delicious.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
You could do tofu too.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
If you don't like egg, you could do tofuu, because
I know Lenne loves tofu.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I love tofu, but not so much as a breakfast option,
I must say, more.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Like my stirup right for dinner.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You could grate it over your breakfast hash.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That it could. Yeah, you could do a vegan breakfast
hash if you really wanted.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I personally would like cheese and mine, you know how
much I love bun cheese. But you know you could
do a vegan one with some grained tofu is absolutely okay.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So sometimes we're just looking for a bit of change,
I think, and a bit inspiration. So give it a
go and see if you like that as a bit
of a hot breakfast on the go.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, particularly with a lot of households on budgets these days,
you and I included, you know, going out for a
weekend brunch every weekend is not that affordable. Like David
and I went out the other day with Mia, like
she had a baby Chino and I don't know, two
bites of a bit of avocado toast and David and
I just got two standard breakfasts. It was eighty something dollars.
So I just think the more you can make these
beautiful you know, breakfast hash at home for the whole
(12:03):
family rather than taking the entire family out to brunch
every weekend, you're going to save yourself a hell of
a lot more money, and it's going to be a
lot healthier as well, because you can actually add in,
you know, lots of extra vegetables to it as well,
which cafes just don't really seem to do these days.
So very good from a budget perspective as well.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, It's like the eggs are like twenty dollars, and
then if you have avo that's another five bucks, and
then if you have fetter it's another five and your
eggs are like thirty five dollars. It's like that is expensive, man.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
So I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I haven't been for breakfast for ages because even when
I go, I just feel like I'm being ripped off.
This morning, I bought two croissants and a loaf of bread.
It was eighteen dollars, Like, it's just ridiculous. So I
think you have to be really savvy with how you
use your food spend, and there's certainly easy ways to
make tasty, healthy options at home that are often better
than that. You can save a lot of money eating out.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, gone to the days where I'm paying what is
it like sixteen bucks for avocado toast? Hell no, no, I'm
you know, ninety nine percent of the time. I'm making
that at home one.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Hundred percent, and you can do it, and I argue
it tastes better anyway percent right.
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Speaker 2 (13:10):
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Speaker 4 (13:28):
Have a great week.
Do you get enough cardio winter? Is it too cold,
too wet, too hard to actually work out in winter? Well,
it is for a lot of our clients. So on
today's Midweek a motivational episode of The Nutrition Couch, Susie
and I discussed the pros and cons of winter cardio,
and we discuss if you're using your job and your
family as an excuse to sit down a whole lot
(00:21):
more in winter. Hi, I'm LeAnn Wood and I'm Cuss Burrow,
and every week we bring you The Nutrition Couch, the
biweekly podcast that keeps you up to date on everything
that you need to know in the world of nutrition,
as well as the downside of winter cardio. Susi shares
her favorite supermarket cheese and our weekly recipe for winter
is a warming, savory breakfast option. But to kick us off, Susie,
(00:43):
we love to chat real life client case studies, and
in the past week you and I have both given
our clients a bit of a kick up the push
in terms of winter cardio, because I feel like lately
it's been cold, it's been rainy, it's been very dark,
and I'm not gonna lie, it's hard to get up.
What it's pitch black outside at five am when you
finished work at six pm and actually go for a
little bit of a walk. But for the modern average
(01:04):
Australium who has a desk job, we are simply not
moving enough. And so if the goal is fat loss,
we have to move a little bit more. So I
sort of read the Ride Act to a couple of
my clients this week and I said, all right, if
you're not going to go out, if it's too cold,
if it's too hard, if it's rating, if you're too
tired after work, we've got to do something. So I
made two of my clients susy rent pieces of exercise equipment.
(01:25):
So one of them rented a treadmill and the other
one's got bad knees, and she rented an exercise bike
because that's what her visio recommended, was a good piece
of cardio equipment for her. And they're actually really cost effective,
Like I want to say, one of my clients picked
it up for like thirty dollars a month or something.
They came to a house, they set it up. They said,
let us know when you want this description to end
and we'll come pick it up. So she's not going
to use it forever. It's really just in these middle
(01:46):
winter period months where it is stark outside, it is
cold outside, it has been rating a little bit lately,
and the last thing she wants to do after finishing
work or getting up at five am in the morning
is actually head out for some cardio because it's too cold.
So we got it to rent a treadmill, and I
must say she smashed it. Every single day last week.
She was able to walk for at least fifteen minutes,
if not forty forty five minutes spread throughout the day,
(02:07):
so she might have done ten fifteen minutes in the morning,
and then another sort of like twenty minutes after she
put the kids to bed. So I think a lot
of us are using winter as a little bit of
an excuse not to move as much. But we know
when the goal is fat loss, or even when it's not,
when the goal is just health. Really we need to
move a little bit more because we sit down far
too much. And I remember reading an article probably years
(02:29):
ago now, and it was basically saying sitting is the
new smoking, like the public health epidemic, that we're.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Just not moving enough.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
So I think it's really important it's beautiful in summer,
we get up, we go for an early morning walk,
it's lovely, but in winter it is one hundred times harder.
So perhaps consider actually renting a piece of cardio equipment
like a treadmill or like an exercise bike, because it
can really really be helpful if you're not someone that
wants to brave the how many sub zero degrees it
is in your country or you know, between zero and
(02:57):
ten degrees in parts of Australia in the morning to
actually get up in your cardio.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Yeah, and I think it is getting closer to spring,
so this issue will resolve. So that's one thing, but
it is something that comes up constantly for me as
well that clients who are perhaps working at home a
lot more, you know that you're losing that two three
thousand incidental amount of steps. And I'll have many clients
(03:21):
who'll come and say, oh, but I'm going to the
gym and I've got pilates, but when we check the steps,
it's far far less than ten thousand.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
And in my experience, if people are doing less than eight.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Ten thousand a day, you just won't lose it alone
maintain because bodies are meant to move, there has to
be a certain level of acceptance around it. And I
do find a tendency to use work as an excuse.
You know, I'll have many clients say it's end a
financial year, I'm really under the stack. I'm working over time,
and you know, without being too challenging, because obviously people
(03:52):
have to have a job and maintain that, but I
will also say that, you know, if you start to
question some of those beliefs, you know, how many hours
do you get paid for each day? Are you taking
a lunch break? You know, that can be twenty forty minutes.
That can all be all that you need. If someone's
sitting down at eight o'clock and still at the desk
at five or six, they're working far longer, And I
would argue does the office know or is it you
(04:14):
actually using work as an excuse? And whilst there may
be times where you have a day or two a
week which are under the pump and you can't move,
that still leaves five. So it's about starting where you
can and building and saying right, well, without an excuse,
every weekend, I'm going to move, and then two or
three days a week I will make sure I prioritize
that movement through the day. I love the treadmill option.
I've had great success with that too, And what I
(04:36):
would say is, if you're looking at exercise equipment, you
are much better to hire before you buy, because then
you can make sure you do use it. You're better
to spend the money on something that's electric and easy.
If you buy a roller or a bike, you won't
do it. The treadmill means that you can move at
a reasonable pace no matter what. Or you know, make
friends with someone who has one. Use the gym in
your building, use the gym at work. You know, many
(04:58):
people have got exercise equipment. Constantly shocked when I ask
clients that they've got a gym on site yet never
use it. But for me, it's about that acceptance that
it's not good enough to say I couldn't fit it in.
Today we have a responsibility with our bodies to move
every day. Like it's just like brushing your teeth, going
to the toilet. You've got to move. So a level
of acceptance and even just building over time, start when
you know you're going to do it. Do it with
(05:20):
a friend each day. If you're on a phone call,
put your headset on and go for a walk and
just start with ten or twenty minutes so you don't
even have to get changed. But it's not acceptable to
be saying I just couldn't fit it in, you know.
It's just something we all have to do, and particularly
if your goal is weight loss, you know, you will
at some point need to move if you want to
preserve the health of your body and just functional movement,
you know, as we get olderly and you want to travel,
(05:41):
you want to be fit with the kids. So without
a doubt, I do see and have seen a lot
lately people using their work as an excuse, and it's
putting the blame then on work as opposed to breaking
down the day and saying what I can't get up
one hour and five minutes, or I can't schedule a
phone call with a walk, or I can't take my
lunch break even if it's ten or twenty minutes. Come on,
that's really taking you know, really making a bit of
(06:03):
a joke of it.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
Really, it's a responsibility. We've all got to move through
the day.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
So setting some healthy boundaries in our.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Lives well, not using work as an excuse, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
And I've heard a lot of that, and sure that
might happen occasionally, but it's certainly not something that holds
true when you really challenge it. All Right, Well, Leanne,
I want to talk about cheese because I am constantly
upset that cheese is so expensive in the supermarket, Like
how can I block of cheese be like eight dollars?
Like it's exorbitant amount of prices. So I wanted to
talk about a couple of cheeses that I do use,
(06:33):
and I find there much more cost effective examples. So
the one that I've liked, and I think I've actually
spoken about this before, but I wanted to come back
to it is the marinated fetters that you can find
in both coals and woolies, the name brand ones now
I used to well, I still like them because I
find them much more cost effective than yellow block cheese.
Because we've spoken before about this. If I buy a block,
(06:55):
it just gets eaten so quickly. At home, I tend
to buy grated and use it as a flavor top
of pastas or in a salad or with sandwich. I
find that goes much further and people just don't hack
at it. But I've used the marinated fetters for a
while because they used to be five point thirty for
the three hundred grams. Now they've gone up to between
six and six thirty, so they've got up about a
dollar each.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
And both coals and wilies have one. Now.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I like it because I think you use less because
you can crumble the fetter, you can spread it, and
you still get all the flavor. Now, the coals one
is it's fifty percent in the container, so admittedly the
overall amounts much smaller. It is got oil, and the
coals one does have palm oil in there.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
I drain the oil itself.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
I just use the cheese and then the woolies one
is slightly better. When you look at the ingredient list,
it's it's got Conola oil base and extra version olive
oil rather than palm oil in it. So that's probably
my preference. But the thing with the fetters, and in
particular this marinated Danish fetter, it's about twenty five percent
less fat than regular cheddar. It comes into about twenty
five percent fat, so it's slightly healthier as well. So
(07:56):
I'm a big fan of those, and just think that
if you're missing your cheese or not over the cost effective.
Speaker 4 (08:01):
I find that that.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Container lasts me at least two weeks, and that sort
of three dollars a week versus the five eight dollar
blocks that tend to be smashed, or even the sliced cheese,
which is ridiculously expensive. But the other one that I like,
which is more of a personal like more than anything nutritious,
the Audi spreadable goats cheese, which retails for four dollars
a container, is a really nice product as well. Now
(08:25):
it's not low fat, it's just delicious. So I just
wanted to talk about that in terms of some cheese alternatives,
because I know at the moment it's not always a
really affordable product to be adding in. The other ones
that I find quite helpful, particularly if you're using cheese
as a snack, is things like the baby Bells. Baby
Bells a great portion control size, It can be a
great kids snack or addition to a lunch box, and
a great sort of piece that you can take at
(08:47):
twenty grams and have with your crackers in the afternoon,
and again works out a bit more cost effective than
blocks at the moment. So that's just a couple of
my little cheese chips, because yeah, I'm sort of continually
shocked at how expensive it is.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I'm just kind of down the days sometime I'm allowed
to eat brea again.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Ah, Yeah, I have a big block of that's true.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
But no, I like your tip about goats cheese because
that's something I've been using regularly for me actually, in
terms of she just likes a little bit of toast
and avocado for breakfast that I've been putting a little
bit of goats cheese on there as well, and then
just sprinkling a little bit like hemp seeds or something
on there as well for her. So goats cheese I
find is really great for kids particularly you've got like
a nice like crunchy baguette or you know, a nice
piece of sald or. I find goats cheese goes down
(09:26):
a real treat. Then you can just sprinkle a little
bit of some sort of seasoning on top of that
as well. It goes down really really nicely. With a
little bit of fried mushrooms or something in some extraversion
all the world, it's a beautiful breakfast.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Yeah, you get a lot more taste for a much
smaller volume, and that is a great way to control
calories and fat while still getting the flavor, Whereas I
find the blocks you buy and you eat a slice,
two slices, and you've had all this money and calories,
and it doesn't give you the satisfaction overly anyway. So
the other trick actually with cheese, if you're buying it
in a block, is to shave it, because you'll use
a lot less if you shave it too. But yeah,
(09:57):
I'm definitely going for those white cheeses or even palmes
in it small amounts than buying blocks of cheese, which
I just can't believe are so expensive. All rightly, and well,
to finish it off, today, I have had a lot
of clients winging to me that they're bored with their breakfast. Now,
you know, if I'm in a good mood, I might
humor them, but if I'm not, I'll be like, well,
you've got cereal, you've got eggs, Like, there's certain breakfast foods,
but I've got a nice breakfast recipe that might give
(10:20):
some people some exciting inspiration around their breakfast if they're
sick of eggs in.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
The morning in particular.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
And I find it's actually quite quick and easy as well,
and it's a really great way to get some veggies
into your breakfast. So we'll put it up on our Instagram.
I call it my sweet Potato Breakfast hash. So it's
just basically some extra virgin olive oil, some sweet potato,
some Spanish onions, uchini grated, and some parsley and I
just stick that into the pan, heat it up, and
then top that hash with a poached egg. And because
(10:49):
the sweet potato is so creamy and rich, it's a
nice alternative to toast. It is a great actual lunch
as well. It's warming, it's delicious. You could sprinkle some
of that marinated fetter on the top, and you're basically
ticking the box of carb and protein with some veggies
for breakfast. So if you are feeling a little bit
bored with your breakfast and want something hot and quite
easy to cook as well, the sweet Potato breakfast hash
(11:11):
is a winner and a lot of people really like that.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, that sounds delicious.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
You could do tofu too.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
If you don't like egg, you could do tofuu, because
I know Lenne loves tofu.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
I love tofu, but not so much as a breakfast option,
I must say, more.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Like my stirup right for dinner.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
You could grate it over your breakfast hash.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That it could. Yeah, you could do a vegan breakfast
hash if you really wanted.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
I personally would like cheese and mine, you know how
much I love bun cheese. But you know you could
do a vegan one with some grained tofu is absolutely okay.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
So sometimes we're just looking for a bit of change,
I think, and a bit inspiration. So give it a
go and see if you like that as a bit
of a hot breakfast on the go.
Speaker 1 (11:43):
Yeah, particularly with a lot of households on budgets these days,
you and I included, you know, going out for a
weekend brunch every weekend is not that affordable. Like David
and I went out the other day with Mia, like
she had a baby Chino and I don't know, two
bites of a bit of avocado toast and David and
I just got two standard breakfasts. It was eighty something dollars.
So I just think the more you can make these
beautiful you know, breakfast hash at home for the whole
(12:03):
family rather than taking the entire family out to brunch
every weekend, you're going to save yourself a hell of
a lot more money, and it's going to be a
lot healthier as well, because you can actually add in,
you know, lots of extra vegetables to it as well,
which cafes just don't really seem to do these days.
So very good from a budget perspective as well.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Well, It's like the eggs are like twenty dollars, and
then if you have avo that's another five bucks, and
then if you have fetter it's another five and your
eggs are like thirty five dollars. It's like that is expensive, man.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
So I'm with you.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
I haven't been for breakfast for ages because even when
I go, I just feel like I'm being ripped off.
This morning, I bought two croissants and a loaf of bread.
It was eighteen dollars, Like, it's just ridiculous. So I
think you have to be really savvy with how you
use your food spend, and there's certainly easy ways to
make tasty, healthy options at home that are often better
than that. You can save a lot of money eating out.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Yeah, gone to the days where I'm paying what is
it like sixteen bucks for avocado toast? Hell no, no, I'm
you know, ninety nine percent of the time. I'm making
that at home one.
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Hundred percent, and you can do it, and I argue
it tastes better anyway percent right.
Speaker 1 (13:00):
Well, that brings us to the end of the Nutrition
Couch for another midweek Motivational Wednesday episode. We would love
if you could give us a follow on our Instagram
account which is at the Nutrition Couch podcast, And don't.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Forget to check out our website.
Speaker 1 (13:11):
We have a whole range of basically things to just
help you guys out. We've got our Periyguide, we've got
our snack Guide, we've got our takeaway guide, and also
there's a live recordings from our events last year and
very soon to come will be our brand new snack
guide as well. So we hope everybody has a great
week and we will catch you in the next episode.
Speaker 4 (13:28):
Have a great week.
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