Organic Seasonal foods are full of nutrients and better for your health. When Fruit and Veg are picked at their peak and grown locally and organically they will have 3 x more nutrients than non local and organic, not to mention 4 x more flavour. Eating organic, seasonal produce is the best way to eliminate the harmful effects of pesticides on your health. Food grown without chemicals is the best way to feed your body which will nourish your heart, health, body and mind.
Organic seasonal foods shopping helps support local farmers and is better for the
environment. Choosing local, seasonal produce means it takes less energy and time to travel which is better for the climate reduces your carbon foot print.
Organic seasonal eating means more colourful, fun, fab, variety. It’s is easy to to opt for the same choices, that you and your family are familiar with like potatoes, corn, and carrots. However when you shop my fabified shopping lists you are adding more colour, variety, and fun ingredients to your diet, which means getting more creative in the kitchen.
You’ll be eating new things every season, fab flavour and fun food choices will make meals more interesting, and healthy.
Gluten Free Whole Grains
GF Oats, quinoa, millet, spelt, brown rice, pop corn, teff.
Fruit
Apple, apricots, bilberries, blackberries, elderberries, figs, grapes, melons, nectarines, peaches, plums, pineapple, pomegranates, raspberries, red-currants.
Vegetables
Artichoke, aubergine, beetroot, broccoli, butternut squash, carrots, celeriac, celery, chillies, courgettes, cucumber, fennel, french beans, garlic, kohlrabi, leeks, lettuce & salad leaves, mangetout, marrow, onions, pak choi, peppers, potatoes, radishes, rocket, runner beans, spring onions, sweetcorn, tomatoes, turnips, watercress, wild mushrooms.
Lean Protein
Clams, cod, coley, crab, dover sole, grey mullet, haddock, halibut, hake, herring, lemon sole, mackerel, monkfish, mussels, oysters, pilchard, plaice, pollack, prawns, red mullet, sardines, sea bass , sea bream, shrimp.
Meat
Beef, grouse, guinea fowl, hare, lamb, pheasant, rabbit, turkey, venison, wood pigeon.
Hydrating Liquids
Natural mineral water, fruit Infused purified water, herbal teas, fresh made vegetable juices.
Healthy Fats
Coconut Oil, extra virgin olive oil, avocado, sesame oil, olives, basil oil.
Nuts & Seeds
Almonds, Walnuts, hazelnuts, Pecans, & Cashews Nuts. Sunflower, Sesame, Hemp , Chia and pumpkin seeds.
Superfood’s
Baobab, bee pollen, chlorella, cayenne pepper, maca, lacuma, turmeric, cacao nibs, cayenne pepper, spirulina.
Herb
Basil, chives, coriander, oregano, mint, parsley, rosemary, sage, sorrel, tarragon, thyme.
Now that autumn has arrived, its time to nourish your body with foods, that will keep you warm and glowing from the inside out.
Ashley xoxo