Recipe: (Recovery) snack by Miesha Tate

So, Miesha Tate posted the recipe for a well-balanced snack (well-balanced in regard to macro-nutrients) on her instagram the other day, and of course I had to try it. It had peanut butter in it. 

The recipe is simple enough;

3/4 cups vanilla yoghurt

1/2 scoop protein powder

2 Tblsps Peanut Butter (there it is)

1/2 cup Granola

Mix these together in a bowl and enjoy. Good for recovery after training or just as a snack to fend off sweet cravings (it's true!). It's fat to protein to carb ratio is great, as I've already said, but you should keep in mind that it is by no means low calorie, so if you're on a diet, really integrate it into your meal plan, so there's no bad awakening.

Thank you, Miesha Tate, this will be a new go-to snack of mine. 

-K

Instagram + food = obsession

Has anyone else had to deal with this? I joined instagram about a year ago and I didn't really use it for a while. And then, all of a sudden, it happened: I started taking pictures of my food and I started following people who took pictures of their food and now I am addicted to instagram. I myself am posting about one food post per day (!!!) and I like 4-6 food posts of others per day.
On the plus side: I have been getting so much inspiration food-wise, it got me to try out stuff, I would have never tried out without instagram and somehow it feels good when about ten people like your breakfast :D

But now seriously; it probably is really annoying for people who are not interested in food or healthy living, etc., but I believe there are some positive sides to instagramming food:
1. you get inspired to use new food or to use food you have at home in new ways
2. it looks delicious
3. you can get a lot of information about other people's way of life and eating. I am following several people who are following a mostly or completely vegan diet and I got interested in it as well and this spring and summer has been seeing me dabbling with a vegan way of life. I could not go completely vegan, but more about that in another post.
4. if you are posting your own food, you become more conscious of what you're actually eating. Not just what kind of food you are eating, but I'm talking living-in-the-moment-wise: You prepare your food, you take a pretty picture of it instead of just stuffing your face as fast as you can, you see the picture, you say sth about it, you post your picture and by then, you really realised what delicacy you are about to eat and you savour it a little more. And afterwards you can look at it and know: wow, that was really good. It makes you more aware of the process of preparing and eating food. Which is - nowadays - something that can get lost during the hurry of everyday life. Enjoy your food! :)

This is the kind of stuff that goes onto my insta these days. @viviane786