Hot Carob Cashew Drink

Here is another nice hot drink and a good alternative to hot chocolate.

(Takes about 3 min)

You need:
- a blender
- about 1l of boiling water
- 2 tblsp carob powder
- 10 small dates
- about 15 cashew nuts.

You do:
Put all ingredients in the blender and blend until smooth.

Use less or no cashews if you like it less creamy (fatty). Use less or no dates if you like it less sweet. Carob powder is already somewhat sweet. On the other hand, both whole dates and whole cashew nuts are HiFi - they won't harm you. So why not indulge?

Michael

Eat more - weigh less (1)

That you don't have to starve yourself to lose weight is something I realized only a few years ago, after lots of research and personal experience. In fact, if I want to lose weight, I increase the amount of food I eat. Let me explain this.

In my experience, there are 3 kinds of hunger:

1. Volume
This first type of hunger is the hunger of your digestion system for something to do. This is related to the sheer volume of food you eat.

2. Nutrients
This is probably a more subtle hunger. Your body needs a few hundred nutrients (maybe a few thousand - we don't really know yet). It manifests itself in specific appetites or food cravings.

3. Energy
Every cell in your body, in particular the brain and the muscles burn glucose. Your body needs a lot of it.

The first thing lesson of the HiFi Weight Loss Diet is to understand the difference between these kinds of hungers and not to confuse them. If your body needs some nutrients, it won't ever be satisfied by another load of nutrient-lacking high processed sugary or fatty food with lots of calories.

What you need to eat is high volumes (seriously) of highly nutritions HiFi food. If you eat unprocessed plant foods with all its fiber you get the volume through fiber and water and all the nutrients that are in unprocessed plant foods. If you are on a diet, you never want to have hunger number 1 and number 2 - so dig in!

Avocado Walnut Dressing for Carrots

You think you are not eating enough carrots? Well, some more surely wouldn't hurt. Eating carrots always seems like a good idea to me, but apart from the occasional one that I just snack without any preparation, I don't eat that many to be honest. I don't like cooked carrots, so my only option is carrot salad. As part of my new "eat more carrots"-project, I have created a nice dressing, that is fully HiFi, so you can drown your carrots in it without control.


(Takes about 10 min)

You need:
- a hand blender
- a mandoline
- about 4 medium-size carrots
- 1 avocado
- 1/4 cup of walnuts
- 1/8 cup of sesame seeds and a seed grinder or 2 tblsp of tahini
- 1 orange
- 1 lemon
- 1 piece of garlic
- 1 piece of ginger
- 1 piece of chilli
- no salt (seriously, you don't need any)

You do:
Cut the carrots into small sticks using the mandoline. Grind the sesame seeds into a paste with a seed grinder. Put the sesame paste and the other ingredients into a tall container and blend until smooth. Mix the dressing with the carrots. Enjoy.

Michael