Category: advent calendar

Happy 2nd Advent!

Today marks the second week of Advent with two candles shining brightly on the Advent wreath.

We are in the middle of the Christmas season and here’s an important question for those following their Metabolic Balance plan … How are you doing? Are you being tempted by Christmas treats and drinks around you? Can you resist? Or is it hard for you to stick to your plan? We at Metabolic Balance recommend that you should not be too strict with yourself in the run-up to Christmas. Stick to the Metabolic Balance rules, stay as close to the plan as possible, but also enjoy the Christmas season with one or two cheats. It is important to do this in moderation and to deviate from the plan a little bit only once a week.

Where’s The Egg? Egg Substitutes for Baking and Cooking – Advent #9

metabolic balance wants you to have only one protein per meal so when a recipe requires you to use an egg and another protein, what are you to do?   Be creative! Here is an infographic offering you some egg alternatives:

 

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photos of eggs by Liz West

Goals – Most People never set them!

 

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Ready to set some goals? Here are some goal related links from the blogs that will help you get started.

Two Infographics Encouraging You to Eat More Onions and More Mushrooms – Advent #6

We shared different kinds of mushrooms you could grow but here are more options you can try adding to your diet:

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As long as you are adding more mushrooms, how about trying a few more Onions (Onions go well with mushrooms). In the infographic below are a few varieties you can find in your local health food stores, farmers markets and maybe even your traditional grocery stores.

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Here are some onion articles that you may want to read:

 

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Red Onion photograph by Andrew Malone

Lion’s Mane Mushrooms- metabolic balance Monday Recipe Ideas for Advent

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We shared a video yesterday about Lion’s mane mushrooms and today, we are offering you a few recipes to create using this unusual fungus.

 

If you decide to make the crab cakes, please and not make it a treat meal, skip the mayonaise and soy sauce.  Also remember that if you use a lemon, it is part of your fruit for the meal.

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Would you like more recipes for mushrooms?  We shared recipes on yesterday’s mushroom post.

Grow Your Own Mushrooms – metabolic balance Advent Day 3&4

Gifting yourself fresh mushrooms is a great idea  Here is a company that has Mushrooms in a box where you just add water and watch them grow. Perfect as a metabolic balancer stocking stuffer.

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Another company called 2funguys that offers logs for growing shitake mushrooms for up to 2 years.  The company also offers a growing kit for Oyster mushrooms.  You will need more space for these kits and maybe some really interesting ceramic container to hold your logs.

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If you want to create your own DIY kit to give to your friends?  Here is a video showing how to grow oyster mushrooms in coffee grounds.

The video host talks about the  Field and Forest  catalog which offers you different kinds of mushrooms you can grow at home. They have kits for Shitake, Oyster, Reishi, Lion’s Mane, wine cap, hericium, maitake, nameko, blewit & almond agaricus.

 

Want to read some more information about mushrooms? Here are some Links you might remember from months gone by:

Mushroom Detox Soup Recipe

Mushroom Caps Recipe

Understanding Friendly Fungi – Article on LivecCleanMB

Zucchini and Mushroom Soup – Recipe

Meditate through the Holiday Stress – metabolic balance Advent Day 2

To help relieve the stress that comes with the holidays, we are sharing with you a few guided meditations that you can listen to each day until the 25th to help you develop a meditation practice.

There are four styles of meditations: Silent, mantra, guided meditation and music meditation.  The list below offers you choices from guided and music meditations.
Guided Meditations:
Loving Kindness Meditation. (9 minutes guided meditation)
Mindful Awareness (5 minute guided meditation)
Simply Being podcast #5 ( 8 minute guided meditation)
Mindful Breathing  (10 minutes guided meditation)
Music Sound Meditations:
Bells (10 minutes bell music for meditation)
Relaxing Music (60 minutes)

 

Positive Affirmation Audio (30 Minutes)

 

Meditation helps with Mindfulness.  We talked about Mindfulness on the blog in the following posts.

 

 

Random Acts of Kindness – Advents Calendar

Today is the first of December and it is time to spend 24 days celebrating metabolic balancing, mindful living and reminiscing over our balanced year.

Today, I thought we would start with a calendar of random acts of kindness you can share this month.

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NOTE: Thank you  Angelika  Zeller-Michaelson for the image of the calendar.