N'You Love
The purpose of this blog is to share the things that I enjoy: living a healthy lifestyle, natural hair, DIY projects, positivity, travel, Korea and sewing. The only thing I am a professional in is being me, but if you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask.
* I am not a medical practitioner nor am I a nutritionist. All recipes showcased here are taken from various sources, such as books, websites, word-of-mouth and my imagination. If you wish to incorporate any foods or methods from this blog into your daily life, please consult your personal medical practitioner before doing so.*
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Enjoy-N♥
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Please stop forcing us to study and memorize.
What we really want and need is DREAM and CREATIVITY, PASSION.
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Dance Theatre of Harlem
Love the flesh-colored ballet shoes they’re all wearing.
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Inas getting some final touches to her hair on her wedding day
This is...
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HUGE day for love. After months of hard work and protest, marriage equality has passed in France — 331 to 225.
The Two-tone Sunrise
- 2 cups spring water
- 2 mangos
- 1 handful peaches
- 1/2 beet
- 1 orange
Blend the water, mangos, and peaches in a power blender until smooth and pour into glasses. Juice the beet and orange and pour over the mango.
Spiral Green
- 3 cups spring water
- 2 frozen bananas
- 1 mango
- 1/2 pineapple
- 1 tablespoon spirulina
- Sprig of fresh mint
Blend all ingredients until smooth.
Maca Love
- 2 cups Brazil nut milk
- 5 pitted dates
- 2 figs
- 1 tablespoon maca
Blend all ingredients until smooth.
I need to get another mint plant and love it better!
Green Mango Smoothie
Ingredients
- 1 medium carrot
- 1/2 mango
- 5-6 strawberries
- 2 inches of ginger
- 1-2 cups of kale
How-to
- Place all ingredients in blender/food processor
- Blend
- Because we’re fancy, pour into a wine glass
- Drink
- Enjoy!
Benefits
- Carrots-great source of biotin, potassium, vitamins K, B1, B2 and B6.
- Kale-great source of iron, fiber, calcium and Vitamin C
- Ginger- helps w/ nausea, promotes blood circulation—in turn reducing inflammation, promotes healthier skin and nail/hair growth
- Mango-Provides body with Vitamin C and E along with calcium, iron and magnesium.
- Strawberries-provides vitamin C, manganese and is full of antioxidants.
Breakfast-Green smoothie (3 bananas, 2 big leaves of kale, approx handful of blueberries, maca powder), non-raw crackers and peanut butter.
Pre-Workout Brinner-Half liter Green Smoothie 2 (2 bananas, half mango, 2 big leaves of kale), 2 pieces of sushi
Post-Workout Dinner-1/4 liter Green Smoothie 2, soon after vegetable soup from Day 15
Dinner-Sushi wrap w/ kimchi
Brunch- mango, spinach, ginger smoothie
Lunch- Chana curry and naan
Breakfast: Banana, ginger, kale w/ baked sweet potato
Lunch (not pictured): Salad pasta, chocolate balls
Post-BodyRock: banana, kale and mango
Dinner: Bibim Bap
DAY 9
Breakfast: Borange smoothie (beet, carrot, kale and orange juice) unfortunately I forgot to grab my sweetener (mango) before I left the house, so I had to work with what I had at work, which was orange juice. I also had some crackers… It’s a work in progress people :)
Lunch: Beet Smoothie (beet, apple, ginger) w/ curried baked sweet potatoes.
Dinner (not pictured): Raw vegetable soup (tomato, mushroom, spinach, onion)
DAY 8
Breakfast: spinach, tangerine, ginger smoothie w/ baked sweet potato (not pictured)
Lunch: [School lunch] 낙지 볶음밥 (fried octopus rice): This was my first time having this dish. wasn’t bad. I couldn’t deal with the texture of the octopus, so I picked the majority of the pieces out.
Dinner: Sushi and Beet Juice (beets, apple, celery)
DAY 7
BREAKFAST/PRE-Bodyrock: Purple Nurple-banana, blueberries, water. Use any combo you wish.
LUNCH/POST-BodyRock: Raw Veggie Soup-tomato, onion, mushroom, kale, cashews, curry
DINNER: Sushi (스시/초밥) and kimchi 김치 with Beetle Juice-beet, tangerines, spinach and ginger.
DAY 6
NYE
BRUNCH: Tangerine/kale/ginger shake (1 liter) along with baked curried sweet potatoes.
DINNER: Mushroom curry (not photographed) at Indian restaurant
DAY 5
Breakfast: Tangerine 감 juice with baked sweet potato fries.
I went for a run/walk/hike today, then had a killer juice (not the one pictured above): Lacinato kale (1 whole bunch!)/celery/parsley/pineapple/pear. Then, a couple hours later I made the above juice.
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Oh my good gracious god.
Pomegranate/orange/beet/carrot/red cabbage/ginger/vanilla bean juice.
I couldn’t even help myself- I drank most of it before I took the picture.
YUM! Day 3 has been a major success.
This looks yum. Going on my menu!
DAY 4
Pre and post workout (1 liter): spinach 시금치, blueberries 블루베리 and mango 망고
DAY 4
Breakfast: Orangade-Persimmons 감 and tangerines 귤 and baked sweet potato fries.
Day 2-(clockwise)
BREAKFAST: baked sweet potato 고구마 w/ apple 사과, spinach 시금치, carrot 당근 smoothie.
LUNCH: kale 케일, banana 바나나 and mango 만고 smoothie.
DINNER: Lettuce wraps made with lettuce 상추, carrot 당근, mushroom 버섯, cashews 캐슈, celery 샐러리, green peppers 녹색 후추.
Day 1
smoothie: 시금치 spinach, 귤 tangerine, 감 persimmon, 생강 ginger
