Health & Wellness NI

Nuts about nuts 👀🥜🌰🍇🫐😍

Love it when a beaut new coffee joint opens literally on the doorstep of my second home 📚☕️😍

Birds singing and sunshine 🐦☀️👌🏻

Easy to do with a few words 🤔, but it’s the effort involved that matters when it comes to making those few words a reality 👀💪🏻

Get after it!!

But most importantly, have patience 😉❤️

Daily fresh greenssssssss 🥬🥦🫑🥑🍏🍋

Sunday morning strolls 🐶❤️

Brunch fit for a king 🤴🏼😍

3 Egg Omelette, Mushroom, Spinach, Asparagus, Avocado, Rocket and Ballymaloe Relish mushroom 🍄🥑🥬

Dinner is served 👀😍❤️

Romain Lettuce Taco, Ribeye Steak, Spinach, Rocket, Peppers, Onions, Feta Cheese, Olive Oil, Black Pepper with Steamed Tender Stem Broccoli 🥩 🥬 🧅 🧀 🫒 🥦 😍

The effects of nature as a form of medication is mind blowing 🤯

Personally, I thrive in nature, its almost as if I feel at home when I’m in a place of natural beauty ❤️. It definitely has a noticeable impact on my emotional state, for the better 😁

We are very fortunate in NI to have an abundance of natural surroundings within a short journey from where we live, so get out and take full advantage 💪🏻

The effects of exposure to nature is that great, there may be plans to populate more built up, urban areas with trees, parks etc in order to create opportunities for those living in big cities which lack areas of nature with the aim to improve physical and mental well-being in certain populations 👏🏻👏🏻❤️

*Paragraph from a review paper:

“With respect to general health, models are already starting to be applied within these contexts. Examples include urban tree canopy restoration to improve air quality (91), the siting of new park loca- tions to improve physical activity (92), and efforts to use environ- mental investments to advance health equity (93). This last point is critical. Given the emerging evidence base for the benefits of nature contact, greater effort should be made to increase access to nature to help address the significant health inequities that people from low- opportunity neighborhoods experience, in contrast to their privi- leged counterparts”.

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.aax0903

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Made a Pickled Jalapeño, Basil, Spinach & Avocado sauce, total experiment after seeing a hotdog place in town done a Jalapeño and Basil mayo, which was tasty. I didn’t google any recipes, I just winged it in order to make a “beefed up” version. So even though there’s more work to be done to refine it, it was still super tasty in these meals👌🏻😍

Ingredients
Approx. 1 table spoon of pickled jalapeños
Handful of spinach
Half half full of fresh Basil
1 clove of garlic
Half of a ripe avocado
Approx. 1/4 cup of extra virgin olive oil
Half of a fresh squeezed lime
Pinch of salt and pepper

*blend together, tasty as you go and season accordingly 👍🏻

**add less jalapeños if you don’t like a spicy kick, and vice versa 🥵

Always experimenting to keep things interesting. Feel free to suggest any tips or recommendations that might improve the recipe 💪🏻😉👌🏻

Walk Wednesdays to get the steps in 🚶‍♂️😁 featuring Luna 🐶❤️



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Sunday strolls to clear the mental clutter in preparation for a productive week ahead 🐶💚