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Chocolate Orange Truffles [Video]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 19, 2014 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making

Chocolate Orange Truffles (with Rum!) REAL FOOD FRIDAY RECIPE I think you all know how much I love making my own raw chocolate, but sometimes it’s necessary to use a good dark quality chocolate (preferably organic) to break into pieces and whip up in a hurry. These deliciously decadent truffles are super easy to make and can be customised to your taste. Best of all, they comprise of only a handful of ingredients that you can put together quickly for a special celebration. I’ve already made these twice recently: for a Christmas party and a special treat at home for the

Healthy Christmas Gift Guide!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 14, 2014 / Gratitude, Holistic Health, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

Inspiring Gift Ideas for Christmas! Oh yes! It’s that time of year again! To help inspire you with new wellness education, mind-body relaxation and whole food ideas, I’ve put together this Healthy Christmas Gift and Inspiration Guide with a list of useful tools, products, information and educational ideas to help you start, or expand on, your health and wellness journey. Some resources are mine, and some are from those I use myself and have no issues with recommending to you. There’s so much to learn about health, wellness, holistic living, food, eating, fitness, wellbeing, nutrition and so on! This inspiring Christmas

Are You Drinking Enough Water?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on December 12, 2014 / Fat Loss, Health & Fitness, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Self-Care, Wellness Coaching

Drink Water, it’s Healthy Do you notice if you’re thirsty right now as you read this? Are you tired, or struggling to stay awake, or concentrate? Water does way more than simply quench our thirst, and yet we often don’t realise the benefits of drinking up. Blood is 83% water. The brain is 74.5% water. It’s fair to say that without enough water being replenished into the blood stream to carry nutrients and oxygen to your cells, regulate your body temperature and nourish your brain, you’d easily start to feel tired, cranky and thirsty. As much as I know myself

Mini Christmas Pudding Balls – Gluten/Dairy/Refined Sugar Free

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 29, 2014 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Mini Xmas Puddings Balls! It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…. We put our Christmas Tree up today, and I’ve been thinking more and more about what healthy, delicious and nutritious whole food sweet treats I can make for the festive season to subsitute for the any of the processed, packaged and convenience options. Most people seem to love the traditional Christmas puddings – you know, the ones served with the creamy white sauce over the top – sweet, dense, rich and satisfying! Since the release of my latest eBook, “Healthy Chocolate Delights: Nutritious, Delicious & Guilt-free” (sweet treats, puddings,

How to Make Sauerkraut

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 24, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Medicinal Nutrition, Mental-Health, Nutrition

Sauerkraut, Kimchi, Kombucha GUT problems? Bloating? Irregular poop? Eat Sauerkraut! Cultured or fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, kefir grains, kombucha, yoghurt and cheese are fantastic to feed your good gut bacteria (your microbiome). They contribute immensely to healing and building our inner ecosystem. Friendly bacteria naturally present in the vegetables quickly lower the pH, making a more acidic environment so the bacteria can reproduce. The vegetables become soft, delicious, and delightfully “pickled.” Fermenting creates beneficial enzymes, b-vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids, and various strains of probiotics. Cultured vegetables are made by shredding cabbage, or a combination of cabbage and other vegetables, and

Acai Berry & Maca Breakfast Bowl

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 21, 2014 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Nutrition

Breakfast Bowl of Champions! REAL FOOD FRIDAY This week is a nourishing and satisfying breakfast bowl of hormone balancing and antioxidant goodness for you! Acai Berry & Maca Breakfast Bowl with homemade Nutty Choc Granola! I’ve been making this for quite a while now, and when I’m out of Acai Berry powder I simply use my greens and reds powders instead for a “Green Hulk” bowl. Breakfast is often the easiest meal to skip, but it’s also the easiest meal to plan and create without too much effort. You can of course make plenty of dinner and keep the leftovers

Gut Health – Feed Your Good Bacteria

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 20, 2014 / dieting, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Medicinal Nutrition, Mental-Health, Nutrition, Wellness Coaching

Feeding Your Bacteria Is the food we’re eating on a regular basis the reason why we get sick? If we change our food, could we change the state of our health? Can we also affect our moods by making changes to our diet? I firmly believe we can. The collective human microbe colony weighs about 1 and a-half kilos – as much as our brains. Bacterial cells outnumber our human cells by 10 to 1 and they live predominantly inside our gut. Our gut bacteria, also known as the Microbiome (pronounced micro-bi-ome) lives off of the food we eat. The problem is that certain

60+ Healthy Chocolate Delights Recipes – My NEW eBOOK!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 11, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Hormone Balancing, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making, Workshops

MY BRAND NEW EBOOK! Do you love chocolate, but always have this guilty feeling associated with it? Guilty pleasure. Guilty addiction. Equals shame. Eating chocolate for me used to be a guilty pleasure. I was addicted to the false pleasure I experienced due to the massive sugar high in my brain. It triggered my reward centre to release a hormone called Dopamine – I felt FINE when I was eating chocolate. I even felt pretty damn fine after I ate chocolate…. But then after a little while, I felt low, lethargic, irritable…. and disgusted – with myself and my lack of willpower; with my body and the excess

White Choc Macadamia Fudge [recipe]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 10, 2014 / Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Raw Chocolate Making, Workshops

Healthy Chocolate Delights eBook! HERE’S A RECIPE TREAT FOR YOU ALL! This recipe is taken from my popular “Healthy Chocolate Delights: Nutritious, Delicious & Guilt-Free“real food sweet treats recipe eBook. This collection of whole food recipes has a combination of over 60 raw, cooked, vegan, paleo, dairy free, gluten free, grain free and refined sugar free recipes. Healthy chocolate for everyone! Also contains the history and benefits of raw cacao plus lots of nutritional information on the dangers of sugar, natural sweeteners and substitutes, with an introduction to every day super (nutrient dense) foods. Here’s a sneak peak of inside the book! Please enjoy

Macadamia Chocolate Brownie [Recipe]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 7, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss, Raw Chocolate Making, Wellness Coaching

Chocolate Brownies, YUM! Oh come on, who doesn’t love a decadent chocolate brownie?! Raw or baked, brownies are actually quite versatile in the ways you can put them together. This recipe is actually created from a biscuit recipe that my Grandmother (who’s now 98) used to make for us when we were kids. She made them as a ginger cookie – sharp, crunchy and buttery. I’ve made them many times as gingerbread men with the children, and as a rich chocolate chip cookie dough. I’ve created several raw brownie recipes that I teach in my Raw and Healthy Chocolate Workshop and that we

Chicken Meatballs [Recipe]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on November 6, 2014 / Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Nutrition, Wellness Coaching

Paleo Chicken Meatballs Who doesn’t love a tasty meatball that’s healthy, delicious and super easy to make?! Mr 13 just loves all things Italian and pasta when it comes to food. My digestive system however, can only take so much. So I like to mix things up a little and give that authentic look and flavour of a hearty Italian offering, but without compromising my own digestive health. Meatballs are a great way to play with different ingredient ideas and create something extra special. You can use any type of meat for these, however I do like to use organic chicken.

Coconut Cacao Banana Cake [Recipe]

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on October 2, 2014 / Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Healthy Banana Cake! Real Foodie Friday I’m so pleased to introduce you all to Meg Kummerow, who has generously donated her Coconut Cacao Banana Cake for Real Foodie Friday! Meg has also written a little bit about her background, food philosophy (it’s pretty awesome!) and family life to share with you. Thank you for sharing your delicious recipe Meg! Now let’s get cooking and EAT REAL FOOD together! Viki 🙂 Hi, I’m Meg! I live on a farm west of Toowoomba with my husband and two daughters. Farming and agriculture is my passion and whilst we are no longer farmers

Are your Cravings really an Addiction?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 22, 2014 / Body Image, dieting, Eating Disorders, Eating Psychology, Emotional Eating, Food, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Mental-Health, Nutrition & Weight Loss

The Brain and Addiction Following on from last Blog article about Cravings, you now hopefully have a better understanding of the difference between “body hunger versus mind hunger”. In short, one is genuine and the other is playing tricks on us. Let’s look a little deeper into understanding the parts of the brain that are activated when we crave specific foods. In 2004, participants in a study were asked to think about a favourite food. The participants’ resulting fMRI images displayed three primary areas in the brain that lit up: the hippocampus, insula and caudate. [Source: Monell] The hippocampus, located in

Are Your Cravings Real?

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 17, 2014 / dieting, Emotional Eating, Fat Loss, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Hormone Balancing, Nutrition, Nutrition & Weight Loss

Mind or Body Cravings? In previous blog posts I’ve explained how when we restrict and deny nourishment to our body (dieting), we often wrestle with cravings (also tiredness and mood swings) until the brain overrides our willpower and has us reaching for a quick fix of fat, sugar and salt. Hunger and cravings are two different sensations. The body regulates our hunger, while the mind wields greater power over food cravings. Hunger serves a more functional purpose, signalling our brains that it’s time to eat and replenish the energy and information we’re running low on. To recap previous articles about the

Green Smoothies and Raw Chocolate – A Food Demonstration Gig!

By Viki Thondley | The MindBodyFood Coach on September 5, 2014 / dieting, Eating Disorders, Food, Health & Fitness, Healthy Eating, Holistic Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition

Green Smoothies and Raw Chocolate This last week I presented and spoke at the Annual ‘QLD Rural, Regional & Remote Women’s Network’ Ag Show Luncheon in Toowoomba. Packing my mason jars, greens, and Omniblend I was prepared for an inspiring food demonstration educating the ladies on the benefits of blending your greens (check out my article and greens video here) for health, energy, reduced cravings and better sleep and concentration. Sharing the stage with three other panellists from different backgrounds and expertise, we engaged in a discussion on, “Eating is an Agricultural Act” and discussed how we can start to improve our health by being aware

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