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Healthy Eating - Soups and Smoothies

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Apples Nisbets Blog Healthy Eating

A new year has begun and the excesses of the Christmas period have left many promising to eat healthier and get into shape.

BL335 Kenwood BlenderA recent survey indicated that nearly three quarters of us admit to over-indulgence during the festive period, even though we know it’ll catch up with us in January. So, new year resolutions are made and a healthy lifestyle will be on the mind of many people across Ireland over the coming weeks.  Let’s therefore take a look at a few handy products which might make the difference when it comes to preparing healthy foods.


CB135 Waring Commercial Hi Power BlenderThe home J697 Kenwood Blender or the powerful commercial Waring Xtreme Hi Power Blender are perfect for making smoothies, wholesome vitamin rich soups and chopped fruit or vegetables.  Make sure to choose your ingredients carefully though, as some fruits have huge amounts of natural sugars, so consider using delicious strawberries, peaches or raspberries which are all low sugar fruits.  On the other side of the coin, cherries, bananas and grapes are wonderfully tasty, however contain high levels of natural sugars.

Another option would be to make a wholesome soup - which can easily be blended in either machine.  So, with careful choice of ingredients and your own hand-made stock, you can easily make a really healthy and hearty soup.  Leeks and carrots are both in season at the moment and would make a delicious and nutritious soup at this time of year.  The Waring blender is especially good at preparing soups, as demonstrated in the following video:


K275 Santos Juicer
Alternatively, many people prefer uplifting and simple fruit juice, so the Santos Commercial Classic Juicer is perfect at extracting all the tasty juice out of oranges, grapefruit and other citrus fruits.  Lemons and limes are both low in sugar and contain high levels of vitamin C, so are especially in demand at this time of year, however some people consider the grapefruit to have health benefits which tie in with the post-festive detox trend.

Innumerable studies in the past have reported that increasing consumption of grapefruit decreases the risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease, so a refreshing glass of fresh grapefruit juice is a tasty and healthy addition to the breakfast serving.  There's no doubt that the Santos Classic juicer is the perfect machine to extract every last drop of tasty and healthy juice, so with the machine being able to juice up to thirty litres                                                                                     per hour, there will be more than enough for everyone.
In the end, we all know that a healthy diet and good exercise is key to shedding the Christmas pounds.  That said, using machines like the Kenwood , Waring and Santos can make it much more fun and allows both the home cook and professional chef more variety when it it comes to preparing fruit or vegetables.

By David Evans