Healthy Christmas

A collection of gourmet but healthy recipes & well-being tips for the Christmas season from The Healthy Gourmet. Claudia our resident Health & Lifestyle coach, has created a number of healthy Christmas recipes, that are delicious and easy to make, to look after your health and save you time.

Four simple tips to make your Christmas healthier and joyful

Four simple tips to make your Christmas healthier and joyful

Being healthy at this time of the year is possible. As usual here are a few simple yet effective tips, to make your Christmas and festive season, healthier, memorable, and meaningful at the same time. FOCUS ON EXPERIENCES Focus on experiences rather than material things.…

10 healthy foods to eat this Christmas

10 healthy foods to eat this Christmas

Christmas time and the festive period are the epitome of unhealthy habits and foods. But you can simply crowd out the bad stuff, introducing more healthy wholefoods in your diet. The festive season is rich in foods that are beneficial for our health and at…

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The ultimate Christmas salad: kale, beetroots, Stilton & walnuts with a clementine vinagrette.

The ultimate Christmas salad: kale, beetroots, Stilton & walnuts with a clementine vinagrette.

This baby kale, beetroots, Stilton & walnuts salad represents the perfect Christmas salad. Enriched with a clementine and balsamic vinaigrette, it is the perfect complement to your Christmas menu.

5 tips to lower your sugar intake this Christmas

5 tips to lower your sugar intake this Christmas

Christmas is only a month away, so there is plenty of time to plan a healthier Christmas this year. The N. 1 danger for the festive season is excessive sugar consumption. Sugar can make your insulin levels spike up, increase inflammation in the body which…

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Pumpkin, spinach & Stilton frittata

Pumpkin, spinach & Stilton frittata

This pumpkin, spinach and Stilton frittata, is a recipe that I have created to use up last Christmas leftovers, and that can be great to use all the pumpkins leftovers for this Halloween. The frittata is delicious, and it can be seved as an appetizer,…

Pumpkin, sage & Serrano ham soup

Pumpkin, sage & Serrano ham soup

A tasty pumpkin, sage and Serrano ham soup just in time for Halloween. Pumpkins are not just for decoration, but they are rich in nutrients and phytochemicals, beneficial compounds found in plants that are beneficial for our overall health. Use them freely in soups, risottos,…

Pomegranate & orange quinoa salad

Pomegranate & orange quinoa salad

Since the start of this blog I have been fascinated more and more by the Middle Eastern cuisine. Similar in a way to the Italian one, mostly for its use of olive oil and fresh vegetables, it create complexity with the use of intriguing spices…

Celeriac & thyme mash

Celeriac & thyme mash

NICE AND COMFORTING It’s getting colder out there, and when the winter comes, so it is the need for stodgy and warming food. Just be smart about, keeping those sugar levels in check, adding vegetables, and respecting the proportions of a good balanced meal. So…