Banana Yum-Yum

Written By Leanne de Groot

We don’t need processed, artificially sweet indulgences - our bodies love the simplicity and our taste buds crave sweet deliciousness

Serves 1

Ingredients:

  • 1 ripe organic banana

  • 1/2 tsp of coconut oil or organic ghee (I use tasteless as in the picture, to receive the full sweet banana flavour and avoid the coconut taking over but choose your own indulgence)

  • 1/2 tsp cinnamon

  • 4 strands of saffron

  • 1/2 tsp of cardamom

  • 1/2 tsp ginger (if you’re not a ginger fan sub in another spice or just omit)

  • 3/4 cup of hot water

    # Play around with the fruit you choose, I’ve enjoyed kiwifruit (skin included), berries, pawpaw, and the combination of all these with banana. If you’re making a bigger batch, add more spice to your taste, but definitely add more!

Instructions:

  • Soak the saffron strands in the water overnight.

    Warming, and very beneficial for your digestive health 🌿

  • Heat the coconut oil or ghee in a pan on your stove. Sprinkle in your spices, cooking gently for a minute. Chop the fruit of your choice and put this in, with the saffron water, cooking on medium to low heat until your fruit is softened.

  • There will be lots of liquid for your drinking pleasure and gut hydration.

Serve with raw cow’s milk yoghurt, overnight groats or simply eat as is 🍌

Leanne de Groot

My contribution is a union of nutrition, mindfulness, meditation, breathwork & movement intertwined with behaviour change and how it impacts a life worth living.

As a health and fitness professional, I want to shift the paradigm toward one of self-love and self-care instead of an aesthetic insecurity-based industry. Let’s move away from the trail of being overweight, body shape dissatisfaction, the daily dose of pharmaceutical and social drugs, persistent envy, unhappiness, anxiety, depression, and a life full of pressure to keep up, skip steps, and rush.

Living without awareness and intention creates pressures that we are not doing, we are not moving fast enough, as bosses, workers, weekend warriors, friends, lovers, parents, siblings, or grandparents. We have to be able and willing to step outside the pull of unhealthy and unhealthful cultural norms and make the critical space to do our meaningful thinking.

The first thing I need people to take in is if they are going to work with me or read my work because for me this re-frames the core of moving through all obstacles we have around stress, rush, health, weight, etc … The very blantant truth is that living under the guise of society’s expectations - is not living.

We have been fed a narrative that stepping outside or away from norms is the wrong way to exist and this narrative furthers unhappiness, unhealthiness, pressure, and a life that is too fast to enjoy.

Wherever we are, this is life—it’s happening right now, and I’ve decided that I am not going to rush through it and I invite you to join me today …

https://www.bodyfuel.org
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