Kefir Medjool Date Heaven

Written By Leanna de Groot

Ingredients:

  • 10 Organic Medjool Dates

  • Coconut Kefir Water (See additional recipe)

  • 1 tsp of cinnamon

  • 1 large noble or organic ginger - peeled and chopped

Instructions:

  • Place dates in the bottom of a glass fermentation jar

  • Place a fermenting weight on the dates

  • Pour approximately 1/4 cup of prepared coconut kefir water

  • Top up the jar with filtered water, high enough to cover the date by 2 cm

  • Pour all the liquid contents into a bottle and add the cinnamon and ginger - shake to combine

  • Pour this mix back over the dates and weights in your original fermenting jar, seal on the airlock lid, making sure that there is 3cm of air locked in the jar for expansion

  • Place in a dark cool space for 48 hours, then move to the fridge and consume at your leisure

My favourite ways to include these in my nutrition:

  • One medjool date in smoothies

  • One date as a treat after my meal

  • Use dates in cakes in place of sweetner

  • In my delicious Avocado Ice-cream

Leanna 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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