Low Carb Without The Tim Noakes Book

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I haven’t bought it, you know! It’s the book that Prof Tim Noakes has absolutely made famous in South Africa, called Real Meal Revolution, authored by David Grier, Sally-Ann Creed, Jonno Proudfood AND Professor Tim Noakes. You can get it online for a reduced price at kalahari.net….

Generally, I don’t buy recipe books – not with the internet at our fingertips. Also, I’m not a big kitchen person! I cook to feed, so for me simple is the order of the day – meat and veggies, chicken and salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, soup, roasts and stews are probably my most common menu items. Sometimes I’ll break out of my incredible dull but practical repertoire and have courgette ‘pasta’. This comes courtesy of my “kitchen diva” friend Riana – who has fancy machine that twirls baby marrows into incredible curls resembling pasta. It’s not that I’m not capable, it’s just that I’m not motivated, choosing rather to write about food than experiment with it! So recipe books? Please don’t buy me one for Christmas!

Melanie introduced us to Low Carb is Lekker by frequently sharing their recipes on Facebook. This is the power of social media. Low Carb is Lekker is the blogsite and baby of Inè Reynierse and is found at www.lowcarbislekker.wordpress.com. Inè is making a difference in our lives by posting an amazing array of low carb South African recipes which allow you the opportunity of enjoying treats without over-indulging in carbs.

When I arrived at Riana’s the other day, she was in full ‘low carb is lekker’ swing of making one of Iné’s recipes….

She had rolled the dough into balls already and was busy poking holes in them for the blackberries when I finally woke up to the fact that I should be photographing the process…

Ready for the oven…

And ready for sampling….yum…

Reading through the Low Carb is Lekker blog, even I am getting motivated for trying some new dishes…who knows, they may even become regulars.

There’s an age old adage that says, ‘you are what you eat.’ If you eat a lot, you may be bigger than others. If you eat very little, you may be smaller. If you eat a lot of rubbish, eventually it will catch up with you. As with food consumption, what we put into our minds and our hearts also begins to define us. There’s a lot of rubbish around to read, a lot of trash to watch on TV and a lot of negative people who influence us badly.  Did you know that the saying, “Bad company corrupts good morals” is straight out the Bible?  It comes from  1 Corinthians 15:33

Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”

But there’s more from the guy called Paul who wrote 1 Corinthians. He also says

 1 Corinthians 5:11 (this is God’s Word Translation)

Now, what I meant was that you should not associate with people who call themselves brothers or sisters in the Christian faith but live in sexual sin, are greedy, worship false gods, use abusive language, get drunk, or are dishonest.

That’s certainly spelling it out! Way back in Paul’s time there were hypocrites in the Christian church, who didn’t live as they should. I’m sorry and embarrassed to say, nothing has changed. Stay away from anyone who is going to influence you negatively. Be the best that you can be.

As for us today in the van Niekerk household. We’ve been up early. I am in far less pain and cleaned my bedroom windows while Mike pruned the vine…

Once I’d done the windows, that sorted me out – felt I’d overdone it  and I was ordered back to bed!  Tomorrow, my brother arrives and on Tuesday we go to Swellendam to visit Adrian and Stacey! 🙂

My cup is full!

God bless you loads!

In His Grip,

Helga xx 🙂

Gratitude/ Funny pic….isn’t this a truth….