FOOD MARKET HEAVEN

I'm currently a student at The University of Leeds. Fortunately with my obsession for cooking and food, Leeds has an amazing food market which has a wide variety of rare types of fruit and veg, meat and spices! The food on offer is fresh, high quality and fantastically cheap compared to supermarket prices!

If you're looking for sweet bananas and fresh courgettes by the bag for 50p, large avocados for 30p, sweet poatoes by the sack and an array of nuts, spices and unusual condaments then the food market is definitely a place for you to head!

A way to make appealing top quality meals for less and even Jamie Oliver agrees!
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BLOAT FREE

I wanted to find an alternative to milk that was lower calorie, lower sugar and also didn't make me bloat.

All humans have a slight intolerence to lactose, which therefore makes us bloat if consumed in large quantities. 

After realising that skimmed milk despite being low in calories and fat is actually just as high in sugar, I decided that I needed a healthier alternative.

So I decided to look into other options such as lactose free sweetened and unsweetened soya milk as well as almond milk. Were these lower in fat, sugar and calories whilst containing the necessary vitamins and nutrients?!

After investigating the options, unsweetened almond milk was in fact the lowest in fat, sugar and calories, whilst also tasting delicious! 

MORNING

Here's a low fat, high protein pancake recipe! Rich in flavour and nutrients.

To make 2 pancakes: 

Whisk 3 eggs in a bowl. 

Add a splash of (ideally) almond milk but if not any milk will do and mix

Add 100g of porridge oats. For more flavour use the Oat So Simple flavoured sachets. For this recipe I recommend the honey and almond flavour

Add half a crushed banana to the mixture

Pour into a frying pan using coconut oil (if possible, to enhance taste and better the fat) to cook with

Serve with the rest of the banana chopped and a handful of blueberries.

Finished with a dollop of protein rich peanut butter or almond butter or manuka honey if you need a sugar fix! 

170 calories per pancake

Other pancake ideas:

Use flavored whey protein in the pancake mix to further increase the protein content

Use low calorie white hot chocolate powder for a creamier flavour!

Add a tablespoon of peanut butter to the pancake mixture before cooking

Sprinkle cinnamon as a finishing touch

Add flaxseed to the pancake mixture to add essential omega 3 fatty acids and antioxidants as a health kick as well as it being an added source of fibre for a fuller-for-longer effect!