What makes this lunch hormone friendly?
🥬It’s got lots of gut-friendly ingredients: There are a lovely mix of salad leaves, fresh podded peas ( a real summer favourite for me) blanched broccoli, carrot sticks, fibre from the homemade beetroot hummus (beetroot and chickpeas). A healthy gut is critical to metabolising our hormones.
🥦 It contains a serving of cruciferous veg - I blanched my broccoli as I like it that way - cruciferous veg are great to helping you to detox oestrogens - helping manage symptoms of oestrogen dominance.
🥑 Lovely healthy fats - this was full fat (organic) cottage cheese, plus drizzled the salad with omega-3 rich hempseed oil and the Zatar has lovely sesame seeds in. As I ate it I added some walnuts for more crunch and to up the omega-3 fats.
🥕 It’s packed with phytonutrients from the green veg, the vibrant beetroot, the colourful carrots and the herbs and seeds in the Zatar topping.
It was so simple to make - delicious to eat - kept me full till my evening meal and packed with lots to help me manage the menopause - a true win win!
