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Menopause Recipes for you to enjoy.  If you need food and juice information on HRT avoidance or how to get through the menopause – check out our blog. Including the amazing HRT cake recipe.

The recipes here are to help.

Labido Low – Pick me up Juice

Think GREEN!! a combonation of these in a juice drink or just throw them in a blender (skin off the lime of course) Green apples, cucumber, limes, parsley a kick of ginger

Think Immune Booster Juice

Turmeric, garlic, carrot, parsley, green apples, lemon juice and ginger. (And this combination will also prevent insect bites and help with a sore throat)

Sunday Lunch with the family:

Consider chicken or white meat rather than red meat.  Steam spinach and kale. Which is rich in vitamins and minerals. Roast your potatoes in Rapeseed oil.  Pumpkin, sesame and sunflower seeds are a complete protein.

Make your own stuffing.

Handful of pumpkin Seeds
Handful of sunflower seeds
A tablespoon of sesame seeds
A table spoon of SOAKED cashew nuts
1 large finely chopped onion
1 clove of chopped garlic
100 grams of Bulgar Wheat 
Teaspoon of mustard
Glug of soya sauce
Glug of balsamic vinegar
Tablespoon of - sage - tablespoon of rosemary - teaspoon thyme - tablespoon tarragon
Tablespoon lemon juice
salt and pepper to taste
VEGAN stock cube

Dont worry about what goes in when - throw all the ingredients together and Slow cook in 1.5 pints of water. (2 hours ish)
Once all the ingredients has absorbed all the fluid  and is cooked -  take half out and blend in a blender. Then mix together. Place mixture in a greafproof dish with a knob of butter/marg or vegan substitute.  Bake in the oven for 30 minutes at 200 degrees.

This can be served as a main if you are vegetarian or as a side with good roasted potatoes.

Camomile has anti inflamatory properties, helps regulate tummy acid, There is basic evidence that chamomile possesses anxiolytic (anti-anxiety) properties and can be used to relieve stress and insomnia.

Garlic the wonder vegetable! Garlic has possible cardiovascular benefits. Its found to reduce cholesterol , helps to lower blood pressure and help in the anti-aging process

Cashews are great for your skin, with anti-fungal properties. Cashews, as with other tree nuts, are a good source of antioxidants. also a good source of dietary trace minerals copper, manganese, magnesium and phosphorus. Full of good fatty acids

 Smoothies for Menopausal relief:

Make a smoothie packed with yummy fruits that are good for menopausal women. Apples, Avocados, Bananas, Raspberries, Strawberries, Red Currents, Pineapple, Pears, Peaches and cranberries.

Throw a handful of chopped fruit into the blender.  Add soya milk or yogurt. or a good quality juice. Try a dollop of honey and some dried dates or dried peaches.  Try to buy a good quality juice and NOT one that says ‘juice drink’.

Baked Avocado:

How to make the sauce:  
100 grams Fresh tomatoes
2 cloves of fresh garlic
1 tablespoon of tarragon
Handful of sunflower seeds
5 black olives
5 good sized chestnut mushrooms
Glug of Olive Oil
salt and ground black pepper to taste
BLEND

Cut and stoned avocado

Thick slices of Dolcalatte cheese, or a Gordonzola cheese. But Cheddar if you are not keen on blue cheese.

Pour the sauce over the avocado, drizzle olive oil over the top and then add the cheese.  Bake in the oven for half an hour.  This is a creamy delight! And don't be afraid of baking your avocado, because its delicious!

Add olives for another alternative

A good Juice:

Consider daily juicing in your diet.  We need (truthfully) around 15 fruit and veg a day especially during this time.  Apples, Avocados, Bananas, Raspberries, Strawberries Asparagus, Carrots, Celery, Fennel, Kale, Spinach, Tomatoes, Watercress.

Why not ADD:

A teaspoon of  flax seed oil. or a teaspoon of chai seeds which are a rich source or omega-3. Powdered: Ginger, Ginseng, Red Clover, Kava Kava

DON’T FORGET we all want a treat, wine really triggers off hot flushes so look at clear spirits i.e Vodka and a homemade juice mixer.

Feeling hot? freeze your homemade juices as ice lollies.

Honey Glazed Roast Turkey:

Glaze:

Teaspoon of mustard
3 large tablespoons of honey
VERY finely chopped onion
salt and pepper
Glug of Sunflower oil
BLEND 

Baste over the turkey and bake as you would normally

Vegetables:

Sweet potato and swede cooked together until doft. Then mash with a good helping of butter/marg of vegan spread. add fresh ground black pepper

Broccoli
Peas

Gravy

Teaspoon Thyme
Teaspoon Mustard
Teaspoon Soya Sauce
Tablespoon of Honey
Tablespoon Balsamic vinegar

MAKE YOUR OWN ITS SO MUCH NICER!!!!!

Make a classic roux
Use the juices from the turkey roast plus the broccoli water and add the roux.  Add all the ingredients and keep stirring. it will thicken

Flaxseed helps fight  against those hot flashes you get while going through menopause. here is a recipe to help with this…

Hot Flush Reducing Smoothie

Half a punnet of Fresh Strawberries
Tablespoon of flaxseed
1 Banana
1 Pear
Glug of Grape Juice
Glug of Cranberry Juice
Ice

For and extra treat why not freeze grape and cranberry juice and add to the smoothie

 

 Thai Chicken Stir Fry:

Fresh Boneless Chicken thinly sliced 
Julienne Spring Onions,Carrots, white cabbage, a Fennel bulb , shred Kale and Spinach
100 grams of soaked Soya Beans
3 finely chopped Garlic Cloves
Handful of soaked Cashew nuts
Tablespoon of Sesame Seeds
Stick of Lemongrass
Fresh green chili
Fresh chopped Coriander
Soya sauce to taste
Glug of sweet chili sauce
A squeeze of Fresh Lime

Stir fry in sesame oil and serve with brown rice or rice noodles

3 Bean ‘no meat’ or Meat Loaf:

1 box veggie sausage mix OR A 6 pack of good quality Lincolnshire Sausages - skinned 
and mashed
50g of red Lentils, 50g Mung Beans, 
2 whisked Eggs
3 slices of Bread turned into bread crumbs
2 Onions finely chopped
5 Chopped Tomatoes
Half a tube of Tomato paste
3 Cloves of Garlic 
Freshly chopped flat Leaf Parsley
Fresh chopped Oregano

Make the sausage mix up and add all the ingredients together to make a stuff mixture.Bake in the oven for 1 hour at a moderate heat.

Jazz it up with Cheese on top x

Evidence for a link between osteoarthritis and diet is a little limited, but many folks feel that a vegetarian and eating good oily fish helps – probably because it is rich in antioxidants which protect the joints from damage by free radicals.

Menopause can effect women as early as theit early forties. Consider your diet and make room for a more varied and diverse eating pattern.

  

Recipes are owned and created for Passion 4 Juice  by Abbie James