Hate that sluggish feeling you get in the office after having a heavy lunch?
The reason you’re feeling sluggish could be because you were consuming too much refined carbohydrates that resulted in a spike in your blood sugar level and caused you to experience a crash when your body is trying to neutralise and keep your blood sugar level at a healthy range.
You could also be feeling sleepy when you’ve eaten a heavy meal and your body is trying its hardest to digest whatever you’ve eaten.
To avoid this, make it a point to eat a balance diet with dietary components like proteins, fibre and carbohydrates. Doing so will ensure that your body doesn’t crash immediately after eating and you won’t feel so tired.
Here are 10 recipes that can help you avoid the dreaded mid-afternoon slump:
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This delicious Quinoa Salad With Broccoli And Orange makes healthy eating easy. Fibre and antioxidant rich, this vibrant salad, with its delightful mix of textures, makes a wonderfully refreshing lunch.
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Quinoa, pronounced “keen-wa”, is cooked and eaten as a gluten-free grain alternative, but is in fact a seed. While it might be relatively new to many of us, quinoa has been a staple food for thousands of years in the Andean region of South America. It has delicate, slightly nutty taste and chewy texture.
Quinoa is rich in several B-group vitamins required to turn the food you eat into energy to fuel your body. A serve of quinoa will provide you with folate, thiamin, riboflavin, vitamin B6 and smaller amounts of niacin. It is available in black, white and red varieties.
For a sustained energy boost, try this Roast Pumpkin Salad With Black Quinoa.
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An all-rounded and healthy Moroccan couscous salad. Dive in and relish tender lamb steaks alongside sautéd vegetables dressed in a zesty lemon dressing.
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A delicious savoury stew, this chicken tagine with perfect is perfect to serve family style!
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Panzanella salad, a Tuscan bread and tomato salad, with baked swordfish is great to rev up how we typically consume our greens. Panzanella salad is a great way to use up a stale loaf.
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This duck and lychee salad contains both protein and fibre that will give you plenty of energy and nutrients for the day.
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Why call takeout when this falafel couscous plate, packed with European flavours, only takes 10 minutes to put together! You got to try it to believe it. Saffron is rather pricey, but can easily be replaced with ¼ tsp tumeric for extra colour.
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A great way to met the family’s quota of veggies! This scrumptious Thai green curry contains a variety of vegetables as well as tender chicken strips.
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The soft rolls of this burger hold together a tender lamb patty surrounded by layers of Japanese cucumber, iceberg lettuce, a sweet beetroot mixture. Make sure you flatten the patties well – they’ll shrink during cooking.
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