Eat wise, Revise | Rice and lentil bowl

Hey guys, welcome back to the blog. Today I am bringing another recipe post and video in collaboration with Co-op. this month’s theme was ‘eat wise, revise’ and I had the perfect recipe in mind to share with you guys. One that I make all the time when I know I have lots of work going on and I just won’t have the time to think about lots of different meals to make. This is my rice and lentil bowl recipe

For this you will need:

Rice of your choice (I eat the uncle bens wholegrain and quinoa rice)

Lentils

Tin of chopped tomatoes

Sweet potato mash

Onions

1 or 2 eggs

To season:

Balsamic vinegar, brown sugar, salt, pepper, garlic salt, garlic granules, canola oil

You wanna start by heating your chopped tomatoes in a pot with a little bit of olive oil. To it, add some balsamic vinegar (1tbsp), brown sugar (2tsps), salt and pepper and that should take about 5 to 7mins to heat through. once done, add to a bowl that you can place in the fridge to go back to.

Then you can start on the onions. Heat those in a pan and add 2tsps of brown sugar at a time (4 in total) and caramelise the onions. Once that is done, you can add some in a bowl to eat now and some into tupperware for later

Then heat some of your sweet potato mash in the microwave and your rice and lentils whilst you prepare everything else

Now we can add our rice and lentils to that same pot and heat that through and season with canola oil, salt, pepper and paprika and make sure that is all mixed through. That should take about 5 to 7 mins.

Then add all the ingredients we have made so far into a plate and that creates the base of the bowl. 

For some added protein, I’m going to cook to egg whites in a pan, season with pepper and garlic salt and add over the top.

And that’s it, seems like a lot of steps at first but it all lasts about 3 to 4 meals and is super easy to just heat up and make and egg to go on the top. I am super swamped with uni work atm so these ingredients are already on my list to get again next week.

Let me know some of your favourite foods to get you through those busy weeks below 😊

As always, there is a video to accompany this so if you want to make it along with me, check it out below!

The 24hr digital detox

To be honest, the fact that the term digital detox even exists makes me feel odd because it really just sums up the kind of society we live in at the moment. But the other day, I randomly decided that I was going to do it. No social media, no youtube, no emails, no phone for 24hrs. I used it for my alarm and then I switched it off an put it in the draw.

Why? – I always thought I wasn’t as attached to my phone compared to the average smartphone user but recently, I was endlessly scrolling and even when people were talking to me about important things, I would just half listen and just scroll the endless nothingness on my phone. And I was actually just disgusted in myself that I was doing that. So, I decided just for one day, we can do without it.

At first, I was really aware of the fact that I didn’t have my phone on me and I was constantly looking for it and having to remind myself that today was a no phone day. Luckily, I had work that day so it kind of made this a little easier throughout the day. But there were points throughout the day where I found myself in opportunities to film something to show my friends or scroll and see what the world was up to. I also was constantly thinking what if someone was trying to get a hold of me? (spoiler alert, no one was)

When I got home, I had nothing to do with my evening. I did allow myself to watch tv otherwise I feel like I would have been really bored, but I switched up my Spotify playlist to a chill one to have as background noise whilst I did work. I woke up the next morning and grabbed my phone.

Final thoughts. For some reason I thought this would have a lasting effect on me and it would just drastically change how much I use my phone. I don’t think it has but I am not giving up hope on that. Throughout the day before I had a major case of FOMO and I realised, I missed absolutely nothing. I don’t know why that shocked me the most but it did. The world doesn’t stop if you don’t go on social media and its so healthy for the mind to just take a breather from streams and streams of information. If you have yet to have a digital detox, start now. There is nothing holding you back from deleting your apps or turning off your phone for some peace.

I hope you are all having a great start to your week.

Stay woke x