We all know the struggle: you want to be healthy, but you don’t want to eat less chocolate, pizza … Also, you don’t have the time to work out every day or it simply doesn’t help, but you want to live healthy! So we made a list of tips to live healthy and still do a little bit what you want:

• You don’t have to eat less, don’t starve yourself! You just have to eat more healthy. Instead of eating whatever you want whenever you want, try to eat 3 times a day, only the meals. Don’t eat a hundred snacks during the day, so you aren’t hungry when it’s really time to eat.
• Instead of eating pizza every day, eat it once a week and look forward to it all week long.
• Drink a lot of water! It is one of the easiest ways to be healthy, it takes a little effort and can have big effects.
• Pick exercises that you enjoy. There are probably some exercises that you like to do, so do those. Don’t try to do exercises you absolutely hate to do, because that’s harder to keep on. As well, don’t keep doing the same exercises, because that will be boring after a few times. Alternate in your exercises.

Good luck!

It is a fact that a lot of kids don’t like to eat stuff like vegetables, puree… so basically healthy things, but we are going to help you. There things that you can do so that your child might be able to eat healthy things more quickly. Take your kids to the store and let them help with cooking so they get more involved in the idea of healthy eating. Make sure that there is not too much junk food in the house so the children can’t eat unhealthy things. You can also come up with nice and funny names for the food like calling broccoli flowers baby trees and things like that. Children mainly look up to their parents so set a good example for your kids and eat healthy things yourself in front of your children instead of eating crips or something like that. So remember to eat all healthy if you want to make your kids eat healthy.

In our class, we talked about the power of food. I thought it was an interesting subject, so I’m writing an article about it 🙂
Food is a very powerful weapon in for example war. When you don’t give people the food they need, they’re either dying or very weak. So when someone wants to subdue someone else, not giving them food is a very efficient and hard way. We also saw that it’s often used in prisons to control them. I think it’s a very brutal way and it’s not acceptable to do.

Steffi is a Belgian chef, she cooks for the TV station Njam. Traveling, singing and yoga are the things she likes to do. Steffi is a real healthy foodie. She cooks very healthy things and most of the time it’s things you can make quickly. She is also very sportive and that makes her a real healthy foodie. She has also a blog and a TV program. De Gezonde Goesting is the name of the program. In her program she prepares things for unknown guests who can also taste her food. A real must are her sweet potato waffles. It is a delicious dessert for anyone. 

https://njam.tv/recepten/zoete-aardappelwafel-met-aardbeien

The main reason why we eat is of course to survive but that is not the only reason. We also eat for a socio-cultural reason namely because it is a religious ritual or to be together and to improve relationships. In addition, we also eat for an emotional reason, for example to forget negative emotions such as sadness, stress… You can also eat because you want to reward yourself and others. Of course we also eat because we just love food but do not eat too much and unhealthy food because that is not good for you. If you just love to eat try some delicious but healthy food and sometimes you can eat an unhealthy thing, because it’s okay if you don’t do it too often.

Recently, we wrote an article about Thanksgiving, but as you might already know, we are Belgians and we don’t celebrate Thanksgiving in Belgium, so now also an article about a Belgian holiday: Christmas!
Like almost everywhere, in Belgium, Christmas is on December 25th. It’s a very important holiday here. Most people come together with their whole family. We eat a lot! Conventionally, we eat turkey, but every family has their own traditions. Some celebrate it on Christmas day, others on Christmas Eve. Some eat turkey, some don’t. Also, we put a Christmas tree usually and we decorate it all our own way. Besides that, presents are a big thing on Christmas. Everyone likes to give and get presents, and on Christmas it’s the time to give all your loved ones a special present! In Belgium, we also do Secret Santa a lot (pick names and buy that person a present), it’s a funny thing to do! 
So it’s a common celebration, but everyone celebrates it their own way!

Thanksgiving is a national holiday on which the Americans express their graditude. They celebrate is with the whole family and a very extensive meal. Traditionally, they eat turkey and other things like mashed potatoes and cranberries. This is not very healthy but it is tradition and we don’t break traditions so we have a healthy and nice alternative to dessert. It is a pumpkin and chocolate dream brownies. Enjoy your Thanksgiving!

http://vegukate.com/post.php?s=2015-11-09-pumpkin-chocolate-dream-brownies

Jamie Oliver or ‘The Naked Chef’ is a very famous chef in the UK, USA … The ‘Naked’ Chef because the idea of the television company was to bring the food back to its essence. Jamie uses mainly cheap, but also healthy ingredients. Our blog is about healthy food, so that’s why we decided to post one of his recipes. We chose the ‘DIY oaty fruity cereal’. It’s a super easy, vegetarian and healthy breakfast recipe. He explains two ways to make your cereal, both delicious. I put the link of the recipe here, so you can make it as well someday! Good luck and enjoy your meal!

https://www.jamieoliver.com/recipes/fruit-recipes/diy-oaty-fruity-cereal/

Hello, we are Lauren Truyens and Emma Joosten, both 16 years old. We are students of Wico Campus Salvator. In our blog we are going to write about healthy and delicious food. Thank you for reading our blog.