What They Learned

The charity’s research analyzed the content of sugar and calories in large-sized hot chocolates and seasonal lattes in high street coffee chains available in the U.K. Based on their findings, the worst option comes from Starbucks—their venti Signature Caramel Hot Chocolate with whipped cream and oat milk contains 758 calories and 93.8 grams of sugar!

When it comes to lattes, the one with the most sugar is Starbucks’ venti Gingerbread Latte with oat milk which contains 523 calories and 14 teaspoons of sugar. Other chains are not much better; the study found that nearly all beverages they included contain excessive amounts of sugar and the customers often had no idea about it.

The post Plant-Based Milk Can Have Excessive Amounts of Sugar appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Understanding Processed Food

Processed food manufacturers are investing millions in research that enables them to get the perfect formula for making addictive food. Simply put, they need to get the perfect ratio of the following components: sugar, salt, fat, and carbs. Once we start eating that food, it activates the pleasure parts of our brains and we want more and more until there’s no more left.

This food is typically nutrient-poor and won’t satisfy your hunger in a real way, which means you will feel hungry soon after eating it, but your stomach will be full at the same time. It inevitably leads to feeling awful and is the main cause of obesity in today’s society. The moral of the story? Know what you’re eating, and know when it isn’t giving you what you need.

The post Many Processed Foods are Designed to Make You Eat More appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

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You may have seen the videos on TikTok already; they show people freezing honey in plastic containers like water bottles. Once the honey is frozen, you can squeeze it out of the bottle and bite into the solid sweetness. What exactly is wrong with this?

@daveyrz

Who was the first to invent it? #experiment

♬ original sound – Davey

The main problem is that you’ll end up eating excessive amounts of honey this way. Despite being a natural ingredient, honey is basically pure sugar. Things only get worse when you add fake color and flavors to it, like many people have been doing. Eating excessive amounts of honey over a longer time period can lead to weight gain and increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease.

We say it’s better to skip this particular trend and wait for a new one, because they come and go fast these days!

The post Should You Try The Frozen Honey TikTok Trend? appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Asarasi

Asarasi sparkling water doesn’t come from a spring but from maple trees. The sugar gets filtered out and the water is carbonated and enhanced with flavors: lemon, cherry lime, and pink grapefruit. It mixes well with anything you used to mix with soda water and it makes a perfect spritzer.

Fever Tree

Fever Tree has been making beverages since 2005, and their latest product is Distillers Cola, which is designed to be mixed with spirits like rum and whiskey. The quality of their cola drink enhances the flavor of fine aged drinks and it’s not meant to cover the taste of bad-quality spirits.

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Olipop

Olipop’s soda drinks are low in sugar and designed to help with digestive health problems thanks to prebiotics, botanical extracts, and fiber from plants. Try this non-ordinary soda with root beer or bourbon.

The post 3 Best Cocktail Mixers to Try Right Now appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Understanding the Market

The organic fruit and vegetable market grew explosively in the U.S. and Europe during the past 15 years. Organic produce is different because it’s grown differently. The producers are not allowed to use chemical fertilizer nor most synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

The Truth of the Matter

These are some of the most common misconceptions regarding organic foods:

• They’re healthier: the truth is, organic food has the same amount of nutrients as non-organic foods.
• They’re clean: remember to always wash produce before eating, even if it’s organic.
• They’re local: they don’t have to be; organic fruits and vegetables are produced around the world.

In the end, is organic produce worth the extra cash? If you want to support organic farming, which is much gentler to the environment, yes. If you eat the skin on apples, peaches, etc., yes. But if you’re looking for the cheapest nutritious option that you can find you’re good with the regular fruits and vegetables.

The post Is Organic Food Worth the Price? appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Find Time to Relax

Whenever you’re feeling an urge to eat something and you know it’s not real hunger, try to relax and/or meditate for a while. If you still can’t skip your snack after this, try replacing it with something healthier.

Slow Eating

If you give yourself time to eat slowly, you’ll give your brain time to understand that you’re full and it’ll lower the chance of overeating.

Exercise

Not only you will burn some of the calories, but exercise will also help you keep the stress level under control, which can help a lot with overeating.

The post 3 Tips to Help You Stop Overeating appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp strawberry Nesquik
• 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

How to Make It

1. Mix the two ingredients with a whisk or a hand mixer until you get a pink foamy mixture.
2. Serve over hot or cold milk, whichever you prefer.

In case you’re not that into fruity drinks, you can still make this drink and enjoy it. Instead of strawberry Nesquik, you can use cocoa and sugar and it will get you a delicious chocolatey whipped drink. People quickly got creative and started inventing numerous other versions, like matcha, Nutella, etc. Basically, anything can be turned into a delicious whipped beverage if you’re willing to mix it long enough.

The post Make Yourself Delicious Whipped Strawberry Milk appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Infuse Oils and Vinegar

You can use soft stems from herbs like thyme, oregano, sage, and rosemary to infuse oils and vinegar. Once you do that, use the oil and vinegar to give a unique flavor to salads, fish, and many other meals.

Add to Soup

While your soup or broth is cooking, toss in the unused stems of the herbs you’ve been using. They will help you get the richer flavor and you can simply remove them before serving. It doesn’t get much simpler than that!

Add to Sauces

If you finely chop the stems, you can add them to sauces, but also to various other foods. Stems are just as flavorful as the leaves and there’s no reason not to add them to veggie burgers, salads, frittatas, and more.

The post What to Do With Herb Stems Instead of Tossing Them appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

What to Eat First?

Have you stocked up on fresh fruits and veggies and other items that can go bad really fast? Make sure to use them first! Freeze what you can’t use or make a big batch of your favorite meal and freeze the individual portions to have on hand when you don’t feel like cooking.

Substitute

Most recipes handle substitutions. If you’re a skilled cook, you can come up with your own ideas, but even if you’re not, it’s pretty easy to google the ingredient replacements when you need them. You don’t need to abandon the whole recipe just because you don’t have an ingredient or two!

The post The Smart Way to Use Your Pantry Stash appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Ladurée is a shop with a long history. It dates back to 1930 and is one of the most popular dessert shops in Paris. They’re famous for their macarons that now come in two vegan options – one with dark Peruvian chocolate and one with cocoa and caramel.

The vegan macarons don’t have eggs, milk, or butter. The shop uses non-dairy milk (a mixture of millet, almond, and hazelnut milk) to create ganache cream for the first option, and coconut and sunflower oil combined with soy milk for coconut and caramel macarons.

New vegan versions of other desserts will be regularly added to Ladurée’s menu.

The post Famous French Macaron Shop Offers Vegan Options appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

What They Learned

The charity’s research analyzed the content of sugar and calories in large-sized hot chocolates and seasonal lattes in high street coffee chains available in the U.K. Based on their findings, the worst option comes from Starbucks—their venti Signature Caramel Hot Chocolate with whipped cream and oat milk contains 758 calories and 93.8 grams of sugar!

When it comes to lattes, the one with the most sugar is Starbucks’ venti Gingerbread Latte with oat milk which contains 523 calories and 14 teaspoons of sugar. Other chains are not much better; the study found that nearly all beverages they included contain excessive amounts of sugar and the customers often had no idea about it.

The post Plant-Based Milk Can Have Excessive Amounts of Sugar appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Understanding Processed Food

Processed food manufacturers are investing millions in research that enables them to get the perfect formula for making addictive food. Simply put, they need to get the perfect ratio of the following components: sugar, salt, fat, and carbs. Once we start eating that food, it activates the pleasure parts of our brains and we want more and more until there’s no more left.

This food is typically nutrient-poor and won’t satisfy your hunger in a real way, which means you will feel hungry soon after eating it, but your stomach will be full at the same time. It inevitably leads to feeling awful and is the main cause of obesity in today’s society. The moral of the story? Know what you’re eating, and know when it isn’t giving you what you need.

The post Many Processed Foods are Designed to Make You Eat More appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by collettshumboldthoney (@collettshumboldthoney)

You may have seen the videos on TikTok already; they show people freezing honey in plastic containers like water bottles. Once the honey is frozen, you can squeeze it out of the bottle and bite into the solid sweetness. What exactly is wrong with this?

@daveyrz

Who was the first to invent it? #experiment

♬ original sound – Davey

The main problem is that you’ll end up eating excessive amounts of honey this way. Despite being a natural ingredient, honey is basically pure sugar. Things only get worse when you add fake color and flavors to it, like many people have been doing. Eating excessive amounts of honey over a longer time period can lead to weight gain and increase the risk of diabetes and heart disease.

We say it’s better to skip this particular trend and wait for a new one, because they come and go fast these days!

The post Should You Try The Frozen Honey TikTok Trend? appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Asarasi

Asarasi sparkling water doesn’t come from a spring but from maple trees. The sugar gets filtered out and the water is carbonated and enhanced with flavors: lemon, cherry lime, and pink grapefruit. It mixes well with anything you used to mix with soda water and it makes a perfect spritzer.

Fever Tree

Fever Tree has been making beverages since 2005, and their latest product is Distillers Cola, which is designed to be mixed with spirits like rum and whiskey. The quality of their cola drink enhances the flavor of fine aged drinks and it’s not meant to cover the taste of bad-quality spirits.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by InteriorDesignByTess (@interiordesignbytess)

Olipop

Olipop’s soda drinks are low in sugar and designed to help with digestive health problems thanks to prebiotics, botanical extracts, and fiber from plants. Try this non-ordinary soda with root beer or bourbon.

The post 3 Best Cocktail Mixers to Try Right Now appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Understanding the Market

The organic fruit and vegetable market grew explosively in the U.S. and Europe during the past 15 years. Organic produce is different because it’s grown differently. The producers are not allowed to use chemical fertilizer nor most synthetic pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

The Truth of the Matter

These are some of the most common misconceptions regarding organic foods:

• They’re healthier: the truth is, organic food has the same amount of nutrients as non-organic foods.
• They’re clean: remember to always wash produce before eating, even if it’s organic.
• They’re local: they don’t have to be; organic fruits and vegetables are produced around the world.

In the end, is organic produce worth the extra cash? If you want to support organic farming, which is much gentler to the environment, yes. If you eat the skin on apples, peaches, etc., yes. But if you’re looking for the cheapest nutritious option that you can find you’re good with the regular fruits and vegetables.

The post Is Organic Food Worth the Price? appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Find Time to Relax

Whenever you’re feeling an urge to eat something and you know it’s not real hunger, try to relax and/or meditate for a while. If you still can’t skip your snack after this, try replacing it with something healthier.

Slow Eating

If you give yourself time to eat slowly, you’ll give your brain time to understand that you’re full and it’ll lower the chance of overeating.

Exercise

Not only you will burn some of the calories, but exercise will also help you keep the stress level under control, which can help a lot with overeating.

The post 3 Tips to Help You Stop Overeating appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Ingredients

• 1 tbsp strawberry Nesquik
• 1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

How to Make It

1. Mix the two ingredients with a whisk or a hand mixer until you get a pink foamy mixture.
2. Serve over hot or cold milk, whichever you prefer.

In case you’re not that into fruity drinks, you can still make this drink and enjoy it. Instead of strawberry Nesquik, you can use cocoa and sugar and it will get you a delicious chocolatey whipped drink. People quickly got creative and started inventing numerous other versions, like matcha, Nutella, etc. Basically, anything can be turned into a delicious whipped beverage if you’re willing to mix it long enough.

The post Make Yourself Delicious Whipped Strawberry Milk appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Infuse Oils and Vinegar

You can use soft stems from herbs like thyme, oregano, sage, and rosemary to infuse oils and vinegar. Once you do that, use the oil and vinegar to give a unique flavor to salads, fish, and many other meals.

Add to Soup

While your soup or broth is cooking, toss in the unused stems of the herbs you’ve been using. They will help you get the richer flavor and you can simply remove them before serving. It doesn’t get much simpler than that!

Add to Sauces

If you finely chop the stems, you can add them to sauces, but also to various other foods. Stems are just as flavorful as the leaves and there’s no reason not to add them to veggie burgers, salads, frittatas, and more.

The post What to Do With Herb Stems Instead of Tossing Them appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

What to Eat First?

Have you stocked up on fresh fruits and veggies and other items that can go bad really fast? Make sure to use them first! Freeze what you can’t use or make a big batch of your favorite meal and freeze the individual portions to have on hand when you don’t feel like cooking.

Substitute

Most recipes handle substitutions. If you’re a skilled cook, you can come up with your own ideas, but even if you’re not, it’s pretty easy to google the ingredient replacements when you need them. You don’t need to abandon the whole recipe just because you don’t have an ingredient or two!

The post The Smart Way to Use Your Pantry Stash appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.

Ladurée is a shop with a long history. It dates back to 1930 and is one of the most popular dessert shops in Paris. They’re famous for their macarons that now come in two vegan options – one with dark Peruvian chocolate and one with cocoa and caramel.

The vegan macarons don’t have eggs, milk, or butter. The shop uses non-dairy milk (a mixture of millet, almond, and hazelnut milk) to create ganache cream for the first option, and coconut and sunflower oil combined with soy milk for coconut and caramel macarons.

New vegan versions of other desserts will be regularly added to Ladurée’s menu.

The post Famous French Macaron Shop Offers Vegan Options appeared first on falafelandcaviar.com.