Skinny Spicy Beef Wrap

If you're trying to be good before summer comes, so you can sling your bikini on and not feel like hiding your head in the sand (okay, maybe this is a little extreme, but you get what I mean), this recipe is for you!

This delicious beef wrap is extremely low in fat, carbs, healthy, filling and good for you. Ok? It's also extremely easy to make, so once you've tried it will certainly become one of your favorites.

Just a note: My belly and body likes red meat, because it is filled with goodies; Vitamins (B12, B2, B6), Zinc and Iron to mention a few.

It also works if you're following a Dukan Diet, so munch away!

To feed 2 hungry people, here is what you'll need;

500g Lean beef mince
2 Handfulls of cherry tomatoes
4 Small tortilla wraps (you can choose brown or white)
Mix of green salad (watercress, spinach, rocket)
Half cup of fat free greek yogurt

4 Tablespoons of Chilli sauce
1 Green pepper
1 Green chilli
2 Cloves garlic
Small handful of corriander
A pinch of sea salt (you can read about the benefits of sea salt in your diet, here)
1 Teaspoon of olive oil
1 Tablespoon of Smoked Paprika Powder
1 Oxo Beef Cube
Juice of half a lemon

Optional - a small pinch of grated cheese.

Pop the meat into a heated saucepan (no oil needed) and add Oxo cube, paprika, chopped green pepper and green chilli. Stir it until it becomes nice and brown.

Switch on the oven to preheat it for tortilla warming.

On a separate grill pan add the tomatoes with your taeaspoon of olive oil, shake them round for about 8 minutes until they become mushy and soft looking something like this -

While your meat and tomatoes are steaming away, prepare a lovely mixture of coriander, garlic, lemon juice and salt. Use your mortar & pestle to crush everything together. Doesn't it smell divine? Put it aside to settle.

Now wrap your tortillas in foil and pop it in the oven, to have them nice and warm. It shouldn't take more than 5 minutes.

Once the meat is ready, switch off the cooker and let it cool for a minute, then add your coriander mix and stir well. Almost there!

Final step once all is ready! You can choose a different routine, and quantities of stuff such as chill sauce, but my preferred option is; on a tortilla wrap, place mixed greens first, add the meat and tomatoes and cover it in chilli sauce topped with greek yogurt. If you chose to include cheese, sprinkle some of that there too for gooeyness. Voila!!

Dig in. Perfect mid-week guilt free treat. Needless to say, I had two... It's just so delicious!

Once your belly is satisfied, go and read your book or watch something cool and doze, week end is not so far away....

Meat lover’s diet – Dukan review

As the sunny days are getting closer and it’s never too late for New Year’s resolutions, I have decided to tell you all about Dukan diet. I have tried this diet a year and a half ago and it changed my life.
I am not going to tell you that I have lost hundreds of kilograms, as that wasn’t my aim in the first place (but it can be yours!), I learned to look at certain foods from a different angle, and that is what’s most important about any diet  – make your diet a lifestyle. Gedddit?

........Only this one actually works!

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The focus of this incredibly easy and effective diet is to drastically reduce carbohydrate intake. It starts with 3 to 5 days protein only intake (pickles allowed, which is great) and for someone who LOVES meat, to me, it sounded great! 
It really helps that it's very easy to order if you’re eating out – just opt for carb free meals. Most places have a steak and roasted vegetables on the menu. I found myself going to Bloody French (you HAVE TO try it if you love a good French steak)  quite often then. Or just go for sashimi! That was another one of my favorite treats.

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You should be able to lose 3 to 5 kg at this stage to kick-start the look of new you. New you! Excited? i was. 
Once you have survived the initial stage, it goes to cruising phase, where you are allowed to add vegetables to your meals.

But still no fruit (Due to insane amount of sugars - did you know that one large orange has 132 calories? That is almost a full meal!) or carbohydrates allowed.

From here, the meals get a little more varied and you can play with just steak and salad, fish and steamed veggies or crustless quiche recipes for a while. You can also have a little more adventurous meals where you can include special sauces made of fat free yogurt with spices. Let me remind you again of pickles. They are a lovely and crisp addition to these meals. Dukan Diet book provides some great recipes, but being a creative foodie myself, I preferred to invent my own.

Check out my Skinny Spicy Beef Wrap Recipe here.

Through this diet, I learned to replace oily and sugary salad dressings to fat free yogurt and mustard combination and swap cake desserts to fat free Muller Strawberry yogurt. (The habit I still have, although, now I do indulge in Crème Brule’s and French fries on a regular basis) 
In later stages, you are allowed to start introducing cheese and healthy carbs such as brown rice and brown pasta as well as brown bread. You should get used to healthy, mixed type of carbs from here on if you wish to keep the look you’ve achieved and are so happy with. Don't you want to show off that summerbod?!?! eh?

Dont forget to drink lots of water!! It's insanely good for you and will help you shape up.

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Don’t get me wrong – I love my food and you will see it in my posts in future, but it was a wonderful lesson to have learned and it helped me immensely on my way to changed horrible eating habits to more reasonable healthier options. Once the diet is over, it’s all about balance. If you are planning to have French fries and Crème Brule for dinner, have eggs for breakfast and protein with vegetables for lunch!

Let me know how you get on with this and if you have any questions – I would love to hear from you!