What I Eat In a Day for GUT & SKIN Health

Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel and to another what I eat in a day video. Today I'm going to be sharing with you what I like to eat in a day for gut health and for skin health as well. I've been on a little bit of a skin supportive journey I guess you could call it for the past few weeks. My skin I find breaks out really easily when my blood sugar is out of whack in particular so I will be sharing what I like to eat through the day to make sure that my blood sugar is balanced, that I'm getting enough protein and fat. And also I'll be sharing with you some foods that are great for gut health as well as there's you know always that connection between gut and skin health a lot of the time. So let's dive in, I am starting off my day with of course some tea, I'm also making Sean's coffee here as well. This here is green tea, I absolutely love green tea and it is actually a wonderful source of polyphenols, antioxidant rich polyphenols that have prebiotic properties to them. So I love green tea, love the taste of it and it's just very antioxidant rich. So for breakfast this morning I am making myself a smoothie, I've really been loving this particular recipe quite a bit lately, it's just a really nice blend of berries and there's some yogurt in there, I'm doing a coconut yogurt, some almond milk, some greens, it has some frozen cauliflower in there and chia seeds, a little bit of vanilla extract, it's just like a really nicely flavoured smoothie, I don't know it's great. I'll leave the recipe below because you can find it over on my blog but it's really rich and creamy, it's not too too sweet but kind of has a good amount of protein in there too and some good fats. And the cauliflower, it's just a way to replace ice but giving you a little bit more of that boost of veggies but doesn't affect the flavour. I'm also taking probiotics at the moment, this is the Daily Symbiotic by Seed and I am very happy to be partnering up with them in today's video. 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Take a look at this pink garlic clove, I've been buying garlic lately that seems to be very pink which is kind of fun. Garlic is fantastic for gut health, it contains prebiotic fibers known as fructans that are really good for fueling your gut microbes, kind of feeding them so to speak in your colon and your large intestine. If you have a sensitive gut, if you have IBS then foods like garlic can make you kind of bloated and gassy because those fructans are also known as a type of FODMAP. In the past I could not tolerate very much garlic but now I'm totally fine with it and it is so so good for your gut health and your microbiome. So this is an omelette that I make quite often because it's just a really simple like light nothing too crazy so garlic of course obviously but I've also got some baby tomatoes and some chopped kale as well. I like to finely chop my kale so that it's not big huge pieces, nice and fine but it does cook down really nicely. This is the tiniest little cutting board, it's honestly not the best cutting board for like staying still but whatever it's fine. I'm going to do five baby tomatoes, how nice and I just like to cut these in half. While the veggies are cooking away there I just like to whisk up my eggs. Now that that's whisked I'm just going to add the veggies directly into here, give it a little stir and then pour it back into the pan. This is going to be so good, the garlic smells amazing. Alright let's pour it back in the pan. I'm also going to cut up a grapefruit to enjoy with my omelette. Now sometimes I'll just have an omelette for breakfast and not necessarily also a smoothie but some days I want like a little something more kind of in the morning or mid-morning so this omelette was nice and satisfying. Alrighty so my lunch that I'm having today is just some leftover chickpea salad and this I made just yesterday so I have some leftover for today. I make this salad honestly probably once a week, like every week I love making this salad, it's so easy to do, it takes me like two seconds to make. I just take a can of chickpeas, I always add some shredded carrot in there and then whatever veggies I have on hand I'll add so I have some diced cucumber in here, I have some chopped greens, sometimes I'll do some diced avocado, I also put hemp seeds in there and then for the dressing I just use olive oil, apple cider vinegar and a little bit of maple syrup and then that's it. It makes a super quick, filling, hearty lunch. The chickpeas here are such a great source of plant-based protein, it's very filling, fiber-rich and it is delicious. So a little while later I am snacking on these little almond butter brownies that I made just last night. I don't have an actual recipe to share with you all because I just kind of mixed these up in a bowl and baked them but I just mixed together almond butter, melted dark chocolate and some egg and vanilla and I just kind of baked them but I like these because the almond butter has that added fat and protein so they don't spike the blood sugar too much which helps me feel my best. Alrighty, and then for dinner tonight I'm making burrito bowls. I love making these burrito bowls, they are so incredibly tasty, there's just such a great assortment of different flavors and foods and textures and it's so delicious. I've been thawing out two chicken breasts for most of the day. They're still a little bit frozen but basically I'm just going to cut them up. I want them to be cut like really small pieces, not huge chunks, although you could do, like you could cut them up however you want. So to this I'm going to be adding some sea salt, some chili powder, some cumin and some smoked paprika. Usually I will like just season this without measuring anything, I'll just add seasonings as I go, I'll taste it as it cooks. This is some garlic powder as well. So the chicken here is done, it's looking good, it tastes delicious, and rice here is also almost done. So I'm just going to now prepare some of the toppings. So I like to chop up the romaine lettuce really thin, so it's almost like a shaved lettuce that goes on top of the bowls really nicely. I've got some cilantro as well for topping. I'm just going to make a really simple guacamole, I'm just going to do like a simplified version which is just like, I'll do some lime juice in it, a little sea salt, a little chili powder, and give it a mix. This here is just a, kind of like a chipotle mayo, kind of like a burrito sauce is kind of like what it is. So it's just mayo, some smoked paprika, you could also do like a chipotle paprika or chipotle seasoning, and some chili powder again, as you can see, chili powder is definitely the star of this meal tonight. I'm also just going to rinse some black beans as well to use as a topping for the bowls. We won't use all of these, that's a lot of beans, I'll definitely save some of those for later. So all I do is I just, we eat them just like this, I don't cook them because they were canned, I just give them a good rinse. I love black beans because they're such a great source, again, of those prebiotic fibers, really good for gut health. Alright so here's all of our toppings for the burrito bowls, we've got some lime, some salsa, some black beans, cilantro, romaine lettuce, some chipotle mayo, and some guacamole. So let's eat. Burrito bowls really make the most perfect balanced meal because you have such an assortment of protein-rich foods from beans and the chicken in this particular recipe here, but also lots of veggies and lots of flavor, and some fat as well from the guacamole, and the carbohydrates from some whole grain brown rice. So it's just such a good, filling, hearty, satisfying, and very delicious meal. So that's it for today's video, thanks so much for watching, I hope you enjoyed this little what I eat in a day for gut health and for skin health, some ways that I like to make sure that I keep my blood sugar balanced. Thank you again to Seed for sponsoring today's video, don't forget to check out your discount code below if you want to give Seed a try, and I will see you all in my next video.