Life Changing Loaf

This really is a little life changer as it's a great bread alternative that not only cuts out inflammatory gluten but also helps increase your intake of nuts and seeds, healthy fats and plant protein. It’s so filling and a great way to start the day heaped with breakfast items or with soup or even topped with banana and peanut butter if you fancy sweet. I like to make a loaf, slice it, then freeze and pull out one slice at a time and toast a few times. I sometimes add fresh herbs like rosemary, thyme or dried like fennel or nigella seeds for more flavour and herbal goodness.

Ingredients: 

• 1 & 1/2 cup oats

• 3/4 cup sunflower seeds

• 3/4 cup pumpkin seeds

• 1/2 cup linseeds (ideally blitz to digest better)

• 3 tbsp chia seeds

• 3 tbsp physillium husk

• 3 tbsp melted coconut oil

• Pinch salt

• 1 & 1/2 cup water

  Method:

  Serves 8-10 slices

  Combine all dry ingredients in a bowl, mix well then add the water and coconut oil at the end. Mix well and leave a few minutes to absorb fluid. Place in a silicone loaf tin and leave for at least 20 minutes in the fridge to help set and bind. Sometimes I leave overnight where possible. Place in oven on 180c for 25 mins then tip out of silicone mould onto wire oven shelf leave in oven for another 35-40 mins, turning once again half way through if you can for an even golden bake. Leave to cool before trying to slice, try and use a finely serrated bread knife if you have one.

• If you’re wanting to try seed cycling to support your hormones, you can use a mix of sunflower and sesame instead of sunflower and pumpkin and eat this in the nurture phase (10 days before bleed due to start) of your cycle. Then switch to pumpkin and linseeds (grind these) once you start your period and enjoy this in week 1 and 2 of cycle to boost relevant hormones.

• There are many podcasts available to listen to about seed cycling and how this can help support up the right nutrition and the right time of your cycle to support the production of hormones. I have done this when I felt out of balance and suffering with symptoms and found it helped.

• I buy all of my dried ingredients from a company called BuyWholefoods I think they are brilliant and they sell physillium husk which is tricky to find. I have a discount code for 10% off enter at check out BWFO-INF-RETREATREMEDIES10 it can be used one time per email address.