On a nutrition note, white rice isn’t super healthy so if you want to mix things up a bit you could try using short grain brown rice. You will need to double the liquid and the cooking time. Alternatively, this could be adapted for quinoa. Follow the instruction exactly, in this case.

¾ cup (120ml) vegetable or fish stock
¼ cup (60ml) white wine
1 teaspoon (5g) butter
1 leek finely sliced
½ cup (100g) arborio or carnaroli rice
200g green (raw) prawns
100g frozen peas

Heat the stock and wine in a small saucepan.

Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, melt the butter and add the leek. Cover the saucepan and sweat the leek over a low heat until soft, stirring occasionally.

Once the leek is soft add in the rice and toast briefly. Add the stock mixture and simmer gently for about 20 minutes.

At this point most of the liquid will have absorbed and the rice will be a little crunchy but nearly done. Add the prawns to the pan and gently stir through the rice. Cover the saucepan and continue to cook gently for 5 minutes. Stir through the peas and cover again. Cook for a further 2 minutes.

Serves 2

Like Charlotte, I’ve been using Hemp Protien as a non-workout protein powder.Hemp has a good balance of omega-3′s to omega-6′s, is high in insoluable fibre and has an almost complete amino profile. Another reason you might want to look at hemp is if you’re trying to reduce the amount of bloating caused by dairy based protein powders.

I’m not much of a shake person, much prefering whole foods as I find shakes don’t really fill me up. This is an exception. Must be all that fibre in the hemp! In addition to the hemp protein I’ve used rice protein. Again, this is a easily digestable plant protein and a great choice for those with problems digesting dairy.

To round out the list of super ingredients I’ve used Vital Greens. I swear this stuff has kept things ‘moving’ ever since I started on it; and peppermint and licorice root tea. Peppermint and licorice are both great for digestion. Licorice root is also fantastic for colds and respitory problems and is a natural sweetner. It’s actually used by Ladybird to sweeten the rice protein I used.

Ingredients.

• 1/2 scoop hemp protein
• 1/2 scoop chocolate flavour rice protein
• 1/2 scoop vital greens
• 1-2 cups of strong peppermint and licorice tea cooled to room temperature.

Shake, shake shake.

A note on the tea: I originally tasted peppermint and licorice tea when I was having my hair done at an Aveda salon. You can buy the Aveda tea online. However, I make my own. I buy organic loose leaf peppermint tea and mix it with licorice root tea I buy from Perfect Cup in the Central Markets. The ratio is about 2 parts peppermint to 1 part licorice.

A note on the hemp powder: I bought mine from here. The cost was reasonable and shipping very quick, however it was a bit gritty. Maybe next time I’ll get mine here.

As an aside I’ve now got comments open. Oops.