Lee Holmes - Supercharge Your Life: How to put real food at the heart of everything

In Supercharge Your Life , Lee Holmes provides all the guidance and information you need to set up your own supercharged kitchen and make it the heart of the home including stocking your pantry, pairing flavours, storing food, perfecting vegetable cookery, establishing a herb garden and styling tablescapes.

Rediscover the lost art of mealtimes with drinks, snacks, breads and dips, salads, soups, hearty meals and desserts too good not to be shared.

PART ONE

EAT

Set up your supercharged kitchen, learn how to cook wholesome ingredients well and enjoy nourishing, tasty recipes.

PART TWO

LOVE

Create a warm and welcoming home, with feel-good food and great produce then radiate that joy out into your community.

PART THREE

CONNECT

Make food a cause for celebration by bringing everyone together.

Lee Holmes is a holistic nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef and author of the bestselling Supercharged Food series, which includes Eat Your Way to Good Health ; Eat Yourself Beautiful ; Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian ; Supercharged Food for Kids ; Eat Right for Your Shape ; Fast Your Way to Wellness , Heal Your Gut and the 2018 follow-up, Supercharge Your Gut . She runs a four-week Heal Your Gut program and a two-day Supercharge Your Gut program on her website, superchargedfood.com.

Lee is the healthy eating expert for the Lifestyle Food Channel as well as a columnist for WellBeing and Naturally magazines. Her articles have also appeared in leading Australian newspapers and journals, as well as The Times , The Telegraph and the Daily Express in the UK, and in the US on The Huffington Post , Mind Body Green and Food Matters . In 2013 her blog won the overall prize in the Bupa Health Influencer Awards, as well as the Healthy Eating category. When not in the kitchen cooking or creating recipes, she spends time with her family and friends and teaches yoga and meditation.

For more delicious recipes, articles and information, visit superchargedfood.com

If youve spent years navigating one restrictive diet after another, its time to shed the fear of eating the wrong thing and fall in love with food again. An enduring kitchen is one where real food and thoughtful eating practices come together, and where commonsense and simplicity are celebrated.

Supercharge Your Life serves up information and inspiration to help you consume with purpose. There are over 160 beautiful and nourishing recipes for every occasion from breakfast to afternoon tea, from hearty family dishes to celebration feasts. Woven throughout is Lees inspiring insight on the keystones for living a whole life: home and family; health and longevity; friends and community; spirituality; finances; career and passion. At the heart of it all, there is food a force for joy and connection in every aspect of life.

Contents

Set up your supercharged kitchen, learn how to cook wholesome ingredients well and enjoy nourishing, tasty recipes.

Create a warm and welcoming home, with feel-good food and great produce then radiate that joy out into your community.

Make food a cause for celebration by bringing everyone together.

Why I wrote this book

Have you spent years on restrictive and fad diets? If so, its time to turn the tables on forbidden fruits and sweet potato prohibitions, and allow yourself to fall in love with food all over again. Im encouraging you to step away from the fear and move towards embracing the goodness of Mother Natures most beautiful gifts.

The essence of life is constant growth; were continually moving, evolving and changing. In this book, I hope to help you corral your thoughts so you can stay open to new experiences and relish change. Im going to empower you with recipes and new ingredients that are bursting with feel-good wholesomeness and love.

True flavour doesnt come in a shiny packet or a cube.

All the recipes in Supercharge Your Life are hearty, wholesome and energising. Its a culmination of the knowledge Ive acquired through my journey of writing books, and it ends as it begins: in the heart of my home my supercharged kitchen, beside a purring stove.

Youll discover mouth-watering old-school recipes for pleasure and fulfilment that will steer you towards living a supercharged life. Whether youre a novice in the kitchen or cooking is second nature to you, youll find my suggestions for flavour pairings and food partnerships invaluable when creating the delicious recipes in this book, and theyll arouse your interest in new flavours for your own creations. Youll also learn how to simplify meal preparation, and stock your pantry, fridge and freezer well.

Youll find out how to set up your enduring kitchen, outfitting it with the tools you need, from spice rack to high-speed blender. Youll discover how to simplify meal preparation. Youll master the lost art of cooking vegetables and wave goodbye to soggy overcooked veg. Youll redefine your relationship with food and embrace commonsense eating. You may even be inspired to grow your own vegetables and herbs.