Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, sweet potato and bacon salad. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Sweet Potato and Bacon Salad is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Sweet Potato and Bacon Salad is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook sweet potato and bacon salad using 7 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Sweet Potato and Bacon Salad:
- Take 1 sweet potato
- Get 2 rashers of bacon
- Make ready 1 handful of salad
- Make ready 2 tbsp mayonnaise
- Get 1 tbsp peanut butter
- Make ready 1 tsp dijon mustard
- Make ready 1/2 tsp soy sauce
Steps to make Sweet Potato and Bacon Salad:
- Chop sweet potato into fat chip-shaped chunks and place in a saucepan of water to bring to the boil.
- Simmer the sweet potato for around 8 minutes or until soft
- Shallow fry the bacon in its own fat in a small frying pan (I don't even put any oil in the pan; it just cooks itself!)
- Meanwhile, combine the mayo, peanut butter, mustard and soy sauce in a small bowl and set aside
- Once cooked, drain the excess fat from the bacon on a paper towel, then add it and and the sweet potato chips into the sauce mixture and mix well
- Serve with plenty of salad - something like rocket or baby leaf spinach goes best, I've found
Use Food to Elevate Your Mood
For the most part, people have been trained to believe that “comfort” foods are bad for the body and have to be avoided. Often, if your comfort food is essentially candy or other junk foods, this can be true. Otherwise, comfort foods may be very nutritious and good for you. Several foods honestly do raise your mood when you consume them. If you seem to feel a little bit down and you need a happiness pick me up, try a couple of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, are fantastic for helping you battle depression. Just be sure that you do not toss the yolk. The egg yolk is the most crucial part of the egg in terms of helping elevate your mood. Eggs, the egg yolks in particular, are rich in B vitamins. These B vitamins are great for helping to boost your mood. This is because the B vitamins increase the function of your brain’s neural transmitters (the parts of the brain that tell you how to feel). Try eating an egg and cheer up!
Make a trail mixout of various seeds and nuts. Your mood can be elevated by eating peanuts, almonds, cashews, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, etcetera. This is possible because these foods are high in magnesium which boosts serotonin production. Serotonin is the “feel good” chemical that tells your brain how you feel all the time. The more serotonin you have, the more pleasant you will feel. Not only that but nuts, particularly, are a fantastic source of protein.
If you wish to fight depression, try consuming some cold water fish. Salmon, herring, tuna, mackerel, trout, etc, they’re all high in omega-3 fatty acids and DHA. These are two things that improve the quality and the function of your brain’s grey matter. It’s the truth: consuming tuna fish sandwiches can really help you overcome your depression.
Some grains are really excellent for driving away bad moods. Quinoa, barley, teff, millet, etc are all wonderful for helping you feel happier. They fill you up better and that can help improve your moods also. Feeling hungry can be awful! The reason these grains can improve your mood is that they are not hard for your body to digest. These foods are easier to digest than others which helps kick start a rise in your blood glucose which in turn kicks up your mood to a happier place.
Green tea is excellent for moods. You were simply expecting to read that, weren’t you? Green tea is loaded with a certain amino acid referred to as L-theanine. Studies have shown that this amino acid basically stimulates brain waves. This will better your brain’s focus while at the same relaxing the rest of your body. You likely already knew how easy it is to be healthy when you consume green tea. Now you are well aware that green tea helps you to elevate your moods too!
Now you know that junk food isn’t necessarily what you should eat when you are wanting to help your moods get better. Try several of these instead!
