Easter’s here with those egg-shaped temptations poised to derail our post-lockdown healthy resolutions. What to do?
Fortunately Lizi’s have a healthy option for chocolate indulgence.
Frost has featured Lizi’s fabulous mueslis before. Lizi and Mick Shaw create wholesome foods with low Glycaemic Loads (GL), meaning they release sugars into your blood slowly. This is important because large blood sugar spikes after eating sweet foods and junk foods (even savoury ones) can trigger inflammation. This (unhelpful) inflammation has been implicated in heart disease, cancer and type II diabetes. The sugar spikes also make your body overreact and lower blood sugar too quickly – causing you to feel hungry again an hour later. So eating whole foods with low GLs is important to keep you healthy and slim.
The great news is whole foods don’t have to be boring – let me introduce Lizi’s new Belgian Chocolate Granola – it’s positively sinful. Dark, sumptuous real Belgian chocolate pieces paired with cocoa powder, vanilla, toasted oats, and a range of nuts and seeds.
But isn’t granola full of sugar? And what about the Belgian chocolate?
You’re absolutely right, as a doctor, I’m very interested in healthy diets, and normally I give granola a wide birth – but not this one.
It’s made from the best quality ingredients and is packed with flavanols. One 50g serving contains 249 calories, 14.4g healthy fats (from nuts and seeds mainly), just over a tea-spoon of sugars, 5.4g protein and 6.5g fibre. Served with 60g of milk, it has a healthy, low GL of 6.6. Unsurprisingly it’s vegan too.
So we’ve established it’s a healthy breakfast, which will keep you full until lunch due to the slow-release carbohydrate, protein and natural fats. But (important question) does it taste good?
Having road-tested (rather too much) I can reassure you unreservedly – it tastes amazing. The 5% Belgian chocolate is just enough to provide that smooth, decadent richness of a bar of the good stuff – and it turns the milk into choc-au-lait, which is a super bonus. Never has eating healthily been such a pleasure.
Where can you buy this heaven in a bowl? Lizi’s Belgian Chocolate Granola is available in convenient resealable packs from Ocado and from Lizi’s Website RRP £3.70.
If you want an Easter treat without the guilt, I highly recommend it.
By Dr K Thompson, award-winning author of From Both Ends of the Stethoscope: Getting through breast cancer – by a doctor who knows
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Note: These articles express personal views. No warranty is made as to the accuracy or completeness of information given and you should always consult a doctor if you need medical advice.