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Author: Ειρήνη Κατραβά

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Ειρήνη Κατραβά

Irini is a vegetarian with healthy food habits since the age of 20. She is a long-distance runner and in love with Ashtanga Yoga that she practices almost daily and every type of movement in general. She loves with passion life, nature, traveling, good books, movies and rose wine. She has a few good friends but the best as she admits.
Picture of Ειρήνη Κατραβά

Ειρήνη Κατραβά

Irini is a vegetarian with healthy food habits since the age of 20. She is a long-distance runner and in love with Ashtanga Yoga that she practices almost daily and every type of movement in general. She loves with passion life, nature, traveling, good books, movies and rose wine. She has a few good friends but the best as she admits.

Summer Salad with Watermelon, Tomatoes and Feta Cheese

I am in love with this salad! It is innovative, tasteful, extremely cooling, and filling. I could eat it each one of those summer days when the heat is unbearable, and the only thing you would ask for is cold water and freezing watermelon. I mean what I say! I

‘Loaded’ Baked Sweet Potatoes

The idea of ‘loaded’ baked sweet potatoes or otherwise stuffed baked sweet potatoes gives you another chance to freestyle at your kitchen, letting your imagination free to create with anything left in your refrigerator or your cupboards, an alternative but always healthy meal for lunch or dinner. The idea is

Crispy Baked Sweet Potato Fries

I am in love with the sweet potatoes, that are particularly healthy and nutritious. I usually cook them with stuffed tomatoes and peppers in the oven, with peas, fresh green beans, eggplants, and in other traditional Greek recipes. I made my rest family love them too, with the way you

Cauliflower Pizza

Cauliflower pizza is a very good ‘alternative’ and modern idea for low carb, naturally gluten-free, and low calories pizza. It is a favorite snack of the California residents in the USA and for the fans of a healthy diet and pizza too. Cauliflower is considered as a tasteless and with

10 tips to add nutrional value to your meals

Add 1-2 tablespoons of millet or quinoa or amaranth into your legumes soups ( chickpeas, beans, lentils). They become more thick and more filling. Moreover, you offer yourself a high-quality plant-based protein. Do not combine lentils or spinach with cheese because their iron contains competes with the calcium content of

The One Year Journey with Modern Yogi

One year ago, in a hospital room where I wish none of you and for any reason never be there, Modern Yogi was born. Marianna was from the first people who visited me after surgery. As my yoga teacher and a very close friend, we had been through various challenges together

The Greek Superfoods II

Superfoods are called all the foods that are rich in nutrients like healthy fats, vitamins, metals, minerals, and antioxidants. They can not do miracles by themselves. They should be part of a complete and balanced diet, as the Mediterranean is, in order to provide us with their benefits. Fortunately, our

The Greek Superfoods Ι

It would be a great omission, if we do not talk about the superfoods of our country. Chia seeds, also quinoa and amaranth from Aztecs and Incas  are really very nutrient, moreover buckwheat and millet seeds from China and Japan are excellent too. However Greece is full of food-treasures, very rich

Gluten Free Multigrain Bread from The Vegan Fairies

The gluten-free bread with oat and grains by Vegan Fairies is not only easily eaten, but also very nutritious, tasteful and filling compared to the ones you can find in the market that are not eaten – to my opinion. The most important is that it is handmade by YOU!!

The magic of Blue Spirulina

Spirulinα is among the world’s top nutrition supplements, in the form of dried powder or pill, whereas the blue spirulina is considered one of the most modern, healthy nutritional dietary trends in 2018-19. Spirulina is a type of cyanobacteria often referred to as blue-green algae that grow naturally in oceans

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