Nutritious food makes your hair and nails grow and your skin glow! You can even use food for beauty treatments! Lots of treatments offer special foods. Try these fun recipes found on the Food Standards Agency website.
Beauty cookies
These oatmeal lovelies are easy, scrummy, and usable as a face mask!
You need:
• 350g uncooked oatmeal
• 200g wholemeal flour
• 135g raisins
• 35ml semi-skimmed milk
• 2 eggs
• 2 tbsp honey
• 1 1/2 tsp nutmeg
• 1 1/2 tsp cinnamon
Pre-heat your oven to 220 C. Sieve the flour, cinnamon and nutmeg into a bowl. Then add the honey, eggs and milk. Stir until you have a smooth mixture, then mix in the oats and raisins. Chill the dough in the fridge for half an hour or so.
Then roll out and cut with cutters – try different shapes to funk them up. Pop onto a greased baking tray and bake for 12-15 mins. When they’re cool, share ‘em out!
For an added beauty boost, use the leftover oats from your lush oatmeal cookies to make a skin-saving face mask. Just mix the oatmeal with water until it forms a paste. Apply to your face, leave for ten minutes, then rinse off.
Home-made guacamole
Try dipping raw vegetables in home-made guacamole. Avocados are great for you because they’re low in saturated fat.
What you’ll need:
• Two large, ripe avocados
• 3 cloves of crushed garlic
• 1/2 finely chopped onion
• Juice of a lemon
Cut each avocado in half, remove the stone. Scoop the flesh out and mash with a fork. Add the garlic, onion and juice, mix and season with pepper.
Smoothies
Mix up a few delicious and healthy smoothies for your mates…
You’ll need:
• 200g tub of natural low-fat yoghurt
• 3 medium-sized bananas
• 1 handful strawberries or other fruit
• 400ml semi-skimmed milk
Chuck all the ingredients in a blender or smoothie maker and mix until smooth. Find out your mates’ favourite fruits to make them each a personalised smoothie!