Thermomix - Makes Eating Healthy, Easier.
I’ve always advocated eating foods made with the best of ingredients. Most foods can be healthy, like chocolate cake, mayonnaise, café late, if only the ingredients are healthy. Modern day diets are so obsessed with the amount of food you should be eating that they have failed to address the quality of the food. What I mean by this, instead of eating diet foods containing hydrogenated vegetable food, eat foods made with cold pressed oils. Instead of eating foods made from white sugar or artificial sweeteners eat foods that are made with rapadura sugar or honey (natural sugars not refined). I harp on and on about this, but it is very important.
If you’re not prepared to make foods from scratch then finding foods made with the best of ingredients is the hardest part. When you finally find a food made with all the healthy ingredients that I advocate it is normally expensive or you can’t find it again. Many country markets have these wonderful homemade goodies but you only visit them infrequently. This is a dilemma faced by many healthy seeking food lovers.
Well, I’ve found a solution to this dilemma. In 2006 I had a lady contact me to tell me that she liked my books; Changing Habits Changing Lives and the cook book, she told me she had purchased a cooking machine that made my type of cooking a breeze. She told me that the machine did the work of 10 appliances I had in my cupboard and I was adamant I wasn’t buying anymore kitchen appliances. This wonderful lady came to the Sunshine Coast and demonstrated this wonderful machine and after 10 minutes of a 2 hour demonstration I knew that it was the solution to making healthy cooking easy.
The machine is called a Thermomix, it cooks, stirs, grinds, grates, kneads, mixes, steams and the list is endless. If I want to make eggs benedicts, it makes the hollandaise sauce in six minutes. All I have to do is add the butter, egg yolks, lemon juice, vinegar and sea salt, press three buttons (timer, heat setting and stir speed) and like magic in 6 minutes I have hollandaise sauce. It makes old fashion custard in 7 minutes and because the temperature is exact and it stirs itself you can walk away and perfect custard. Mashed potatoes have never tasted so good; all you do is add potatoes, butter and milk, press three buttons and 20 minutes later perfect mashed potato. I can knead bread in 3 minutes, make porridge from whole grains in 7 minutes, grind gains, grate 250gms of cheese in 4 seconds, make lasagna in two easy steps, prepare perfect lemon butter in 6 minutes, create homemade lemonade in minutes.
One night my Husband and I wanted to go out and the children wanted pasta, so I made up the sauce in the Thermomix, added the fettuccini to the machine, cooked another 7 minutes and I had perfect pasta with sauce in one bowl.
I’ve made homemade nutella, pizza bases, bread, cakes, bolognaise sauce, juiced, made jams, spreads, perfect rice, curry and the list is endless. In a couple of hours I can make all the condiments needed for the month. My biggest wish is that when I had small children this would have been the perfect machine for making easy quick first meals for young babies beginning to eat. My teenage children though enjoy the feasts I make now.
If you are serious about eating healthy, then I recommend you look at this amazing machine. And if you’re worried about cleaning, it’s not a problem. It cleans itself and it never has burnt on food as the temperature is regulated. There is only a lid and bowl to clean, rather then a dozen attachments.
I’ve had the machine since 2006 and it never ceases to amaze me as to what it does. Every time a friend comes round and watches me cook they end up ordering one. I’ve sold or given away most of my kitchen appliances as it takes over the job of most of them.
I have to tell you that it is not cheap as you can imagine, but by selling all my old appliances I came up with half the cost of the machine, plus the amount I save in petrol not going to markets 50km away to buy produce or buying expensive organic natural condiments, I figured it pays for itself. It also pays for itself in the time it saves. I can put breakfast on in the morning, say porridge and because it is timed, temperature regulated and stirs; I can walk away and have a shower and its ready when I get back. The same at dinner, I just walk away from it and do other things instead of being tied to the stove stirring and watching I don’t burn things.
I know this sounds like a selling pitch, but what it really is, is me sharing the most amazing tool to make healthy eating a breeze.
I was talking to the Australian distributors a while ago and I told them that there was one thing missing on the machine and that was a screen with the recipes on it.
If you want to know more information on the Thermomix, the following link will take you to the website. http://www.thermomix.com.au www.thermomix.com.au. Give Thermomix in Western Australia a call 1800 004 838 and find out where your nearest distributor is, make sure you tell them I sent you.
Seeing is believing!!!
