The Paris-New Zealand Diet

The last year, I've spent some time abroad; for two months I 'studied french' in Paris, and later I went to New Zealand for 3 months to work and travel around. Eventhough both places were so different, from what I'm used to at home and especially from eachother, they both inspired me to change my eating habits..

Paris
In Paris, the city I love so much, everything seems to be so cultured. I love the haute couture fashion, the language of love, all the stylish people, the countless museums with beautiful art and of course.. La Cuisine! The french kitchen is classic and so refined. The city is full of the best restaurants in the world and on every corner you can find a petit Pattiserie with delicacies which are actually to beautiful to eat, but even more delicious.

While I was In Paris I found out what the secret is of French women, who manage to keep a perfect figure in the middle of so many irresistable temptations..  Only eat whats worth eating! Only eat the most beautiful perfectly combined meals, prepared with love, because that tastes so much better then 10 times as much ugly manufactured, loveless, gross things. Off course this way of eating has a pricetag, but it's all about priorities. Like all french people I just chose to rather eat one piece of culinairy art and starve the rest of the day, than eating a lot of anything else, because it's just worth it!

New Zealand
On the other side of the world (literally) I went back to basic. The family I stayed at only ate organic and preferably home-grown foods. They were vegetarians, with the exception of animals they hunted themselves, because that would be a waste of good meat. As used-to-junkfood citygirls we called adapting to our new New Zealand lifestyle 'bootcamp,' and spent our time in the garden, nurturing our patatoes, cabbage and lettuce and eating it for dinner.

I have to admit that I did feel pretty healthy with my natural food, free of preservatives, chemicals and of course grown with love.

The revolutionairy Diet
So now the time has come to combine the best of both worlds into my revolutionairy Paris-New Zealand Diet! Because I know these rules will make me look like a Victoria's secret angel in no time!

1. Only eat, whats worth eating
2. Don't wast the joy of eating on food, which is processed in some factory, where instead of love, they put chemicals and preservatives in it.
3. Pay attention to eating my carefully selected food, because 'the chosen ones' deserve to be eaten with as much love as with wich they were prepared.

My devotion to this revolutionairy diet has allready resulted in me making myself this delicious and very healthy Salad for lunch:

Ingredients: 
Rocket salad
Little Gem salad
Cucumber
Chicory
Grapefruit
Smoked Salmon
Dressing











Bon appetit!