Stay home and stay healthy.
Stay home and stay healthy.
Hands up if you’re having the best time ever at home all day, every day. Nobody okay, we thought as much. There are a few benefits though and they come in the form of not having to wear pants to work (number one obviously), exercising at home without other people having to see just how unfit you are, eating from your favourite restaurants without pants AND getting fresh food delivered to your door so you don’t need to brave the dreaded supermarket.
Which is what bring us here today. No pants and Gold Coast business’ delivering fresh food to your door.
Here they are in absolutely no particular order.
Tropical Fruit World
The team at Tropical Fruit World are offering boxes of tropical fruit for just $40 plus trays of avocados for $40 and farm favourites like farm honey, macadamia nuts and dried fruits for home delivery. Delivery days are Tuesday and Friday and you can order by phoning 02 6677 7222 or further info here.
Pacific Wholesale Fruit and Veg
If you’re after the freshest of fruit and vegetables delivered directly to your door, look no further than Pacific Wholesale Fruit and Veg who yes, were once a wholesale only business but now offer mixed, family and KETO boxes of fruit and veggies from $54.50 including delivery. Boxes include eggs and a variety of tasty goodies depending on your box, so is very good news. Find them here.
Super Butcher
A family owned business, Super Butcher has been sourcing high quality meat for Gold Coast (and Brisbane) locals for quite some time. Now is no exception of course, the team are delivering the goods right to your door including pretty much any kind of meat you could possibly need. Choose what you need, pay for the good and choose delivery for $27 and your meats are on their way. Happy days. Get yours here.
Coastal Fresh
Another great local business serving up fresh fruit and vegetable boxes is Coastal Fresh. They usually supply lots of Gold Coast venues but now they’ve turned to supplying us. Choose from a fruit and veggie box or just veggies on their own and you’ll get an absolutely packed box including fresh eggs and an excellent variety of healthy goodness available for delivery. Order yours here.
Prime Valley Organic Meats
If organic meat is your thing, Prime Valley Organic Meats at the Easy T centre have you covered. Butcher Mick has over 20 years of experience so he knows exactly what’s up when it comes to choosing quality cuts. These guys are delivering all over the Gold Coast so give them a call on 07 5580 8084 or head online here to place your order.
The Farm Folk
Offering organic fruit and vegetables in a conveniently delivered box is what The Farm Folk are all about. You can add exactly what you want to your cart from apples to avocados, and then have it delivered anywhere on the Gold Coast on Monday’s, Wednesday’s, Thursday’s and Friday’s. Delivery is free on orders over $130 and a flat rate of $9.95 for all other orders. In exciting news, you also get $20 off your first order. Find all the goodies here.
Organic Food Share
Not only are the team at Organic Food Share offering organic fruit and veggie boxes, they’ve also created boxes especially for juicing. Which means you can get everything you need just to continue sipping that morning juice. Of course, there are specific boxes for fruit and veggies too and you can get small or large versions of those from $32. You can throw in chia seeds, chai and quinoa for an extra $10 and delivery is just $10 too. Customised boxes are an extra $5. Get yours here.
Sol Cleanse
You may know these guys for their epic juice cleanses, but now they have launched organic produce boxes delivered to your door in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Northern NSW and the Sunshine Coast! There are several different boxes (juices still available too!) to choose from, but we like the sound of the organic produce box for $69 (including free delivery) containing baby spinach, beetroot, broccoli, carrot, cos lettuce, garlic, kale, onion, pumpkin or sweet potato, tomato, zucchini, lemon, lime, orange, apple, banana, plus a healthy treat of bliss balls with flavours changing weekly. Use this time to kick start at new you here.
There you have it, some of the businesses delivering directly to your door.
Words by Kirra Smith
This is the perfect healthy cake for your a Sunday afternoon BBQ or an upcoming birthday celebration.
INGREDIENTS
INSTRUCTIONS
Pre-heat the oven to 175 degrees celcius and line the base of two round springform cake tins with baking paper and grease the sides. (I only had one tin so just baked one after the other). In a food processor whizz half of the dried dates and half of the coconut flour until they are finely ground down, add more dates and coconut flour until all of the ingredients are ground down and combined. Add the coconut, baking soda, cinnamon and salt and combine in the food processor. In a large bowl, whisk the eggs. Add the mashed banana’s, water, coconut oil and apple cider vinegar and whisk together until there are no lumps. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients and combine with a fork. Add the pineapple and mix through. Place half of the cake mixture in each cake tin and place in the oven for 40 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean. Once cooked place on a cake wrack and let cool. Place a layer of coconut yogurt on top on one of the cakes and place the second cake on top. Cover the rest of the cake with coconut yogurt, top with crushed walnuts and serve.
For more great recipes by Gold Coast local Caralee Caldwell, check out her page here.
So there’s a few ways this stay-at-home business can go. One is that we all eat too much and lay on the floor thinking about all the things we should be doing instead.
The other is that we stay inside but also make inside our new world, bar crawls are now rooms-of-your-house crawls, Friday drinks are FaceTime drinks and exercise will also likely be an inside job.
Which is why we’re all here today. To discuss Gold Coast exercise-based businesses who have taken things online so that we may all stay fit while we have to stay inside.
VIP Lockdown Machine Squad
Run by local legends Machine Life, the online squad is $25 p/w with live daily workouts that can be accessed anytime on your phone or computer, using just your body weight, tips and tricks from the trainers (Jesse and Alyse) and an online community to support you through this time. Trainers help with technique, nutritional guidelines, motivation and accountability so that there’s no slacking off plus you get healthy recipes, live chats, team challenges and tailored workouts for all fitness levels. Join here.
Pilates by Lisa
One Gold Coast gal who has been doing the online thing for quite some time is Lisa, of Pilates by Lisa. Who is offering online pilates classes for all levels of fitness that you can (and should) absolutely get involved in from the comfort of your home with a FREE 10 day trial! Find them here.
Ritual Yoga and Pilates
The ladies at Palmy’s Ritual Yoga & Pilates are in the process of creating an online hub for yoga and pilates classes. They also offer pilates barre classes so you can get that booty all peachy for when we’re allowed outside again. Stay up to date with their progress here.
Currumbin Academy of Performing Arts
Here’s one for the kiddies – CAPA have taken their dances classes online so that’s one way for the little ones to burn some energy. Not to mention they’ll have fun and possibly learn a new skill while they’re at it. Check it out here.
Emily Skye Fitness
No doubt you’ve heard of Emily Skye, she’s been online for a long time now but she offers quite the array of workouts to keep you fit and fabulous. She’s a personal trainer so there’s lots of strength-based workouts, weights and body-weight based exercise. Plenty of variety. Find out more here.
Fluidform Pilates
Full body strength and conditioning is the name of the game at Fluidform Pilates with classes created to have a meaningful and positive impact. Of course, there are all manner of pilates classes on offer and creator Kirsten King is a former Gold Coaster. Get involved here.
We’ll keep updating as we find out about more business moving online but in the meantime, keep moving and take care of yourselves.
Words and photos by Kirra Smith
A healthy, delicious dinner to try at home by Southport Yacht Club Chef John Player.
Ingredients for 6 people
6x 190g salmon fillet (skin on) scarred
3 asparagus spears per person
Kiepher potatoes cut into cubes 50g per person
4 olives cut in half per person
Cherry tomatoes for garnish
8 slices of pickled cucumber per person
Extra virgin olive oil drizzled on dish to finish
Sauce
750g cherry tomatoes
15ml white wine vinegar
6g salt
6g sugar
3g white pepper
1 shallot
½ red pepper
150ml olive oil
The vegetables
The salmon
The sauce
Plate up
Notes from John.
Don’t use too much olive oil when cooking the salmon as this will saturate the fish and skin will not crisp up well.
Don’t heat the sauce – serve at room temperature – heating the sauce will make the sauce split.
The salmon should be served pink inside.
