Recipes

All the healthy and adventurous recipes of this site on your fingertips. Let yourself be surprised by scrolling through them and clicking on whatever looks tempting. There will be healthy ingredients in all of them, that feed your body with good nutrition.
Lots of options your family and friends will love too and never know it’s really good for them, unless you tell them.

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Special Diet

Protein Breakfast
5-a-day In One Meal
Protein Desserts

High Protein Cottage Cheese Oatmeal

High Protein Cottage Cheese Overnight Oats

Protein Sourdough Blueberry Muffins With Streusel

German Pancake with Protein

A plate of Fresh Spring Salad with Dill Pickles and Pretzels topped with feta and pink pickled onions. A jar of pickles and a bottle of ranch dressing in the background.

Fresh Spring Salad with Pickles and Pretzels

Creamy Thai Vegetable Stir Fry in a bowl, chopsticks beside it.

Creamy Thai Vegetable Stir Fry – Gluten Free

Grilled Mango Burrata Salad with Bacon

Vegan Satay Noodles

Strawberry Pretzel Cottage Cheese Pie

Brown Butter Pistachio Protein Cookies w/ Pistachio Cream

Protein Sourdough Blueberry Muffins With Streusel

Chocolate Ginger Crunch Protein Balls

Behind the recipes

Hey There!

Lovely to meet you!

My name is Sonja and “For The Pleasure Of Eating” is my food blog that focuses on the joy of eating while fuelling my body in a healthy way.

I’m a German living in Ireland since over 15 years. I suppose that makes me about 1/3 Irish by now.

In summer 2020 I decided I want to lose some weight, but, being coffee fuelled and food motivated, I didn’t want to do it with a restrictive diet, that has me hangry all the time. Being a woman over 40 and having arthritis did not make this easier.

So I started figuring out my own way and lost 70lb in just 1 year, while still very much enjoying food and life in general.
This is what I will share here with you.

No matter if you’d like to lose a few pounds or just find new recipes to enjoy and share, you will find ideas here.

My motto is: If it doesn’t create a party in my mouth, it’s not worth eating.

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