Recipes

Fancy a warming cycle food recipe? Today we’re serving a creamy tofu and mushroom stir-fry with potato wedges and roasted squash topped with crispy kale. Before we jump into the preparation and the recipe, here’s some information on why this recipe is perfect for the luteal phase.

Roasted nuts, e.g. almonds or walnuts, are an absolute Christmas classic and impress with their light roasted aroma and caramel-like sweetness. We make the whole thing a bit healthier and cycle-friendly with this simple cycle food recipe. Perfect for snacking or giving as a gift.

This recipe helps support your body optimally during your period. With cycle syncing through nutrition, you can take on period pain, PMS & more. During your period, warming dishes that boost your well-being are particularly suitable. Beetroot is considered an iron-rich root vegetable.

Is the transition into the darker months also giving you a bit of a hard time? How about we bring back a little summer with these delicious summer rolls? Just in winter style. Here are two recipe ideas with seasonal vegetables & foods that support your cycle.

Autumn is here and has tempted us with this warming recipe idea. For us, porridge is one of our staple meals during the colder seasons. That is exactly why we have created this Zyklusfood edition. Once a berry and millet porridge with peanut butter for the first half of the cycle, and a fig and oat porridge with sweet tahini sauce for the second half of the cycle. 

Today, we’re romanticizing our wraps and calling them savory filled crêpes! These two recipes support your cycle. The recipe is gluten-free, vegan, and super delicious! Find out which foods can help balance your hormones. It’s really that simple!

Muffins for breakfast? You don’t really like sweet things? No problem – here is THE recipe for you, which also optimally supplies your body with nutrients during menstruation, and is gluten-free, vegan, easy, and naturally delicious. Cycle syncing your diet can be really simple. With Zyklusfood, find your balance.

Lots to do and little time to cook? Let’s combine meal prep and cycle syncing. Nutrition can support your cycle and hormones. In this case, it’s a delicious pasta and potato salad for your hormonal balance.

- Author Mona Hock

These little energy balls are the perfect companions for your cycle. They're not only delicious, but also support your body's different needs thanks to seed cycling.

Seed cycling? What's that?

Period until ovulation

The principle is simple. From the start of your period until ovulation, you incorporate (ground) flaxseeds and pumpkin seeds into your diet.

Flaxseeds contain plant estrogens, so-called phytoestrogens, which are beneficial for the body's own estrogen levels. This applies to both estrogen deficiency and estrogen dominance. These phytoestrogens, more precisely lignans, can also be found in pumpkin seeds. In addition, they are rich in zinc, which is needed for hormone production.

From ovulation until menstruation

From ovulation until your next period, you can eat 1-2 tablespoons of sunflower seeds and sesame seeds every day. 🌻

Sunflower seeds, and especially sesame seeds, are also rich in zinc – which is beneficial for progesterone production, which is at its peak during this time. Sunflower seeds also contain vitamin E and selenium. Both are important for a healthy estrogen/progesterone balance. The phytoestrogens they contain also support the regulation of hormone metabolism.

Ingredients for approximately 18 brownie bites

25 g each of flaxseed & Pumpkin seeds or sunflower seeds & sesame
50g soft dates
20 g hazelnuts
20 g rolled oats
15 g cocoa (without sugar)

pinch of salt

How to:

linseed & Pumpkin seeds OR sunflower seeds & Chop sesame seeds, soft dates, hazelnuts, rolled oats, cocoa powder, and a pinch of sea salt in a food processor. The mixture will initially be very crumbly, but the sticky dates should make it easy to press together. Shape the mixture into small balls and then roll them in cocoa powder. Stored in an airtight container, the brownie bites will keep for several days.

Tip: If you don't have a powerful blender, you can first chop the dry ingredients and then add soft dates.

Have fun recreating and snacking :)