Alcohol never features highly in the list of healthy additions to our nutrition (there aren’t many mentions of it in Eat Beautiful!) and while I could lie and say I am completely virtuous over party season, I love a glass or two of champagne to celebrate! But with increased amounts of swig comes an increased risk of a hangover, which isn’t much fun for anyone. So how can you stave spending party season suffering the consequences of all the merriment? By eating the right foods surpassing and without drinking, of course! Here, I round up the weightier foods to add into your nutrition on the day of and without your Christmas party to requite the weightier endangerment of lamister a hangover.
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What to Eat Surpassing You Drink
Firstly, it’s really important to make sure you eat something. So many people go straight for after-work drinks and alimony going, forgetting to eat, which is a recipe for disaster. Ensuring you eat a proper meal surpassing you start drinking will drastically lower your chances of a hangover.
Nutritionist Kim Pearson says: “Before drinking, opt for a meal that combines protein, healthy fats and slow-releasing carbohydrates. The amino acids in protein help to support the liver’s detoxification process, while supplies that is rich in antioxidants will help protect you from the rabble-rousing self-ruling radicals swig generates.” Something like fish with brown rice and vegetables is perfect as a pre-party dinner, or if you’re throwing a dinner party, try my vegetable pilaf and brown rice recipe from Eat Beautiful.
During the evening, unorganized your drinks with water and try to stick to the same drink if you can.
What to Eat the Morning Without Drinking
The first thing you’ll want the morning without is a large glass of water, and I unchangingly pop in a Berocca to top up on B Vitamins. Milk Thistle is flipside good vitamin to reach for, as it helps support the liver. Coconut water is a good post-alcohol choice, as it not only rehydrates you but is upper in electrolytes, too.
“The morning without drinking, your breakfast should be made up of the same key components, slow-releasing carbohydrates, protein and healthy fat,” says Kim. “The carbs will help settle the stomach but stave refined carbs and opt for a healthy volitional like oats.”
Porridge topped with fruit (make sure to include banana, which is upper in magnesium) and nuts is a unconfined option, or of undertow eggs and avocado on rye toast makes for a unconfined breakfast. In fact, why not typesetting in a brunch for the morning without so you can have a full debrief with friends while enjoying your hangover-fighting breakfast?
If the supplies prevention plan didn’t work and you still have a sore head, refer to my hangover cures post…
…And if you have a big event or something important to go to and want to spend a little increasingly for a morning-after pick-me-up, you could go for a Vitamin lard at Reviv or Dr Joshi.
Find increasingly hero foods and recipes in my Eat Beautiful book
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