Do not fall into Monday blues by making the most of your money on the first day of the working week. No matter how big or small are your funds, here are some amazing discount deals that are available for every pocket. Mondays at Yo Sushi The deal at Yo Sushi is called ‘Blue Plate’ day when fifty of its best dishes are reduced to £2.50 a plate which saves you up to 40% on their usual prices. Some of these discounted dishes include things like spicy pepper squid, tuna maki and duck and moromi miso hand roll. However, keep in mind that freshly cooked hot dishes will be still available at their standard price. The Yo Sushi outlets are open until late, around 10pm, on Mondays. Half price meals at The Slug and Lettuce The ‘Happy Monday’ deal at Slug and Lettuce will really make your Monday happy. You automatically get 50% off your food bill at whatever time your turn up there. You can choose anything from their standard menu from chilli con carne to sausages, burgers and chicken dishes.

If this is not a great deal, I don’t know what is. 25% off at Frankie & Benny’s Frankie & Benny’s deal is called ‘Monday Madness’. With that offer you get 25% off your food bill every Monday evening. Frankie & Benny’s claim to be a New York Italian restaurant and bar whose menu includes things such as burgers, pastas, meatballs, salads and steaks. The only thing you need to do in order to enjoy this deal is to turn up anytime from 5pm to 10pm in one of their 200 locations. And you can even make the most of their free Wi-Fi, in case you have some unfinished work for the day. A Mojito on the house Until 30th of November 2014, there is a ‘buy one, get one free on cocktails on Mondays at Drake & Morgan’s bars and restaurants. There are three locations in the city from which you can choose from. It is worth £7.50 a time, so when you go with a friend, it will be £3.75 for one cocktail each. Anyone who is a Sky TV customer can buy up to two tickets for £3  each to watch any movie, including 3D, in O2 Cineworld in London.

You just have to sign in online with your Sky ID details and you can either print your voucher to get your tickets or pre-book online for the upcoming Monday. This can save you nearly £8 per ticket.Every Sunday, at Yo Sushi!, you can pay £19.50 and eat all you want from the conveyor belts (save the grey or yellow dishes) for an hour. I initially thought that one hour was too short for me to enjoy all the sushi, but it soon turned out to be more than enough, as I was eating at such a rapid rate that I was full after about 45 minutes. The range of food on offer wasn't restrictive at all, I had vegetarian sushi, salmon, regular sushi, calamari, fruit salads, sweet desserts, etc. Secrets secrets are no fun!  Secrets secrets hurt someone!  That someone is you…. As you might have heard, the Japanese are one of the cultures that have the longest life expectancy. Many studies have been conducted to find out why this is true. All studies point in one direction. Raising land animals isn’t very practical in Japan, so right off the bat they are protected from factory farming practices and meat/dairy products that are filled with harmful additives, antibiotics, and growth hormones.

The Japanese rely mainly on very healthful staples such as sea vegetables, fresh fish, rice, buckwheat (soba) noodles, and fermented soy products such as miso.sushi tei jakarta facebook I, too, want to realize the benefits of these healthful foods and live a long life! sushi grade fish london buySo naturally, one of my favorite foods to eat when I am not cooking is sushi! dead sushi ver onlineI only eat certain kinds of sushi and have it prepared as simply as possible. jiro dreams of sushi for ipadThe typical “American” Japanese restaurant is destroying the basic Japanese ancient health tenants, westernizing your meal by adding all sorts of chemicals and additives. sushi los angeles sawtelle

If you are eating sushi because you think it is healthy – Please look a little closer at what’s really lurking in your roll…sushi making kit instructions Speaking of rolls, rolls were not typical in Japan. sushi takeout annapolisNeither was eating sushi on a normal basis. Sushi is considered a special occasion food and is very expensive in Japan.  Most sushi in Japan is served similarly to the picture below. This “nigiri” is prepared by the chef and the chef intends for you to eat it exactly like it is served, using your fingers. No, you don’t dip it in a huge bowl of sodium filled soy sauce. Rolls really are a western phenomenon that developed when sushi became more popular in other cultures outside of Japan. Most people who are just starting out with sushi are commonly recommended the “California Roll.”

The reason westerners started with this roll, is because it was the most normal sounding.  “Already cooked crab meat and avocado, that can’t be all that bad – sure I’ll try it.” California was the entrance for many Japanese chefs that started serving sushi in America.  They needed a substitute for “Toro” fatty tuna and the oily and fatty nature of avocado worked perfectly. Also they hid the seaweed by making the roll inside out because Americans were not accustomed to the texture of seaweed “nori”. True Japanese chefs are artists and take the aesthetics and quality of ingredients seriously when preparing food, however, this has gone by the wayside in many sushi restaurants. The chefs have to use the ingredients the restaurant owners buy from food manufacturers… Food colorings, excitotoxins (MSG), harmful preservatives, and transfats are everywhere in those products. Let’s closely examine the favorite items from any typical sushi menu…. 1. Don’t order the Seaweed Salad without asking about the ingredients – Food coloring is typically added to make that bright green color.

Yellow #5 is linked to hyperactivity and allergic reactions. Blue #1 has caused brain cancer in lab animals. 2. Ordering Edamame – Beware of non-organic varieties, as they are full of pesticides and have been genetically modified. Skip it if the restaurant can’t tell you it’s organic. 3. Forget Fish Roe (Tokibo) – These tiny little fish eggs are cultivated and then dyed beautiful colors to help you feast with your eyes! Look but don’t touch! 4. Eliminate Imitation Crab – This the typical “fish” found in the California roll and many other rolls. This stick of processed crap is really comprised of minced fish meat from several different fishes left over in some factory somewhere, dosed with fillers of egg whites, gluten, artificial colors, sorbitol, and a bunch of other ingredients like hydrolyzed soy protein and disodium inosinate – forms of MSG, which are excitotoxins that are horrible chemicals that wreak havoc on the human bodies and make you eat more than you should.

See a picture of all the ingredients in typical imitation crab below. 5. Freak out on Farmed Salmon – I would say the majority of sushi restaurants serve farmed salmon. This stuff is dreadful – the poor fish are fed lots of corn, antibiotics, food coloring pellets to make them turn bright pink and left to grow in toxic pools with high levels of chemical pesticides. The main reason why salmon is healthy for you is because of the Omega 3 fatty acids, how is a farmed fish eating corn going to provide any of those nutrients to you? Did you know farmed salmon has about 50 extra calories per 3 ounce serving than wild salmon and contains half as much of the available Omega 3? Just choose other types of fish – here’s a great guide to sustainable and safe fish that my friends at EDF shared with me. They partnered with Monterey Bay Aquarium to create it. There’s also a Seafood Watch App available on the iTunes store as well as Android Market for free! Although I don’t go there often because it’s too far from my house – New Zealand Café is one of the places that serves wild salmon sushi.

6. Limit your dip – One tbsp of soy sauce has roughly 500 mg of sodium…. Those little bowls are easy to fill up and if you fill it up to the top, it can contain over 2500 mg of sodium! That is a ridiculous amount of sodium to be consuming at one meal. Wonder why your skin is all puffy or why your stomach is bloated?  I personally don’t even use soy sauce anymore, I use a small amount of “ponzu” sauce that I ask the Japanese chef for. It’s a little sweeter than soy sauce because it contains some mirin (Japanese cooking wine), but has about half the salt of even the low sodium version of soy sauce. 7. Dairy doesn’t belong in Japanese cuisine! Spicy Tuna made with mayo? – These probably contain non-organic dairy and if you were paying attention from above, the typical Japanese diet doesn’t contain any dairy.  This is another example of how westernizing sushi has turned its health value upside down.  If you really can’t live without the garlic mayo – try asking the chef to include it on the side – a little can really go a long way!

8. What’s up with the fake Wasabi? – Real Japanese horseradish is amazing for you!  It’s got a wonderful anti-carcinogenic effect for your body.  Meaning, it can fight all sorts of toxins and pollutants your body can get exposed to over time and prevent many forms of cancers. Wasabi is also anti-microbial, which is important because it helps prevent forms of raw fish bacteria from harming your body. Now for the sad part, most sushi restaurants are using a cheap alternative they can get in bulk in the form of powder. This powder, unfortunately, contains harmful additives like food coloring (Yellow and Blue make Green!).  High quality restaurants will have the real deal, but you have to ask. Ask quietly and nicely and they might share with you! 9. Recognize your Rice – Sushi rice is typically short grain rice that is polished white, cooked and then mixed with rice wine vinegar.  When you add vinegar to the rice, this decreases its glycemic index, thus reducing the surge in blood sugar you normally would have if you ate rice alone.