Olo's quarantine list

by Reka Borcz

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What to do

during Covid-19 quarantine at home

Don’t be a lazy ass and sleep until 12 every day, build yourself habits, wake up on time, make yourself a breakfast that cafés would be jealous of, clean your house, eat healthy, exercise, read books, educate yourself, make yourself an immune boosting smoothie, use the fancy plates for dinner and watch your favourite surf movie.

 

Here’s a list of recommendations from the Olo family of what you can do while you’re in quarantine at home:

 

Prepare yourself a fancy breakfast

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Our homemade granola recipe is yummy and easy to make at home:

Ingredients:

  • 1,5 kg oats 

  • 300g almonds or peanuts 

  • 100g sugar 

  • 200g sesame seeds 

  • 200g coconut flakes 

Mix the ingredients together in a big bowl and add honey. Or maple syrup, if you prefer to make it even healthier. 

Our little secret - add a bit of cinnamon.

Use natural yogurt for the base, add granola next, top it with almonds, cashews, banana and peanut butter.

Prepare it next to your morning latte and it’s all ready to go.

Start your day with meditation

There are a bunch of videos and applications to choose from when it comes to meditation, here we share our favorites with you to keep you sane:

  • Headspace - $7.99 to $12.99 per month after trial

  • Calm - free, in-app purchases

  • Insight Timer - free, in-app purchases

  • Aura - free, in-app purchases

Finally read that dusty book on your shelf

Reading a book is an activity we need a lot of time for, and we often choose to do something else, but now we have time to read our favorite or long-time-waiting books. Here’s a few of our recommendations:

  • Jaimal Yogis - Saltwater Buddha: A Surfer's Quest to Find Zen on the Sea 

  • Jonas Salzgeber - The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness

  • James C. Jones  - Total Survival: How to Organize Your Life, Home, Vehicle, and Family...

  • Mihály Csíkszentmihályi - Flow: The Psychology of Happiness

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Make yourself an immune boosting smoothie

Better to be prepared than sorry, by blending these ingredients you can boost your Vitamin C: 

  • 1 big squeezed orange

  • 1 piece of carrots

  • 3 small slices of ginger

  • half tsp turmeric

  • 2 pieces of dates

Do some exercise

If you’re a yoga person; some of the yogis on Instagram and youtube are streaming live these days and have interesting accounts to follow:

  • Boho Beautiful

  • Alo Yoga

  • Yoga with Adriene

 If you’re more for pain and gain, these youtubers are for you:

  • MadFit

  • Pamela Reif

  • SELF

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Unwax your quiver

 

Build a wall rack to your quiver

Learn something new

There are a great range of opportunities on the internet to learn a skill, a language, educate yourself about a certain topic. Our favorite apps are:

  • Ted

  • Skillshare

  • Tandem - Language exchange

  • Netflix - Explained 

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Watch your favorite surf movie

We don’t have to tell anything about this, you probably have been doing it already…

  • Deus ex Machina - South to Sian

  • Endless summer

  • Momentum Generation

  • Morning of the Earth

  • Evolution

  • Sprout

  • The church of the open sky

  • Musica Surfica

  • Deus: Had too much to dream last night

  • Zone frequency

  • The heart & the sea

  • Free Jazz Vein

  • Single Fin Yellow

  • The Present

Bake banana bread

Treat yourself with homemade banana bread, you need it for happiness... Here, you’ll find a previous blogpost of ours.

Listen to podcasts while cleaning the house

  • Waterpeople

  • Smorgasboarder

  • Happy Place

  • Gaia

 

Photos by @undanflykter @caleyvanular @musebyplume @leia_vita Surfer @nathansadoun

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