Today's Food:
Breakfast:
1 bag Living Nutz Mayan Chili Pistachios
32 ounces lemon water
Lunch:
1/2 really ripe and luscious large cantelope
Snack:
1 RawRevolution Chocolate Hazelnut Bar
Dinner:
Salad with romaine, pea shoot sprouts, carrot, daikon, kalamata olives and mushrooms with dulse, nutritional yeast, olive oil, apple cider vinegar and sea salt
Dessert:
Last tiny slivers of Strawberry Cream Pie and Chocolate Buttercup Mousse Pie (AKA Divine Goddess Bliss Pie)
Just a note that I will be away and without Internet for a few days, so I will resume posting on T.H.E. Blog on Wednesday night.
Are you eating leafy greens?
Throughout the years, clients would come to me saying that they ate alot of vegetables. As it turns out, what they meant was that they ate a salad every night, usually consisting of lettuce, cuke, carrot and maybe one or two more veges. My next question was usually: "How about other vegetables with your meal?" followed by: "Do you eat any leafy greens?" Often the answer to the latter questions was, "What's a leafy green?" It was then that I would explain this category, and that it is the highest vege group for offering our bodies oxygen and chlorophyl, the basic sources of life; that it is known as the vege group that most boosts our immune system because of this; that because these greens are sprouting upward, they also offer us high energy, and are especially good if one tends to suffer from fatigue; that you want to eat them every day; and that yes, you can also eat them steamed for breakfast (drizzled with a little tahini and Bragg's Amino Acids) to start your day with some get-up-and-go. Leafy greens also contain large amounts of iron and calcium. Just to mention their names one more time, this category includes: kale, chard, collards, spinach, dandelion, mizuma, Tsat Tsoi and the numerous array of Summer farmers market leafies. Arugula and Watercress are a little different but still powerful in their own right. Do try and buy some that I mentioned with the nice big leaves. If you are eating too much bread, wrap your lunchtime hummus, tuna or turkey in a large collard leaf; you can rub some Bragg's over that to tenderize it as well, and even stuff in some avocado and sprouts.
Just this change will bring you energy and cut down on the carbs from bread. All greens have protein as well.
Are you eating enough leafies? What's your favorite recipe? Write in and let me know...
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My fave way to consume my leafy greens.....Two large leaves of fresh organic kale (including stems), handful of fresh organic spinach leaves, 1/2 cup Trader Joe's frozen mango chunks, 1/2 very ripe organic banana, few fresh organic strawberries, tablespoon organic 'raw' coconut, 1 cup coconut water, 1 cup ice cubes, tablespoon of psyllium flakes, tablespoon flax seeds, few squirts organic raw blue agave nectar, and a minute whirling in my new Vitamix blender! These ingredients coupled with a large appetite for an awesome smoothie and a way healthy meal! Kudos the The Holistic Empire for leading me on this path!
So beautiful, Lori; you are on the cutting edge! Keep inspiring others who are considering going raw.
And for all you readers, I'll be talking about Lori's raw bliss desserts that I got to eat all day today!
Health hint: When making smoothies, you might want to trade off the ice cubes for sticking the Vitamix in the fridge or freezer or freezing the bananas; sometimes the really cold water can impede digestion...
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