easy, quick whole-food snacks/soups, and free wellness programs . . . part 2 of 4
I was telling you about how excited I have been to discover Whole Food Farmacy’s large line of ready-to-eat whole plant foods:
www.greensmoothiegirl.wholefoodfarmacy.com
Check it out–lots of different plain, sweet, or savory “fast” snacks that are sustaining, nutritionally dense, and easy to grab out of the cupboard. Every one of my kids gave a thumbs up to every one of these snacks. One favorite is Corn of Plenty. And TropiPhi— there are no words for how yummy it is! We went to the local water park where we have season passes, and we snacked on lots of the snacks that had just arrived via UPS, plus our green smoothies. All this while we observed the three families around us eating pizza/Twinkies, white-bread bologna sandwiches, and nachos/french fries. Except for the green smoothie that took me 10 minutes, our bag of snacks was just as quick to grab-and-go as theirs were.
Can you believe how fabulous this list of ingredients is, in Organic Phi Plus (every ingredient is certified organic, anything dehydrated is at low temps):
dates, oats, raisins, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, almonds, cashews, filberts/hazelnuts, pecans, walnuts, prunes, brown rice flour, brazil nuts, raspberry granules, grape seed oil, walnut oil, figs, salt, quinoa flour, beet powder, kidney beans, amaranth, barley, flaxseed, millet, rye, banana powder, peas, pumpking seeds, tangerine tart powder, blueberry powder, nutritional yeast, peach tart powder, guava tart powder, ginger, cinnamon, aloe vera powder, clove, strawberries, coconut, lemon oil, orange oil, stevia
My last two blogs are about two free wellness programs I’ve arranged for GreenSmoothieGirl.com readers, from Whole Food Farmacy, plus a list of ingredients in Veggilicious Spice (incredible!). I like the 12-minute video on the homepage, about the Standard American Diet’s relationship to our dismal health, plus people talking about WFF’s products.
WFFs products sound nice but it’s still too pricey for me.
I think the GS is the only fancy snack for me.
The two companies I mentioned in my last post are the following:
For green smoothies… Add wheatgrass powder or the Mighty Greens powder from Pines International. http://wheatgrass.com/
The price is reasonable for what you get. They also donate a lot of money to feed the poor. GREAT company.
For salads add enzyme rich sprouts that YOU produce for little $. http://www.sproutpeople.com/
Awesome little company that educates you in sprouting for free and they have quality products for a good price.
What these two companies offer is much more affordable and makes gs and salads much more interesting and healthy.
Even sprout people has “snack” recipes! I think a little bowl of grapes is enough for me… 
I love sproutpeople! They have a yahoo group I belong to, also, although it’s probably a bit intense for most of us.
Nutritional yeast is one of the ingredients you listed in the Organic Phi Plus. I’ve been wondering about it for a while. I’ve read a lot of conflicting information about it on the internet. From what I can tell, it is heat treated (so not raw), the yeast is inactive, and it is a good source of B12. However, I’ve also hear it’s very acidic and that it can be bad for your digestive track. Just wondering your thoughts… Thanks!
It’s in a few of my recipes, too. I like it for B12, since I don’t eat meat and sources of that nutrient are rare. There’s controversy over whether it’s raw, and it’s less acidic than, say, vinegars, or probably even cashews. Quite a few foods (even whole foods) are acidic, including most fruit, and if you’re listening to the alkalarians, we shouldn’t eat any of them. (If you listen to the alkaline folks, including Dr. Young, Anthony Robbins, et. al., we shouldn’t eat RIPE BANANAS, either). I don’t think it’s bad for the digestive tract at all, quite the opposite. I love to put it, and kelp, on buttered (or coconut oiled) popcorn, something my mom made when I was growing up. It has kind of a buttery, nutty flavor.
That probably didn’t settle the controversy at all. But the way I look at it is this (a bit of a tangent): we eat 60-80 percent raw foods, we eat lots of alkaline foods, and we avoid the processed stuff and meat/dairy, and we’re really doing very well. I have a “stupor of thought” (some will understand that, for others, read: cognitive dissonance) when someone tells me to never eat grains, fruits, nuts, or some other group of whole, unprocessed foods that God put on the planet for our use. (For the gluten intolerant or those whose digestive systems are bothered by grains, different story–a tragic one, I think.) I think nutritional yeast is a natural, nutritious, ingredient/flavoring.
So many say to never eat carrots because they are high in sugar. I read an article by a nutritionist who said he had been doing this for 30 years and had never had a client come into his office and say “Boy I really overdid it on carrots yesterday, I just couldn’t stop eating them.” LOL
I have trouble with people who say to avoid whole food, but I am getting farther and farther away from food in a box, bag or a window.
Also, I find that when I eat bread and the SAD diet (even the best ingredients I can find and fresh) I am just miserable, but when I just ate bread and salad I felt great, but bread and meat, awful. My BLT’s have become OLT’s (onion, tomato, and lettuce on toast. Yum, with fresh tomato from farmers market.
That kind of silliness (worrying about sugar content of carrots) is the legacy of the Atkins Diet and its spinoffs. I have reviewed research that carrots and other higher-sugar root vegetables and even fruits have NO demonstrable effect on causing diabetes or other insulin or blood sugar problems. Now if you JUICED 20 carrots a day, you’d spike your blood sugar. Eating the whole carrot, you’ll never overdose!
Great progress, Jeane!
Robyn