Robyn’s Blog
What are phytates and how do I avoid them?
Getting off refined grain products and onto whole grains is a great thing to do! But some of you have been scared silly by Sally Fallon’s book Nourishing Traditions, regarding phytates. I hope you’ll feel a bit more peaceful on that topic after reading this three-part blog. Phytates are a natural, acidic chemical compounds [...]
pink hummus quesadillas . . . yum!
My friend Cheryl was all excited the other day about this recipe she made up. I played with it some because it had no measurements, made the hummus sprouted/live, and my family loves it–enjoy! Pink Hummus Quesadillas If you fry these until barely crispy on both sides, the live, sprouted nutrition [...]
cheap nutrition
Q: Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, I work crazy hours and am rarely home to make myself good food. Can you recommend anything to make and eat quickly that is really healthy? A: Yes. Of course I recommend green smoothies, because they are quick to make, and you can put them in the fridge for up to two [...]
More Winter Produce
I had a similar experience. This picture was taken 3/2/06. I covered up my strawberry plants for the winter. When I uncovered them, I found a couple of heads of green leaf lettuce. I had grown lettuce in this bed the year before and it obviously reseeded! It was the [...]
blooming garden in the dead of winter
After DH built me some winter garden boxes (removable, on top of my square foot boxes), I planted them with onions and chard and spinach last fall. I meant to go out and water them, but, well . . . it’s been a bitter winter here in Utah. I’m kind of lazy and [...]
Costco Nazi: no sweet potatoes for you!
Today I made my weekly produce pilgrimage to Costco. I don’t even really like sweet potato, generally, but I LOVE the healthy sweet potato fries that we’ve come up with, gsg.com readers and I, served on a bed of cooked quinoa. It’s a 10-minute dinner. I’d ordered 50 lbs. of [...]
cardiovascular health: nature vs. nurture
I went to give blood today, hoping that my always-borderline hematocrit was high enough. It was. Though one point lower and I’d have been rejected–again. Like most other things the RDA does, those hematocrit averages aren’t based on the ideal, but rather the average. The averages are, of course, of a [...]
a bodybuilder who “gets it!”
I leveraged some of this from a blog by Jason Ferruggia, one of the few bodybuilders who actually knows better than to drink whey protein shakes:Many of you know that dairy is not good for getting lean, and that consumption of dairy products has been linked to a decreased immune response. Most of us [...]
sweet potato fries
So I wrote recently about the fabulous raw sweet potato spears you can get at Costo now! And even though I rolled my eyes at the lady on the way out of the store who told me to DEEP FRY THEM, it did give me an idea. I put ¼ cup of coconut [...]
storing GS in the fridge and vegetarians in rotten health
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, how long can you keep your green smoothie in the fridge? I’m single and don’t want to make it every day. Does it lose nutrition and therefore is it pointless to store it? Answer: You can keep in in the fridge, at the most, for 48 hours. After that it [...]