“Dear GreenSmoothieGirl” for Arizona, part 1 of 4
One of my favorite things about traveling to a new city on my speaking tour is meeting names I’ve been seeing since GSG was a brand new site. And meeting volunteers who come help us at the classes. Jenny and Tosh Black. Tawnya and Chad Hood. Jeannie Kirkpatrick. Shanna Anderson. Thank you all for coming, [...]
14 Comments • Continue Reading →What can I use to replace MILK?
Newbies ask me this question all the time when they learn that milk, contrary to the $50 million advertising budget of the Dairy Council, isn’t a good food for humans. It’s not even a particularly useable form of calcium (unless you’re a baby cow). Plus it’s mucous forming, and when your body is battling mucous [...]
17 Comments • Continue Reading →FROZEN DESSERTS
These days, there’s no excuse to not eat healthy! You can get virtually ANYTHING you like in the junk-food world, in a vastly more nutritious version. You just have to know where to look! I’m not a big ice cream eater, but I was in my 20′s. I wish I’d known this stuff before I [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →sugar replacement: possibly the best solution
You know I recommend only sparing use of any concentrated sweeteners. A while ago, I posted a recipe featuring COCONUT SUGAR. I’d been given a sample of it, and I was enjoying substituting it for Sucanat (my previous “standby” for baked goods). I didn’t realize how hard to find it was until y’all wrote me [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →what I do every day, in my family
In a couple of interviews I’ve done for people lately, I’ve been asked, “What do you do in your family to ensure a healthy diet with lots of enzymes and nutrition?” I find myself thinking, “Really, you want that in a 30-second sound byte?” I mean, everything I do is about that. I’ve written whole [...]
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First-ever Green Smoothie Girl franchises now open! Coupon here.
Holly is this gorgeous raven-haired woman I met at my Spanish Fork class a few months ago. She came up to me afterward and said, “We want to be your first franchisees.” So . . . drum roll please . . . you can now buy your daily quart of green smoothies, 15 servings of [...]
65 Comments • Continue Reading →How to become a VEGETABLE ADDICT
You want to get your whole family addicted to raw vegetables? Even kids? I’ve got the secret key to that! Check out this video I did with Doug Holmes: You’re going to have a tough time shifting to a mostly plant-based diet unless you learn to make lots of salads you love. (Step 2 of [...]
49 Comments • Continue Reading →$5 organic meal tonight in Orem
You know I love Jacob’s Cove, my friend Dale Allred’s new local year-round organic farm. Quite a few of my readers bought shares in his CSA, now supplying Pizzeria Seven Twelve, as well as the new La Jolla Gardens. Here’s a link about tonight’s dinner by Pizzeria Seven Twelve at Jacob’s Cove using their produce–it’s [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Effects of alkaline water for a GSG reader
Jenni forwarded me this email from GSG reader Linda who participated in one of our ionizer group buys. Jenni is my customer support lead, a GSG reader I met at Costco 2 years ago. She is thinking about getting a machine in her home in the current group buy, so I think she asked Linda, [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →Consumer Reports on protein powders
Check out this Consumer Reports review of protein powders. I’ve said for a long time that 99 percent of them are anywhere from difficult to digest, to toxic. Here’s proof: http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2010/july/food/protein-drinks/overview/index.htm If you feel you need extra protein, hopefully you’ve been disabused of the idea that you have to eat lots of animal flesh to [...]
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