Excalibur Dehydrator

Sprouting (and dehydrating) is very frankly the most sophisticated nutrition principle I teach. For newbies, I start with lower level things: getting more fruits and vegetables in the diet, and eating whole grains, for instance. Most Americans are not prepared for the idea of sprouting and live foods. Some of my readers are so ambitious that they go ALL OUT and within weeks of leaving a processed diet, they’re already sprouting.

Others of you have been doing the first few steps in 12 Steps to Whole Foods . . . and you feel you’re in strange territory, but you’re ready to try sprouting.

If that’s you, ask for an Excalibur 3000 series dehydrator and start making sprouting and drying live snack foods from Chapter 7 (or the Crunchy Snacks recipe collection):

Excalibur Dehydrator

Here’s one of my favorite recipes for using the dehydrator to get LIVE flaxseed in your mostly raw diet. These crackers are easy to make, yummy, and filling. Remember with dehydrated raw foods to always drink alkaline water with them. (Otherwise they aggressively soak up all the liquids in your digestive tract, like stomach acids.)

Flax Seeds for Excalibur Dehydrator when cooking raw food with alkaline  water

Flaxseeds before harvest. Sprout them and use the dehydrator to preserve your live, raw food.

Flax-Veggie Crackers

Soak in 4 cups water for several hours:
3 cups flax seeds (1/2 brown, 1/2 golden)
1 cup raw sunflower seeds

Shred in food processor, or very finely dice
1 red bell pepper
2 carrots

Puree in the best belnder for a raw diet, Blend Tec or VitaMix:
4 tomatoes
2 stalks celery
4 cloves garlic
1/3 cup nama shoyu
1 tsp. sea salt
1 Tbsp. chili powder

Mix all all three mixtures together well, by hand, and spread on plastic dehydrator sheets, about 1/4 thick. Cut into cracker shapes and dehydrate at 105 degrees until crackers are dry on top, about 24 hours. Turn over, take off teflex sheets, and finish drying until crackers are crispy.

Tip: We like to eat these plain, but we also often put slices of avocado on top.