raw food: here’s what’s in my dehydrator right now
You know I love my dehydrator, especially this time of year when I’ve got so much stuff coming out of the garden that I don’t want to go to waste. Right now I have all 9 trays full in my dehydrator with two recipes contributed by readers. (I love y’all! Thanks for your ideas and [...]
25 Comments • Continue Reading →Kicking off group buy now! raw almonds, nuts, seeds, agave, honey, coconut oil, more
Thank you so much for your patience as we put the ordering process together . . . we are excited to announce that we’re finally able to take orders in this year’s group buy: https://gsmg.infusionsoft.com/cart/store.jsp?view=1&i=3&navicat=3 The most important part of our buy is raw almonds because they simply aren’t available anywhere else. They are a [...]
47 Comments • Continue Reading →raw food diet: isn’t steaming good? and, my kids come back sick
Update: Yep.All four of my kids puked their guts up at their dad’s family reunion.Just like always.Poor little guys. (Well, one of them is 6’2″, not that little, huh?)Back to the green smoothie diet!So happy to have my kids back.It’s my job to help them recover. My daughters come back from an extended period away, [...]
20 Comments • Continue Reading →easy kale or collard “chips” you can make in your dehydrator
GreenSmoothieGirl.com reader Tonya C. donated a recipe for yummy “chips” (I call them “crisps” because they’re really light and airy) made in the dehydrator. I have significantly altered the recipe. Brewer’s Yeast is a good way for vegans to obtain Vitamin B12. Cheesy Kale/Collard Crisps 1/3 cup cashews, soaked 1-2 hours (optionally) 2 Tbsp. lemon [...]
16 Comments • Continue Reading →dehydrator recipe . . . part 3 of 3
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 [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →benefits of drying food . . . part 2 of 3
So what are the benefits of drying food? Pressure cooking preserves food, too, but kills all the enzymes at 240 degrees. Canning also destroys water soluble vitamins. Freezing is the other best way to keep your fruit and vegetables, but nutrients are lost over time, and most people just can’t keep much [...]
6 Comments • Continue Reading →the best food dehydrator on the market . . . part 1 of 3
Today I’m telling you about one of my favorite tools for incorporating fantastic plant-food nutrition into your diet. This is my favorite appliance, second only to the BlendTec Total Blender. It’s the Excalibur dehydrator, my “oven,” the best rated food dehydrator in the world. See if the person who loves you most [...]
22 Comments • Continue Reading →Dehydrators
I am just learning how to do this BLOG thing. It is cool. Comments are easy but when you have a question or topic that is not up yet it is different. My question got placed under another topic so I am doing it here to see if more of you will have some input [...]
2 Comments • Continue Reading →on dehydrators, from an eater of Cheetos and Sweetarts
My good friend Michelle loves the Atkins Diet (has adopted it as an apparently permanent lifestyle, in fact). She in no way embraces (or even acknowledges the benefits of) my lifestyle. But I did convince her that she needs a dehydrator so she can soak/germinate her raw almonds that she just got in [...]
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