recipe for you! my favorite salad and dressing
NOTE: If you read this when I first posted it—I typed in the wrong dressing recipe, oops! Please see changes below. We could use a breather from the heavy topic of toxic dental practices! Here’s my favorite salad recipe, always a hit whenever I make it for my family or others. A big helping is [...]
18 Comments • Continue Reading →I need to gain some weight! Part 2 of 3
But some of the uber-thin are actually not digesting food and are quite unhealthy. They might be eating as much junk as the overweight people are, but because of chronic gut issues, they are not absorbing nutrition—not even calories, but certainly not minerals and many vitamins as well. Last week after a tennis match, both [...]
4 Comments • Continue Reading →Extra Group Buy Items Available in the Phoenix Area
My name is Shanna Anderson and I live in the Phoenix area. I received an extra large shipment of group buy items and have extras that I can now break down into smaller orders (for those who did not want 25# of something). Here is what I have left as of 12-22-09: Olive Oil: Extra [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →EVOO in Dark Bottles
Is it true that it’s best to by Extra Virgin Olive Oil in dark bottles. I was taught that Olive Oil becomes carcinogenic otherwise. Is this true?
1 Comment • Continue Reading →How much fat should I eat?
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: How much fats do you take in a day? From what I gathered from your book, it looks something like: 1 tablespoon flax oil in green smoothie, 2 tablespoons coconut oil on lips and skin, a handful of nut and seeds for snacks in the afternoon. Am I right? I [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →Reflecting on nutrition, food storage, and hard economic times
What a year this has been. The much-predicted failure of American investment banking has come to pass, our nation’s net worth has plummeted precipitously, and we’ve started into what promises to be a long recession. I just came across this quote by a wise man named Joseph Smith, from 175 years ago: “Our [...]
26 Comments • Continue Reading →What did you make, when did you eat it, and where?
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl, what do you eat in a day? Not only what did you eat, but WHERE were you when you ate it (soccer field, etc.), and when did you make it, etc.? Answer: I logged three weekdays in a row, just for you. (I think this question was a nice [...]
22 Comments • Continue Reading →Good/Better/Best: oils and pastas
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: What are the good oils, and what are the bad ones? And how about pasta? Answer: Worst oils: shortening, lard, margarine. Also refined canola, safflower, vegetable, soy, peanut, corn oils. Good oils: unrefined almond, borage, evening primrose, cod liver, butter (in small amounts) Better oils: coconut, flaxseed, palm, extra virgin [...]
3 Comments • Continue Reading →High-nutrition items’ price points . . . part 2 of 2
THINGS I BUY AT COSTCO: $25.50 olive oil (two 2-ltr. Bottles) or $13 for 1.5 ltr. bottle of organic $11 34-oz. balsamic vinegar $7.50 for two jars of 28-oz. natural, organic peanut butter $5.70 giant box of Grape Nuts (64 oz.) (for emergency or traveling breakfasts) THINGS I BUY OTHER PLACES: [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →sprouted quinoa salad recipe
A few days ago, I referenced a sprouted quinoa salad I made that my family loved, which I’ve typed for you here. Our next chapter is PLANT-BASED MAIN DISHES . . . to be released June 1 to the January 12 Steps subscribers. And in it, I introduce you to quinoa (pronounced keen-wah), one of [...]
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