Agave Nectar Source
I have changed to using only agave nectar for sweetner in our foods. I have only found it available locally in small size containers. It is unreasonably expensive that way… not to mention that I seem to run out frequently. It takes 2 containers just to make one recipe of Almond Joy! I saw you [...]
9 Comments • Continue Reading →healthy options eating out
Dear GreenSmoothieGirl: I know you make a green smoothie and take it to work in a quart jar. But what about when you get up late, don’t have time, and you’re out in town and STARVING? What do you eat? Answer: Here, locally (Utah County), my favorite thing to do is [...]
11 Comments • Continue Reading →defending that my diet’s not all raw
I read the raw foodists all the time (Patenaude, Wolfe, Boutenko, and lots more). I think their diet is fantastic. Sometimes I go all raw, for a few days, weeks, or even months. I wouldn’t criticize anybody for a minute who wants to do it permanently, as some of my friends do–they [...]
40 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 →High-nutrition items’ price points . . . part 1 of 2
I’ve been asked for a list of prices I pay for high-nutrition items you will want to buy regularly if you’re maximizing fresh produce and whole plant foods in your diet. These are my “staples” that you’ll notice are rather different from what’s in most pantries (or long-term food storage). Buying agave or [...]
7 Comments • Continue Reading →What do YOU spend on groceries?
I have wondered this for years and was so interested and enlightened to learn, on a Yahoo group I belong to, what others spend on groceries in a month. Only a handful answered the question, but the answers ranged widely, from $1,000/mo. for a family of 4, to $400/mo. for a family of 7. [...]
32 Comments • Continue Reading →High-nutrition food storage
People in my community are dedicated to storing a year’s supply of food (myself included), and we are blessed to have many preparedness experts around us. I struggled for years to achieve a food supply that we would actually eat, that wouldn’t go to waste because it’s so nutritionally inferior or has such a short [...]
8 Comments • Continue Reading →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 [...]
Leave a comment • Continue Reading →Who you gonna call: Part V Really expensive candy that won’t make you healthy
Moving on to the Xocai chocolate people: they have a great sales pitch! They show the ORAC score of cacao (chocolate), and it’s way impressive. Right up there with goji berries. I like to use a little raw cacao for that very reason, in my recipes. But, my friends . . . [...]
10 Comments • Continue Reading →raw sweet potatoes and Jamaican cheese
Costco has the coolest new item in produce: raw sweet-potatos, peeled and cut in sticks. Sweet potatoes are something you may not have eaten RAW before, but they’re crunchy, mild, and best of all, one of just a handful of foods that have all of the eight amino acids your body cannot manufacture on [...]
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