hi I'm Robin
I'm the green smoothie girl and I'm here
today in my favorite health food store
the good earth there's five of them here
on the Wasatch Front where I live you
can find similar products wherever you
live in other health food stores I'm
here in the bulk foods I pretty much
live here these are some of the products
that I use all the time and I just want
to run through them really quickly first
of all we have two different kinds of
flaxseed that are pretty commonly
available the brown ones are the ones
you're probably most familiar with but
golden flax seeds have a different
flavor a little bit different
nutritional profile and kind of a more
buttery taste and I like to change it up
and use different ones raw sunflower
seeds and raw pumpkin seeds are a staple
in my house I use them in my granola
hopefully have my recipes in chapter 10
of 12 steps for sprouted live granola or
also a baked one I would highly
recommend you get raw sunflower seeds
over the their roasted and salted okay
always get the raw seed if you can and
then if you soak it overnight and you
dehydrate it you've got live sprouted
nutrition in your in your nuts and seeds
hemp seed is a really popular product
it's very high in protein it has tons of
amino acids and really
omega fatty acids I like it I think it's
pretty expensive relative to like flax
and Chia she is pretty expensive too but
you can use it in a variety of products
when you need a very small seed and kind
of a nutty crunchy texture spelt is kind
of like wheat but it's an ancient non
hybridized wheat so sometimes people who
have gluten intolerances do really well
with spelt the grain is larger we have
some can we have a pancake recipe I know
in Chapter ten using spelt that I love I
do keep spelt on him these are soft
white pastry wheat grains and you can
actually make a much softer pastry flour
if you're making cookies or cakes using
this this particular wheat berry there's
a big difference between that in the
hard winter wheat yellow cornmeal did
you know that you can make your own
cornmeal with regular yellow popcorn if
you've got a wheat grinder you can make
your own cornmeal but you can also buy
it here notice that there's a regular or
a conventional and an organic in a lot
of these products for me I decide to buy
organic if it's not more than 50% more
expensive than the other you need to set
your own price point based on your
tolerance and your your budget but
that's what I do so that I'm not in the
store agonizing over whether to buy
convention or whether to buy organic
here's chia seeds chia seeds are a
wonderful egg replacement one tablespoon
of chia and three tablespoons of water
replaces an egg you're trying to stay
away from animal products it's also
great if you like to eat late at night
and you can't stand going to bed hungry
eat a spoonful of chia and then drink a
big glass of water because it absorbs
ten times its own weight in water so
another
that's great to have on hand very
filling high in protein fantastic
mineral profile high in iron let's see
what else that we got here I try to not
use a lot of the exotic nuts like
macadamias and pine nuts in my recipes
they're wonderful are good nutrition
they're high in fat but they're very
expensive and I want you to stay on a
Whole Foods diet so I don't want to
bring you all the super expensive stuff
they're great for abroad desserts we've
got almonds here and cashews always have
those on hand to have lots of recipes
using those ingredients and also walnuts
sometimes you can buy things in bulk in
pieces like walnut pieces they're much
less expensive than regular walnuts and
you're gonna chop them anyway why not
and save some money okay so an hour on
to some things that we might think of as
grains that actually aren't grains those
of you who are dealing with gluten
intolerance or you just don't do well
with grains these are higher in protein
they have no gluten and they're a
wonderful substitute for lots of animal
products if you're trying to get on to
something that stands in for meat dishes
high in protein we have quinoa and red
quinoa and I have lots of recipes for
quinoa it's one of my favorite foods
it's so quick to prepare it takes like
10 minutes to cook is all it's very soft
kind of the nutty flavor and any
vegetables and any of my dressings in in
chapter 3 of 12 steps go great with
quinoa
you've got millet which is the only
grain that is alkaline we have a millet
porridge in chapter 10 I love to cook
it's also very quick to prepare and mild
in flavor
buckwheat this is the roasted buckwheat
that you make kasha cereal with which
you have a recipe for in the breakfast
chapter chapter 10 and then we've got
raw a buckwheat here which you can grind
and use in pancakes buckwheat pancakes
are fantastic and you can get it here
down here we have a lot of different
flours and while you're welcome to buy
flour if you don't have a wheat grinder
with any grain grinder and they put cost
you know 105
do $200 you can get these that will last
you years in your storage and then grind
them so that they don't go rancid
sometimes flowers especially like wheat
flour will go rancid in a matter of
weeks pearl barley or hold barley is a
more whole food product than the pearl
and yeah it's a great product to put in
soup use it like rice and again the more
variety you can get with all these
different whole foods the better and
outgrow it some people don't know what
this looks like but this is what it
looks like before they roll it then you
can soak this and we have a great
breakfast pudding recipe with soaked
sprouted oat groats more of my favorite
things here in bulk foods at the good
earth there's whole wheat couscous which
is a tiny little pasta it cooks in a
matter of minutes and I'll be very
familiar to you if you're transitioning
to whole foods all whole grain couscous
is a great place to start it doesn't
taste like you know a high fiber green
it's it's a step up from from white
pasta it's not as good as using the
actual whole-grain itself a lot of
different Rice's here the ones I
wouldn't use is sushi rice and white
rice
these are refined foods the brown Rice's
short grain brown rice long grain brown
basmati rice sweet brown rice it's kind
of my new favorite one it's so great in
breakfasts like we have a recipe in
chapter 4 fir for rice pudding and then
a wild rice blend has a great nutty
flavor to it these are regular rolled up
rolled oats please don't buy instant
oats instant rolled oats are actually a
processed food they've been cooked
already and dehydrated so get regular it
takes a little bit longer to cook that
it's worth it and just to branch out try
write flakes
it's just rolled dry berries and barley
flakes try that too as cereal just to
give yourself something
a different taste there's some
dehydrated soups here at my health food
store and I have used each of them and I
like them they make great kind of quick
dinners and they are made from the
whole-grain you can even make a natural
vegan burger by reconstituting this with
water this is a mineral rock salt that
is not refined xylitol is not my
favorite sweetener it is highly refined
this is sucanat it is a an improvement
on regular cane sugar because it is
evaporated cane juice I would not say on
a scale of 1 to 10 it's a 10 kind of a
product it's better than refined sugar
it's basically unrefined sugar high in
nutrients still a concentrated sweet you
still want to use it sparingly ok we've
also got a bunch of sprouted small beans
down here mung beans black soy beans and
regular soybeans adzuki and black kernel
you can sprout those these are for
pretty diehard nutrition freaks not many
people take those beans and put them in
salads but the nutrition is incredible
if you're willing to do it you just have
to sprout them for about two to three
days and just finishing up here in my
bulk food section of thickener dates are
a very major ingredient in some of my
sweet recipes and if you don't want to
spend like 325 a pound one thing you can
do is get chopped dates that are rolled
in oat flour and you're gonna cut the
price in half I use this in hot pink
breakfast smoothie it's also dates are
also a very high nutrition sweetener and
they are a full food unlike the
concentrated sweeteners then another
thing is my kids and I eat as treats
that we love is papaya spheres or dried
mango and if you can get kind with no
sugar added
and without sulfur so that's a little
tour of the bulk foods at the girth I
think you can find very similar things
at your health food store have fun with
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