Eating veggies raw keeps all the enzymes alive and raw cauliflower is actually much more potent than it looks. In fact natural practitioners say it’s a great blood and liver cleanser, and can help reduce your cholesterol.
The alicin promotes a healthy heart and reduces the risk of stroke
Glucosinates and thicynates help your liver neutralize toxic [...]
These brownies replace a large amount of the fat usually present from butter or shortening with whipped prunes. They still seem sinfully rich, and no one needs to know how you did it. In addition they use date sugar instead of brown sugar. Date sugar is actually not sugar at all but ground dates, unlike refined [...]
This is a refreshing summer salad and the freshness of the grapefruit keeps it light and appealing when someone doesn’t have much appetite. The grapefruit and the cranberries pack a vitamin C punch, and the Avocado is packed with vitamin A and Potassium as well as UN-saturated fat.
1 large grapefruit
1 Avocado
6 oz cooked chicken
2 Tbs [...]
Refreshsing and bold, this comes together quickly and
Serves 4
3 navel oranges
1 med. red onion
1 clove garlic
!/4 cup lemon juice
3/4 cup light olive oil
1/4 tsp. freshly ground cumin
pinch each, cayenne and paprika
salt and pepper to taste
4-6 cups washed and dried salad greens
Cut the peel from the oranges and slice into 1/4 inch rounds, reserving any juices [...]
Tags: orange
This is packed with nutrients and a good way to get some veggies into the pickiest eater. You can make this one with any mildly flavored vegetable. Cauliflower, zucchini, fresh fava beans all work well.
2 zucchini- chopped
3/4 cup raw tahini paste
1⁄2 cup fresh lemon juice
1/3 cup cold pressed olive oil
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tsp sea [...]
Thrush in the patient’s throat is one of the side effects of killing all the healthy flora in your body with chemicals. Keep a few of these in the refrigerator and let them melt in your mouth a few times a day. It can help remove that metallic taste in your mouth from the drugs [...]
Tags: chocolate, coconut oil, truffles
Refined sugar is the devil. There, I said it.
Date sugar on the other hand has a lovely “brown sugar” flavor and is digested more easily without the humongous gluccose spike you see with refined white sugar.
1/2 c vegetable shortening
1/2 c date sugar
1/4 c warm water
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 c Flour
1 c Organic rolled oats
1 tsp [...]
Tags: date sugar, oatmeal cookies
Oat milk is very creamy and the enzymes in the miso helps to liquefy the grain and also acts as a light sweetener as the mixture ferments slightly overnight. If you don’t add the miso it gets very glutinous and , to my mind, kind of nasty.
4 cups hot water
2 cups rolled oats
1 tsp vanilla
1 [...]
Tags: dairy substitutes, oat milk
I read a lot about so-called “Cancer fighting foods” and natural “cures” and lots of them were just plain silly, but the Budwig protocol stuck in my head.
According to Budwig “The formation of tumors usually happens as follows. In those body areas which normally host many growth processes, such as in the skin and membranes, [...]
Tags: budwig
This apple sauce is comforting and the fiber and pectin help sooth post chemo nausea. Cinnamon is also good for nausea or try it with some fresh ginger.
8 lg apples – peeled, cored and chopped
1 1/2 cups unsweetened organic apple juice
Pinch kosher salt
1 tablespoon agave nectar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
Put the chopped apples in a 2 qt. [...]
Tags: cinnamon apple sauce