A simple tasty nutritious snack! Just mix and enjoy!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup whole plain yogurt (get the one with the highest fat, why?)
- 1 tsp cinnamon powder (one powerful spice, why?)
- 1 tbsp raw honey
- 1 tsp bee pollen (superfood! click to know more!)
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Herbal Tea
Talking about healthy drink, of course I have to mention about our tea: Rise and Shine Tea, Sleepy Time Tea and Red Raspberry Tea, click to know about their benefits!
Simply add in 1 to 2 tsps of the premixed herbs in an infuser/tea ball to 1 cup of hot water. And let it steep for 6 to 10 mins. You can always add in some raw honey and milk to enhance the taste! However, remember not to add honey while the tea is too hot, as too much heat can destroy its antibacterial properties. Our children love the tea as much as we do!
Food Poisoning
On Feb 18 the family day, we had a pot luck with a few families. We had a good time! Just that starting the next day, each of us started to throw up! After throwing up once, we started to have diarrhea! Thanks God that whatever it was, the dairrhea only last 2 days in our family! We used slippery elm to help us at that time. It’s a wonderful herb to help us heal faster, pull poisons out of our body through the bowel, heal the intestinal tract lining…etc. It’s nutritious and safe for babies too!
Since what we have is in powder form, we mix it with hot milk and add some honey to it. For Shoshana the baby (8 months, too young for honey and cow’s milk), I mix it with a tiny bit of molases and water. She loved it!
Ear infections? Get a Garlic!
During the weeks that cold/flu was circulating in our house that I mentioned in my last post of 'Remedies', Sonia (age 3) complained that she had great pain in her ear one day. I immediately suspected that she had ear infection. I peeled a fresh clove of garlic and cut it in half, put it in the outer part of her ear and taped it in place. I explained to her that this garlic will make her pain go away. She understood and did a good job waiting! It sounds weird, but after maybe 3 hrs, the pain is totally gone!! That night, she complained that her other ear was very painful. I did the same thing and she went to sleep. The pain was totally gone in the next morning!
Apple Cider Vinegar Drink
Fruit juices of any kind are not good for us and our children. Mix some healthy drinks yourself!
Ingredients:
- 1 cup    filtered water
- 1tbsp   organic apple cider vinegar
- 1tbsp   raw honey
Mash Sweet Potatoes
Sweet potatoes and potatoes skin are very nutritious. Buy organic and so you can eat them! Â
Ingredients:
- organic sweet potatoes
- organic potatoes
- cottage cheese (avoid low fat)
- whole milk
- unsalted cultured butter
- minced garlic (optional)
Wash and scrub the sweet potatoes and potatoes well. Steam them with skin until soft. Put them in a large bowl along with other ingredients. Mash them well.
Almond Rice Cake
Ingredients:Â
- 400g           sweet rice flour (glutinous rice flour)     Â
- 3/4 cup      olive oil or melted butter
- 3Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â eggs
- 2 1/2 cup   whole milk
- 1 1/4 cup   unrefined sugar
- 1 tbsp         baking powder
- 1/2 cup      sliced almonds
Put all the ingredients except sliced almonds into a large bowl and mix well with a mixer. Pour the batter ito a greased 9″x13″ baking pan. Spread the sliced almonds on top. Bake at 350 degrees for 50 mins.
Saturated Fats Are GOOD For Us!!
Don’t avoid them! Do you know in artery clogs, only 26% is saturated fats, and the rest is all unsaturated fats(more than half is polysaturated)??
Saturated Fats are good for us in many ways:
- at least 50 % of our cell membranes is saturated fatty acids
- in order to let calcium to incorporated into our bones, saturated fats have to be more than half of all our dietary fats
- they lower Lp(a), which links to heart disease
- protect the liver from alcohol and other toxins
- enhance our immune system
- help utilize essential fatty acids
- our hearts needs saturated fats in times of stress
- protect us against harmful microorganisms in the digestive tract
WOW!! Therefore, you don’t need to think twice before good quality real butter, JUST EAT IT!
Fats
Fatty acids are classified into saturated, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated, according to their carbon and hydrogen atoms arrangements.
Fatty acids are also classified into short-chain, medium-chain, long-chain and very-long-chain according to their length.
Saturated fats are highly stable, do not go rancid. Therefore, it can be heated. Found normally in animal fats and tropical oils. Our body also make them from carbohydrates.
Monounsaturated fats are stable. Do not go rancid easily, can be heated also. Main component of olive oil. Can also be found in the oils from almonds, pecans, cashews, peanuts and avocados. Our body also make them from saturated fats.
Polyunsaturated fats are highly reactive, go rancid easily. These oils cannot be heated. Two common examples are omega-6 and omega-3. Our body cannot make them so they are called essential fatty acids (EFA).
Short-chain fats are always saturated. Mostly found in butterfats from cows and goats. They have antimicrobial properties. And they will be directly absorbed for quick energy. They also make our immune system healthy.
Medium-chain fats are found mostly in butterfat and tropical oils. Same benifits as short-chain fats.
Long-chain fats are stearic acid (found in beef and mutton tallows), oleic acid (main component of olive oil), palmitoleic acid (has strong antimicrobial properties, found in animal fats), gamma-linolenic acid (GLA, found in evening primrose, borage and black currant oils, contribute to regulating many processes at the cellular level.), and also omega-3 ad omega-6.
Very-long-chain fats are found in organ meats, egg yolks, butter and fish oils. The most important ones are DGLA, AA, EPA and DHA. AA and DHA contibute to the function of the nervous system. DGLA, AA and EPA contribute to regulating many processes at the cellular level.
Resources :: “Nourishing Traditions“
You know what? SOAK your nuts too!!
Nuts are good nutritious snack. However, nuts contain enzyme inhibitors that can put stress on our digestive system. To make it easier to digest and their nutrients more available, we soak our almonds, pecans, walnuts, peanuts and pine nuts in salty water for at least 7 hours. For cashews, soak no more than 6 hours. Use raw nuts of course.
After draining, we put the nuts in a warm oven less than 150 degrees for around 16-24 hrs or until dry and crispy. Turn occasionally. U know…..the resulting crispy nuts are just soooooo yummy that I wouldn’t mind the work at all!