Free Holiday Recipe Book

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Well, I’ve already conceded. This year is not going to allow enough time to get a Good for You-Naturally!™ ThanksGiving recipe book done and ready for you. But here’s another Holiday Recipe eBook you may want to check out. Its different than my recipe books, and may be quite different than what you are used to, but expand your horizons and take a peek. The recipes are beautiful and quite Good for You. AND it’s FREE!

29 pages, complete with photos, of Holidays Recipes from the Raw Gourmet, Nomi Shannon.

I have a couple of my recipes (both cooked traditional foods, but Good for You ingredients) posted from last year, and will at least try to get a couple more posted before Thanksgiving.

What’s your favorite holiday food? And how are you making it Good for You-Naturally!™?

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Ice Cream for Breakfast?

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strawberry-nicecreamNa. It’s Nice Cream! Made quick and easy from frozen bananas and strawberries in my Champion Juicer! Mm-Mm GOOD!


Psst! We’ve got a Special Holiday Offer on the Champion right now. Get yours today and start making not only great tasting and Good for You-Naturally!™ nice creams, but also real living food nutritional supplements (a.k.a. fresh raw fruit and vegetable juices) and so much more! This is the piece of kitchen equipment I say is far more important than a stove.

Sunny Spinach Salad – Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgThis is a great change of pace salad, and super simple to make. I served this salad at a church dinner recently, and was asked to post the recipe.

Lisa’s Sunny Spinach Salad

1 bunch of organic seedless red grapes (washed and de-stemmed)

2 small to med. organic oranges (peeled, sectioned, and cut in half)

1-2 large handfuls of organic baby spinach (washed and dried)

handful of organic raw almonds (whirred in the blender, into bits – don’t whir too long or you’ll have almond butter)

Toss together with Dressing. You may want to reserve a few almond bits to garnish the top.

Dressing:

1-2 Tbl. organic raw honey

1/3 c. organic extra virgin olive oil

fresh squeezed organic orange juice from 1/2 orange

fresh squeezed organic lemon juice from 1/2 lemon

1/2 tsp. organic celery seed (non-irradiated)

Shake well. Pour over Salad and Toss.

(This was enough dressing for my salad. If your salad is much larger, you may need to double dressing ingredients.)

New Freedom & Simplicity™ Guide

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Our newest Freedom & Simplicity™ guide is up and available! And just in time to go with our Holiday Special on the Champion Juicer! Drinking Your Vitamins! is a Freedom & Simplicity™ Guide to Juicing. Have you ever wondered why fresh fruit and vegetables juices? Why not just take vitamin supplements? What kind of juicer to buy? What to do when you can’t juice? Where you can find juice recipes?

These are all covered in this inexpensive, quick introduction to juicing.

Order yours today! Or get it FREE when you purchase the Champion Juicer, with our Special Holiday Pricing.

When the holidays get here, you’ll be glad you did.

Swine Flu again

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What’s your best defense against Swine (or any) flu or disease? My answer is always having a healthy/uncompromised immune system that can fight it off. That requires taking in the proper nutrients in a form easy to assimulate, and avoiding toxins/nutrient robbers.

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Sugar and caffeine are 2 of the worst (although certainly not the only) and should be completely avoided if you want to have a healthy immune system. (Alcohol, tobacco, and drugs – illegal or prescription – shouldn’t even have to be mentioned.) Other refined/chemically processed foods and additives, including colors, preservatives, and flavoring – including all the forms of MSG – should also be avoided. And even too many cooked foods, especially meats, can lead to a less than healthy immune system. Yep, if you want a healthy immune system and just health in general eat G.O.D. foods that are Good for You-Naturally!™

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Here’s a bit from a Dr. Mercola article last week.

So far we know that, of the 36 children who died from H1N1 between April and August of this year, 30 had some form of chronic health condition, and all of them had a co-occurring bacterial infection.

Clearly, having a robust, well-functioning immune system is the best way to ensure your body’s innate ability to fight off this mild flu virus, and not succumb to secondary infections such as staphylococcus aureus.

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Update: Also read this article and watch the video at Mercola’s site today, with Dr. Blaylock, neuro-surgeon and researcher.

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BPA – not the Biblical Principles kind

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from Dr. Mercola:

I’m sure you’ve heard a lot about Bisphenol-A, or BPA, if you’ve paid attention during the past year. It’s been getting a lot of press for good reason.

BPA is an estrogen-mimicking chemical, invented nearly 120 years ago, that is used to make hard plastics and epoxy resins. It can be found in numerous products that most people use on a daily basis, including baby bottles, canned foods, water bottles, and microwaveable plastic dishes and containers.

The Environmental Working Group has published an interesting review of BPA, showing the timeline of BPA’s use over the years. It offers a glimpse of the reality behind nearly all chemical dangers, showing just how long it can take to get something dangerous off the market, despite the evidence of harm.

Industry uses more than 6 billion pounds of BPA a year. As a result, scientists have found that 95 percent of people tested have dangerous levels of BPA in their bodies.

This is one valid reason why you should not tolerate the suggestion that “trace amounts” of toxins are okay.

The cumulative effect of being exposed to minuscule amounts of BPA from cans, bottles, plates and all other sources over the years can eventually spell serious trouble for your health.

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Sourdough’s a comin’!

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I am so excited about the new “from-scratch” homemade wild yeast sourdough starter I started. It worked!! A living bread starter is a-growin’ in my kitchen, that I started myself. It’s on Day 5 now and it looks great. I’ll be able to bake with it in a couple days and will try to remember to get a pic of what I make. The question will be, “Can it raise a bread?”

Sourdough Starter Day 5

Sourdough Starter Day 5

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The Rest of the Rest of the Story

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I’m still threatening to rename this blog “Never a Dull Moment”. Yesterday found us back in Urgent Care. This time with #2 son and a gash to his tongue. (Actually, I didn’t go. I’d seen it enough at home and I wasn’t relishing deja vu from when we took Eli in for the same thing a couple years ago.) Too bad we didn’t take #1 (at home) daughter in last week when she sliced part of her finger off. Then they’d have met every member of our family except youngest dd. :-/

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I will spare you the picture, but if you want to see it check my Facebook photos – in the mobile uploads album. He took the pic himself. (Not my FB friend? Request to friend me, just let me know you’re a reader of my blog.)

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That event made the rest of the week kind of pale in comparison. Well, except for the cause of the Urgent Care run – the 15-17″ of snow we got yesterday (and 1 other, noted below.) The boys shoveled our sidewalk and driveway, both parent’s, sister’s, and parent’s neighbor’s. They were pretty tired out. But sons were building a snow fort when the “mishap” happened.

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Do you see now why I just cook and take pics of food now – and do internet ministry? It is my peace in the midst of a storm. BTW, below is a pic of the Chicken Pizza I made last night. dd had put pheasant in the crock pot – but too late. #3 ds told me he wanted homemade pizza. I told him, “Tomorrow we will. Today we already have pheasant cooking.” Well …. pheasant didn’t get done, so I made the pizza. Was already planning to have a “meat” meal, and had cooked, shredded chicken in the freezer, so…

chickenpizza

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The happy event of the week was dd’s 18th birthday! Wow! Time does really fly. She was the blessed babe I held in my arms on the 1 week anniversary of her sister’s death. A true comfort.

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What’s next? Hoping for a peaceful Reformation Day today, and to write my newsletter this weekend. Then Monday it’s time to put together the syllabi and make the shopping list for the

Freedom & Simplicity™ of Good for You-Naturally!™ Seminar LIVE

Health through Nutrition from a Biblical Perspective

If you aren’t registered yet, TODAY is the deadline!

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Rest of the Story

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I’ve posted several food pics lately. Here are a few more that we made this week.

Daily Bread

Daily Bread

Carob Chip Cookies

Carob Chip Cookies

Dried Bananas

Dried Bananas

We’ve been drying a lot of bananas while they are 39¢ a pound. Our little monkeys can go through a whole lot fresh and a whole lot dried. I’ve bought 6 bunches 3 or 4 times this week. And will get more if the price is still down.

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Can you tell I’m working on my Freedom & Simplicity!™ recipe books and getting ready for my Good for You-Naturally!™ Seminar with all the food pics lately? I don’t generally think of photographing my food, but am trying to get in the habit. Other foods (with no pics of them) this week include my Spinach ‘n Fruit Salad (that I will post the recipe for next week,)  Pumpkin Bars, more NoKnead Breads, and our general fare – which is including several soups.

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UPDATE: Picture just for Christina. I’m so excited about it! My homemade wild yeast sourdough starter – day 3, already going good. Look at those bubbles!

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Confetti Quinoa – Friday Food

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fridayfood2.jpgQuinoa (keen-wa) is an awesome grain. It’s a whole grain, Good for You, and cooks in only 20 minutes (rather than the 1 hour plus of most other whole grains.) My children call it fish eye-balls because it is a small round grain that forms a little spiral when it cooks. For a quick, Good for You, wholegrain dish that tastes delish try:

Lisa’s Good for You-Naturally!™ Confetti Quinoa

I cook this in my Miracle brand electric stainless steel rice cooker. Other ways of cooking it may require different proportion of water. Most stovetop recipes say twice as much water as quinoa.

  • 4 c. quinoa, organic
  • 5 1/2 c. pure water
  • medium chopped onion (organic)
  • 2-3 stalks celery, chopped (organic)
  • a big squirt of Bragg’s Liquid Aminos

Takes approx. 15-20 min to cook. (only 2 minutes if you cook in a pressure cooker)

Steam 16 oz. frozen organic mixed vegetables (or a nice fresh mix, if you’re doing better than me today.) I use Cascadian Farms which has diced carrots, peas, and corn. (If you’re doing better than me today, you could also saute your onion and celery in a bit of extra virgin olive oil before adding to the quinoa.)

When both are finished, mix together and serve with a big leafy green salad. The 4 cups of dry grain makes more than enough for our family of 8. As our boys get older, we’re having to prepare bigger batches of everything.