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Homemade Tea  to Replace Commercial Teas with Pesticides

3/26/2018

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Tea Bags are for Sissies!  

Get Creative with your teas.  
Make themas interesting as you like 
​and maybe healthier.  


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We now know that commercial tea bags can be laden with pesticides.  The best way to be sure your commercial tea choices are free of toxicity is to buy organics, but organics can be an expensive pot of tea .  The fix is pretty easy once you get past the notion that homemade tea is a bit different.  The good news is that the difference can be delicious and nutrient packed.

Almost anything edible, pesticide-free and organic from your yard or kitchen can become tea.  Why limit yourself to a teabag and someone else's imagination.  The potential is endless and fun to create.   

A favorite of mine is to use citrus as a base.  A home crop of tangerines, oranges or lemons can last a till next season if you take the time to dry the peel and jar them.  Mix them with cinnamon, clove or star anise for a really interesting start. You can off set the base with an organic tea bag for deeper flavor.  Making a full pot leaves extra to drink at room temperature or cold.  Kids just know it as a drink that tastes good and they love creating it.

Just boil some of your favorite bits into combinations or steep to find the right flavors for you.  Consider choices like
​dried orange, lemon or lime peel, fresh citrus, fresh or dried fruit, hibiscus flowers, passion fruit, green onion, clove, ginger, cinnamon, star anise for a licorice flavor, guava skins, bay leaves, rosemary and dandelion.  All of your ingredients will have nutrients that your body can use while your cost can be close to zero.

Note:  You can freeze fruits and bits or dry them.  If you have a crop of too much citrus, you can actually put the entire fruit, whole in the freezer and bring it out when you are ready to juice it or make tea.

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Stevia Adulterated with Additives

3/15/2018

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Stevia was the perfect gift from nature
for those willing to give up sugar.  
It's pure, 100% natural and has no reported ill affects to health.  

Why then are manufacturers adding ingredients
​that cause damage to the body?

Just because the package is green does not make it stevia.

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Stevia is a plant by the same name.  Its sweetness is about 200 times that of sugar and so, only takes a tiny bit to sweeten.  There are no reported connections to cancer or diabetes, yet manufacturers found a way to package problems for your body under the promise of offering you the safety of stevia.  

You must read every label now to find out what exactly in the product packaged to look like stevia.  Without a doubt, if you are using an individual serving package the sweetener has been extended with something.  Pure stevia in that quantity would overpower any single use.

There are many products being used as extenders to create a teaspoon serving and to lower production costs.  Most of these are things you would rather keep out of your body.  Many are corn products that are produced from GMO crops which bring another set of issues to the unsuspecting user.  Some of these products include:
  • Lactose is a very common extender with the added side effects of inflammation and chemicals from cows fed GMO crops and treated with antibiotics.
  • Dextrose is a simple sugar that is usually a GMO corn product.  Look for it in ordinary table salt too.
  • Fructose is insulin resistant and is known to cause obesity and hypertension.
  • Erythritol can occur naturally in foods, but is a manufactured sugar alcohol causing gas, bloat, diarrhea and is also a GMO corn product.
  • Maltodextrin promotes the growth of candida in the gut with symptoms that mimic IBS, flu, chronic pain and fibromyalgia.

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Peanut Butter Pie, the Probiotic Version

3/8/2018

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Probiotics and
Protein
​in a Power Packed Pie


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I cannot be credited with this recipe, but I also do not know who to credit.  A quick video passed by me on the internet and I put the basic idea into this recipe.  The amounts are general and can be altered to your taste, but the effects are a brilliant source of probiotics and protein to feed your gut, fight candida, heal leaky gut and reduce body pain without even trying.   

The choice of nut can be altered with some slight variation to the outcome.  Almonds eaten in quantity can be inflammatory, which is important to know if you are attempting to reduce pain.  I’ve made this with walnuts and almonds, but many types of nuts can work.

Your choice of ingredients matters.  Yogurt must be free of added sugar and without carrageenan, which is a highly inflammatory additive used as a stabilizer.  Honey that is not raw, lacks the benefits that raw, unfiltered honey provides.  Peanut butter should be free of sugar and additives to avoid adding inflammation.  If you can buy non-GMO products you can limit the pesticides that travel with these crops and cause damage to the body.

You can also turn this recipe into a beautiful single serving dessert in lead-free wine glasses or parfait glasses.   Using leaded products will allow the lead to leach into your food, so avoid them at all cost since these need some resting time in the glass container.   

To make a parfait instead of a pie, layer about 2 inches of filling with about a 1/2 inch of crust material and repeat with   2-3 layers.  Chill.  These will last several days in the refrigerator.  


Recipe:

Crust
1 cup almonds  
1/3 cup raw, unfiltered honey
1 tbls. cocoa

Filling
1 cup peanut butter, crunchy or smooth
1 cup cultured plain yogurt
1/3 cup raw, unfiltered honey, optional

Grind almonds to rough stage in food processor.  Add honey and cocoa and grind to a smaller, uniform cut without grinding to the point of becoming butter.  Press this mixture into a pie pan.  If the mixture is dry you can add more honey.

Mix peanut butter with yogurt and honey and pour into crust.  Chill for several hours so crust and filling can join for serving.

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