Eat To Stay Healthy: What Do We Eat to Stay Healthy?

Eat To Stay Healthy: What Do We Eat to Stay Healthy?: Hello. I know it has been awhile since I posted.                                                   The garden is growing well. Somethings,...

What Do We Eat to Stay Healthy?

Hello. I know it has been awhile since I posted.                                                  

The garden is growing well. Somethings, like the bush beans , not so well. I think the birds got the seeds.

Here are my thoughts on what we should eat to stay healthy. I hope you find it useful and doable for you and your families.


My personal opinion is that what we eat should have a few basic requirements: it should be natural,it should taste good, and the food we eat should cause no harm. This seems so basic I can not believe that we have a "movement" to teach this. That as a people we have strayed so far from what is real. There is no doubt in my mind that as a people we will shift from the fake nature of what we eat now, to the whole, healthy food that our bodies are created to eat.

You may be thinking "I eat natural food. It says so on the box". By natural I mean it comes from the earth. The food is supplied it's nutrients from the sun, soil, and water. The food grows in the sun, changes colors due to the sun. If it is animal it gets to eat grass and roam freely and be treated humanly.  Natural is what God gave us. If it comes in a box it is not natural.  Grains and cereals have all been processed at a food manufacturing plant of some sort. Wouldn't we have more peace of mind knowing what has been done to our food and where it comes from? For example, we can grind our own wheat berries in a Vita-mix in order to have our own wheat flour. There are a few farmers who are mindful of the importance of growing heirloom wheat (I think they are on to something big). Now , that is  natural. "Natural " does not always mean good for you either. Lets take for example peanut butter. The leading brands may contain peanuts, palm oil,sugar and some even put in "natural flavoring" (aka msg). Peanut butter only needs peanuts . Sugar is "natural" , but not good for you , not necessary, and is highly processed. Palm oil and "natural flavoring"  .... need I say more? I make my own peanut butter at home with nothing but peanuts. It is made in small batches and put in glass jars. If someone wants it sweetened they can put agave or raw honey on it.Side note; Do not add the agave or honey to the entire batch while blending because it will become very solid which is not good to spreading. My homemade peanut butter does not separate like the natural peanut butter from the grocery store does. Maybe it gets ate so fast it does not have time to separate. My thought is that the natural peanut butter from the market may have been heated-up (pasteurized)  or has been sitting somewhere a long time. The shelf life for peanuts is about nine months when refrigerated . who knows  what the shelf life for peanut butter is when bought from the store. I know , I know, I have too much to say about peanut butter (its my favorite food !). One last word on peanut butter. Skippy, Jiff, and the supermarket brands are very , very unhealthy. Do not eat them. They contain trans fat. The front label may say no trans fat but please, please read the label it will have hydrogenated oil (anything hydrogenated is trans-fat).

If our food is not pleasing to our taste buds or our sense of smell , or sense of sight, we will not eat it. Everyone knows this. Eating to stay healthy does not mean we have to eat bland, boring, colorless meals.  We have, inadvertently,been  brainwashed and artificially bambuzzeled   into thinking so though. Tomatoes from the garden are the best tasting food ever know to man (totally this bloggers opinion ). They are also the basis for many dishes and come the winter time it is absolutely sublime to have them canned, in the pantry, to use for homemade tomato soup , to add to chili, or make a tomato sauce with. A beautiful salad of zucchini, tomato, fresh basil , yellow pear tomato, olives, and a cheese can be served for an awesome meal.

Is the food we are eating harming us? I think so. Natural food comes from the soil. If it has not touched soil or been nourished from the earth it can not be natural. Natural has not been taking steroid growth hormones. Nor is it a GMO. I do not want to eat Round-up , which is grafted into crops, mostly corn and soybeans, to make them disease resistant (YUCK!) There is a head of broccoli in my refrigerator that is over a month old. It has not changed much...at all. If the broccoli that I grow in my own garden was in the refrigerator that long is would be shriveled- up to nothing by now. (see pictures) It may even have mold on it. That would be natural.

What is needed by each individual person in regards to daily diet varies person to person. We each require something different at different times of our lives as well. That being said, what ever and when ever we eat , it should be the most naturally, nutritious, great tasting food we can (grow your own) get a hold of in order to stay healthy, happy and in harmony with our lives and those around us.

Peace and Love,                                                          

Dahnee

please visit this link to read about the dangers of hydrogenated oil/trans fat                                                                                

: http://www.dldewey.com/hydroil.html

Eat To Stay Healthy: New Ideas on Healthy Food

Eat To Stay Healthy: New Ideas on Healthy Food: Eating to stay healthy is not something we can do overnight. After a lifetime of eating on the fly, not eating at all, or eating very little...

New Ideas on Healthy Food

Eating to stay healthy is not something we can do overnight. After a lifetime of eating on the fly, not eating at all, or eating very little, it is hard to change what we know. Even if we know it is the right thing to do we still fight ourselves over doing it. To make matters even harder we are bombarded with all types of thought on what is the proper diet for today's human body. Some ideas are just nutty in my opinion. Some ideas on diet are awesome, they make good sense. The problem is they are not economically feasible for most of us. Some ideas  on nutritionally sound eating are so new and different that is will take a while to resonate with us. That is ok though, all good things come in time. So far in this journey that I have taken I choose to keep it simple . No processed food, no fake food, no fast food. I try to buy fresh food. My garden has supplied a lot of food for my family this winter. Yes , some foods we do with out. We do not buy tomatoes this time of year. In summer , when tomatoes are ripe we will have tomatoes from the garden. That is one example of how my eating habits have changed. I would like for everyone to read the following that I took from the Planet Raw web page.  Its an idea that may be new to you, it was for me. Not sure what to make of it, it will have to resonate with me for sure...I love beans and navel oranges.  

STARCHES - We do not use fillers, such as canned food, corn, rice, grain, gluten, seedless fruit, GMO's, Navel oranges, beans, carrots, bananas, dates, potatoes, pineapples, oats, cane, and kiwis, all of which are classified as Disaccharides (starchy, double bonded sugar molecule foods, genetically engineered and over hybridized, all of which impair cell rejuvenation and cause a serious strain to the endocrine system).

Planet RAW uses only fruits, vegetables, roots, leaves, nuts, seeds .

WHAT ABOUT PROTEIN? RAW foods contain all the protein your body needs. Here's the simple truth: Your body makes electricity, acid, adrenalin, serotonin & many other chemicals... hair, skin, blood, nails, bones and even protein & calcium. Everything you are made of is protein instructed by DNA to become part of an organ or bone! Your body requires food to do so; good food for good long-term use; bad (or junk) food for bad short-term use. Ask an elephant, zebra, horse, rhino, ox, bull, gorilla or giraffe how many protein shakes they've had since the beginning of time. The Brachiosaurus, weighing 200 tons, thrived on a plant-based diet. In the wild, meat-eating lions sleep 18 hours a day & live for only 18 years. Plant-eating elephants live 70 years, sleeping only 4–6 hours. The countries with the highest consumption of protein actually have the highest rates of sickness, osteoporosis & protein deficiency! Deficiency in the body usually does not stem from what is lacking, but stems from what is consumed, such as cooked, processed food!

We truly are what we eat. Let us eat what we cook and cook what we grow

Peace and Love , 

Dahnee  

Are you thinking your soil is not up to par

The very availability of packaged soil has set-up impossibly high standards of soil quality for the home gardener. Like an airbrushed centerfold, the stuff just isn't for real. Real soil is like a real woman; a little lumpy in places , with an occasional obstinate boulder or two...and more flinty minerals than fluffy additives

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Just keepin it real

Dahnee

What is Eating Healthy?

Hello everyone.

We are very fortunate to have such amazing weather. Hope you are moving your body!

This photo is an example of raised beds and one way they can be built. There are so many ways to make raised beds. This is at the Dansko office. Nice.

Broccoli is sill coming out of my garden. What do I do with it all ? Glad you asked because I really like to talk about food and gardens.

I have made some awesome Broccoli Cheese soup in the Vitamix :
           Lightly steam the Broccoli
           put in the vitamix the Broccoli and either cream, milk, broth, water. It is all about what you have on
           hand and your taste.
           If there are 2 cups of the Broccoli start with 1/2 to 3/4 cup of liquid. This will also depend on how
           thick or thin you would like your soup to be.
           Turn on to level 10 for about 6 min.
           Take off the middle cap and add your cheese . I use 1 cup extra sharp cheedar
           Let this stay on for 30 seconds
You have hot Broccoli Cheese soup that quick. The idea behind using the Vitamix is that it will not cook to death the Broccoli , you still get the nutrients.

To make it on the stove you can still use the same steps. Just remember not to boil it. Get it hot so it will be pallatable and the cheese melts well.

We eat it raw too. Yumm, Yummm. Hummus or ranch dressing for dipping . In a salad is an awesome way to get Broccoli  in your meals daily.

What is the point to eating all of these vegetables? Eating good, healthy food; raw if you can, for at least 50% or more of your daily food intake will put you on your way to optimal health.If  you planted and harvested your food, I believe your spiritual and emotional health will receive an enormous overhaul as well.

Soon we will be eating radishes and peas and lettuce. They are growing like crazy! Today I picked cabbage and will be making sauerkraut with it. I will keep you posted on the garden and kraut progress.

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 Next time we meet I would like to put some ideas out there about how much does it cost to eat healthy?
 Can we afford to eat healthy? Who are we paying so we can eat healthy? Are we being told the correct
 information?

Peace and Love,
Dahnee

 Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself-James 2:8     

How to Eat Healthy

Hello Everyone.
I still am harvesting BROCCOLI and SPINACH! They taste amazing and best of all I grew them in my back yard garden. Some I have frozen, some is shared with family and friends, and Pat (my son) and I have ate most of it. BROCCOLI and SPINACH are two of the most nutrient dense foods the body can use to stay healthy. They both are rich in antitoxins and vitamins. Grown from your own garden, without chemicals and pesticides, you know that you are getting the best food quality, at a great value, straight from a sustainable source... You!
How do we eat all of this awesome produce you might ask. Green smoothies are a wonderful way to get your "greens" in everyday (smile, it is not as bad as one might think :) ).  There are many , many ways to have a "green smoothie". This is my basic, go to for everyday, smoothie:
                                * 2 cups spinach
                                * 1 cup frozen berries (strawberries or blueberries)
                                * 1/2 cup water (more or less depending on how thick you
                                                            like your smoothie   
                                * sweetener if needed (I use agave)
I put all of the ingredients in a Vitamix and in 10 sec.  have a smooth green smoothie. A magic bullet might work too, though I have not used one before.
KALE is very important in most of my smoothies too, I know... alot of people do not want to think about kale, it's ok, we will get there together. Maybe, in the future, I will do an entire blog on the benefits of kale.
Feel free to experiment, experiment, experiment !!! The idea is to get over half of your days intake of nutrition via raw , healthy, natural food. You can add a multitude of produce to you smoothie. Frozen pineapple is very good, frozen grapes, frozen bananas , an apple, carrots, broccoli, and romaine lettuce too!!! Personally, the only thing I do not care for in my smoothies is cucumbers . Smoothies are not the only way to get your greens. SALAD is always good, remember to use produce that is in season (I do not care how great those tomatoes look in the store in February they are not in season).

BROCCOLI at my house is usually ate raw in a salad or in a smoothie. Last night I made an amazing BROCCOLI cheese soup in the Vitamix.