RAW SPROUTING: Enjoy the "EECO" of Summer Freshness All Winter!
By Debra Secunda

As a video and TV producer specializing in holistic healing and nutrition, I've been exposed to many cutting-edge programs that promote ways to feel better, look younger and live longer.
One of my clients turned me on to the "RAW LIVING-FOODS LIFESTYLE" several years ago. Well, I've always been my own "guinea pig", and I've had at least one "sprout bag" goin' ever since!
You may have heard by now, that cooking food… Continue

“Green Sunshine” Basic Smoothie Recipe: A COMPLETE Meal!

Everything can be washed/chopped/stored ahead of time: Buy organic!
Blend all “hard” vegetable ingredients first (with water halfway up the combination):

1-2 ribs celery & handful of parsley in bottom of blender
1 small carrot
1/2 golden beet (also include stems)
1-2 radishes or chunk of daikon
1 whole lemon (peeled if not organic)
1/2 palmful: pea, lentil, garbanzo or mung bean, etc. sprouts
1/2 zucchini (or cucumber/bok choy sta… Continue

(For natural living Probiotics (acidopholous & bifidus) & easily assimilated amino acids, simple sugars, & essential fatty acids)
Serve as garnish on Green Blended Soups.

Yogurt:
2 cups purified water or Rejuvelac
1 cup hulled raw sunflower or pumpkin seeds

Soak seeds 8 hours & sprout 8 hrs.
Blend at low speed & then advance to high speed until mixture becomes a smooth pasty liquid.
Pour into a glass jar. Secure a sprout bag or cheesecloth over top with a rubber band.
Set a… Continue

(I dedicate this one to my friend Becky. You’ll never miss the curried chicken salad at the Deli again.)

1 C soaked & sprouted almonds
2/3 C diced celery
1/4 C raisins or dried cranberries or goji berries (soaked overnite with their doubled soak water)
1/8 C minced red onion
1/8 C chopped cilantro and/or parsely
2 T curry powder
pinch cayenne & celtic Sea salt

Pulse almonds & raisins with soak water in food processor with S blade.
Mix with other ingredients & season to taste.… Continue

(My famous figure-friendly guacamole)

1 ripe avacado (no oxidized black spots)
1 diced plum tomato
2 – 3 T diced red onion
1/2 C diced zucchini
optional: 2 T sprouts
juice of 1 lemon
pinch celtic salt & black pepper to taste

Combine all & serve with endive “chips” or on lettuce beds.