It was time for me to start another beautiful and delicious batch of cultured veggies (I usually start when I have 1 big jar remaining). I prepared cabbage (2 greens and a red), kale, and carrots to get cozied up in their jars for a week.
When I'm making my cvs, I love creating a good-feeling atmostphere. I had my favourite tunes blasting in the background as I danced around my kitchen, shredded veggies, filled my green bin with scraps, reflected on my amazing connection with Unleash Gratitude, and played 'wouldn't it be nice if..' in my head.
After listening to Donna Gates' call with WISH (Women's International Summit for Health) a couple nights ago, I felt even more invigorated and inspired by the Body Ecology Diet. An incredible leader in probiotics and fernmented foods. It truly is SUCH an amazing system of healing that will change the world... one gut at a time! 
For more pics, see my facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/loveinspiringlove#!/album.php?aid=191568&id=307278863973
Showing posts with label body ecology diet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label body ecology diet. Show all posts
Monday, March 15, 2010
new batch of cultured veggies
Monday, February 22, 2010
new meal and snack ideas, checking on CVs, and YCK
Lots of new Body Ecology friendly creations and foods to introduce! I've added some pictures of the meals and snacks described below.
Snack ideas:
- half of a small avocado, cultured veggies and almond mayo. mix. enjoy.
- unsweetened almond milk, cocoa, stevia, ice (optional).
- kefir, cocoa powder and carob powder (usually sweet enough from carob).
- green tea (with BE tea extract - adds antioxidants and polyphenols to your diet!).
Some new meals I've enjoyed in the past few days (note- even if cultured veggies aren't in the pics, I either ate some beforehand or added them to the meal):
- millet with broccoli, kale, onion.
- millet, red cabbage, spinach, onion.
- buckwheat with spinach, onion, red and orange peppers.
- tuna, spinach, celery, red pepper, cultured veggies.
More ingredients listed with the pics. http://bit.ly/9CLHpb
I checked on my cultured veggies yesterday. They were on day 3 and coming along beautifully. The ones with red cabbage were a dark pinky-purple. They'll become a little brighter pink over the next few days (I usually leave them for a week). I noticed that the veggies and juices were creeping up to the lid. There wasn't a lot of space left for the veggies to keep on expanding, so I took out a few tablespoons from each of the big jars, and put them in smaller jars.
My young coconut kefir (YCK) and pudding were ready yesterday! Now they're in the fridge and ready to drink and eat - any time of day. I often have a few sips in the morning, or with meals to help digestion.
Mmmm...
Friday, February 19, 2010
young coconut water - minus the sugar!
I made young coconut kefir (YCK) and ‘pudding’ this afternoon - Body Ecology's most creative super-foods!
Coconut water is becoming a hot commodity - known for it's abundance of minerals... but unfortunately, it also has a lot of natural sugar. Body Ecology found the perfect solution! If the coconut water (and/or meat) of the young coconuts is ‘cultured’ (with kefir starter), beneficial microflora flourish, the sugar is removed, and an even more amazing health food is created!
Many people have found that YCK eliminates sugar cravings, helps with digestion, tones intestines (flattens abs!), cleanses the liver and endocrine systems, contains an abundance of minerals, improves complexion, and gives you energy! Need I say more?
I’ve added pics (and more details) to my Body Ecology Diet photos folder on facebook (http://bit.ly/a4CVoK). And btw, even if I don't write about my meals during the day, I'll keep adding pics of some of them each day (including a list of the ingredients I use).
Let me know if you have any questions (or check out the Body Ecology Diet website for TONS more info)! I'm off to soak some millet and to throw some ingredients in my crock pot so a new creation will be ready by the morning!
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
culturing veggies and Body Ecology goodies!
Today was jam-packed with Body Ecology love! It started this morning when my doorbell rang. A package filled with my favourite BE products had arrived on my doorstep. I was SO excited - it felt like Christmas morning! The box had 8 love-inspiring presents for my body. As per my request, this was part of my compensation for writing a Body Ecology article last month. Amazing!
So far today, my favourite meals/snacks:
A millet pilaf with broccoli, zucchini, onion, olive oil, roasted garlic, lemon juice, sea salt, and cultured veggies. Mmm. Delish.
Yummy salad: romaine lettuce, celery, grape tomatoes, pumpkin seeds (soaked for 24 hours), sesame oil, lemon and herb spices, and cultured veggies. Tasty!
Chocolate kefir drink: kefir, cocoa powder, carob powder, stevia. Amazing!
And fitting for my first BE entry – I made cultured (fermented) veggies today! Cultured vegetables (CVs) have become a staple in my diet. They’re a Body Ecology signature food and a ‘super-food’ that heals your digestive tract and builds your inner ecosystem. Similar to pickling, I shredded up veggies (today I used red and green cabbage, carrots, and collards), mixed in the Body Ecology culture starter, and put it all in jars (to allow the healthy bacteria to flourish), and now I wait for a week. Fermenting foods makes it more nutritious, delicious, and digestible! I could write a TON on how much I love CVs... and I’m sure I will!
I have posted some awesome pictures in the body ecology diet photos folder on facebook (http://bit.ly/d9eApN). Feel free to ask questions!
Off to make something with my quinoa that's soaked and ready to go!
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
I'll take 'Self-Love' for $1000, Alex...
Starting something new is exciting! I love the process of creating. It provides an opportunity to make deliberate choices, every step of the way. I've decided that I’m going to enjoy every moment of this experience.
As of tomorrow, I’ll start to share my thoughts, ideas, and experiences - organized into different categories or segments - making it easy for all of you to connect with whatever topics spark your interest. Here are the main subjects that will come up:
The Body Ecology Diet (BED): a system of healthy eating that heals our bodies from the inside out. I’ll be sharing my favourite (delicious) recipes as I create them each day (including pictures), tips and tricks that make healthy eating fun, benefits of going low-sugar or sugar-free, new discoveries in the produce section, talks about ancient grain-like seeds and fermented foods (probiotics!), and all of the reasons I’ve found BED to be the healthiest, most inspiring diet on the planet!
The Universe and our experience: planet earth, the now moment, quantum physics, energy and vibration, reality (and how we contribute to it), our words, thoughts and feelings, the stars, time and space (is it an illusion?), expansion, and being in the mystery of it all. Oooh.. this will be fun!
Gratitude: thankfulness, appreciation – no matter what you call it, it’s one of my favourite topics. I’ll be sharing the benefits of grateful thoughts, my connection with Unleash Gratitude, fun and easy gratitude exercises, notes of appreciation that I create along the way, gratitude-inspiring videos, and how gratitude supported me through my experience with cancer.
Feeling Inspired: I’ll be sharing inspiring experiences and sources of inspiration - connecting with inspiring people, words of wisdom, music, youtube videos, movies, life-altering experiences, websites, news, articles, books, companies, etc. I love deliberately choosing to feel inspired. It will be fun to pull it all together!
Physical Activity: I love moving my body! I’ll be writing about yoga classes (and yoga at home), floor hockey, rebounding (using a mini trampoline), walking, hoola-hooping, stretching, surfing, water sports, and other fun activities that really move me!
Self-love: a new passion that I’ve really started exploring. There is definitely over-lap with most of the other categories, but this section will provide me with an opportunity to share the fun ways that I take time to deliberately love and pamper myself. I'll also be talking about how incredible the human body is - healing, digesting, breathing, moving, thinking, growing, etc.
Abundance: this is a newer topic for me – and one that I get really excited about and look forward to including in my thoughts more often. I plan to find and write about new ways that I’m encouraging and bringing more abundance into my life. Money, love, well-being, parking places.. I love finding new ways to encourage it all to flow to me, at just the perfect time.
Misc: anything else I’d like to share.
I love benefiting from talking about what IS working in my life – how I’m having fun and enjoying my journey, keeping the positive vibe flowing, making the deliberate choice to feel as best I can in every moment, and talking about what I am looking forward to.. and that’s what I’m excited to do here. And I intend for this space to inspire good-feeling thoughts in others along the way!
How you feel is ALWAYS your choice... I love choosing to feel as good as I can from wherever I'm at!
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