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So many of us who are discovering our food allergies are feeling stressed, feel left out, discouraged, frustrated, have cravings for what we miss.   It is important that you find things that can replace what you are missing.  Example below.  Coco Mojo with mushrooms coconut milk, organic maple syrup, coconut marshmallow root cream and a organic candy cane.... 

Time to work on wellness,  time to work on healthy life style changes, time to cook, what supplements to take, time to mediatate, time to find new snack ideas, time to make a snack bag, time to prepare, time to food shop, working on eating veggies, eating protein, finding out food allergies, cleaning out the kitchen cupboard, exercise, to much time to worry, to much time on depression, balancing out full time jobs, time for yourself, time for your family, time for life's enjoyments, time to get out in nature, time for beach, how do you take care of your to do list and how do we add enjoyment in your lives.  How do we find enjoyment in our life?  How do you find this before it is to late?  How do you find ejoyment for self through so much businuss in life?   How do you find balance when it seems like it is so hard to take car of our health?  

You/me/we all need new recipes because if we eat the same thing over and over again we can develope food allergies, plus you are not satifying the taste buds.   You should make it a point to try one new recipe a week.  

Bitters, you must eat bitter.. This is for your taste buds and life....  This is growth and helps digest life from the inside out. 

How do you not fall off the health and wellness train.  How do you recover if you fall of the health/welness train?  How do you keep yourself from putting it off?  

Today was our last Wellness Class.   I would like to say I am very proud of you.

Take two and call me in the morning:

http://www.outsideonline.com/1870381/take-two-hours-pine-forest-and-call-me-morning

Snack Ideas:  

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/5-healthy-dips-to-power-up-your-veggies.html

When the power was out and we were flooded in we still made it a point to eat healthy and go for a walk...  If you have all the right tools, better choices are made and stress less.   

Outdoor Cooking in the rain.... Cabbage, beef, rice pasta, chai tea

Bowl of home cooked organic soup feeds the soul on a blustery winter day....

Pictured below, buffalo, spinach, kale, celery, onions, garlic, rice pasta and more..

My point on the Edible Body Butter....Your skin is the largest organ on the body... What ever you put on your skin should  be edible...  Your body absorbs everything you put on your skin.   Your skin shows you the results of what you put in your body.  

What goes in, shows on the outside of your body... ecezmea, psorisis, acen, fungus, etc...

.  What is put on the outside goes inside... 

Today I started my day with chicken veggie soup.   It has  bone broth, that I started last Thursday (organic chicken raised on our farm) .  The other ingredients are parsley, sage, thyme, rosemary, pepper, garlic, onions,  celery, celery root,  and red peppers.

This morning I took a nice  long mountain hike.   While I was out on my hike,   I worked on rejuvenation, read my book, I had root chai with mushrooms and ginseng then, I ate two almond blueberry muffins (gluten free).

After my hike we had another bowl of chicken veggie soup and a gluten free nutmeg chocolate chip scone (no sugar added).

For our family meeting we will be sipping high vitamin c tea

Dinner is going to be a veggie cauliflower crust pizza with salad.

I will be using organic sheep feta  

http://detoxinista.com/2012/01/the-secret-to-perfect-cauliflower-pizza-crust/

My goals for this evening are, stretching by the fire and reading a book

I will start my nettle infusion tonight 

http://nourishingherbalinfusions.com/Nettle.html

I will be getting to bed early.  

What is celeriac root: 

http://sixburnersue.com/cooking-fresh-eating-green/2010/02/ten-yes-10-things-to-do-with-celery-root/

I have had several big glasses of cold spring water. 

Suggested Goals for the week:  

Drink more water, (the best water is filtered or spring) 

Take the No Wheat Challenge

Start your day with a good protein and veggies (kale, cabbage, collard greens, red bell peppers, spinach, garlic, onions etc.)

When you drink smoothies think less fruit more veggies.  Only use one serving of berries.  

Remember bitter veggies are really good for you

Start a journal, write in it daily.  You could also draw it it.  

Turn off all screens by 7:00 pm and aim for a 10:00 pm bed time

Don't eat while watching TV

Don't stand while eating 

At least, 30 minutes of heart pumping exercise 5 days of week

Food Journals: 

For those of you who are in the Seven Steps To Wellness Class, please make sure you use the original food journals that I passed out to you.  

I have been reading those food journals for over 15 years.   And even though they may not be the absolute best format, it is what I am used to.  Having so many journals to read I need them all to be uniform.    

Remember one full page is a day.  Please do not add extra days to the full page.  As each day needs its own page.  

If you need more room please attach a paper or use the back.  

I would  like brand names of bars, deli meats, cereals or packaged goods

Tell me what your exercise routine is.  What did you do?  

Blueberry Almond Meal Muffins: 

Yesterday, I made  this recipe.  They were really good!   

I added to the original recipe, nutmeg, cloves, cardamon, cinnamon, coconut flakes and goji berries. I used organic maple syrup for the sweetener and I only used 1/4 cup.   I used organic butter.  

http://www.chefshanekelly.com/2011/08/very-blueberry-almond-flour-muffins/

Class Notes:

Concerns for respiratory health and creating healthy life style habits.  Can't believe our bodies are so sensitive, but realize this is a gift to become healthy and stay healthy.  

Question Of The Day:  How Do You Take Back Your Health? 

Answers From Class:

Responsibility

To not give into fades/trends/peer pressure

Don't Be A Victim

Trust Your Body/What Is It Saying To You

Listen To Your Body

Homework:

Increase Water Intake and please write the amounts that you drink daily on your food journals. 

Meditate Daily

Get a journal and write in it daily.  Side Note: you can burn the daily journal pages to let go of what is bothering you.

Learn a New Recipe and cook it

Daily positive word

Read Part Two

Food Journal/Diaries all week turn in on Saturday

Take Back Your Health Saturday October 31st 2015 Class/Blog: 

http://mcminnvillehealthdefense.ning.com/profiles/blogs/seven-steps-to-wellness-week-two

First thing you put in your mouth in the morning is

 Two Cups Of Water

Breakfast:  Is Breaking the Fast...

 Make sure you are eating a highly nutritious meal to start your day.  You are breaking the fast.  While you were sleeping, your body was resting and repairing.  In order for this process to be strong you have to feed your body correctly.  This includes emotional health, physical health and spiritual health.  

Food Diaries:  What I am seeing and what needs to be added or changed

Eat More Greens, Eat More Greens, Eat More Greens, Eat More Greens :) 

Stop eating wheat, have diary once in a while, and eat more greens.  

Protein intake to low 

Late nights, brings late breakfast, puts body in fight flight response mode

Solid protein.   Eating more clean meats, sustainable meats, organic meats, organic eggs, wild salmon, sardines.

Only eat processed meats(deli meat, salami, hot dogs etc.) once in a while and make sure they are 100% organic.. 

Processed Meats:

Nitrites/Nitrates, I am going ot try to break this down as  simple as possible (if that is even possible).    I have been studying ingredients like this for the last 20 years... Today, I find it amazing how much dis-information is on the internet about these two ingredients.    It seems we have bacon/meat.org drug pushers out there and they are willing to lie, just so you can still eat your toxic bacon/processed meat. 

Why?  Because if you eat foods laced with nitrites/nitrates you will become sick,tired, lack energy, have low libido, possibly get cancer, high blood pressure and guess what?  Those are  the money makers in our Sick Care System.  It is the S.A.D(standard american diet)  way of eating.

The book, "Confessions Of A sneaky Organic Cook", by Jane Kinderlehrer (1971) she says " If you're feeling amorous, and looking forward to a night of love, don't serve hot dogs, or any other food heavy in nitrates, for dinner..(non-organic spinach is super high in nitrates due to the nitrogen fertilizers) In fact, you'd be wise to eliminate them for a sex-happy diet.  Frankfurters and all preserved meats are loaded with nitrates and nitrites.  And what nitrates and nitrites do to sexuality, you will comprehend better when you realize that another name for potassium nitrate is saltpeter, the substance that was, at one time, sprinkled on the food of prisoners in order to stifle sexual desire".  

Nitrate from Nitrogen Fertilizers and Cancer: More reading click on link below:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3068045/

Man-made nitrogen fertilizers became widely used in U.S. agriculture after WWII, providing an inexpensive source of nitrogen and other plant nutrients that resulted in huge increases in agricultural productivity. Nitrate, the final breakdown product of nitrogen fertilizers..... 

Remember, Nitrates were commonly called "Salt Peter" and were used to take the sex drive out of criminals and the soldiers..  Hence why Government Meat, is loaded with nitrates and nitrites.   

Nitrates and nitrites, slow spoilage and give a pink color to pork and cured meats such as sausage, hot dogs, bacon, ham, and lunch meats.  These chemicals combine with stomach fluids to form nitrosamines, which are carcinogenic.  

If there is a Material Data Safety Sheet on an ingredient (chemical ingredient) that is listed on something you are eating , why would you want to eat that? 

Sodium Nitrite Material Data Safety Sheet: 

http://avogadro.chem.iastate.edu/MSDS/NaNO2.htm

Sodium Nitrate Material Data Safety Sheet: 

http://www.labchem.com/tools/msds/msds/75547.pdf

Let me get this straight, meatsafety.org says eating foods with nitrates/nitrites is safe for humans to consume and they are going as far to say it is healthy,  but when you read the Material Data Safety Sheet there is toxicity if you ingest it..  Hmm? 

Sodium Nitrate!!!!!: 

Appearance: White crystals. Danger! Strong oxidizer. Contact with other material may cause a fire. Causes eye, skin, and respiratory tract irritation. Harmful if swallowed. May cause methemoglobinemia.

Sodium Nitrite!!!!: 

Ingestion: Harmful if swallowed. May cause methemoglobinemia, cyanosis (bluish discoloration of skin due to deficient oxygenation of the blood), convulsions, and death. Causes digestive tract irritation. Ingestion may cause weakness, muscular incoordination, fine tremors, loss of reflexes, convulsions and possible death from circulatory collapse. Ingestion may cause a decrease in blood pressure, rapid pulse and visual disturbances. 

Does anybody see a DANGER WILL ROBINSON DANGER HERE! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REvmhBO99I4

Then I find this from your one and only, Washington DC.

 http://www.meatsafety.org/ht/d/sp/i/45243/pid/45243

Remember what you read from the Material Data Safety Sheets (above)

Meatsafety.org (Washington DC) says this:  

Are cured meats the major source of sodium nitrite?

The amount of nitrate in some vegetables can be very high.  Spinach, for example, may contain 500 to 1900 parts per million of sodium nitrate. Less than five percent of daily sodium nitrite intake comes from cured meats. Nearly 93 percent of sodium nitrite comes from leafy vegetables & tubers and our own saliva. Vegetables contain sodium nitrate, which is converted to sodium nitrite when it comes into contact with saliva in the mouth.

Remember the vegetables they are talking about are chemical agriculture and if you read about the nitrogen fertilizers contaminating our drinking water with nitrates you will understand that they are lying to you.. 

Carmel Color, don't get me started on this one.... 

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/news/2014/01/caramel-color-the-health-risk-that-may-be-in-your-soda/index.htm

Product Below (Oscar Meyer P3) Has This In It:  Natamycin 

Check out the Harmful if swallowed on the Material Data Safety Sheet

https://www.caymanchem.com/msdss/11634m.pdf

JUST SAY NO TO OSCAR MEYER!!!!

Stop being a victim.  Victims trust their abusers.  In this case the abuser is our own government, big agriculture, big food industry and the dis-information on the internet.  

The holidays are coming up.  It is important to resist all the sampling ...resist all the free samples.... Sugar is sugar and it triggers addictive cravings.. 

Screens off by 7:00 pm and Bed By 10:00 pm will give optimal rest, rejuvenation and  put your body in repair mode. 

See you next Saturday ! 

"TAKE BACK YOUR HEALTH"

Disease goes away as a side effect of getting healthy

Hand in food diaries

Hand out food diaries

Recipe of the week

Discussion 

Meditation

Positive Words

Picture 

Get a journal 

Slow Medicine:

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsaymZARwOg

Web-Site

http://slowmedicinedoctor.com/

Parasympathetic nervous system:  

http://www.mercola.com/article/mind_body/applied_psycho_neurobiology/dca.htm

http://www.mercola.com/article/mind_body/thought_field_therapy/overview.htm

Tea Recipes:

Flower Nerve Tonic Tea

1 part chamomile

3 parts lemon balm

1 part oats

1/2 part chrysanthemum flowers

1/2 part lavender flowers 

1/2 part rose petals

Root Nerve Tonic Decoction: 

1 part licorice root 

1 part astragalus

1 part cinnamon

1/2 part ginger

2 parts dandelion root

2 parts burdock root

Make a mix, put in a jar, label

1 tablespoon per cup of water 

Make a decoction, strain

Then add 15 drops of american ginseng root tincture and 15 drops of eleutherococcus (siberian ginseng) tincture, sweeten and enjoy.  

Instructions on how to make a tea and decoction, click on link below: 

http://mountainroseblog.com/medicine-making-basics-herbal-infusions/

Breakfast Nut Shake: 

http://bloodsugarsolution.com/2012/07/31/nut-shake/

Califlower Tortillas: 

http://www.recipegirl.com/2014/05/05/cauliflower-tortillas/

Lite Russian Style Macaroni and Cheese 

Preparation Time: One Hour

Yield:  At Least 6 Servings (cut in square and freeze) 

You can improvise further by increasing or varying the vegetables.  Try cauliflower, broccoli, and /or carrots, leeks and other root vegetables:   Go for color 

Bake at 350, lightly grease a 9x13 baking pan 

3 cups cooked pasta of choice 

3 tablespoons organic butter

2 cups chopped onion 

6 cloves garlic, minced 

1/2 lb shitake mushrooms, sliced

4 cups organic cabbage, shredded (about 1/2 an average head)

1 tsp sea salt or celtic salt

1 tsp caraway seeds

2 tsp dried dill

1 tsp black pepper

1 lb of meat of choice chopped and cooked

1/2 cup organic sunflower seeds

1 bunch organic spinach, stemmed and coarsely chopped 

2 cups organic cottage cheese, omit if you need this to be dairy free

1/2 cup organic yogurt, omit if you need this to be dairy free 

Dairy free option 6 eggs liquid scramble

Diary free option 1 cup Nutritional Yeast

Preheat oven to 350, lightly grease pan

Cook the pasta until just barely tender.  Drain thoroughly, and transfer to a large bowl

Melt the butter in a large, dep skillet, and add the onions and meat.  After saute'ing for about 5 minutes, add garlic, mushrooms, cabbage, salt and caraway.  

Stir, cover, and cook until the cabbage is just tender and meat is cooked. 

Stir in spinach, and remove from heat.  

Add to the pasta

Stir in cottage cheese, yogurt, dill, and black pepper.  Taste to adjust seasonings, then spread into the prepared pan.  

Dairy free option:  Once you have poured  mixture into the pan, mix egg liquid  with nutritional yeast and pour liquid over pasta and veggies in prepared pan.   

Sprinkle with sunflower seeds 

Bake uncovered for 30 minutes, or until heated through.  

Healthy Halloween Treat:

Ingredients

2 Tablespoons honey or organic maple syrup

1/4 Cup organic almond, sunflower or peanut butter

1/2 Teaspoon  organic pure vanilla extract

2 Tablespoons honey or organic maple syrup

2 Tablespoons  organic extra virgin coconut oil

1/4 Cup organic almond, sunflower or peanut butter

1/4 Cup organic unsweetened cocoa powder

1/2 Teaspoon organic pure vanilla extract

2 Tablespoons  honey or organic maple syrup

Instructions

1. MAKE THE BOTTOM LAYER: Combine all of the ingredients in a small bowl and mix until very smooth.
2. Set 10 mini baking cups in a mini muffin pan. Pour about one tablespoon of the bottom-layer mixture into each baking cup without dribbling it down the inside of the paper (or you’ll get streaks in the final product). Place on a flat surface in the freezer. 

1. MAKE THE TOP LAYER: Combine all of the ingredients in a small bowl and mix until evenly incorporated. Remove the pan from the freezer and fill each baking cup to the top with the top-layer chocolate mixture.
2. Put the tray back in the freezer and let chill until the chocolate layer has hardened, about 15 minutes. Store the peanut butter cups in the freezer for up to 4 months.