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Winter Wellness Kit

WARMING YOU FROM THE INSIDE OUT

This Winter Wellness Kit Will Warm You, Nourish You, Boost You, and Moisturize You! 

Winter Tonic – 8 ounces -

$20.00

New Moon Chai Spice Immune Booster Cordial - 8 ounces -

$20.00

Winter Revitalizer Chai – Relaxing, Warming and Rejuvenating – 3 ounces

$9.00

Fennel Citrus Bitters – ½ ounce

$6.50

Lion Heart Elixir – 1 ounce

$12.50

Colder Weather Protection Cream – 2 Ounce Glass Jar

$15.00

Autumn Equinox Elderberry Syrup – 8 ounces

$18.50

Chilax Mushroom Cocoa – 4 ounces

$16.00

For A Winter Wellness Kit The Cost Is $117.50

Some great words to use and apply as we transition into winter. 

Here are the recipes and ingredients: 

Winter Tonic
½ cup fresh horseradish peeled and grated
1 head of garlic, all cloves peeled and chopped
½ cup fresh chopped parsley
2 cups peeled and grated beets(chopped is OK)
¼ cup fresh ginger root grated or 1/8 cup dried ginger root
½ teaspoon powdered all spice or mace 0r 1 chopped red cayenne pepper

Apple Cider Vinegar

Infused ginger honey

Directions: Place all the ingredients in the jar, pour apple cider vinegar to the top.   Cover, shake, label and let sit for 4 weeks.  Give it some love daily, with a gentle shake.  

Strain.  Add ginger infused honey to taste.  

Suggestion:  If you have about 3 cups infused vinegar, try adding about 1/4 cup infused honey.  

New Moon Chai Spice Immune Boosting Cordial
Before making the syrup for the cordial, you need to infuse the brandy and the honey for this recipe first.
Infusing the brandy takes four weeks
The honey takes two weeks
Cardamom Spiced Peach Brandy:
1 64 ounce jar- clean and dry (half gallon)
3 cups chopped organic peaches
1/8 cup cardamom seed
1 teaspoon all spice powder
1 to 2 vanilla bean pods sliced and chopped
1/8 cup dried rose hips
1/8 cup dried roses
4 cups of brandy

Fill the jar with fruit, herbs and spices
Pour brandy over the ingredients
Make sure the fruit and herbs stay covered with the alcohol. Occasionally check to see if you need to add more.
Label and date
Store in dark place and shake once a day
After 2 to 4 weeks Strain

Chai Spiced Honey
2 cups real honey
½ teaspoon all spice powder
1 ½ cardamom powder
1 teaspoon clove powder
1 teaspoon ginger powder
1 teaspoon white (or black) pepper
3 tablespoons sweet cinnamon powder
Put honey in sterilized jar
Put the jar into a double boiler over low low heat
Gently heat until it is warm (do not boil or overheat)
Take out jar out of double boiler
While the honey is warm add all the powdered herbs – mix well
Put the lid on
Cool
Allow to sit for two weeks before using
Once a day turn the jar upside down and let the ingredients move then turn it right-side up

HERBAL DECOCTION FOR -New Moon Chai Spiced Immune Boosting Syrup
7 cups of filtered or spring water
¼ cup eleuthero root
¼ cup dried astragalus root
¼ cup ashwagandha root
¼ cups rose hips
½ cup hawthorn berries
¼ cup Schisandra berry
7 reishi slices
¼ cup dried ginger or ½ cup fresh grated ginger
1 teaspoon cardamom seeds
1 teaspoon fennel seed
2 teaspoons rainbow peppercorns
1 teaspoon all spice powder
½ tablespoon clove buds
2 star anise – break into pieces
1 tablespoon sweet cinnamon powder
Follow directions for making a syrup to sweeten use the infused honey (recipe above)
To sweeten syrup:
1 part herbal decoction
1 part herbal infused honey
To make the Cordial:
1 part syrup
1 part infused brandy
Winter Revitalizer Chai – Relaxing, Warming and Rejuvenating
2 ½ cups rooibos tea
1 cup holy basil
3 cups dried ginger
½ cup cardamom seed
1 ½ cups cinnamon chips
¼ cup all spice berries
1 teaspoon all spice powder
½ cup orange peel
¼ cup nutmeg powder
½ cup rose petals
2 4 ounces packages of organic crystalized ginger – chop into small pieces

Lion Heart Elixir
Vodka, orange flower honey, Hawthorn berries, leaf and flower, Motherwort, Cardamom, Rose, honeysuckle flower essence and Love
Citrus Fennel Bitters
1 quart jar
1 orange chopped
½ cup artichoke leaf
½ cup hawthorn berries
¼ cup dried orange peel
¼ cup hibiscus flowers
1 tablespoon fennel seeds
4 star anise crushed
1/8 to ¼ cup honey or maple syrup
Colder Weather Protection Cream – 2 ounce Jar
In the colder months, your skin as a tendency to become dry, use this cream all over your body, especially on the areas that need extra attention. Also great for rough spots, like feet, knees, elbows, knees, and shins. Great to use after a bath. For an all over body treatment, you will kneed a old pair of pajamas.
First, take a relaxing bath. This cream is a heavy cream so start with a little at a time.
After bath, rub cream all over your body. Then put on your old PJ’s and head for the bed for a good night’s sleep. In the morning, your skin will feel wonderfully moisturized.
3 tablespoon coco butter
6 tablespoons bees wax
3/4 cup coconut oil, extra virgin unrefined
1 1/2 cup avocado oil (or almond, apricot kernel or jojoba)
3 tablespoon castor oil

40 Cardamom
40 Sweet orange
14 Cinnamon
8 Nutmeg
Makes approximately 1 cup
Recommended for all skin types, by don’t use on exceptionally oily or blemished areas.
You can use it daily or as desired.
In a double boiler, warm all the oils and beeswax until they are all melted.
Remove from heat, cool for about 10 minutes. Then gently whisk for about 1 minute.
Allow to cool a bit more and whist again, this time add the essential oils.
You want it to look like whipped butter.
When adding the essential oils, stirring constantly
Pour in containers and put lids on immediately. Let sit overnight
Because this product has coconut oil in it, it will maintain a softer consistency at 76 degrees. If the temperature is below 76 degrees it will become firmer.

Autumn Equinox Elderberry Syrup
1 cup fresh elderberries or ½ cup dried
1 cup fresh hawthorn berries or ½ cup dried
½ cup dried rose hips
½ cup dried Schisandra berry
½ cup dried goji berry (lycii berry)
¼ cup dried licorice root
1 teaspoon all spice
½ cup sweet cinnamon chips
½ tablespoon clove buds
14 cups filtered or spring water
Put all the above ingredients in a big pot – no aluminum or copper pots or Teflon
Bring to boil – Turn down – simmer on low- stir frequently-
Cook until ½ of the liquid is left
Turn off stove, cover and leave overnight
Next day – bring back to a boil and add
1 cup fresh grated ginger
Turn off and steep for 30 minutes
It is ready to strain
After you have strained your herbal tea you should have about 7 to 8 cups
Add
1 to 2 cups of honey – optional would be add infused honey of choice
Make sure honey is all mixed in
Cool completely and add:
About 1 ½ cups to 2 cups of Brandy – optional elderberry, blackberry, strawberry or hawthorn brandy
Label and store in refrigerator
Good for 6 months maybe more.

Elderberries are super great for the respiratory system.  Just check out their branches below, they look like the bronchial parts of the lung. 

Chilax Mushroom Cocoa
1 ½ pounds of great quality organic cocoa
4 ounces ashwagandha powder
2 ounces cinnamon powder
2 ounces nutmeg powder
3 ounces lions mane mushroom powder

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food” 

 Nut flour crust, wild weed pesto, my own canned sauce, mozzarella cheese and all organic.

The wild weed pesto is made out of dandelion leaves, plantain leaves, nettle leaves, yellow dock leaves, olive oil, raw cheddar, dehydrated ground up nuts and raw garlic.   

Plantain

Yellow Dock

Dandelion 

Nettle 

Collected and Ready to Make Wild Weed Pesto 

1 cup or more of edible weeds (make sure no one has sprayed any chemicals on or around them!!)

1/2 to 1 cup organic olive oil 

1/2 cup organic raw cheese of choice

1/8 cup ground nuts or seeds

3 cloves raw garlic ( or more if you are a garlic fan) 

Blend in a  mixer 

Use on crackers, rice, meat, pizza dough or as a veggie dip. 

 Weekly Wellness Box :

This weeks goodies:  ZUCCHINI (lots) collard greens, nettle, brassica stir fry mix,  sage, rosemary, tea mix of lemon balm peppermint, pineapple sage and a honey suckle flower, lettuce/flower mix, kale,  a mix of wild spinach, orch spinach arugula, swiss chard and a few mustard greens, fennel fronds,  a mix of garlic and onion chives, cucumbers, basil and a few green beans

If you do not have a membership with a CSA, it is time to hit the farmers markets.  They are all over the place with loads of incredible fresh food.  Make sure you are supporting local organic farmers or no spray farmers.  This is vitally important for your health, your family's and the earth.  

Here is a list of foods you should be (or at least try) adding to your life.  

Arugula, spinach, salads, kale, cucumbers, zucchini, basil, swiss chard, fennel fronds, sage, rosemary, lemon balm, peppermints, chives, celery, tomatoes (for some areas) collard greens, cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, all sorts of brassica leaves, carrots, beets, green beans,onions, new potatoes, strawberries (organic only), blueberries (organic only) flower salads, mustard greens (almost at the end of the season, coming back for fall) and the wild foods, curly dock, yellow dock, cat's ear flowers, lambs quarters, sorrel, honeysuckle, raspberry leaves (for tea).  

As you can see this is a great list of many healthy foods that you can add throughout the day.

A great way to start on your path to longevity and being robust: 

Cut out ALL fast food (yes ALL)

Cut out ALL  Soda (yes ALL )

Cut out All artificial colors, artificial flavors, natural flavors

Cut out boxed food

Cut out crap meat, example hot dogs, deli meat, injected chicken breasts, canned meats, etc.  

Say NO to the junk food.   Bake things at home.  

(When I say bake, that does not mean open box of Betty Crocker!   Betty Crocker is not a food, it is an item that feeds cancer cells)

Shop your farmers markets, buy local organic food, local no spray food, and make sure the meat you purchase is grass fed/pasture fed and/or organic feed only 

Get rid of the word diet in your life, it as a negative connotation.  It is time to think about wellness, longevity, being robust and vigorous!  It is time to eat, eat, eat, but, eat the right foods.  

Make yourself healthly, your family and the earth  buy Piling those plates with massive green leafy veggies! 

Tea Mix:  lemon balm, pineapple sage, peppermint and a honeysuckle flower

Gallon glass jar

Spring or filtered water

Empty bag into gallon glass jar, pour water over herbs.

Let sit in the sun for 8 hours

Strain

Sweeten with honey (optional)

Refrigerate for a few hours and then enjoy! 

Pineapple Sage benefits:  digestion, heartburn, balance the nervous system, general tonic

Lemon Balm benefits:  sedative properties, lowers fever, improves digestion, relaxes spasms, antiviral, antibiotic, insect repellent,  helps anxiety, depression, nerve disorders and tension headaches.

More on lemon balm:  http://www.ageless.co.za/herb-melissa.htm

Peppermint benefits:  helps with morning sickness, nausea, digestion, gallbladder, bile ducts, 

More information on Peppermint: http://www.ageless.co.za/herb-peppermint.htm

Honeysuckle benefits:

In traditional Chinese medicine honeysuckle tea is used to treat ailments of the heart and lungs, fevers, and dysentery.

Honeysuckle tea is used to ease sore joints and reduce inflammation.

Honeysuckle tea helps improve circulation and relieve fatigue.

European honeysuckle can help treat coughs and colds.

Honeysuckle tea is used to treat upper respiratory tract infections and infection in the bladder. The tea is said to inhibit the bacteria that causes salmonella, strep, staph and tuberculosis infections.

Honeysuckle tea can help alleviate headaches.

Honeysuckle tea can help treat nausea and vomiting.

Honeysuckle tea can help make eyes brighter.

Rosemary:  http://www.ageless.co.za/herb-rosemary.htm

Rosemary is one of my most favorite herbs! Here is a recipe for apple rosemary coffee cake.  I actually made them as muffins instead and they were intoxicating! 

I used used honey instead of sugar.  I used about 1/4 cup of honey.

I never use baking powder so I just used 1 tsp. baking soda.  If you use baking powder make sure you are using one that is aluminum free! 

I used organic spelt flour.  

Awesome Apple Rosemary Coffee Cake Recipe

http://www.cauldronsandcrockpots.com/2012/10/apple-rosemary-coffee-cake/

Apple Rosemary Muffins

Honey Basil Simple Syrup:

1 Cup honey

1 Cup Water

1 Cup fresh basil coarse chopped

INSTRUCTIONS

1. Stir ingredients together in a small saucepan over medium-high heat until honey is dissolved, but don’t boil
2. Remove from heat, pour through a wire-mesh strainer into an airtight jar or container, discarding leaves
3. Let cool completely before using
4. Store in a covered jar in refrigerator up to 2 weeks

Fruit Salad With Basil and Lime

In this weeks Mountain Mama Wellness letter I decided to give information in a variety of ways. How you can invest in your health care?  Investing in your health care now is what will give you a better future.  

Not only is it a better future for your health, but, also for the oceans, rivers, the air you breath, the soil, the animals, birds and bees. 

If you were looking for a retirement plan, looking for a house to buy, etc. you would have a list of needs, things that are important, you want to make sure you have a strong foundation and a good roof over your head.  

Correct? 

How is it humans do not apply this to their own health? 

Why do they continue to put bad investments into their body.  By eating out, not eating enough veggies or no veggies.   Eating GMO Food.  Eating foods that are high in pesticides.  

Why do humans continue to let their kids eat toxic food?  Food with artificial colors, high sugar, artificial flavors, toxic food additives and preservatives.

No matter how positive you are, how enlightened you try to be, how much Buddha you put in your life, you are still contributing to a very negative energy to the earth,  to your physical  body, to your spirit and  to your mind, by supporting bad food, bad agriculture, eating GMO foods, eating artificial colors and the toxic food list goes on and on.  

Taking Care Of Your Body

When it comes to taking care of your body, I really can't say it enough, support your local organic farmers, eat your veggies, stop eating at restaurants that do no support local farmers, stop eating at restaurants that use GMO oil for their cooking,  You want to starve cancer cells not grow them.. 

Find out what your food allergies are.  Then stay away from those foods..

Exercise is a must "NO Excuses"  For you and your kids, 5 to 7 days a week.  

Your heart, needs community.  You community needs you. 

Help others that are in need 

Stop consuming. There are only two categories when it comes to consuming

 Ask yourself is it a "Need" OR A "Want" 

VEGGIES ARE THE KINGS AND QUEENS IN LIFE

GREENS FOR VITALITY

And

AND 

AND REMEMBER...

AND WATCH OUT FOR THE WOLVES....

AND HAVE YOU THOUGHT ABOUT THIS:

 PUT IT INTO ACTION

REMEMBER YOUR TOXIC FOOD CHOICES

AND

EXCESS CONSUMERISM AFFECTS EVERYTHING 

AND WATCH OUT FOR THE TRICKERY,AND MORE TRICKERY

AND I AM SORRY BUT THIS GROWS SICKNESS,

NOT A GOOD INVESTMENT,

NOT EVEN ONCE IN A WHILE.... 

AND DARE TO BE THE LEADER IN THE CROWD? 

AND TRUTH

DO YOU GET IT NOW?

AND WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS? 

ARE YOU UNDERSTANDING HOW TO INVEST IN YOUR HEALTH?

A  July meal prepared for the family, (Sunday, special dinner night) by my teenage daughter.

Hamburger with roasted garlic in it.  Beef from Simply Organic Beef from the Saturday Public Market.  Garlic from Dennison's Farms, which I purchased from the Saturday Public Market

Buns, Homemade, my teenage daughter made them from scratch.  Homemade by the way, means, that it does not come from a box or bag...

Pickled Beets with rice vinegar.  Beets from Growing Wild Farm

German Potato Salad, which has balsamic vinegar, olive oil, raw onions and sea salt.  Purple potatoes from Growing Wild Farm.  The rest of them from Dennison's Farm. The onions were also from Dennison's Farm.  

Cucumbers and salad greens from Dennison's Farm.

The Lemonade was made from scratch.  Lemon concentrate, water and agave syrup.  

The whole meal was organic.  My daughter did a fantastic job! 

Live chemical free, be peaceful and seek beauty in your life 

Thank you to all that participated.  You did a beautiful job and I know you  have motivated others to do the same! 

Thank you, to Sophia, for the great food that she made for Joseph and I.  She took beautiful pictures and helped make a video. If you would like to watch her video, click on the link below:

http://mountainwarrior.ning.com/video/mcminnville-health-defense-so...

First, I want to thank Laz for such a beautiful job on his blog post, of eating green food. His was on a different day.  I think he did this to motivate people to take the green food day challenge on, March 17th 2012 because if you know Laz he eats this way everyday.  If you do not know Laz, he is a 16 year young, who eats incredibly healthy..  Here is an example of what he eats on a daily basis.  I would like to mention that his brother Max eats incredibly too and he bakes homemade bread.  Max is 14 years young.

Before working out and running this morning I had a glass of water with kelp. Then some green tea whilst making breakfast.

Breakfast was Organic eggs with local organic kale, kohlrabi, leeks, cilantro, raw onions and some salsa.After eating I had a little bit of apple cider vinegar, then a few minutes down the road, some oat milk with hemp protein powder... and a pinch of cocoa powder.

After a couple hours, made a salad containing the following: Raw onions (i love onions!), garlic, organic local mustard greens, beets, turnips, swiss chard, olive oil, apple cider vinegar, Apple, and mushrooms.Then for lunch/food for classes, I made Kamut with chard, kohlrabi greens (don't waste food), ginger and onions.Okay, Dinner! Made homemade organic spinach tortillas with cilantro, spinach, avocado, organic cheese, pinto beans, salsa and an Organic Raw Multi-Green Kombucha!

That was my food for January 17th, 2012. How did you fuel you bodies today?!? Everything you see was organic... now it's in my tummy. Be Kung Fu in EVERYTHING!

I also want to thank Victoria for taking the challenge on , her morning started beautiful.  If you need ideas for a morning meal Check out Victoria's morning breakfast: 

Besides organic coffee and organic half and half, I am having some kombucha with cranberry juice. Then I sautéed some homegrown shallot and homegrown garlic and organic ginger in organic butter. Added some cumin and coriander which were ground. Added some homegrown spinach and wilted that. Added seasalt and some cooked blackeyed peas from last night (dinner was blackeyed peas and collards from the garden), also organic. Sprinkled on some hempseed, ground flaxseed, and a pinch of pollen. Pictures later, when I download from phone. Right now I want to eat!

Then we had Joe and Sue's green food day post.  They had a life challenge to work though, to eat super green  food all day while they had a day trip.  All of us know that when traveling, in order to eat good you need to prepare a head of time.  Check out their day.  Again, if you need help with eating healthy while you have a day trip there are some great ideas in their blog post.  

Started out with a cup of Organic coffee. Breakfast was Rice noodles with kale, eggs, pesto and pumpkin seeds.Challenge for us today, we were spending all day at the zoo for  grandson's birthday, so we made some turkey wraps in organic flour tortillas with green hummus and spinach to take with us. Mid way we had a "ReBar", organic fruit & vegie bar containing 8 servings of fruits & vegies. After the zoo we went to Voodoo Donuts for "cake". You can't believe the line of people waiting to get in that place. It took about 20 minutes to get into the building. The amazing array of facinating donuts to choose from! People really had a hard time choosing between deep fried fritters, donuts covered in various colored frosting then topped with sugar laden cereals like Captain Crunch or Cocoa Puffs and even bacon, I guess that's the complete breakfast donut. Jelly or cream filled to choose from also of course. It was definately not difficult for Joe & I to resist. When we got home, Yummy homemade pizza! with spinach, homemade pesto, mushrooms, & Organic Valley cheese.

Cathe had a lot of fun all day posting pics and making food.  I loved watching her post's on Facebook.  What was great about her post's is that her friends were seeing what she was eating.  One can only hope that they would find interest in challenging themselves on a daily basis to eat for green healthy food.  She had some great ideas and came up with some great conclusions.  Here is one of her post's on Facebook, I love the humor she puts into her day: 

Still too full for snack yet and its almost movie time! Tonights snack will be a smoothie and its movie night! I think it will be a very green one. Will post ingredients. I still have enough vegies for two more days! With planning, eating green is very affordable, and with extra thrift, eating Organic is doable! Stay tuned it ain't over till the fluffy lady drinks her smoothie! (I still have 30 pounds of fluff to remove_

Here is Cathe's day:

Prebreakfast  Green Coffee  (half coffee and half stinging nettle tea)

Breakfast       Green and raw Oatmeal (raw zuchini and raw sweet potato in oats)

Snack           Green and Raw Angled Eggs  ( ground raw asparagus tips ground raw red onions)

Main meal     Green Spagetti  (Mango and red bell pepper sauce with grated steamed cabbage)

Snack           Green and Raw Smoothie ( contained RAW spinach liquid) 

Super Green Organic Oatmeal
1 icecream scoop of soaked, barely cooked oat meal
1 cup cup of grated raw zuchini
1/2 cup of grated raw sweet potatoe
fresh lemon juice and honey 
mix all together and eat! 
Ka Chin Super Green Eating Points

hmmmmm! I think I will do organic deviled eggs for my 11:00 snack! I am going to add another personal challenge to my efforts here! All of my foods MUST be original recipes! Like the green coffee and the confetti oatmeal! Stay tuned for Cathes "Angled Eggs" ! They are sooo healthy that we can't give you know who the credit for them!

hmmmm

St Patties Day Angled Eggs 
blenderize cooked eggs with one tablespoon of red onion and two tablespoons of raw asparagus tips. add to blender mayo, mustard, tumeric and lemon juice to taste. Place in boiled egg whites. Enjoy.

TADA! These will help you find that blarney stone!

Apparently I did not add enough batter to this waffle iron, and while it is "thoroughly cooked" we will not be having this green snack tonight. Instead a green smoothie will substitute. Tomorrows post will be on, "How To Easily Clean A Really Messy Waffle Iron".

getting ready to blenderize, (ninja) the following:
1 whole red bell pepper
1 cup of mango
1 clove of garlic
2 tablespoons of oat flour
any spices you use for spagettie sauce

Mango Spagettie Sauce! NO CANS OF TOMATOES! And that means no food dye or BPAs! This sauce is orange. The "noodles" for me are lightly steamed cabbage. The kids had regular GF noodles. Hey it was hard enough to get them to try the weird "Mango Sauce". But in the end, all was declared Yummy!

saute onion and hamburger, dump in Ninjaed stuff. stir till thick, if too thick wisk in hot water. simmer to allow flavors to yumernize.