Spinach with Almonds

Spinach is full of the essential minerals your body needs to prevent unhealthy cravings for refined salt. Eat this delicious and simple dish sprinkled with mineral-rich sea salt to improve the clarity of your skin!

Ingredients:

• 1 bag of fresh spinach
  
• ½ onion, small dice
  
• 2 Tbsp ghee (separated)
  
• 2 Tbsp chopped almonds
  
• 2 tsp lemon juice
  
• Salt

Instructions:

1. Melt 1 TBSP ghee in sauté pan; sauté chopped almonds until lightly browned (set aside).
   
2. Melt 1 TBSP ghee in large pot. “Sweat” onion over low-medium heat for 3-4 minutes. When partially translucent, turn to low heat and add fresh spinach. Cover and let cook together, stirring occasionally (don’t let brown or burn) as spinach reduces. Drain spinach, and keep warm/hot.
   
3. Pour almonds and 2 tsp lemon juice over spinach, and sprinkle with sea salt if desired.
   
4. Serve immediately.

Coco Orange Balls Gluten, Dairy and Soy Free

Coco Orange Balls

MAKES 60 BALLS

These candy-like treats, created by Sueson Vess, are free of gluten, dairy, egg and soy.

1 (6 or 7 ounce) box gluten-free, dairy-free animal cookies*
2¼ cups confectioner’s sugar, divided
¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
⅓ cup pure orange juice concentrate
¼ cup tapioca syrup or rice syrup

1. In a food processor equipped with a blade, combine the cookies, 2 cups confectioner’s sugar, cocoa powder, orange juice concentrate and tapioca syrup. Process until the cookies are ground to crumbs and the mixture is evenly blended. Mixture will be moist.

2. Transfer the mixture to a bowl and form into 1-inch balls. Roll balls in remaining ¼ cup confectioner’s sugar to coat. Store balls in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to a month.

Each ball contains: 39 calories, 1g total fat, 0g saturated fat, 0g trans fat, 0mg cholesterol, 9g carbohydrate, 12mg sodium, 0g fiber, 0g protein

*TIP Gluten-free, dairy-free animal cookies are available from Orgran Natural Foods, www.orgran.com.

SOURCE: LIVINGWITHOUT.COM

Clean Beans

Clean Eating Baked Beans

I love baked beans and even more so I love using my crock pot. Throwing things into a pot and ending up with a delicious meal is my kind of cooking! Plus you usually end up with a wonderful smelling aroma floating through your house all day. This recipe is easy to make, nutritious and tastes wonderful! I made this without meat but if you’d like a meatier version just add in some cooked pieces of pork and bake as normal.

Ingredients:

• 1 medium onion, diced
• 1 cup diced peppers (I used red, yellow and green peppers)
• 3 15 oz cans no salt added white beans, drained and rinsed (I used pinto beans)
• 6 oz can tomato paste
• 1/2 cup brown rice syrup
• 1/4 cup unsulphured molasses
• 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 1 tbsp olive oil

Preparation for crock pot:

1. Heat olive oil in a large skillet on medium high heat. Add in onions and peppers and saute about 10 minutes.



Saute the onions and peppers

2. Transfer the onion and peppers to the crock pot and add remaining ingredients.



Mix ingredients well

3. Stir well and set crock pot to high and cook for 4 hours.

Preparation for oven:

1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees
2. Heat olive oil in a large skillet on medium high heat. Add in onions and peppers and saute about 10 minutes.
3. Transfer onions and pepper to a large bowl. Add in all the other ingredients and mix well.
4. Transfer mixture to a 9 x 13 glass plan and bake for 3-4 hours.

Nutritional Info:

Makes 12 serving.

Nutrients per serving: Calories: 190, Cal. from Fat: 10, Total Fat: 1g, Sat. Fat: 0g, Carbs: 26.5g, Fiber: 6.5g, Sugars: 11g, Protein: 7g, Sodium: 43mg, Chol: 0mg

Notes:

I love baked beans and the addition of the peppers added a delicious tang to the recipe. I used my crock pot to make the beans and they were saucy and tender. If you bake them in the oven they get a bit drier and the beans are more firm. Which ever way you choose to make them they are fantastic!

SOURCE: http://thejoyofcleaneating.com/recipes/clean-eating-baked-beans/

No Hassle Breadmaker Bread GLUTEN FREE

No Hassle Breadmaker Bread

Bread that is simple and easy, yet oh, so good!

Ingredients:

WET INGREDIENTS
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups warm water
1/4 cup oil

DRY INGREDIENTS
1 1/4 cup white rice flour
1 cup potato starch or arrowroot starch
3/4 cup bean flour
1/2 cup tapioca starch
2 1/4 tsp yeast
2 Tbsp sugar
1 Tbsp xanthan gum
1 1/2 tsp salt

Directions:

Mix first three liquid ingredients into a large bowl. Filter the rest of the dry ingredients into a different bowl, until they are thoroughly mixed.

Now mix both bowls together until well blended. Pour all this into the bread maker. If your bread maker has a "short cycle" option, use select that option to make your bread.

Add additional warm water if dough is too dry .

Allow to cool before you slice it.

source http://www.glutenfreeclub.com/recipe.aspx?nid=110&utm_nooverride=1

Multivitamins for Candida

2. Add vitamins and/or dietary supplements that

enhance immune system. Calcium (1200-1500 mg/day),

B-complex vitamins and Folic Acid (400 mcg/day) may

help the liver metabolize and thus lower estrogen

levels. Magnesium (400mg/day) may decrease cramps.

Vitamin E (400IU/day), C vitamin (1000 mg/day),

Vitamin A (attention: A vitamin may be toxic in too

high doses), Selenium, Zinc. Avoid: iron supplements

(it may promote candida).    

My Name is Paulissa And I Am An Omnivore

I was given a good round of butt chewing over my use of the term vegetarian while still eating chicken occasionally. To put this into context, I have many friends who while eating vegetarian most of the time, enjoy the occasional fish or chicken dinner. Usually this occur once a month or so. Since they are more vegetarian than not (proportionally), they term themselves vegetarians. I never thought much of having to qualify it with a different term. I posted a link to a chicken recipe and the backlash and vitriol was swift and quite amazing. One woman told me that I would burn in hell for being so insensitive. It was certainly not meant to be offensive. Wow, really?????

To each his own but the vitriol for not using the term omnivore because chicken occasionally ends up on my menu. Oh the horror! I understand that the choice to eat or not eat meat is intensely personal and some people avoid it for moral objections, some people do it because they don't feel the food is safe, some decry cruelty and still others do it because their bodies rebel against the food. As for me, I am going gluten, soy and dairy free because those are the 3 things that contribute to endo and since there is no guarantee of no further adhesions even after the hysto tomorrow, I want to do what I can to keep from having any furtho endo surgeries. So. . .more plants and less processed foods and sugar figure into the mix with the side effect of weight loss.

I just don't believe in demonizing food and what people eat. Sure, some foods are healthier than others, but we have freedom of choice and should allow others to exercise theirs. For the record, I am not a big fan of labels. I believe they negate anything said after the label is used.