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Wild About Greens by Nava Atlas: This Book is Incredible

16 Saturday Jun 2012

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collard greens, green juice, green smoothies, nava atlas, wild about greens

The brand new Wild About Greens by Nava Atlas

Although I had read about the new Nava Atlas book, Wild About Greens – 125 Delectable Vegan Recipes for Kale, Collards, Arugula, Bok Choy and Other Leafy Veggies Everyone Loves, my husband was the one who surprised me with the book on a recent trip home from the library.

If you are interested in adding more greens to your diet like we are, this book should be on your “to read” list. I paged through it for about 10 minutes and know I’ll be digging deeper with my sticky notes handy.

Unless you’ve grown up with a parent or grandparent who made greens a lot, chances are you are just like me and are new to these nutrition powerhouses.  There are many greens I’m not even familiar with, yet.

We do eat our fair share of greens (read about the greens we eat here), and have for a while since we changed our diets, but I know we can eat more.

The most common question I hear when I pick up my CSA share each week is “what do I do with these greens?” Greens are also the most left-behind vegetable.  Last week we scored an extra two bundles of collards, for a total of three, because so many people left them behind.  Tonight we cooked two of those bundles.

Two bundles of collards, fresh from our CSA, cut into ribbons – before cooking

Ask my husband, I ate about five servings.  It’s not because I’m a good cook (I’m just a home cook that cooks A LOT), it’s just because the recipe was so simple and the greens so fresh.

This book will tell you exactly what to do with all greens – and make them taste good.

Our collards after cooking (you can see how they shrunk)

See the word “Vegan” in the title and think this book won’t be for you? Don’t worry one little bit! There are no strange, unusual ingredients in the book.  Ms. Atlas uses the freshest whole foods ingredients in her greens recipes.

There are also several green smoothie and green juice recipes that I’m bookmarking!

Let’s Talk About Greens:  What are your favorites? And, which do you stay away from at all costs?

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Stocking Your Kitchen For Smoothies

25 Friday Mar 2011

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dreena burton, fruits, green smoothie girl, green smoothies, raw family, smoothie, stocking up kitchen, sweeteners, vegetables

I’ve been getting a lot of questions about smoothie making, so I thought I would talk about stocking your kitchen to make smoothies.  I’ll also list some great smoothie resources at the bottom of the post.

Getting Kids Doing! Tip:  My kids love to choose the kind of smoothie we have and what goes in it.  I let them select ingredients (within reason) and everyone happily enjoys their smoothies.

Just remember…the combinations are endless, so have fun!

Fruit

In season, local fruit is always best, but frozen fruit works really well.  You can cut and freeze your fresh fruit.  I prefer using frozen fruit over ice cubes because it makes the smoothie creamier and doesn’t water it down.

  • Apples
  • Apricots
  • Avocado
  • Bananas*
  • Berries (strawberry*, blackberry, raspberry*, blueberry*, etc.)
  • Cherries (pitted)
  • Kiwi
  • Lemons
  • Limes
  • Mangos*
  • Melon (watermelon, honeydew, canteloupe, etc.)
  • Nectarines
  • Oranges
  • Peaches*
  • Pears
  • Pineapple*

*I always keep my freezer stocked with these frozen fruits.

Vegetables

  • Broccoli (raw or steamed; freezes well)
  • Carrots
  • Cauliflower (raw or steamed; freezes well)
  • Cucumber
  • Leafy Greens (lettuce, kale, spinach, collards, chard, dandelion greens, beet greens)*
  • Pumpkin (cooked)
  • Sprouts
  • Squash (cooked)
  • Sweet Potatoes (cooked)
  • Watercress

*Leafy green season has started or is just about to start (depending on where you live).  If you end up with too many from your CSA or just want to stock up, blanche the greens, pat dry and freeze them!

Herbs

  • Basil
  • Cilantro
  • Mint
  • Parsley

Liquids

  • Almond milk
  • Brazil nut milk
  • Coconut milk
  • Coconut water
  • Hazelnut milk
  • Hemp milk
  • Herbal tea
  • Kefir
  • Oat milk
  • Pure fruit juice (also acts as sweetener)
  • Rice milk
  • Soy milk
  • Yogurt

Nut/Seed Butters

  • Almond
  • Brazil
  • Cashew
  • Hazelnut
  • Peanut
  • Sunflower

Sweeteners

  • Dates or date syrup
  • Honey
  • Maple syrup
  • Stevia

Extras

  • Aloe vera juice
  • Cacao nibs
  • Cacao powder
  • Carob powder
  • Chia seeds
  • Flax meal, oil
  • Hemp seeds, powder, oil
  • Maca
  • Sea salt
  • Spirulina
  • Vanilla extract

Here are three of my favorite resources on how to make green smoothies with lots of recipes:

Dreena Burton’s How to Make a Green Smoothie

Raw Family Green Smoothies

Green Smoothie Girl

What is your favorite smoothie combination? What else do you want to know about making smoothies?

My Post on FIMBY is Live!

13 Sunday Mar 2011

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FIMBY, green smoothies, homeschooling, natural living, nutritarian, outdoors

I am so excited to share that the blog post I wrote is now available to read on FIMBY!

FIMBY is one of my favorite natural family living blogs.  It is a great place to be inspired to create with your family, appreciate the beauty of the outdoors, learn about homeschooling practices, and much more.

I am so honored that Renee asked me to write about our family.

Won’t you please hop over to FIMBY to read my post? I talk about why and how we transitioned to a nutritarian diet and lifestyle.  I would love to hear your thoughts and answer any questions you might have.

If you found my site as a result of reading the FIMBY post, I’d like to welcome you and thank you for visiting!

I invite you to take a look around where you will find:

  • information about my immunity poster, a visual aid I use in my own kitchen to teach my children about whole foods and good health
  • recipes and tutorials for easy and delicious nutritarian food on my blog
  • articles on children’s health
  • ideas on how to feed your kids immune boosting foods
  • resources such as books and products I have found to be really helpful

If you are looking to incorporate green smoothies into your life, I have two delicious recipes on my blog.  And, check back for a third I’ll be posting soon!

Be well, eat well, live well.

Jennifer

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